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As used by John Deacon and John Entwistle, among others.

I saw Supergrass open for Foo Fighters at Wembley Stadium many years ago. They were great but the sound sucked. They're all local to me and quite often see one or more of them out at local gigs in town. It's nice to see seriously successful pros out enjoying amateur local bands playing in a pub/park/festival.

Earthwood ABGs.

My Lionel is ash body, 3.8kg / 8.4 lbs. Not the lightest, but fine for me. Could be lighter, yeah...

It's still a big lottery for £250 when you can get 2 proper Harley Bentons for that price...

Has anyone actually been “triggered” by this? World gone mad.

Nah just bass cab, bass and some clothes..

Was hoping for "bass cab in the hold" experience

Final rehearsal last night for the folk and cider festival gig on Saturday night. Ran through the full one hour set without major issues, plus tea and biscuits afterwards. Apart from playing through the songs, it gave me a last opportunity to sort out a few issues before the gig, including setting the volume balances between the two Uke basses I'm going to be using. With one having the poly strings and the other has phosphor bronze, there's a slight difference between the two, so for ease of switching mid-set, just had to back the PB strung Uke back a little to match the poly strung one (couple of slower songs mid-set that sound lots better with a more upright bass type sound). Looking forward to the gig now, on at 8pm for an hour, so a fair amount of the cider should have been consumed by the crowd by then. Total gear load in for me will be the two ukes in a Fusion double Uke case, small pedalboard and my new DB Hype 8 in a small holdall - one trip to and from the car! 👍

They are a bit finicky to set up initially but I’ve found Ric necks to be very stable over time. Glad you got it sorted.

Little Wonder - David Bowie

I read all the threads on here about older SS being so good but the cabs were heavy so I bought an old GK 400rb and a newish light GK 2x10 cab. Sounds amazing to me!

"Stuart Zender remembered". Personally, I think that just having someone's name with no other information is just as bad - I'm on an email list and in a newsgroup where a name with no other detail as a thread title means the named person has died.

Tuesday night at the Cavern, finished up playing with three others - female vox, female guitar, and male drummer. Sum total of their ages was 23 years younger than me. It was great fun. They are all really good - from a bassist's POV, the drummer and I have clicked from the start and like each other's playing. There were a couple of bands on - one was a duo, guitar/vox and drums, deafeningly loud (I carry earplugs and they went straight in), the other a three-piece who are regulars there with a drummer who only knows BANG BANG BANG - earplugs back in. There were four or five guitar/vox artistes, and in the absence of Mrs Zero, I was one of them. Rather a contrast to Wednesday night, which was quite a low turnout - normally it's a full list with everyone getting two songs, tonight it was three songs apiece. Managed to get Mrs Zero out so the audience weren't subjected to my voice.