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The Great Pretender - The Platters

Nice interview with David Crosby here. To my shame I've reached my age without ever bothering to familiarise myself with their music. Where's the best place to start? Is there a decent best-of?

Open Your Window - Reverend and the Makers

139 & 140 are going to go for some fairly serious wedge I reckon.

War Against Christ - Venom

This was my first thought too. It happened on one of my basses too if I started digging in too hard. Put a strip of black insulating tape along the top of the neck pickup, to cover up the polepieces. Won't affect the sound but it will help, if that's where the popping is coming from.

There have been two basses I've played that I've desperately wanted -- a} Kiwi's old Smith BSR5 (oh my god, the sound it made through my Eden amp was properly gusset-dampening), and b} this incredible instrument at Jon Shuker's workshop. This is probably the best sounding 5 string bass I have ever played, it was just perfect. Luckily for me, these two instruments were a} not for sale and b} out of my price range.

Unfortunately outdoor gigs in this country (especially on a seafront!) are always going to be a complete lottery due to our wonderful weather. I feel for you, especially after all the excitement of the buildup. Hope you can get it rescheduled asap.

For my money, that accolade goes to the first of the Brian Bromberg basses, the Peavey B Quad 4. That thing was properly bonkers compared to everything that was around at the time. I'd love one.

@paul_5 @andruca do you find yours are noisy in use?

No, it was the Bull in Downton. They certainly seemed to like it, but we were the 'headline' act in an afternoon/evening mini-fest so they were fairly well oiled

No, can't say it's something I've noticed at all. Mine is as quiet as a crypt.

Saturday night, bringing the skank to Salisbury.

Wow! Some fabulous tones going on there. That BaSqueak is mahoosive. 😎

Must admit that I haven't even glanced at the synths yet, as I've had no use for one. I really need to check them out though. In fact I've barely scratched the surface.

I've Been Drinking - Jeff Beck

Hot Dog & A Shake - DLR

I've used a cab sim with my SVT patch, I found adding the 8x10 really gave it some balls. I think the B15 patch has a cab but i can't remember which one.

I'm starting to get to grips with mine, and have set up a few patches which I'm mostly happy with. I've got a plain chorus one and a plain octaver, both of which are FX only with no amp models. I've also set up two amp-based patches, one is an Ampeg fliptop for woolly old-skool reggae and Motown sounds, the other is SVT-based for more raucous stuff (e.g. I use it on Rancid's 'Time Bomb' and a couple of the shoutier Specials tunes). The SVT one is oookay, sounds especially good with a pick, but I think it's missing a wee something. Would a compressor work well with it? If so, which one? Or would any of the other amp models work better?

Drove 2.5 hours to play 90 minutes in a pub garden in Salisbury for 30 quid. We played really well, crowd loved it, the Skabass sounded awesome. Who cares if my entire fee went in the fuel tank?

Twist & Crawl - The Beat

Lord Hereford's Knob - Half Man Half Biscuit

Wow, I wish I could write a weak song as good as this one. I would pay proper money to hear that.

Yes, I remember this. It was pretty cringeworthy just how badly he did. IIRC he was actually from the late lamented Allbang & Strummit rather than the Bass Centre?