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Playing with Cheesy H W*nks? Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner... 😃

Any other manufacturers do it?

Yep, that's how it works for me; I can look at a bass and know I wouldn't like it, whether it's colours, woods, shape or the pickup type/position... It took several attempts with various basses to get to that point, though...

Barefaced offer a try before you buy/returns policy, so if you're serious, that's the first point taken care of...I'm not aware of any other manufacturers that do this. Trying cabs in shops is never a fantastic gauge of how they'll work for you.

One of the best pieces of live music I've ever seen was a cover of Teenage Kicks performed by my pal's younger brother and chums at their first pub gig. The oldest in the band was 16 (I think the drummer was 13), they were so fresh and enthusiastic; it's a simple song, but needs to be done right, and a bunch of kids were perfect for it... I'd agree nothing's off limits: there's only good and bad versions, and if a song's strong enough, it'll survive - and in some cases, like Johnny Cash's Hurt - it can transcend the original. The recent plethora of smoky-voiced younger females dolefully covering everything with just a piano or single guitar accompaniment is getting really old really fast, though...

I've had a maple boarded Ric and still have a maple board T-Bird (kinda)... 😀

Birdseye maple or ebony for me. The only bass I have which isn't either is a BB414, which had a rosewood board. Past tense - a slathering of some nice Ebony wood dye, and and it's now dark enough that I can look at it without curling a lip. Can't be doing with brown boards of any ilk...

We don't have a female singer, but we still get asked for Tina Turner songs...😕

I remember this being in a setlist for a band I was in when it was in the charts...IIRC, it was before the TV show aired in the UK, too: it was just a catchy pop song... ...maaan, I'm old... 😕

I picked mine up for £150 - not a mark on it...kinda middle ground...

Nowt to do with the bass: I've bought and sold several fretlesses. I'm just not a fretless player, much as I might GAS for them. I've bought and sold more Stingrays, mind...

Sadly it went a good while ago...it was a Wishbass, though, which meant it looked quite like all of them i.e. something I might have doodled on the back of my Maths workbook in the 4th year...and yeah, it had that huuuuge headstock. Didn't neckdive, tho, and wasn't particularly heavy. Had a lot of purpleheart in its construction, too. Every non-musician commented on it, which is something that doesn't happen with, say, the Alembic I had...or indeed much of my posh boutique stuff... For a couple of hundred quid they're well worth trying...

So we're good for Motorhead covers, yeah? 😀

I had one for a while, and I liked it. The neck was a bit like trying to strangle a giraffe one-handed, and it was very, very different to a 'normal', mass-produced bass, but it was very, erm, organic, and for the small amount I paid for it, great fun. That video, though, is comedy gold...

With our wedding band, we're not 'themed', but we have a lonnnnng list of songs (maybe 200 or so) we can play on the website (which is where the majority of bookings come from) and if they're bothered they can pick what they want, though most will only pick a handful and rely on us to play stuff that is tried and tested to appeal to most people. It's another reason we don't have a fixed setlist: our BL will call songs as we go, depending on the audience and the evening, not unlike a good DJ...he's very good at it.

It's very similar to that of originals bands - if you build a following/gain a reputation for being a good band, then people will come to see you rather than just turn out. Obviously, pubs are almost always free to the punter, so they're much more populated than venues where there's a door charge. Oh, and the money's better. 😁

Yep, they're tragic, all right...oh, and they were an originals band 😁

Looks rubbish for metal...it'll never catch on...

Yeah, I'm beginning to get a picture here...maybe that's where I was going wrong all those years... 😕😀

I tried one last month at PMT, when I was looking for a possible upgrade to the Rumble 100* for small trio gigs, and of all the small combos I tried (and a couple of FRFR 12" PA tops), the Studio 15 was my favourite: compact, very very light and with plenty going on. It was priced at £499 * A job which I completed on the cheap with a better speaker in the Rumble...but I digress...

Yep, I love the Performer...tho I've no idea why... 😕😀

We chucked that in the other night, just to see (I'd got an email from the BL a couple of days before with a link to the video asking me to learn it...it was a tricky one: I'd watched the video 14 times before I remembered there were some notes I had to learn) and it went down a storm, it's gone straight into the setlist... Oh, and if you don't already do it, Wheatus' version of A Little Respect is solid gold, too...

Don't hold your breath, Al...and that's no comment on your personal delightfulness, it's just an observation formed from forty years of disillusionment... 😕😀

Unless he's acting like he wrote something when he didn't, apparently...

You can stand your ground all you like, it's when you denigrate other people's views that you sound verrrrry defensive, for no real reason. As someone just said, it's not a battle. I'm in an originals band as well as other covers/function bands, and I'm not as precious as some about either. It's only rock n roll, but I like it...