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That would be interesting, and a bit lengthy. Been an Ampeg guy for years. Don't forget about these gems. Sounds more like a 100w SVT than the V-4B, which is brighter and tighter. (I have a reissue of those as well.) These were initially a "V-4B Classic" then changed to the V4BH. First time I heard it in a shop I was in awe and it went home with me. I have two ABMs as well which work better with a few basses. It's possible one day the ABM will replace the all tube heads, but that day ain't today! But I do love those as well.

Did you end up selling it?

We all have a choice to make when it comes to ticket prices. I'm not complaining about high prices, I'm just not going. For three hundred dollars never mind a Rush concert, I would be expecting two nights bed and breakfast at Geddy Lee's house in Toronto, and it better be a decent breakfast. In 1980 it cost me £4.50 for a ticket to see Rush. I would value a ticket to a Rush concert nowadays at about £30 in today's money, that's about a third more than what £4.50 from 1980 would be worth in today's money allowing for inflation. I acknowledge the fact that they are allowed to put the prices up a bit allowing for their now legendary status. Anything over that and I don't want to know. I've seen enough big time bands to be sure that none of them are worth these kind of admission fees. If Rush want to charge £300 or whatever that is their right, it's fine with me but I certainly wouldn't contemplate paying it. Others can make their own decision but I've never seen a gig that I would've paid anything remotely like that money and feel it was well spent. It's just absurd to me that an ordinary ticket to a gig at any gig, can be three figures.

Last gig this year! 🙁 Booked back in May for a mate's 50th so a gig with a guaranteed crowd, two sets of mostly originals. Our few covers are from Tom Petty, Whitesnake, AC/DC (of course 😄), JJ Cale, Rory McLeod and T Rex. Chris, our guitarist, found the backdrop from the band's pre @super al era so I pinned it up on the pub window curtain rail 👍🏻 Could probably do with an iron. Great crowd, mostly people I've known for 20-30 years so there was definitely a good vibe. Great comments after, love the word to describe our sound from one mate - seventiesness 😂 (he was drunk). Airwalk trainers on my feet, they are wearing thin on the sole so may have to retire them and just go with the various colours of converse I have in the future. Have been using the ibanez 1205 lately but as this was an end of term gig I went with my PPI bass, the Lakland 55-02 (the swiss army knife of basses 😄). It's a shame there's no more gigs in the diary but we haven't recorded any new songs in almost a year so we'll use this time productively...I hope 🙂

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Much as I didn't want to think this was a cynical, last-ditch cash grab, the screen grabs I've seen of prices for some of the different 'packages' tickets are being flogged in, with prices going into the multiple thousands, do lead me to the uncomfortable conclusion that my once-favourite band whose principles as artists I once admired, are quite happy to gouge like there's no tomorrow.

They don’t own their catalogue. How the SW mix of Kings is marketed isn’t really their decision.

Cheers; I followed up a link above, and will receive a bundle of four next week, rechargeable with built-in lipo's. I'll see what they're like when I get them.

Worth the cost for Miroslav Orchestra 2 alone. A bit of a faff to get it 'authorised', with the usual hoops to jump through, but it's done now, so. Thanks for the 'heads up'.

Yep - radio first. All the diodes down my left side are aching.

Played in Sevenoaks on Saturday. My new amp had developed a fault and its replacement didn’t arrive on time. As such for the first time ever I had to go straight to the PA and use in ears. The gig went very well, but I found it a strange experience not having an amp behind me. Ours is quite a basic PA and so we could only put a bit of bass through it, but it all seemed to work OK and the crowd all seemed to enjoy it.

I have to say I think Rush are in it for the money. I was looking at buying their Steven Wilson HD remixes, but (apart from one album) they’re only available in £300 box sets. As for Ticketmaster, they’re just a bunch of shysters.

A Harley Benton MV-4MSB Gotoh 🙂

The first episode I heard was wherecthe Golgafrinchans arrived on Earth. The Captain was in a bath and autumn caused a run on the leaf-currency. I was lying in the endless sun with other scouts listening to it on a portable radio.

Two of them run on about 0.2A, so you could use a usb powerbank.

What was this bass @Stub Mandrel ?

I assume both those portions were yours?

There was a TransitB in the classifieds that would tick all your boxes all by itself.