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Not sure where you are but I have a V4b you’re welcome to loan and try mate

My most egregious example of Mr Holland mangling a song as a guest was when he did "Doorbell" with the White Stripes, on a Wurlitzer electric piano. What it really needs is simple chords, hit insistently right on the beat, but he did some sort of lazy, sloppy behind-the-beat boogie thing that just turned it to mush.

V sad. Many years ago my eldest son worked as a Saturday boy for a local company who did pa and lighting hire and sales. When he left to go to uni the owner gave him as a gift a paid overnight trip for two to the JHS trade show (up north!) and a couple of hundred to spend at trade prices. I couldn’t go so he took his grandad, they both had a brilliant time and son returned with a lovely Vintage j- bass and some other bits and pieces.

Certainly interested on the narrowest nut that people are happy to go for

At an open mic night in France, our visiting daughter decided to get up and sing At last, Etta James' classic. I was on acoustic bass, drummer on brushes, mate on keys. However the self appointed house harp player assumed he was included in the line up. After him playing continuously over the vocals for the first two minutes, I thought I'd really overstepped the mark when I screamed over mic "Shut the f*k up" but then, a big cheer and applause from every other muso in the place. These people have to be told.😆

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I will admit to having been compared to Mr. Tickle, but I'm afraid that in this case I cheated, as my best bass is this:

I don't know what the tube complement of the Ashdown but the 7027 tubes used in the V4B are very very expensive. up to a thousand bucks for a set of four from Fliptops. They mention the British KT88 are an alternative.

I had another look at my Little Board, after my previous post here, and basically redid it entirely. I wasn't quite happy with the Harley Benton PowerPlant Tuner before I managed to damage it, and it wasn't quite right afterwards. So I got a better PSU with all-isolated outputs and tried again: Peterson StroboStomp Mini tuner - still the best tuner I've ever owned Orange KongPressor is back, because I had the space, and with a doubler cable it's getting 18V. Boss OC-5. I still have the MXR Bass Octave Deluxe, on my big board this time. The OC-5 is here because I'm experimenting with octave up for a pseudo 8-string tone, with some nice results so far. It's not a "hi-fi" octave up in isolation, but it blends well with direct tone. Mosky Silver Horse dual mode "Klone": the effect I want from it seems to change every time I use it, which is not the pedal's fault. It can give just a clean boost, a little more hair, or quite a bit of grind with the treble down to tame the fizz. JHS 3 Series Phaser: I had a problem with the switch last year that mysteriously fixed itself: if it goes again, I have a couple of dead pedals that can donate a switch. It's definitely a keeper for the sound quality. Ly-Rock "Simplifier" clone. I know, should have gotten the original DSM&H Simplifier, and I am considering the new Sub-Atomic pedal version. The cab sim is subtle but with some careful listening it does make a difference. The PSU is a mains-powered Harley Benton PowerPlant Junior, on sale at a very nice price. It has 5 isolated outputs, but you can see six pedals and the KongPressor is using two outputs for 18V. So I did have to use a splitter, which is not ideal. I got a little hum when using that with the Phaser, so the splitter now powers the tuner, the Klone and the preamp. There's still a very slight hum with the tuner in tuner/mute mode, but none in normal operation.

Cryptic, but I think I understand what is expected of me. I await your further instructions.

I would have to say accordion, on the basis that to my ears any accordion is too much so a lot of accordion is unspeakable.

Haven't used my RM set up for a while. It's a 500 1x12 combo, for which I have a 1x12 extension cab. This week I took the combo out on its own and once again I was startled by how good it sounds. A little bit of the onboard grit and compression, not much else, and the onstage sound was splendid. I always regretted parting with my ABM which may be why I forget how good the RM is.

My Sandberg's a factory plek'd and I like them a great deal. I have a bitsa with a Fender Mex Jazz neck that could do with a bit of a go over - not a surprise for a modestly priced part but I'm thinking of a plek this time rather than a human! Anyone had it? I'd be picking Charlie Chandler's place for the work as I've only ever heard good things from there. ta

Whichever one I'm playing, apparently.

Sold my Quad Cortex to Paul, prompt payment, speedy replies with info and an all around great dude! 5/5 Basschatter. Cheers again mate.

No drummer beats a bad drummer every time, but why does anyone put up with a bad drummer? Play with a good drummer and your workload is halved. Play with a bad drummer and your workload increases 10 fold!!

Anyone had their mitts on one of these?

Drums every time. For a while I was playing bluegrass, what a pleasure no drummers at all.