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Blame it on the Boogie — The Jacksons

Especially the first series from around mid 2000’s. Like hen’s teeth…..even in Japan. I’m still keeping an eye out for one. I love the blue coloured one!

It Wasn't Me - Shaggy

I'm not ignoring the original post but I do worry that with algorithms, we are fed our own narrative and this has in some way contributed to a huge divide amongst people. I have friends who hold the polar opposite of my views and I genuinely value the banter we have. In terms of somebody being racist, sexist, homophobic (& I would add prejudice against the disabled), I couldn't be in a group with them. Especially as extreme views often come with the "everyone is entitled to my opinion" view. Given the lyrical themes of my originals band, I think it's unlikely those sorts of people would be knocking down the door to work with me. I have made music with people who vote very differently to me and I have focused on the overall person, their musicianship, enthusiasm, passion and whether they are good company. Generally though, most of my band mates seem to hold similar views to me.

Don't let them talk you into abandoning a family member, they're just trying to get a good deal! Maybe use it in a trade if you come across something else you really want. Otherwise may they pry it from your cold dead hands!

Both amazing and a disaster in equal measure. It was a dress rehearsal, on stage with lights and sound and a small audience from the music club/collective. The idea was to get us used to that environment and have our sound guy do all the tweaking before the big day in October. The first run through of the set was scruffy, some things were far too fast, though I was impressed that I could play them at that speed, if you'd suggested it yesterday lunchtime I'd have said no chance We had some weird effect with my mic, on it's own it worked, as soon as we were all playing together something cancelled it out. We think it was the drummers radio mic as when that went wrong later I seemed to be back in the mix. The second run through was a total car crash. We fluffed outros, intros, the keys player forgot one of her solos and I completely blanked the third verse of Peaches We were all standing there playing bum de bum, bum do doo da over and over again whilst my brain went on holiday to the Seychelles or something! It was though, I have to say an absolute blast doing it, bouncing about, foot on the monitor, everything. When it all came together it was great, we've got time to iron out the wrinkles and we found out the set list doesn't quite work dynamically so that's getting a tweak. Plus, in a rush of confidence we want to add Grip as well, so that's my homework The sound guy was a bit odd. The vocals were getting lost in the mix and he was saying that he couldn't turn the vocals up any further. Surely then the answer to that is bring everything else down a bit and drive the FOH volume using the master fader? Apparently he knows what he's doing....

It's a really interesting video. Tallies with the Andertons blind shootout that they did at roughly the same time.

An Innocent Man - Billy Joel

yes, I've been thinking about buying an Elf...

What's Your Excuse? - The Hippy Boys

Thank you @manol really appreciate it 😃

That's a shame, although having owned a few MIJ Precisions, the PUP was often the weakest link

They were lovely to play but the sound was pretty lightweight. Mine were CAR and natural, with matching headstocks. Very pretty.

I saw one in the flesh IIRC in Denmark St and it really was a very very nicely put together bass. It had a bound body with a trans finish and the grain on the body was stunning, almost good enough to suspect it was a veneer, stunning. Being MIJ I imagine it was also a very good instrument in its own right 👍

I would LOVE to arrive at a jam night with that

It was a nice piece and no doubt accurate and useful. Will it make me think twice about using tube amps? Hell no! And I'm pretty sure the word 'heft' wasn't even mentioned 🤣

Gets a bit confusing with Ray 5 pups. Up to 1991ish they we alnico, then switched to ceramic until 2008ish, and back to alnico until the bass was discontinued. Ray Specials are Neodymium as standard. Nice bass 👌

Aerodyne Precision basses. Not too many of the more familiar Jazz bass version about either.

Many thanks for your reply and advice. I'm pretty much in agreement with all your observations and recommendations. I started off down the Behringer simply because they give me what I wanted at the time and I didn't know any better. That journey began a decade ago when I retired and now I've accumulated five (of different sizes). Buying gear sucks really. You buy for Pounds but end up selling for Pennies. Living down in deepest darkest Cornwall there are very few half decent music shops selling amplification worth buying at a price worth paying. Since posting, I've had a chance to actually try out a mid size Rumble. It was good but frankly I wasn't blown away. Better than my equivalent Behringers - 'Yes'' - but not enough to justify flogging them off for pennies then hammering the bank account. If I were gigging it'll be a different story. So I've invested in some decent (but not Behringer !😂) headphones instead. They've certainly upped the sound quality ! N.B. Big thank you to all members who have offered help and advice

AC/DI

Ok. These aren't ceramic pickups though?

As for Jon Snell - when i was sorting out my hifi valve amp I mentioned previously - in my thread on diyaudio.com, he actually advised on the improvements I could do to protect the transformers, what valves would be fine to use instead of the EL34 etc.. I just dug out that thread and among these recommendations he mentioned he had been service engineer for over 45 years… Definitely a gentleman who knows his trade..