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Not is not, I am definitely a baby boomer and I was born in 1946. I have owned one p-bass and I sold it over fifty years ago, although of course now I wish I hadn't. I've had another bass with a p type p/up in my time, the lovely Westone Thunder 1A, why did I sell that one? I now have one bass...

Michael League is my choice, it must be a lot of fun playing with Snarky Puppy, but leading them might be a lot of hard work.

I had a bass built for me with the excellent Fraylin P/J pups and I find I use the J more than the P. Perhaps it is the style of music I play that makes this work for me. I do blend in some P to make the tone more mellow, and on certain songs e.g. Hey Bulldog require full on P to get the old...

I have a Spector Coda jazz bass which I bought second hand and I am very pleased with it. There is a good picture here. Spector CodaBass 4 Pro - Sunburst Gloss

it's hard to remember exactly when I started playing bass, I think it was 1964 when i was 18. I bought a second hand Hofner archtop bass in sunburst with a single cutaway, but I cannot remember the model name. I am playing more than ever now at 75 and I am in three bands, including the worship...

Early on during the second lock down last year I was struggling to master the bass line in Dr, Feelgood's "Looking Back", [ if you don't know it]. It is insanely fast and I was playing it on a Status Shark with a 1.5" nut but I had to skip notes to keep up. I acquired a Spector Coda with a 1...

Evita! Evita! Evita! On stage, not the film, Madonna was not my idea of Eva.

I have never thought about this before today, but with the band that has a right handed drummer I stand to his left, and with the band with the left handed drummer I stand to his right. Maybe it is a high hat/snare thing.

This has been a fascinating read, and it is the first time I have ever read a TB thread from 1 to 21. My big rig is shown in my avatar, and probably qualifies me for membership (SWR Workingmans 12), but my dinky rig is the MicroMark.

I have been playing a five-string in church since the mid nineties. I reasoned that five strings gave me a low D and there were lots of worship songs in D and Eb. Recently I felt I was stuck in the lower register and I got a four-string which forced me to rethink some my lines using the notes...

I think there are at least eight variables involved here: 1 pickup, 2 pickups, fretted, fretless, 4 strings, 5 strings, flat wound, round wound. I don't think that means it has to be at least eight basses, but I find it hard to see how one bass can be enough. I currently have four and find...

I bought my first 5 string over 20 years ago and I have been playing them ever since. But this year nostalgia over came me and I bought an old 4 string and I am having a lot of fun playing it on songs that don't go below E, which is a lot of pop songs. I now wish I had kept my original 4 string...

I've had my Godin Freeway5 for about ten years, and it is my workhorse. Lovely to play and the versatile eq gives me plenty of choice of tones.

Last Saturday Suzzy Quatro said on BBC radio that the 1957 Fender Precision her father gave her was "the Rolls Royce of basses". Well, I thought a very great bass, but not a Rolls Royce, more of a Massey Fergusson (American readers may prefer John Deere). This set me thinking, what bass would...

I like the Boss TU 3. It works right down to low B and it is silent when in use. The power output socket makes it easy to daisy chain to other pedals.