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Yep, Rod Stewart would be cheaper.

It was a great sound! I didn’t like the Casady as much as the P, not quite so in your face. A bass with a P pickup in the normal position through a Tech21 VTDI will get you where you want, without the need for a chiropractor after, it’s what I do .

Countryfile is probably not going to help a whole lot mate 🙂

Diamond Dogs - Bowie

The scientist in me wants to test how much electricity the pencil's graphite core will conduct! 😈

Nah, you’ll probably get a little ‘otter….

Downloaded; thanks for the 'heads up'.

I'm boycotting the rest of Glasto now. For political reasons. That I won't be going into here. Countryfile is on BBC1 soon. Calm me right down, hopefully.

Any class 2 appliance will have a symbol. A square in a square, which you can clearly see below the CE mark on Marky's plug. Some pedal board psus use class 2 transformer/plugs, some just us a standard class 1 plug and have the transformer further down.

https://bassmagazine.com/spector-bass-welcomes-megadeth-bassist-james-lomenzo-to-their-family-of-artists/ I see James Lomenzo had joined the Spector roster. Makes sense to me.

.... there goes his legacy of rolling out of hmp and doing an impromptu gig at the tap and tin which has since been lauded by many local pundits as one of the medway deltas finest ever cultural events in the history of everything ever

...but don't do this at home kids.

This concert, from 1974, will only be on YouTube until this Tuesday. Frank Zappa channel. Awreety awrighty!

Here’s a clip of a gig from just over a week ago - hopefully it demonstrates the bottom B well enough as I’m sat on a low C for a lot of the song 😅

Electrician here. @Marky L's bodge isn't quite as unsafe as you would imagine. The top pin on a plug is used as a path for current to flow to earth, should this be necessary (when there is a fault). As a safety measure, British three pin plugs will not enter a socket without the top pin present. You may notice that the top pin is slightly longer than the bottom two pins; when the top pin enters the socket, the guards over the socket holes for the bottom two pins will open and allow the bottom two pins to enter. You can't access the bottom two socket holes without the top pin entering first. This is to stop kids, or anyone, sticking their fingers in a socket and getting a shock. Marky's pedal board power supply is a 'class 2' bit of kit. Class 2 kit doesn't use the earth pin for safety (it doubly insulates the live terminals inside the plug instead). Consequently, he only needs the top pin of the plug to be there to open the bottom two pins and connect the plug to the power source. The big lump of a pedal board PSU plug houses a transformer, which takes the 230 volt mains down to a pedal board friendly 9v (or something similar). 9 volts are quite safe.

Well I did use it for a number of gigs and then sat in the bag for a while (hence the six months). TBH, we used to do similar in a computer store I worked in years ago when we got euro plugs in on something. At least I wasn't using a screwdriver to stick in the earth socket 😆

Fantastic. It’s solid as a rock and doesn’t suffer from the shorter scale at all; I’ve had other 5s in various flavours of 34”, 33”, 32” and whilst all were perfectly fine, none of them have been as balanced as this one. All Alan’s basses are well enough built and thought out that you’ll never be wanting but this just adds “something”; Alan has a theory that the bigger body of this (vs some of his other designs which I’ve had) helps to solidify the bottom end that little bit more. In terms of the feel of the string, that’s helped by the custom wound Newtones which are brilliant. The tension is absolutely perfect for me; I don’t like too much flexibility/looseness in a string and these are great.

Porcupine Tree is a local tribute band, isn't it? 🤪🤔🤦🏻

Awesome band, the real deal 👍

I wonder how the auditions went: can you play some Paganini and some bluegrass. Yes. Now can you try on this tight red dress?

Caught a bit of the Scissor Sisters set last night, CMAT should take note, this is how to put on a polished professional performance.

Some notorious Yourtubers like Josh Fossgreen from BassBuzz and Nate Navarro.

Jeez, Rod just got the lines wrong in Maggie May! Good on him for still doing what he does, I just don’t like what he does, Glasto feeling a bit naff 😕

David sold me his Westone Thunder 1 bass. We met in Thirsk and it was a pleasure to meet him and buy the Westone. No issues whatsoever and I'm very happy to have the matching paid of Thunder bass and Thunder guitar. Top man Rob