Cosmo Valdemar

That's a typo.

It is very special. I will treasure it.

VERY different to my usual basses - and yours too, I imagine. It's got a very tight, modern tone, very growly, but very different from an old Precision for example. The body is dinky but very dense and relatively heavy. I always remember playing my friend's and thinking it felt like a tree, and it still does - very natural feeling, almost unfinished wood. Luckily for me, they love overdrive!

The extra B stands for birthday! On Tuesday I turned 40. I now find myself wondering where my pills are and despairing about the music my children listen to. But I digress. A couple of months ago, my long-suffering wife told me she wanted to buy me a bass for my birthday, and was there anything in particular I wanted. I initially tried to put her off as this wasn't going to be cheap, but she insisted! After some thought I narrowed it down to a bass I'd never owned but always wanted ever since playing a friend's on tour many many years ago. As luck would have it there was one for sale on here just at the right time, courtesy of @vincbt It's been living in a cupboard for the past fortnight but here it is!

The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum - King Crimson

Call Me - Blondie

The Great Southern Trendkill - Pantera

My Iron Lung - Radiohead

Migration - Camel 😆

Sagebrush Serenade - Poco

Goin' Blind - KISS

Chris talks about it here, around the 21 minute mark:

Ruby Tuesday - Stones

I think @Spoombung has carried out some research in this area. Personally, my Danelectro Longhorn did this type of tone splendidly.

Oh, George - Foo Fighters

Beautiful. I don't play 5 strings, but the Stingray 5 is one of the few I really like - scratchplate and all! Incidentally, I still haven't forgotten how you UNIT chaps treated us in the sewers.

Finally... protection!

Hard Road - Sabbaf

Diamonds - Jet Harris

Bad Actress - Terrorvision

The Great Pretender - Freddie Mercury

Melvins - seriously unpredictable live. Once was one of the best gigs I'd ever seen, another time they'd decided to treat the audience to an hour of deafening drop-A droning.

Bend Me Shape Me - Amen Corner

I've got the Hipshot - I haven't installed it yet but research suggests a couple of the little felt pads are needed. The Babicz comes with a shim. I don't think it's curved to fit the JC arch but @AndyTravis seems to have fitted his successfully. They work, but only just. Once they're set up you're ok, but there's just too many little issues as others have already mentioned. My main issue is how they're suspended on stilts away from the body like an oil rig. This is mainly an aesthetic concern as they just seem so fragile. The lack of space between the saddle and end of the bridge is a pain. Even if you use unsilked strings the lumpy wound part can still rest on the saddle. Bottom line - Jack Casady plays these things non-stop and he gets on ok with the bridge!

Stairway to Heaven - LZ