Marvin

All 3 of my basses I currently own were made in Indonesia (one of them being a Squier VM Precision) and they're all great instruments, so I'd reserve judgement on build quality etc until I'd get my hands on one. That said, for the money, these are getting close to second hand MIM Fenders. I saw a very nice MIM Precision for sale yesterday on Facebook for £350. If I were in the market for a Jazz, then I'd probably go for a Sire V3, which are about £70 cheaper and great quality.

This is still on iPlayer. I watched it yesterday. I’m not a Jeff Beck fan at all but it’s a great programme. I admire and respect what he does, I love his approach, I’m just not that keen on what he plays. But a brilliant programme, I’d recommend watching it to anyone

It was watchable, to a point. The production and research staff clearly couldn't be bothered to do their job properly. Basics like the fact the electric bass had been around before the 60's and the Fender P bass was almost 10 years old by 1960. It wasn't as good as Steward Copeland's film about drums. From the description of the guitar film it's seems to be more about effects pedals than the guitar itself. Fairly standard for what passes as TV these days, chopping and changing and a lack of attention to detail and facts.

I was a late starter. My first gig was June 2011, so I was in my 30s. It was at pub in the middle of nowhere called The Pig On The Hill. It was a truly awful gig. The guitarist was a gear maniac and we had a massive PA which unfortunately he didn't know how to set up properly. Hence everything was going through the bass bin speakers and no one could hear the vocals. We ended up turning the monitors around to face the audience so they could hear something. The guitarist also made a howler of a mistake. He had a detuning pedal. The idiot forgot to switch it off for a song and it predictably sounded dreadful. I thought my bass had gone out of tune. The band split 6 months later.

Great combo. I still can't quite remember why I sold mine

Well, as shown I was fully prepared to not join in. However, I've hit a snag. My band seems to have gone into hibernation and as such buying gear, even to treat myself, would be a waste of time, because it simply wouldn't get used. I could end up buying nothing all year by default. 😮

Chromes are very bright. I replaced a very old set of rounds on a jazz bass (probably over 3 yrs old those strings) and the Chromes were amazingly bright in comparison...but nicely so. 😀

I made sure I bought a bass that was in tune when I bought it... Seriously though. I always tune E to G, but I'm beginning to think I should go G to E. Or, E to G then G to E to double check?

So, it's a MiKro bass with a pickguard and active eq. Looks pretty good.

I've got a P, a J and a more 'modern' looking bass with twin humbuckers. I've got a lot of basses covered In the original video there's one point that stood out for me, and that was these preferences seem to be driven by the 'fashion' of the day. There does seem to have been a point where P style basses and to a slightly lesser degree J basses have become all the rage again. When I started playing in the late 80s modern looking basses were much more popular. It's just the fickleness of fashion.

I've been on the forum for about 10yrs and it's fair to say it has changed, as would be expected. There were times when I first joined you'd get a proper verbal bust up. Posters would carry on into the early hours (some of the best threads would be active at 2 or 3 in the morning). It was busier. The membership was a little more diverse, especially age wise. It was it bit more raw, forthright and antagonistic at times, now it's more middle aged male grumpiness. It has always, ultimately, been friendly though. I may not have met them, but I regard some of the people I've 'met' on BC to be true friends. The place went downhill though when Bilbo ditched his carrots. Skank valiantly rescued them, but it still wasn't the same.

I thought it was a good show. I didn't like everything, there were some things that maybe weren't my taste but thought were still very good (Buble being one of them, he certainly has a voice and knows how to entertain). Best thing for me was The Record Company, I thought they were great. I didn't go much on Rudimental or Chic to be honest.

My band has decided to have a 2 month break. Not sure why, it's not like we have a heavy gigging schedule. It's a bad sign I think. SO! I'm going to put bands on the back burner and take the kids fishing more instead 😃

The one I had was one of the really early ones. It didn't have Warwick written on it, it was just branded Rockbass. It didn't have the Warwick bridge but a somewhat clunky chunk of metal. The pickups and active tone controls were good. The pickups were MEC's. It's everything the electronics were attached to I found really uncomfortable to play. It was very well made though.

My first bass, a Westone Soectrum II, was little more than firewood with strings on it. An awful bass in every respect. Warwick Rockbass Corvette was another dreadful bass I owned. Heavy and really uncomfortable to play. It hung horribly so the 1st fret felt a million miles away. The neck was like a baseball bat, the thick end. I was absolutely relieved to get shot of it.

Haven’t touched a bass in over 3 weeks. No new songs to learn, no band practice, no gigs means I tend not to bother

I’ve always loved his drumming. In a previous band the guitarist and I wanted to play Message In A Bottle. Our drummer moaned that the drumming in it was ‘easy’ and ‘crap’. That drummer didn’t last much longer. I don’t think I’d ever heard such ridiculous musical rant ever.

I find Rotosounds quite rough feeling. Also, they don’t seem to last very long, the zing disappears quite quickly. I use d’addarios almost exclusively. Although I do have Fender flats on one bass.

Andertons have done a video about these cabs and they sound pretty good. For the money it’s a bit of a no brainer. Andertons seem to have a good reputation

My wife says she's related Kylie Minogue. I've poured scorn on this assertion, but she's adamant...so I've started to use it as a 'tenuous claim to fame'. Kylie has put in the hours to build her fanbase. There are enough people out there who like what she does, all the best to her. She's certainly a lot better than some newer artists, even early stuff has more appeal than the 'tinned' music being pushed out now by others.

The organiser of the one I've been to, to be fair, does try and make sure that participants mix it up a bit so you don't get 'teams'. However, there is a bass player who goes who seems to think it's 'his gig', so he plays with the better players but won't play with anyone he thinks isn't up to scratch. The organiser does his best, but some people are just hogs by nature. It's part of the reason I stopped going....after about 3 times.

Best: I bought a Fender neck (from a MIM Blacktop Precision) from @rubis on this very forum, and put it on my Squier VM P bass. I love this bass now, I really love it. I shouldn't because it's the wrong colour and stuff, but it just looks so good and sounds lurrrrrrrrrrvly. Despite having played the Squier at the my band's previous gig when it had the maple neck, my band thought I'd bought a brand new US Fender Worst: 2 pack of naff 9v batteries from a £ shop...it's been a quiet year for gear tbh.

Jam nights are, in my experience, just self indulgent boredom. Endless guitar solos, sax solos, piano solos etc etc. Most of it seems to be 12 bar, some 8 bar if someone's feeling adventurous. Other than that if anyone tries anything outside that it all starts to fall apart because no one knows what the hell is going on. EDIT: even supposedly well known songs get completely smashed to bits. Someone, I think, suggested Stormy Monday. I don't know it, but the number of people who think it's a 12 bar. It does make for some funny moments when the one person who knows and probably suggested it is playing it right and everyone else is 12 barring it.

I'm not being silly or anything, but the Encore P basses I've played have all been dire. They might well be much newer ones as I note most have said their good experiences were with heavy Encores, the ones I've played were all very very light. They sounded ok, but apart from that everything was awful.