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[quote name='Treb' timestamp='1465839592' post='3071481'] Nice! They should make a DJ-Sonic too... [/quote] I imagine if you go US, then a DJ-Sonic would be available.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1465838506' post='3071458'] Erm, I'm no mathematician.... [/quote] I think you underestimate yourself.

http://youtu.be/m6zvPHRZP8c

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1465835408' post='3071420'] Depends on what your looking for in a band, friends, music, money? Blue [/quote] ... and which of those are you looking for Blue?

[quote name='Grahambythesea' timestamp='1465816321' post='3071140'] Perhaps with an anodised gold scratch plate and gold hardware or is that too much of the Midas touch! [/quote] Definitely a step too far.

[quote name='NJE' timestamp='1465814730' post='3071110'] ...They do it with Tort pickguard as well. [/quote] That's an option on the US model but then you can have any colour finish too. No doubt one could get a tort guard for the Skyline version if preferred.

Even in that colour with that fretboard and that pickguard ... they will sell quite a few.

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1465803831' post='3071001'] Hmm not bad. About time they did something new with the Skylines - i'm just not sure about that colour. [/quote] Each to their own, of course, but I rather like the colour ... but probably a new pickguard.

Stay with that band for social reasons and join another one too for musical reasons. First date in the diary gets your attention.

Very nice.

Yep, single coil Chisonics.

...in Aztec Gold

Just to be clear, the Roto Top Tapes are not black nylon tapes, they are monel like the Roto Jazz Flats.

I think as usual you have to try them but a cheap but reliable place to start is Rotosound Top Tapes. D'Addario Chromes are slightly more expensive but nowhere near the price of Pyramids or Thomastiks. Son of ET is playing Pyramids in his 'Gypsy Dub' 11-piece big band but I know he'll use Top Tapes when needed.

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1465484724' post='3068660'] But surely the point of those videos is that the child is exhibiting prodigious talent and/or skill on their instrument for somebody of [i]x [/i]years - not to make direct comparisons between them and Buddy Rich...? [/quote] Except Buddy Rich was a child star, Traps the Drum Wonder, on stage from age 18 months and was among the richest child stars of his time.

Why not change your name to 'A Wake Til Dawn'?

[quote name='lushuk' timestamp='1465420294' post='3068152'] lol and Donny playin the bass at the same time 😃 [/quote] I think it's Merrill on bass. Donny is on the keyboard.

Strange to say but the Osmonds are better dancers.

Here's another one, miming again, Ace Kefford with Slab and Roy Wood with a Bass VI ... http://youtu.be/4GHe5BPb6Yg

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1465335216' post='3067385'] The film Whiplash springs to mind. [/quote] I understand the connection but I enjoyed that film more than Buddy Rich ranting.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1465332631' post='3067340'] ... James Brown behaved in a very similar way (but it would take a lot to put me off his music)! [/quote] I saw an interview with Bootsy Collins being asked 'what was it like working for James Brown?'. Collins replied that 'It was like being in the army'.

[quote name='byrne182' timestamp='1465314403' post='3067046'] Surely I'm not the only on who has the opinion that a bass sounds better if you beat the living crap out of it.... am I? [/quote] Really? Are you serious?

Will you be doing the dancing? http://youtu.be/CS8ZfVTE4SM

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1465264586' post='3066643'] Yes! [/quote] It looks like one but does it sound like one? (I know it's miming on Top of the Pops and it may well not be what was used in the studio but ... hey ... nonetheless ... does it sound like a 66 Slab P?)

[quote name='HazBeen' timestamp='1465289317' post='3066729'] I think as bassists we should strive to do it all - the right technique for the right sound - fingers, muted thumb, slap/pop, pick, tap, skip and hop.... In essence play what sounds right. [/quote] I have no interest in striving to do it all ... Nor any interest in telling other bassists how they should play.