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This is him playing as well. The urban myth is that Bill Black couldn't play the new-fangled Fender so Elvis stepped into the breach.

Not to mention Ian Broudie off of The Lightning Seeds

Walk Like A Reptilian - The Bangles

Aren't we all guilty of tantalising each other with gear though?

Should I Stay Or Should I Go? - the Clash

Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee

We Close Our Eyes - Go West

Pretend Best Friend - Terrorvision

There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis - Kirsty McColl

I would definitely not cope. I would rather sandpaper my eyeballs than try that.

For all that the VM70s Jazz basses were awesome instruments they're still Squiers, so I don't imagine that taking off the pickguard will improve the look of the bass...

On the occasions I've had to go ampless (once only partially as I still used my rig on stage for a monitor) I've gone bass -> Behringer BDI21 -> PA.

I have posted about this on another thread but 10/10 would recommend this combination.

And extremely racist too

Yeah, I imagine once the 2023 MXs come out they'll have to discount it even more heavily to shift it.

GuitarGuitar has a brand new one for sale for £1500: https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/180206322265007-3697210--sadowsky-metroexpress-japan-rv4-black-me971

I won't listen to LMEY out of choice, but our band plays it in our core set and it is quite fun to play.

It is, a 2nd gen V7. I like it a lot, and while I really want to sell it and get one of the new Sadowsky MXs, every time I play it I have fun so I have a crisis of faith. I just find the preamp too complicated so am running it passive these days, which kind of defeats the point of having an active bass.

At their best Squiers can definitely go toe to toe with much pricier instruments. My Precision is a joy to play, and the VM70s Jazz I used to have was, IMO, a better bass than the Fender Vintera equivalent (or at least the example I tried).

A smaller cricket club gig last night so I thought I'd give the Elf a run out, and oh boy did it not disappoint. Plenty loud enough and great tone, and I think will my smaller gig amp of choice for the future so I don't have to lug the ABM around (although it will remain in the boot of the car as a backup). Not a huge crowd who mostly stayed seated all night, but they seemed to enjoy it so happy days. I even met the band's first bassist which was fun, and I suspect was the cause of some ego stroking by the rest of the band as I gather he left under not the best of circumstances. It was a clammy night so my strings and neck were stickier than usual, and led to some on-the-fly simplifications as my fingers got stuck, but otherwise I was really happy with my playing. Some u fortunate humming from my pedalboard meant I had to stick to just the tuner and compressor, and so I think my cheap-as-chips daisy chain power supply might need an upgrade!

"Need" doesn't enter into it. I bought mine as a backup to my ABM but am going to give it a whirl for a smallish gig tonight and keep the ABM in reserve.

Bang Bang - Nancy Sinatra