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I've had an email from Colin Moulding/XTC: Paul It sounds like a worthy cause, and the money is not an issue , but I can't really say right now whether I’ll be available. I prefer to react to stuff when it comes through, so making a date , 4 months hence, would not be right for me. Sorry for the lack of committal Best Colin While it's a great pity he's declined at this point, I've thanked him for taking the time to come back to me.

Yes! More the merrier!

I've got the Elf 10" combo which I love. I'm currently planning a louder band and looking forward to adding a TE 1x10 speaker to make a cute TE mini stack. I was a huge Trace Elliot fan back in the 90s and it's nice to see the brand doing well. It's also mildly ironically amusing to see the brand doing well with tiny, lightweight amps and cabs...

Spot the deliberate mistake around the 1:10 minute mark. 😂🤣😂.

With tablatures I try a couple of times mwhile I listen to the song with the headphones until I find the right rhythm. The easiest way is find the song on YouTube of someone playing it with tablatures below but of course you can't find every songs

There were medium scale JVs as well: https://bassbros.co.uk/sold-basses/squier-jv-precision-bass-rare-medium-scale/

I hope the unit gives you a long and happy life of pleasure.

Same for me other than I have 3 basses.

Right now, I have four basses. Each one is the best bass I've ever played.

Tell me you don’t miss playing in a proper ground. If Fulham left Craven Cottage that would be the end for me. PS Saw the Doobies twice in 74. As with Springsteen I don’t dare go again, it couldn’t be the same…

One Cannon, that's not overplaying in the 1812. Below is an example of overplaying in the 1812: 1812 Overture: "In the sections that contain cannon shots, actual cannons are sometimes replaced by howitzers, tanks, fireworks, recorded cannons, a piece of staging, usually hit with large wooden mallets or sledgehammers as used in Mahler's 6th Symphony. Bass drums, and gongs/tam-tams are also regularly used as cannon substitutes or adjuncts in indoor performances!"

Silent Plugs are only available in TS or mono configuration.

The issue you're going to have with tablature is that it doesn't usually give you a clue of the rhythm. Can you follow the chord symbols and improvise the parts? Also, are the songs printed in classical notation?

Long Shot Kick De Bucket - The Pioneers

I found this weird thing - Musontek FurFur - when something tempted me to type "fuzz" into search bar of a local e-commerce platform. It immediately caught my attention do to its ridiculous looks, but I checked YouTube and was sold when a guy did nice Iommi with it and decided to chance it for bass. Turned out it is a wonderful general purpose fuzz with attitude and lots of tonal capabilities. It can be fine tuned from regular distortion to outrageous, screaming chugs. With a low gain OF before it it shines even more. It is tiny (think Mooer size), well-made (checked the guts, the PCB is nicer than in EHX stuff!), nicely packaged, and relatively cheap. Controls: FUR = Fuzz RUF = Volume (unity with clean signal at 9'o clock) L/M/H = voicing toggle (actually in a different order - I take it it's a 1-0-1 switch, so I'd argue the letters mean: L = Lancinate (bright), M = Muddy (dark), H = Heaving (medium); if the switch ever breaks, I'll substitute it with a rotary switch putting the modes in more intuitive order). It also has two easy-access trim-pots for BIAS and BODY on the side.