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We had a crowd, however it was awkward.Nice room, nice stage and sound. We bought our own lighting. Like I said this place is more for the Saturday night party bands. There were a few "screw ups" musically . Good paying gig and some nice tips. Daryl

Decided to join in with the pedal riser idea and build a little essentials board. With a bit of judicious wiggling I've managed to get it all flush on three sides, but the DC plugs overhang just slightly at the top. Could be worse. The feet have been harvested from my old Markbass F1 which sadly expired recently. It can be powered from both a standard adapter and also a USB powerbank thanks to an ENGL PowerTap Portable which is the little block under the back edge. As long as the polarity is correct it'll take anything from 5-18v input and send 9v output. For the full wireless whatsit I was considering getting a pair of cheap UHF bugs from the Black Friday sales to go between board and amp. They claim less than 3ms latency, which added to my Fender Telepath on the input claiming 4ms, should still be perfectly acceptable. The yellow sticker is just 'if lost please call' info, but I'm old-school about putting my mobile number all over the Internet so blanked it, in case you were wondering what/why.

Agreed Daryl

I bought one years ago when covid hit and I started working from home. It took me ages to find one where both armrests would fully swing away. This is the one I got and it’s great. https://www.hjh-office.co.uk/air-port-backrest-mesh-seat-leather-professional-office-chair.html Blimey, this was £270 in 2020!

The FBA is good, very detailed and well presented like most of the SBL material. Good workbooks and play-along tracks and the course is huge. Like a lot of the Accelerator courses it's like an expanded and more detailed version of some of Phil Mann's (and others') courses that are already in SBL. I like Phil Mann's approach to teaching and get a lot of what he's done. His theory courses are very engaging. There's nothing that I've seen in FBA Accelerator that's not available elsewhere, and we can say that about most courses, but it is well presented, has loads of material etc and that's what makes it what it is. Like all this, you need to put in what I call "boot camp time", you need to sit and pump out the exercises and not skip bits. Trust the process. I was watching one of Phil M's videos and he was talking about studying with Jeff Berlin and learning all the patterns all over the neck and it seems that's the concept the FBA is based on.

Call Me Back - The Strokes

I picked the Ikea ALEFJÄLL. High chairs don't really add anything for me, I just wanted good lower back support. The armrests are just long enough to support my elbows and short enough to not get in the way when playing bass.

You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon

is that an unlined fretless L2?

Thanks @BassBodfor the Stuart Watson rec, we have corresponded and I'm going to get my tech guy to have a chat with him. At this point the amp has been bright back, opened up and its contents partially laid out on a piece of plywood... I'm hoping this comes to a happy end soon. I'll post when it's up and running. Jim saving my 135 lb Ampeg PR410HLF for it... 🙂

I Love it When You Call Me Names - Joan Armatrading

So tonight was the night. Venue provided the 10 y-splitters we needed to run our own IEM rig and we provided the XLRs from the splits to our XR18 and the gig went off perfectly 😎