Rich

I had to play Dance The Night Away by the Mavericks for a dep gig once. Worse still, I had to sing lead vocal on it too which meant I had to play it more than once in order to practice it. 5 notes.... E Ab B Ab B Eb F# Eb E Ab B Ab B Eb F# Eb E Ab B Ab B Eb F# Eb E Ab B Ab B Eb F# Eb over and over and over and over... I still wake up screaming. EDIT: I've just looked out my notes, and at the top of my lyric crib sheet I've written "E Ab B Ab B Eb F# Eb repeated ad nauseum".

Killing In The Name - RATM

This is one of the best BC threads in ages.

They are my go-to. I know Amazon might be cheaper and blah blah, but SD's service is so good and at least you're guaranteed the real thing. The last set I ordered from them landed on my mat less than 24 hours after ordering.

Another +1 for the Otex here. Some of the things it's shifted out of my ears looked like Father Jack's candles.

No Chance - Billy Connolly

For anyone who hasn't read it, I highly recommended Mo Foster's excellent book "17 Watts?" (also published as "Play Like Elvis"). Full of anecdotes and experiences just like these.

Two posts, by the looks... Wooden post? Eee you were lucky. The best we could manage were a couple of scraps of cardboard held together by a bit of mouldy baling twine covered in sheep muck.

Next band name right there.

The Thing - Phil Harris

So do I 👍👍

Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire

Absolutely no idea, sorry. @greenolive, any idea?

Yeah, do it. Hack. Kill. Igor, bring me the jigsaw. Mwah-ha-ha-ha-haaaaa.

You must have missed the bit where I said mine was a beaten-up 1-A with no preamp. If it was a through-neck there's no way I'd even contemplate it.

Yup, I've got it. Mine came from out of nowhere, I just woke up last week weak, if you see what I mean. My left elbow is very painful and, whilst I can still play (I managed a gig without problems, although it did hurt... I suffered for my art ), it's damned uncomfortable. I've tried ibuprofen gel and it didn't seem to have too much effect sadly. I might try strapping it and, if I can, resting it. Incidentally, many years ago I had a bout of TE from playing badminton... I went to see my doctor, who diagnosed it, and he told me that in 30+ years of general practice he had never once had a case of TE that was actually caused by tennis

Yours is probably worth a fair bit more than mine though. My T1-A has no original preamp, a body full of big dings, it's been round the block and got beaten up on every street corner, but with its cheapy no-name 2 band eq it sounds like a P bass on steroids and it'd be nice to be able to use it. The weight and neck dive makes it very uncomfortable though.

Will you stop saying that I keep looking at my Thunder 1A thinking the very same thing... it'd cure the neck dive and save a fair bit of weight. The original preamp is deader than Julius Caesar so it's not worth much anyway, except to me.

This is aforementioned Jaydee neck of my current fretless, bought from @greenoliveof this very parish this was a WIP photo from when I was putting it together, you'll be glad to know that that gap twixt neck and scratchplate has been closed as described in the post above, the fingerboard is the 2nd hardest piece of ebony I have ever seen in my life, and whilst it is unlined (the look I prefer) it does have little cheat-lines on the edge of the neck -- you can just make them out in the pic. This combination means that for me, this is the perfect fretless neck. All I need now is a gig where I can actually use it.

Ahem. Speaking as the owner of a similarly cheap and basic crap-sounding nasty Wal Pro of the same era (sounds like yours was a Pro 2, if it was passive), you're right in that the neck isn't for everyone. It's a very pronounced > profile (obviously it doesn't go to a point, but you get the idea) rather than a D like pretty much every other bass I've ever played. When I first tried it back in 1986 it felt properly weird but I soon got used to it (and its crap sound...) and it's stayed with me ever since. It's like a family member now.

Sei Flamboyant 5 string. It was a stunning instrument -- I mean, just look at it -- but I couldn't get the setup right, so in a fit of pique I sold it. What an utter knob. Piezo bridge, Schack eq, Bart pickups (wasn't super-keen on them, but that's an easy fix), blue edge LEDs and a whole forest of stunning walnut. I should have given it to a luthier and got them to do it properly, hell I should have taken it home to Camden -- a decent setup and a set of Delanos and it would have been simply perfect. It was beautifully made, felt great to play (apart from my crap set-up job) and the sound was to die for. I often kick myself, very hard, for letting that one go. Arrrgh. Ouch (just kicked myself again).

Left of Center - Suzanne Vague

It's almost like an advertising slogan... "Wishbass... The Sound Of Marijuana"

Nope, I do... Why have a nasal tone from your fretless when you can have 'dying cow'?

I could happily watch that. As long as nobody shows him where the eject handles are.