Marvin

Baseball bat neck. Singlecut. Wood pickup covers and/or controls. Non-contoured bodies. Gold hardware. Exotic wood finishes.

Hopefully no one will start looking at Blues music 🤪...what a minefield that'd be.

Anyone got Samsung Plus. There are a few music station/channels one of which shows live concerts. Odd thing is though, the guide for the channel is about 2hrs out...switch on expecting to see eg. Springsteen and you'll get Hendrix

Neither. Yes I find dull and uninteresting, probably sum up where 70s music went so wrong. And I really dislike The Who, so I don't listen to them or the bass parts.

I don't use pedals because I haven't the faintest idea how they work. Whenever I've tried it just sounds awful, so I don't bother. I use a Zoom B1on for headphone practice at home. I use one patch I made myself, it uses an Ampeg sim and that's it. Even then it doesn't sound that great. I used to have a Boss GT6B. Looked good, but was more of a hinderence than anything. The only reason I kept it was that it had this Auto-Wah loop preset that you could just play a short riff and it'd loop itself forever. It meant the rest of my band, at the time, jammed to the loop whilst I ate the cookies and donuts. I've never understood using preamp pedals when using an amp...buy an amp that sounds like the preamp pedal maybe?

I'm fairly certain that a different actual control plate won't drop in and fit properly on a V7. Sires are a bit of a pain when it comes to 3rd party parts. I've got a 3 hole plate (the ones that got used on Jazz basses with stack controls). On paper all the measurements say it should fit, but it doesn't. There's a huge gap between the plate and pickguard, if you screw it into place. Also the screw hole at the bottom end doesn't line up because the plate gets slightly rotated, when screwed into place at the pickguard end. It's very close, which is frustrating because it'd be impossible to make a new hole. I'd want to be certain that a new plate would fit properly. I don't know if maybe John East could send out a cardboard template of the J-Retro Deluxe to see if it fits, could be worth an ask.It may also be worth asking about the John East Rear Mount pre-amp...and fit that onto the existing plate.

Very talented, far too young and someone who I've never heard anyone say something negative about, he was liked and loved by those he met. Ultimately, cruel and sad.

My son has an Orange with red stripe Squier Mustang guitar, like the new Mustang bass, he bought it about 2 years ago. Great guitar

I actually find copying other people's songs more difficult (most covers bands don't cover a song they try to copy it). You get given a song to play and the part or line is occasionally counter to what you might intuitively play, or hear. Perhaps it's because I'm inatetely lazy I prefer to just play what I feel...which is what I've only been able to do in the couple of original bands I've been in.

Robert Plant on Desert 🏜 Island discs this morning, hopefully it should be on iplayer

Nirvana - Come as you are.

The Sire preamp has a 'baked in' sound, I'd like something that's maybe a bit flatter or neutral.

I'm contemplating replacing the preamp in my V7. Ideally it'd be something relatively staight forward to fit, maybe a John East but I'm not sure which one. Any pointers, advice etc gratefully received

Sounds like an 'donkey' to me. I can't stand 'lads'/'blokes' band, it's like you've inadvertently turned up at a Roy Chubby Brown gig. ...so I'd not bother with that one 🙂

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If the bedroom is of an adequate size, then this is all he'll need.... ...and maybe a couple of roadies if he ever wants to move it, but it looks damn cool.

Their Sharing Spaces album is great. I think Cog split up for a while so didn't release any new material.

Unless you've had a rack full of flashing lights and all looking very complex, then quite frankly you're not serious about being a bass player. I got rid of mine because I didn't understand any of it, all I was interested in was having lots of lights and lights flashing.

Andertons have Sire P5's for less than £400. I think the V5's are also under £400. Sqiuers, loads of them around. You can't really go wrong with the to be honest. My Squier Vintage Modified P bass was only £150 second hand, but that was before prices went a bit silly. Mate of mine has the Stirling, he loves it. I must admit it sounds great. I'm probably one of the only people on here who is at best indifferent to Yamaha's. The one I had was no better built than my cheaper Ibanez and was the dullest sounding bass I've ever owned. Ibanez are good. If you need spares for them though, in my experience, they're awful. G&L, as others have said, is good stuff. I know a few who play then

I don't play busy at all. That's nothing to do with confidence, it's that I've no idea what I'm doing.

I think I've mentioned this before. A band I was in about 10 years ago. I was a bit green, not having gigged really before. The guitarist was a real gadget freak and a bit OCD. We played our first gig in a pub that could hold maybe 80 people, maybe it was more I don't know. Gig started at 8pm, the guitarist who owned the PA gets there at 1pm, to set up. He had a BIIIIG mixing desk, a snake box to take the 'stage' sound to the mixing desk (which was on the 'stage' with us), the speaker stack was taller than me, he'd mic'd the drumkit with 5 mics...and on and on and on. A few things happened that night. First off, he'd borrowed some sub cabs from the singer, but forgot to use a crossover in the signal chain. Hence all the sound was trying to go through the subs and you could barely hear a thing out front, bar a horrid mush. We ended up turning the floor monitors around to face the audience so they could at least hear something other than a bassy mush. Next, the guitarist, rather than have another guitar ready that was detuned, decided to use a pedal that did this for him. This was fine for the song it was intended for however, he forgot to reset the pedal for the next song...he proceeded to play the next song a half step down, which sounded really bloody awful. It's worth pointing out that he had another two guitars, on stands, next to him that he didn't use all night (and a keyboard). Which brings us to the next little nugget. The guitarist had so much equipment and such a large pedal board that after he set it up he'd basically trapped himself where he stood. What baffled me was that I was by far the least experienced in the band and thought the set up was way over the top...the others thought it was all fine to play a moderately sized pub with a PA that could be used a a decent sized theatre 🤪

Whatever I feel like on the day, night...when/whatever. Even if I wear a long sleeve shirt though, I always roll the sleeves up a couple of turns because I don't like my cuffs flapping against my bass...but then I always wear my shirts like that, even when I'm not playing.