Jackroadkill

Weirdly, I played tonight for a good three hours at practise without any issue. I didn't change anything, either. Ho hum.

Great song, that. You win!

For some reason I'm really enjoying the Clash's version of I Fought The Law and Ugly Kid Joe's Everything About You at the moment.

I'm very new here but I don't think a source of information would have been as welcoming as the members of BC have been. Community for me, every time.

Replacement bass player? Maybe you should get a replacement band.

Now that's a result!

It was 2003 and I was 24 and playing guitar; the band was called Holocene and the venue was The Bell Hotel in Newtown, Powys. We played second on the bill, between Fatwax (I think) and Little Miss Mental. The band was.... not great. I wanted to be a post-Goth cowpunk band, the other guitarist wanted us to be Mushroomhead and the singer/bass player and drummer wanted us to be the Foo Fighters. I played what I thought was slide guitar, drenched in delay and phaser over one-finger drop-d powerchords. We went down well, as I recall, and I threw my lovely Epiphone Goldtop into the crowd at the end of the set. What a bloody whankyrr.

Fair dos, @vinorange, that's a superb job. When I opened the thread I thought "Why would you refinish a bass that looks so cool?", but then having seen your results, I realised exactly why you'd do it! That's one gorgeous bass.

Nope.

I'd be interested to see what you think of the G4M body; would you do a mini-review of it when it lands, please?

That's looking very smart. I'm looking forward to seeing it completed.

That's very sexy indeed!

It's arrived - I like it!

Agreed; my go-to guitar is a thoroughly beaten-up Telecaster that's had most of the guts ripped out of it, and one of my basses is an £80-from-EBay plywood Squier Jazz from sometime in the 1990's, cruddy pickups, electrics et al. It sounds cool, plays nicely and I like it a lot. +1 for learning to set instruments up yourself - this can transform the sound and feel of a very average bass (or guitar).

This. It's annoying but very common.

I've gone for a Laney Digbeth; if I'm honest it probably won't be the only one!

Hi, fellow older beginner here. I "played bass" - read "owned a bass" when I was in my late teens and then for some reason decided that guitar was cooler, so I did that instead until last year, when I bought another bass and I've not looked back. BC has been very good to me so far and the natives are very welcoming.

A Digbeth pre-amp and a collection of big hammers.

Very cool! This is the sort of band I wanted to be in when I were nowt but a young whiteface. Absolutely superb!

I think so; it's a band who've hit their stride but are still rising meteorically. My favourite Metallica album since the day I heard it. MoP might be their pinnacle but I love the ambition and savagery of RTL.

These days I listen most to Ride The Lightning; when they can better For Whom The Bell Tolls I'll be excited.

Turkey and Greece exchanged large areas of land and huge numbers of people when the borders moved in 1919 as a result of the breakup of the Ottoman empire; Greek Muslims found themselves forcibly moved to Turkey and Turkish Christians were expelled to Greece. Both sides committed atrocities against each other. I'd guess that the kebab was native to the area rather than one nationality or the other.

He owns most of it.

It was my early teens, so nobody else would have been involved, despite the application of some fevered imagination.

Wishing I didn't have to go to work tomorrow and trying to think of a name for my Eb bass.