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I remember Fashion - saw them live in London once - they weren't as bad as that, but the bass tone is oddly reminiscent of their sound in retrospect.

Just a string vest and Y-fronts for me

It probably would have been synths for me. I did dabble in them and owned a Korg MS20, a Roland SH-101 and a Roland JX-3P, but when I reached the ripe old age of 17 decided to go strictly bass.

I just heard this song on the radio and the bassline was so annoying I just had to vent my spleen, and what better place than here on BC? Anyone else got any examples of basslines that really get on your tits?

50/50 for me: I have a Rickenbacker 4003S and if I play fingerstyle I tend to rest my thumb on the upper edge of the scratchplate over the neck toaster pickup, but if i play with a plectrum I rest my forearm on the horseshoe pickup cover. I prefer the deeper sound of the toaster, to be honest.

Mick Karn's first bass was also a Jedson Tele, iirc. 🙃 My first bass was a Hondo Rickenbacker copy, which my dad bought me for a birthday present. For my next birthday I got an upgrade to a Westone Thunder 2A fretless, and the Hondo went as a part-exchange for the Westone.

Quite a good sound comparison vid here, the Stingray and Thumb are featured. And you get to hear what slapping a Rickenbacker sounds like...

Didn't Siouxsie and the Banshees come from Bromley too?

My hometown is Tonbridge in Kent, bit scarce for local talent but both Keane and Justin Chancellor went to Tonbridge School, and the bloke who used to play guitar in Psychedelic Furs used to live across the street from me. Tunbridge Wells is a bit better: home to Anti-Nowhere League, Shane McGowan of the Pogues used to live there, and so did Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience apparently (according to my stepdad who used to drink with him down the pub...)

Ooh, I like Oban, been there a couple of times... There used to be a great fish & chip shop there. And of course, the distillery.

I only bought one thing in 2021, and it was only an amp. And it was only a small one, a measly Fender Rumble Studio 40. Hardly even worth mentioning really...

I used to play in one of these type of bands. The leader used to ask me to detune my 5 string bass down to ADADG.... 😬

And why not add that Jaco was shite and that Adam Clayton is amazing?

Classix Vieux?

Like a few of you, I thought the same thing last year when I inherited a guitar. 😌 A word of advice: whatever you do, don't attempt to learn to play guitar on a 12 string.... 😬

This may sound like a silly question, but why does the bass player have a scrunchy hairband covering the first fret of his bass?

Unpopular opinion: I still prefer Mick Karn's Travis Bean over the Wal. 😛

Steve Severin's StingRay and Bruce Foxton's Precision were the instigators of my black and maple bass fetish.

My '79 StingRay. Bought it in 1986 secondhand for £500 and have used it for the majority of gigs I've played ever since.

I have an Aria bass - the Black & Gold 1 - it cost me £230 in 1983 so it was pretty cheap. Cliff Burton used to use the same bass. However it is an Aria Pro, so it doesn't count, I s'pose.

I was thinking it was the 'either love em or hate em' type of mustard at first....

I remember the days when you could buy a brand new Wal for a tenth of that amount.... However, I am old.

I would go to a fishing tackle shop and see what type of boxes they have if I were you. Usually they stock compartmentalised boxes with clear lids, so you should be able to find something.

Yeah, me too. Skinny as ..... Sometimes, during gigs mainly, I yearn for a nice big beer belly to rest my bass upon.