Jackroadkill

We're the Dave Jackson Five; Dave Jackson is our singer, so I guess he owns it.

The same here - I like my P and J basses and that seems to be enough. Every now and again I get a bit of a fancy for a T-bird, or I wish that you could get a passive US Stingray, but the ardour quickly fades and I think about the many reasons I have to stick with what I have already.

Re-living my wasted youth with a bit of Sugarcoma.

Jazzturbation.

I can certainly make it to Ellesmere, so if you play GOAF I'll come and see you. Travelling to gigs is pretty much a given out this way; when I was a teenager our "local" gig venue was JB's in Dudley! My brother and our friends used to pile into my Mum's Citroen AX and hammer along the M54 to see whoever was on there.

I must make it to see Hurtsfall at some point. In fact, there's a few Goth bands whose bass players are BC natives - BC GothFest?!

Can you have a word with the bars round here? I'll pay you commission!

The same as the outrage that happened of my old air rifle forum when this rule was introduced; however, within not very long people had settled down and it became the norm. Also the amount of people who went crying to the mods when they were scammed dropped. Crack on, sez I. It's a system that works.

That's exactly what we've done, with the same result. Until now, when one of the members has delivered an ultimatum; he gave us a list of ten songs, said "we learn five of these or I'm leaving". He did this on the band's Whatsapp chat, which has since gone very quiet. I think some sort of seismic moment is upon us!

Perhaps you've been doing it wrong all these years; you've been changing the strings on your basses, and should have been changing the basses on the strings?

Ha! This was air rifles; for some reason that's a sport littered with scammers and chancers.

I find that for me it's a case of just playing the song with the band until it sort of takes care of itself, but a good tip that I used at gigs as I was getting back into the swing of it after years of lay-off was to annotate my set list just a little. For example, the first note on the bass, who starts it etc etc written next to each song made a huge difference, and I quickly found that I'd learn how things went pretty quickly. For example: I Fought The Law would have this written next to it - "Adam drum fill, C#\D". We Will Rock You (fast version) would have "Tom riff, E (@A7)", etc etc. I found that just the smallest aide memoire could make all the difference. It didn't take long until it was second nature and my confidence grew to the point where I didn't need them. Cheers, JRK

We used to do this on another forum I used; it was a really good way of keeping the bad guys out.

A decent Pre/DI might be a good option; a Laney Digbeth Pre, SansAmp etc.

Keep going, fella. It'll come together.

This may be going overboard a bit, but if you've got some molybdenum grease, a wee dab of that will work wonders.

Sheesh, why would you bother?! "This is a bass guitar, so if you like bass guitar and play bass guitar, buy this bass guitar and be a bass player you like"

One of the nicest guitars I ever owned was an Epiphone Gold Top; it was a mid 1990's Korean (Samick?) guitar and it was the absolute bollocks.

After weeks of no progress, I've managed to get it to this stage today: It's playable but the nut needs cutting properly (which may be a job for a professional) and the neck needs shimming slightly, as the pocket is a little deeper than the neck is intended to be set, but that's okay. The pickups are VERY powerful and will need to be set down further into the body come set-up time, but it sounds pretty good, with a wide range of sounds, all of which sound good so far. The only things I'm not happy with are the body's shape (not much I can do about that) and the quality of the finish (could do something about that if it wasn't a cheap bitsa); the obvious solution is to find a better body, which I may well do further down the line. Cheers, JRK

Don't listen to him, @lozkerr, he's using you as a smokescreen whilst he satisfies his own GAS! We know you've been itching for a 'Ray for ages, Dave!

Glad I didn't sign up for this; I've just seen a bass I really need. I may have to sell a guitar....

Man, what a gig to play! That's about my idea of heaven - decent rock music and Vulcans.

Weirdly I've just had my car's windscreen replaced, and the guy who did that was missing half a finger. There's a lot of it about, seemingly!

You're going to have to give me a clue there, I'm afraid! @Lozz196, the walk will happen (it has to, I've taken money in sponsorship!) but I'm going to have to adjust on the fly and go as soon as I can. If the worst comes to the worst I'll have to break it into two and do some of it, go for another appointment and then complete it afterwards. I'd rather not do it that way but options are limited.