Twigman

Take one of the songs on a previous album and stick a wav of it in your DAW. Reverse the wav file and play it backwards. play along with it - you'll have a new bassline, that works, in no time. I've done this a few times when lost for inspiration. Ooops - giving away secrets!

Another option would be to use 2 of the 9V 100mA outputs and a parallel adaptor: https://www.thomann.de/gb/t_rex_dc_current_doubler_50cm.htm

Put on YouTube and post the link

It's awful - it needs a much hotter iron to even get close. I bought a huge reel (probably a lifetime's supply) of the leaded stuff a few years ago.

so many covers - am I the only one in a non-cover band that posts video?

Should've gone to Specsavers

the bass gallery did one for me

We've come across a few of those - a festival in Berlin a few years ago provided a kit with only 1 leg on the kick drum and no drum stool......we worked around it!

Our drummer has no kit. He has cymbals, a snare and a snare pedal. He uses the kit provided in the rehearsal studio and borrows this if we have a UK gig - and we rent his kit with the backline locally for the non-UK gigs. I suspect he's parted with the least amount of gear cash over the years out of all 5 of us.

Why do i get the impression you're building up to something? Perhaps an exposé of a Basschat member?

We need a video in the gigs forum........to use a cliché : this thread is useless without pics

If I move much at all I flip it up

Ah so that's where Simon Gallup gets his moves from

Tell me about it!!! I made a Warmoth PJ lined fretless a few years back.....it's been played probably for a total of about 10 minutes. I'm clearly no Jaco

Do you never play chords* on your bass? By chords I mean notes on the D string and G string at the same time - 2 note 'chords'

I would still have chosen bass but, having dabbled with synths and computers that might've got a look in. I had many ideas of how synths and samplers could be used but I didn't have the funds at the time to invest in all the frighteningly expensive gear that I needed - back in the early days of midi and using CV as well....many of 'my ideas' have subsequently been done - I'm pretty sure I invented psy-trance in about 1983 (in my mind)......the money required for the gear was what kept me on bass - it probably still would if I went back in time now, unless I could take a stinky poo load of cash with me.

I know I've gone way off topic and the genre but one of my favourite meaningless lyrics is Numbers by Kraftwerk: Eins, zwei, drei, vier Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht Uno, dos Três, quatro One, two Ichi, ni, san, shi Adjin, dva, tri Li, tva, tri

Don't get me wrong - I'm a huge Smiths fan - I'm not so keen on Mr Morrissey, the man, he's a silly billy but I did enjoy a Smiths lyric: His take on first love is great too: It's time the tale were told Of how you took a child And you made him old You made him old Reel around the fountain Slap me on the patio I'll take it now Oh Fifteen minutes with you Well, I wouldn't say no Oh, people said that you were virtually dead And they were so wrong Reel Around The Fountain - 1984

Whereas Mr Steven Patrick Morrissey was, I'm sure, 100% genuine in his : I go and I stand on my own, and I leave on my own, and I go home and I cry and I want to die - How Soon Is Now? 1984 The Smiths

I thought that was more Shoegaze territory

I know we don't fit the genre but on the topic of 'meaningless' lyrics let me present to you verse 1 and 2 of the SL&G song Close to the Sea - see if you can work out what inspired the lyric: Pinned to a day Striped like a cage Suits you in grey Made to withstand Too many plans Measured in sand

If I worked in the benefits office I’d do too many drugs too sounds like an English Zappa crossed with 70s children’s TV themes to me

Thought I’d add another one - this song always leaves me feeling a little exposed and that it will all fall apart any second - I love playing it though. This rendition in a converted barn on an old dairy farm in the plains of Emilia Romagna Italy earlier this year....I give you 3 Lines