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On Sky Arts Editors Live in Berlin. Not everyone's cup of tea. I've seen them a couple of times in past few years and thought they were excellent, Tom Smith has a cracking voice. So that's my early night gone south, I'll stay up to watch this one.

Just buy some Fender badges and stick them on the Markbass, they'll never know. I like the Rumble, had V2 350w and V3 500w. Good combos but nothing particularly distinctive. What is it they particularly like about them? I bet it's the silver cloth grill.

Good timing. Groove Dynamics...or more specifically doesn't play like they're using lump hammers all the time.

When they don't want to do it anymore, like the rest of us.

It's not often someone covers Jeff Buckley, fair shout to young Grohl and the band. The guy playing the yellow jazz bass is pretty good, nice tone...oh hell, I mentioned tone.

There was a lot of hyperbole during the pandemic about how it would change things. The spike in demand for instruments was hailed as a return to people having a renewed interest in music, and this would go on. It wasn't, it was a one off. Combine that with input costs going up... I'm working for a building suppliers and manufacturer. There has been a huge influx of 'work from home' employees moving out of the city to quiter locations. They've bought houses and then had lots of work done on them, hence it's been very busy. However, that's tailing off

I watched one of the My Life As A Rolling Stone episodes on iPlayer, the Keith Richards one. Pretty vacuous and poorly made to be honest. Keith himself, I love listening to anyway, was great, but they didn't focus enough on Keith telling us about his life as a Stone. I'd like to hear from the man in his own way. Perhaps it's my age 😁

Depeche Mode live at Glasgow Barrowlands 2017 on BBC4

Probably on BBC Sounds. Bono on Desert Island Discs. I'm not a big fan of U2 or Bono but I actually quite enjoyed the bits I caught (I was at work, in and out the van). I'll try and listen to all of it at some point.

Mike Mills in REM or Tony Levin in Peter Gabriel's band.

I'd love to get back into a gigging band. What puts me off is trying to find others who have a similar outlook as myself. Basically, because I've been out of the loop for some time, the only people available are those who would pay to play at the opening of an envelope. Not really for me.

Send it back if you can. For that price I'd expect a factory set up to have no problems. Is your luthier buddy a luthier or someone who just does set ups? Either way really, it shouldn't take someone with experience and knowledge to diagnose the potential problem, and tell you what's wrong in a short period of time. I've become very wary of people who've been in bands, tweaked their own guitar a couple of times, then all of a sudden they're calling themselves a luthier. I used a guy once who told me the neck on my Korean Squier was made if 'rubbery maple' and that's why the action would always be a problem. He was talking drivel. I did the set up myself after he had been at it, it was fine. Now anything I can't do I take to a guy who makes acoustic and electric guitars, an actual luthier (the lead singer in the Manics uses one of acoustics)

There will be those who knock him, but I hope I'm able to do a +2hr set to that standard when I'm 80...having done a gig the night before.

Anyone reckon Macca's band bass bod is playing a Limelight?

Standard BBC utterly abysmal mix. First song Macca did the whole band was drowned out by Wix's acoustic guitar. And FFS why are Macca's vocals so low in the mix. Do the sound guys not care?

He may as well be playing a cardboard cut out, I can barely hear any bass at all

Jo Whiley is irritating The only performance that's interested so far was by Les Amazones D'Afrique. It was just on the beeb.

Anyone into Public Image Ltd might be interested in a documentary about them on Amazon

Sire V7. Always gets used more than my P bass. I bought the P bass for a punk band...that I knew some if the venues we'd play my gear my get a knock or two.

I tap my foot, maybe saunter around a bit, but mainly just tap my foot. This mainly due to the 'stage' areas I've played have always been quite small, or there seems to be a lot of gear belonging to other band members around me. I dare not move too much for fear of standing on a lead and dislodging it from its connection or knocking over an instrument.

Friend of mine and fellow bass player, his band suggested Hit me... I just went 'ooof, best of luck. It's a bit of a work out apparently'. Next time I saw him the band dropped the idea. He could play it up to about ¾ speed but not faster. I told him he did much better than me...as I'd never contemplated learning it. 😁 I tell myself it's a horrid song and I wouldn't want to know it anyway. Lying to myself means I get to keep my basses.

As I wrote in the P bass thread, I really like the simplicity of a P bass and its tone. However, the bass I use most is a Jazz style bass. It's a Sire V7. It maybe just this bass, but I find the neck about the best and most com I've ever played. The only negative is the inevitable hum if you only use one pick up. It's never a problem if I'm not going through a PA, but does rear its head whenever going direct to a desk. I don't tend to use the active tone controls, but they're there if I want them. Tone wise, I was actually very surprised when my wife recorded me at a gig to find out what I sounded like. The intro to one song was just me, and I sounded really woody and upright bass...I was using flatwounds which helped. Perhaps it's just this Jazz bass, but versatile and just feels right.

I didn't realise until recently that a friend of mine lives with Sam Tanner of said Brother Strut. I knew she (who is a great singer herself) was with a pro muso but not which one. I might have to blag to tickets for their next tour 🤪

I like the simplicity of the P bass, there's no fuss. Even the look of it is simple and quite minimal. The bridge for example, it's neat, uncomplicated and functional. And then of course there's the tone which can work for almost anything despite being quite fixed.