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Peter Capaldi had a great time with Franz Ferdinand, and they seemed to be doing a good job too: https://fb.watch/Ax75cP1lNG/

He's not a plumber, he goes round fixing people's drives.

It has mounting screw holes in the heel & tuner screw holes but doesn't have a hole for the string tree. Weird When I take off the fretless neck, before storing it should I do anything like adjust the truss rod to ensure it is dead straight or doesn't it matter?

.....and so with great power comes great responsibility.... we rehearse very very loud. I'd run all night pretty safely, until I tried a different preamp my guitarist had brought along. I wasn't really paying attention and let him twiddle the knobs..... Volume dropped, smell of electrical burn and then nothing. The verdict - pushed the amp too far, dropped 1.5k+ of power onto the 410 with a fair level of drive, speakers and amp have failed. Solution: barefaced have been great as always. New drivers on their way. Sumo needs a board replacement which GSS are happy to sort. (Obviously all at my cost). Lessons learned: 1. be careful with more power than the cab is rated. 2. Don't let your guitarist mess with your gear. 3. Maybe turn down on future...(Probably not though) ✌️

Thanks a lot for all of the info and advice. I've found a local dealer who sells (or leases out) and tunes a lot of the pianos in the region and has both new and second hand options. Thanks Hellzero! I'm up north (Turnhout) so a quick visit isn't really feasible, but thank you very kindly for the invitation. I'm thinking about visiting Marne as well (I was put of a bit by them being such a 'big name', though that's not necessarily a bad thing).

Yep, Rod Stewart would be cheaper.

It was a great sound! I didn’t like the Casady as much as the P, not quite so in your face. A bass with a P pickup in the normal position through a Tech21 VTDI will get you where you want, without the need for a chiropractor after, it’s what I do .

Countryfile is probably not going to help a whole lot mate 🙂

Diamond Dogs - Bowie

The scientist in me wants to test how much electricity the pencil's graphite core will conduct! 😈

Nah, you’ll probably get a little ‘otter….

Downloaded; thanks for the 'heads up'.

I'm boycotting the rest of Glasto now. For political reasons. That I won't be going into here. Countryfile is on BBC1 soon. Calm me right down, hopefully.

Any class 2 appliance will have a symbol. A square in a square, which you can clearly see below the CE mark on Marky's plug. Some pedal board psus use class 2 transformer/plugs, some just us a standard class 1 plug and have the transformer further down.

https://bassmagazine.com/spector-bass-welcomes-megadeth-bassist-james-lomenzo-to-their-family-of-artists/ I see James Lomenzo had joined the Spector roster. Makes sense to me.

.... there goes his legacy of rolling out of hmp and doing an impromptu gig at the tap and tin which has since been lauded by many local pundits as one of the medway deltas finest ever cultural events in the history of everything ever

...but don't do this at home kids.

This concert, from 1974, will only be on YouTube until this Tuesday. Frank Zappa channel. Awreety awrighty!

Here’s a clip of a gig from just over a week ago - hopefully it demonstrates the bottom B well enough as I’m sat on a low C for a lot of the song 😅

Electrician here. @Marky L's bodge isn't quite as unsafe as you would imagine. The top pin on a plug is used as a path for current to flow to earth, should this be necessary (when there is a fault). As a safety measure, British three pin plugs will not enter a socket without the top pin present. You may notice that the top pin is slightly longer than the bottom two pins; when the top pin enters the socket, the guards over the socket holes for the bottom two pins will open and allow the bottom two pins to enter. You can't access the bottom two socket holes without the top pin entering first. This is to stop kids, or anyone, sticking their fingers in a socket and getting a shock. Marky's pedal board power supply is a 'class 2' bit of kit. Class 2 kit doesn't use the earth pin for safety (it doubly insulates the live terminals inside the plug instead). Consequently, he only needs the top pin of the plug to be there to open the bottom two pins and connect the plug to the power source. The big lump of a pedal board PSU plug houses a transformer, which takes the 230 volt mains down to a pedal board friendly 9v (or something similar). 9 volts are quite safe.

Well I did use it for a number of gigs and then sat in the bag for a while (hence the six months). TBH, we used to do similar in a computer store I worked in years ago when we got euro plugs in on something. At least I wasn't using a screwdriver to stick in the earth socket 😆

Fantastic. It’s solid as a rock and doesn’t suffer from the shorter scale at all; I’ve had other 5s in various flavours of 34”, 33”, 32” and whilst all were perfectly fine, none of them have been as balanced as this one. All Alan’s basses are well enough built and thought out that you’ll never be wanting but this just adds “something”; Alan has a theory that the bigger body of this (vs some of his other designs which I’ve had) helps to solidify the bottom end that little bit more. In terms of the feel of the string, that’s helped by the custom wound Newtones which are brilliant. The tension is absolutely perfect for me; I don’t like too much flexibility/looseness in a string and these are great.

Porcupine Tree is a local tribute band, isn't it? 🤪🤔🤦🏻