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A statue of Lemmy is going to be unveiled in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent layer this week. BBC News - Statue of Stoke-on-Trent native Lemmy to be unveiled in Burslem - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ylnyrydl0o

Casady..? Lesh..?

Yes, I have to say that my trip to visit Will at Bass Bros was well worth it. The most expensive trip of it's kind [ever], but definitely worth it.

Given the thing that appears to be dictating the dimensions of said bag may be the double-bass stand, I would always advocate looking at Gator bags. Their website is nightmarish from a navigational/user perspective (Come on, guys! It's 2025. Do better!). That said, a search on Andertons and Gator throws up plenty of stuff. I think it's more a case (no pun) of finding something that suits sizewise, rather than discounting something that purports to, for instance, be a keyboard bag.

That looks lush

Glad it’s not just me. I’ve let it go for a couple of years, admittedly it’s not been a big deal with our old set, but we now have a few songs where its very noticable. I dont play bass in this band, but to do what you suggest above id have to teach my bass player how to tune his bass first……😂

I’m sure someone will come along to better it 🤣x

Soul II Soil

I drove to Will at Bass Bros, thats a 350-mile round trip for me from down here. It was well worth it, I must add. 👌

Mondo Bondage - The Tubes -

Oh my…

Umm, Crowthorne to Queen's Club, Hammersmith. 80 mile round trip. Lakland DJ5, black sparkle. What was I thinking.

I love that sellers shop, he has some very cool and interesting instruments 👍

I was quite surprised when I started looking more closely at PUP positions that there's more variation, for example among Fender Precisions, than I'd always believed/assumed to be the case. I suspect there's as much rhetoric as science in this space?

Yes, I was thinking it all looks like nice enough hardware, but not £800 worth.

Looks like you're missing a finger or two as well!

Slap and Tickle - Squeeze

It really cheeses me off too. No drummer I have ever played with ever thought it was a problem, until I brought it up. Then they looked at me with a stupid look on their faces. Have you ever showed your drummer how you can tune your bass guitar to the oscillation of his snare drum, it's an interesting trick.....and illustrates the problem of intrusive snare drum rattle pretty well.

Well it’s clearly a cheap style copy of the one Pino played. Can’t tell much else from the pic.

As I've ready posted my (embarrassing) felt puppet picture, and it really is about AI generated content (and not a gratuitous excuse to post 'something what I done', honest...), the band generated blisster pack action figures of ourselves which I used to make a poster for our next gig. It still can't generate a Fender with 4 string, our guitarest isn't that fat, and the drummers legs aren't really that short!

Turns up often in Christian Contemporary Music. I mainly play in church.

It sounds like you've been playing with amateurs. You either know how to play a gig or you don't. In my decades long playing career I've played over 5000 gigs. Whether I'm playing a multimillion $ Broadway Musical production, local pub gig or recording in a studio the same principles always apply. You play at the appropriate volume for the room and situation. As a rule of thumb in most situations the drummer tends to dictate the overall volume of the band which is why I find it puzzling that in many situations where everyone plays direct, they use an acoustic drum kit.