Jackroadkill

Whoever has faked that hasn't done their homework.

I cannae be harsed; there ain't enough filler in this world to make me look pretty, and who cares what the bass player looked like anyway?!

Oh my goodness, this is going to be amazing!

That's a beautiful song.

That's very cool - the colour is amazing.

That's gorgeous. Can't beat a P.

Special Offa?

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.