EssentialTension

I don’t actually think you had to be there ... it was a joke.

And ...

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Rotos: very heavy gauge, may need nut filing, soft warm sounding, medium tension, yellow silks. La Bella: slightly narrower gauge, nut should be fine, brighter but still mellow sounding, medium tension, purplish silks. GHS: slightly heavier gauge, less bright, mellow, red silks. Fender: Feel more like coated roundwounds than tapes, so rougher feel, medium tension, brighter sounding, black silks. D'Addario: never tried them but I believe very low tension, blue silks Pyramid: medium tension, mellow sounding, tape feels almost cloth-like, golden silks. Probably not very helpful, there's no substitute for trying them all. I don't myself think there's anything wrong with any of them on any bass, it's merely your personal preferences

I would probably have said the opposite ... just showing there's at least some subjectivity to it.

I believe Herbie Flowers' blue Jazz bass wears Rotosound Trubass tapes.

I'm not very experienced with Thunderbird pickups but I have to say the Epiphone Embassy is much brighter sounding than I expected ... but nothing that can't be worked with.

I have never been to Poland or discussed this with a Polish speaker so I can't dispute your experience but, not only Monkeypedia, every online pronunciation guide I consult says that Polish w = sound of v (or sometimes f). How would you pronounce the cities Wrocław and Warszawa?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadowski

Never having heard anyone say the word I have always thought of it as Sadoffski in the usual European manner. I expect I shall continue doing so

Just traded some stuff for an Epiphone Embassy in antique ivory with a Hiscox hard case. Popped some old GHS Precision flats on it and bingo I like it. Unfortunately no full volume rehearsal til next week.

Once I knew who he was I could see the joke but at first I was lost.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Spend your money on somehting else.

Mine work fine, I have never thought 'I must get some new tuners'.

I had no idea who that was until I googled. And as far as I can tell he was not in The Outlaws

I'm in a band where we love to end on a non-tonic chord so nobody knows what key we were in - sometimes even I don't know what key we were in.

In the UK and in the USA, but you had to be there, obviously. And, featuring Ritchie Blackmore on guitar and Chas Hodges on electric bass guitar, here's Joe Meek's production from 1962 of The Chaps also known as The Outlaws ...

OK, it's your life.

But was Jones right to put all the blame on Starr?

... and it's not even a very good arangement. Starkey should ask for his money back.

Readinng the article again, I see that Jones described McCartney as 'the worst bass player I ever heard'. Perhaps Jones only ever heard a load of highly technically proficient jazz/funk/session guys playing bass and then McCartney ... or perhaps he just never heard me.

Jones didn't hire Starkey to play drums. Starkey hired Jones as arranger for the song 'Love is a Many Splendoured Thing' on Starkey's first solo album Sentimental Journey.

Is that the swimming pool, where the mermaid is?

Someone said to me after a gig , 'I am surprised you play bass, you're not really tall enough'. I'm 5'10", as if it mattered. Quite a lot of people are quite stupid as well as quite sexist.