Waddo Soqable

I bet we've all done that.. 😂

Great bit of footage👍 The transit van looks in very good nick compared to the battered scrappers we ended up in, windows in the back and proper seats too! I remember that world of course, but the gigs I did then were punk and subsequently "post punk" so a very different type of audience. I bet with a name like Punch they had a few plssed up "hard men" taking issue with that 😁

Forever & ever, Demis Roussos (the renowned prog bass player)

Everlasting love, Love Affair

I see.. Mrs S.. In the garden.. With a wood chipper...

Scam.. If they want them back you'll just say the dog chewed them up, or something equally unlikely...

Sub-mission, Sex Pistols

In that case they'll be reading from the script they've been handed anyway

Prob requires bra underneath for lady wearers anyway...

Looks like one of those "holey" jumpers...

What a brilliant project👍 Try some of the old music hall songs too.. "my old man said follow the van".. "up in the gallery" etc.. I sussed a bunch of these out on't guitar and piano they're great fun and folks of the age group you're dealing with will know them very well, despite being of a slightly earlier era.

Interesting that it's bakelite, didn't think they were still using it by the late 70s. One of the things I was a bit leery about with these synthetic boards was how they'd take refretting type issues, whether they'd be a bit brittle and chip out etc. The only other synthetic board bass I had was a Squier jazz thing with no fret markers, I only had it a short time as I don't really like J basses.

Nah, Flaunters of Grim are trad death / black metal, shurely?

Lower tuning, hence lower string tension, will put less "pull" on the neck naturally. Assuming string gauges are the same or v. similar.

Before he actually started playing I was expecting some mad abstract free jazz improv thing.. Quite disappointed really...

That sounds very much like an "artisan" craft brewery...

Bought a little fx gizmo from John.. a bargain, and a top man to deal with all round ! 👍

With me it's the reverse, I'm even more cynical than I was in the first place....

Steptoe (theme), Ron Grainer

I like the look of it certainly.. Now it's been ID'd it kind of rings a bell from adverts somewhere, circa early 2000s?

I've tuned various "normal" 4 string basses down that far (and drop tunings too) with the same strings that happened to be on them anyway, in every case they worked fine with no fiddling about needed at all. Just tune it down and see what you think..

What is the bass actually?... The wavy end of the body looks kind of familiar "Vintage" brand perhaps?

I'll check that one out for sure 👍