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I'm keen to check one of these out, for sure, but I wish you'd asked ME what features to include as then this otherwise perfect looking amp would have at least one 9 volt output on the back to power a tuner ( or other) pedal. That's got to be a good, useful and relatively cheap feature, surely? I don't want you to feel too bad about it, though; I've been playing for 50 years, owned scores of amps and only just thought of it myself... Next time, maybe...

Running Out - Scissor Sisters

Good question, I really don't know. We have tossed this idea around before but it's never gained enough traction.

Just try the v7 sire 5 in marketplace- move it on if you don’t like it. I have one and it’s awesome

I spent most of the day in a local studio recording some of my own songs. My first time doing my own material and my first time singing in a studio environment. Very exciting, and very strange to hear myself in the headphones as we layered multiple vocal tracks. I also did octave mandolin and a friend laid down some acoustic guitar. I'll be back next week to do bass, once my bass is back from the repair shop.

Not many people realise that, thanks to an oddity in the way the calendar is worked out, the 80s actually began in 1979.

It's quite possible to string a four-string BEAD (use the bottom four strings from a five-string set). It might be confusing, so you might want to use something which doesn't feel like your main four-string.

WTF is that toy bass doing within ten feet of you? Suggest you wash your hands and thoroughly de-contaminate

Too youthful

That's it! Thank you @Russ We love quoting that Boba line in his NZ accent "he's no good to me dead!"

Seriously tempted by this, but my D-800 is incredible and keeping my GAS at bay. @agedhorse sorry for the segue - are there any plans to release something similar to the Prodigy again (all valve lunchbox head)

There isn't really a definitive answer, I reckon. You can only consider whether you like the idea, and whether you're comfortable with any possible reactions you might be able to anticipate, then make a choice about whether it's something you want to do based on that. So my take on being in a band of white British guys playing Zombie in particular is that I wouldn't, not "you must never"

I click the button, and nothing happens. Doesn't stop me buying things, so I must be logged in. Firefox on Ubuntu Linux.

Deffo the Soul Train ‘Lady of Soul’ Awards in 2005. According to IMDb it was held at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, probably September. Jimmy Williams ( pictured in the previous post ) looks like a strong contender for our mystery bassist too, as well as using a similar style bass ( although maybe a fiver? ).

I can confirm I am not a Russian bot, but I do find it interesting that there is still no clear consensus this many pages in. It shows that the answer is clearly not as straightforward as you might hope. It’s good to discuss these things.

Apparently Johnny Marr had a bit of a scare this week with UPS and his guitars.

I have a sneaking suspicion that these kind of threads are started by Russian bots, now that the Kremlin has decided to further undermine NATO by sewing the seeds of cultural conflict amongst its' bass players. We seem to fall for it every time, me included. Getting back to the O.P, I wouldn't play Fela Kuti covers because I don't like that music played by Fela Kuti, let alone anyone else especially me. But if for whatever reason I did fancy having a go I would, wearing whatever ethnic-inspired outfit I felt like wearing and other folks would be free to like it or lump it. The whole thing is ridiculous. If Slade came out today Noddy Holder would be accused of culturally appropriating a garden gnome. Whatever oppressed peoples in the world anyone is being offended on behalf of, they are unlikely to be further harmed by someone playing their popular music, probably badly. No Biafrans will be napalmed as a result of your dalliance with afro beat. These bourgeois anxieties are a symptom of having too much time to think up things to think about.

You'd be less tired if you used your Hofner bass a bit more. ...

There’s A Hole In My Bucket - Harry Belafonte and Odetta

Fixing A Hole - Beatles