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:roflmao: I know, I know, and I'd include a social post or have a word with a supervisor about my awful experience -- tipping is just engrained in me because I'm uncontrollably sympathetic about dealing with customers, and minimum wage is trash. I haven't encountered anything that bad at all...

I generally just tip 20% at bars and restaurants. 15% only for extraordinarily bad behaviour (racist, sexist, etc.) and for expensive services (medium/large tattoos). The industry is thankless, the servers do not get paid enough and if I can't afford at least 20%, I shouldn't be buying the services.

The insult! The injury! The inability to amend votes!

+100000 to all the responses telling you to go slow over the passage several times (~10 times) without making a mistake. Then, go back a bar and play through the passage several more times; after that, add a bar after the passage; after that, play it faster; etc. It's not easy to unlearn and...

Dunno about popular, but I've always just used longscale Fender flats and never worried about winding the non-silk bit of the string. Didn't realise it was an issue until TalkBass, honestly. Edit: Also, congrats on the new purchase! I hope your shortscale experience is better this time around.

Hello! May I please have a number? This is my favourite place on TalkBass :)

I say it so often that it's become a running joke with my friends, but I aspire to become Jenny Lee Lindberg.

For the past few months, Fender's redirected me to the generic international site (I used to be able to click on the US site without being redirected). The Mustang PJ seems to be on the country-specific sites (I checked the U.K., France and Luxembourg) but not the 'international' one, and Canada...

You're right, no other Mustang basses are on the international Fender site. Long & McQuade still has them in stock though, and there's no indication that they're being discontinued.

Good value for money.

Agitatrice? Or a less fun alternative, simply a « joueuse de shaker pomme ». Boop-boop-be-doop boys and girls, I'm une agitatrice. Nice.

All hail the new List Keeper!

Sarah McLachlan, specifically her first three albums, comes to mind. No one in my current music circles really "gets" how she was my first songwriter role model, now that I play in completely disparate genres. And, no matter where I am on my musical journey, as soon as I re-listen to Touch...

The word 'unlearn' nearly made me panic. Don't unlearn anything! You have a huge advantage, i.e. knowing theory, that allows you to know how to break it. Otherwise, I agree with the above. Since you've been studying music for a while, I assume you know how to listen... so listen a lot and...

About 75% of the songs I play in one of my bands are in open D7 and I still refuse to detune... so one song wouldn't be a problem (IME, FWIW, YMMV, etc.)

Be careful, they might even infiltrate Internet forums... and break up your band.

With this gig bag / HSC discussion happening, I'm just wondering: is there a problem with having room in the case above the headstock?

I called a friend a proletariat cog the other day, so... The Proletariat Cogs

The only rebellious music millennials need is the salty, desperate sweat and tears of people complaining about millennials.

It sucks lemonballs that the eBay selection from Canadian sellers is abysmal... after a couple of small mishaps, I stick to local/direct sales and only check items shipping within Canada on eBay as a last resort...

In time-honoured Canadian tradition - I'm sorry! Just had to make sure my fellow Internet stranger was TOLD :laugh: The anthem discussion is still a touchy subject in my household, believe it or not...

The Canadian national anthem situation is... maybe different from some cover band singer feeling, for whatever reason, uncomfortable about the way a song's lyrics are gendered. The anthem was originally written in French, and we should probably sing that version exclusively instead. Regendering...

We're really thinking too small here. Nuclear fallout? World peace negotiations? First human civilisation in space?????? Get a Rumble!

Like Glenn Gould, except worse.

Vague

Living in Canada is great for my GAS (and for a whole host of other, non-music-related things). If I want something enough to pay twice the price, I'll definitely stick with it.

TL;DR: There are children out there who think bass is super cool :cool::bassist: I went to my local L&M yesterday evening and saw that they had a new Rickenbacker shipment. I decided to try one. Just by the way, I am not a great player, but I always like to try the Ricks when they come in...

Her comments sounded like suggestions. If they're so insulting, I recommend not taking them.

I'm not usually attracted to men! Regardless of the subject's gender or my sexual orientation, threads like the singerbabe/whatever one makes me a) cringe (that title is pretty cringy) and b) click far, far away. I'm here for the basses, dangit.

They started with a neutral definition and then gave the context in which the term is most often used. Wonder why they felt compelled to add it, eh? On a different but related note, I stay far away from threads that make me feel uncomfortable, like that one about backing hot singers. This one...

Sorry to derail a bit, but has anyone run into this problem:

The sustain was a bit longer, the tone was a bit sweeter (I don't really know how else to explain it - maybe it's a byproduct of the sustain :)). My goal for the bridge was weight distribution, since the bass hung perfectly horizontally but I wanted it about 45 deg from the ground. The bridge...

Thanks! It's indeed black, a Gotoh 201 that dropped right in.

The dream is to have a racing stripe Mustang one day! In the meantime, here's an underexposed photo of my Mustang PJ hanging on my fire hazard stand. There are a couple of minor mods, mostly for comfort's sake, and I love playing it!

Fountain pen nerds are lurking everywhere :ninja::ninja::ninja: Vintage pens are very cool; I'd love to get my hands on an old Conklin crescent filler. I use modern pens and I rotate a lot, but my EDCs are a Sailor Sapporo, a Platinum 3776 and a Pilot Heritage 92.

For a laugh, try an Orange Micro Terror with a 412.

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Where in Ottawa and what's your budget?

PSA to anyone in Ottawa who's looking for a BF cab: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Not affiliated with the seller. I'd buy it myself, but my savings aren't there yet.

L&M have good buy-back prices (not as good as selling yourself!), so it looks like they resell accordingly.