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All well and good, but... what about the sound? Flatwounds tend to have issues with cross string consistency; how are these. BTW, which set did you buy?

BassDirect had 5: Midnight Green, FireGlo, Walnut, MapleGlo and JetGlo, all at £3299. The JetGlo one went a couple of weeks ago.

First shop presentation up - not the best presentation, and the sound of the bass doesn't do it for me.

I bought some many years ago. I retry them from time to time, but every time they just go back in a box - they're not for me. Each to one's own. They are big and clumsy and take off lots of high end. I don't think that they do do a good impression of playing with your fingers. I reckon that the closest I've got to that is a flexible leather plectrum. (I got all of these from the now defunct www.ukulele-plectrums.co.uk.)

I'm reading Stuart "Woody" Wood's autobiography, "Mania", at the moment, from which I learnt that the Bay City Rollers' "Bye Bye Baby" was actually a cover of that by The Four Seasons from 1965. I prefer the BCR's version.

No one else has admitted to owning a set, so we're counting on you to give us your impressions of them Kevin.

A nice tight group from Canada. I love this song: everything is so well done. (And it has a bass intro.)

For those interested or who didn’t know, he wrote several books about The Jam. I read “That’s Entertainment; My Life in The Jam”, published 2015, and I remember it as being a good read.

I've recently discovered him. He's such a good bass player. Here is some superb bass playing with a brilliant sounding bass. (And if a curly cable is good enough for him...)

At the risk of opening a can of worms about curly cables, I got this. (To be honest, it was at my request; I didn't need a new cable, but I've wanted a curly one for a long time.) It will only get home use, as that is the only place I play. Each to one's own, but I absolutely love it! https://www.designacable.com/van-damme-curly-guitar-cable-neutrik-instrument-lead-studio-grade-70cm-25m.html

Not a Rickenbacker, but the Yamaha Attitude is exactly the same idea, though it has the convenience of a jack socket for each pickup so normal cables can be used. Billy Sheehan always plays with two amps live; he talks of his amp set-up towards the end of this video: If you can afford a Ric, then you can afford the splitter box and stereo cable. Basically you have to at least try a dual amp set-up, even just at home, or you will always be wondering what it would be like…

https://apnews.com/article/fake-gibson-guitars-shipped-los-angeles-port-624705ba0ca647552b000f04e17cbaea I'm not surprised at there being counterfeit guitars made, but I was fairly wide eyed at the scale of this haul.

Jah Wobble was known for playing one. See picture on his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jah_Wobble

I reckon that these lads have done a pretty good job in creating an early Beatles sound with what appears to be their own material.

You're most welcome Reggaebass. I had a lot of fun playing the songs of the book, though with a little less enthusiasm for the later ones. I agree, "Let Me Be Good To You" is good. A surprise pleasure to play along to for me was "It's Not The Spotlight" by Manhattan Transfer - not something that I would normally even listen to.