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She's ower the border an' awa, wi' Jock o' Hazeldean. 😎

I don't expect anyone is out there looking for this one but I did it for me! I saw a Drumeo video of this track on YouTube and thought it sounded incredible. It was only when I went looking for the players that I discovered it was a Laurence Cottle performance and that it was also Laurence who did the big band arrangement. The track is from Gavin Harrison's album, 'Cheating The Polygraph' and is Cottles's arrangement of the tunes 'Cheating The Polygraph and Mother And Child Divided'. Just great playing from everyone. I have been a fan as Laurence since I used to see him in and around Cardiff/Brecon etc when I was just starting out on my Jazz journey. That rhythm section of Laurence and drummer Ian Thomas always delivered. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/cheating-the-polygraph-mother-and-child-divided-gavin-harrison/

Dancing On The Ceiling - Lionel Richie

Thanks, it’s definitely my gigging bass for the next two performances at least. This one has always felt just right and now it also looks just right.

The bass looks fantastic. I'm a sucker for black and tort.

Sectional Ceiling - Marvin Gaye

I agree with this too. It may amplify things and stop someone else from getting ripped off.

None whatsoever. Get another of the same 210 and stack tall. The tower of power doesn't comb filter your mids into a muddy mess like a 410 does. No strain loading in and out. Much win.

We played the 7pm slot in a new all-day power metal festival at a large social club yesterday. 6th band out of 9 on the bill, but I got there for the first band at 2 and didn't leave until midnight so it was a long enough day to be feeling it this morning. It had the usual metal-crowd friendly atmosphere, though, and the other bands were all really good with enough in common but not so much to be samey, so it was nice to make a day of it. Being a social club in Sheffield, the Stones bitter was fresh and not too expensive. Of course it had to be absolutely bucketing it down so everything got a water-tightness test on the way in, but cabs were provided so that made things easier. Said cabs were a pair of Vanderkley 1x12s that I was told were good for a thousand watts so am assuming were MNT112s. I thought we did alright, but I personally made a bit of a balls-up to begin with. I have two Warwick RB Streamers that I use for gigging - the black one was b-stock with a dead preamp so is gutted and rewired passive, while the white one is factory-spec with its preamp intact. Correct settings for the black passive is everything on 10, whilst for white active it's Bal/B/T in the middle detents and just the volume up to 10. I've been playing the passive recently, so of course picked up the active and without thinking set the balance fully forward (not a massive problem) and bass / treble boosted to max. Was a very brief line-check so it didn't really hit me how wrong it sounded until we started. Half way through the first song I twigged and had to give the sound guy a minor episode by correcting the EQ and messing up his mix, but despite that, everyone I spoke to afterwards said we sounded good. One guy commented that the vocals became much clearer from the second song... mhmm..! Streamer LX 5 (active..) -> Telepath wireless -> Fly Rig v2 -> Markbass Nano 2 -> 2x Vanderkley MNT112 (?)

Ceiling Unlimited - Rush

Danny’s highlighting of the Giaccamo Turra debacle went way beyond the bass community.

Paul McCartney and Wangs

Private Shop was on Boughton back in 1980ish... I remember the moaning in the Chester Chronicle. And me and Jock used to nip in there for amyl 😁

No masking tape, it doesn’t seem to stain anything which is varnished but if the bass body was pale in colour I would’ve been careful not to get any on it. All I did was lay the bass on two flat cushions with a strip of kitchen towel on top of the cushions, cleaned the fretboard with lighter fluid and a microfibre cloth, then caked on the Montypresso with a rag and rubbed it in. Made sure there was a really thick coat everywhere and left for 24 hours. The Montypresso is so thick in consistency that it didn’t drip or anything like that. So I now have a much nicer looking fretboard with no anger from the wife due to stained cushions/table etc.

I think that was on Brook street opposite the Catholic club , the Caspian is on Boughton just along from the Church. if I had kept any receipts it might have had the shop address on them 🙄

Paul McFartney and Winds

Didn't that used to be the Private Shop? My dad had a video shop next door!

Looks really good and so much better I think, i like a dark board, is it messy to use, did you have to use masking tape or something similar

You mean with the political stuff? Basschat has pretty strict moderation that shuts down most partisan things. People get around it by discussing more general philosophical topics, although they do too get shut down from time to time. I’m 57 and it can definitely seem like a time machine to the early days of the internet around here.