Very cool!
Can I make a request though? I like the original Paul Young version better, as the particular accordion makes me think of “Chicken Dance”, a song every Dutch is being tortured with in the early 80s (if you don’t know it - don’t google it!).
Also, the original version starts with it’s signature fretless melody!
Wow! Give me sometime to learn this.
No … I expect this tomorrow 
By the way, now that everybody is playing with fretless, I am thinking of modding a bass to fretless too.
Possibly not my “Should I shoot my new bass” basses, but a new one:
It’s cheap, looks great, I have an active EMG P pickup laying around … so I am prepared.
But: short scale fretless is harder to play? Is that true?
Sheezh!! So pushy. Fine! Here it is. Sorry I had to do this in a hurry
Is it like this?
Man … you are a bass machine!!!
I am very impressed, my friend!
EDIT also, that’s a very nice bass.
Nah! I learned that a long time ago, 
just pulling your leg.
LOL!
Still impressed, though.
With you, @sunDOG and @Paul_9207 “torturing” me with fretless covers, I am seriously considering this now.
It’s not GAS, as I couldn’t care less about any new bass (ok, except … you know which one) … but fretless has it’s own, very nice tone. It’s addictive!
And it’s a challenge for the dark and cold winter months to come, both the modding and the learning!
Man the finger stretching is torturing but fun. Double stops harmonic slides is also awesome. Want the tab? Or you already have it.
I also learned another Pino Fretless tune you like. New York minute but Don Henry will have my cover removed so furgetit hate that effer.
Send me the tab, when I have modded the bass!
I am chatting about it with Thomanns as we speak.
Still not sure about short scale freteless, but finger stretching will be less of an issue…
Opposite. Easier to play than full scale. Easier to reach.
Both @Al1885’s and @Paul_9207’s playing of the fretless is far better than mine! At the moment, I am just playing it like any other bass, and using it to focus on accuracy. I can play Daddy Cool on it, which is pretty fast, for me 
, and make it sound reasonable… I have a couple of songs on my list that are played on fretless, that I do need to sit down and learn…
Quite how you can say looking at / thinking about fretless isn’t GAS, @Whying_Dutchman, I don’t know
GAS is when you want something that you don’t need.
In my case I just found out that I need a fretless for educational purposes.
Big difference
Fixed.
@sunDOG you are one of the fastest improving player I’ve seen. Massive kudos.
Thank you very much, @Al1885!
I’m currently eschewing covers to work on my technique. I’ve started taking bass lessons and atm I’m working hard on curving my fingers properly and just a lot of pentatonic exercises and man, do my fretting hand feel those.
I’ve also taken the habit of just setting the metronome and just doing open string chugging, to increase my accuracy and stamina. I do about 12 mins as part of my warm up.
He’s quite happy with my progress, though I’m not really seeing it much myself.
Just keep playing this over… and over… and over to get it under my fingers and feel the groove. Will start learning the whole song in earnest soon.
Lost My Treble Long Ago
A+ for even attempting that. I was thinking bout doing that cover too. I just can’t do a clean 16th at fool speed yet,
It’s ambitious, but such a funky song and I have to play something by Joe Dart on the Joe Dart
On the triplet runs a lot of the times his notes come across as ghost notes anyway, don’t worry too much about clean! (I obviously didn’t 
)
I might gonback and do Dean Town again on this bass.
We used to do the animal spirit, 1612, and dean town set during the Covid. That was fun.