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Good one. Twas '76.

Another beautiful crowd shot with proper lighting. Daryl

Yeah, if only I was 16 again. I figure I'm lucky just to be playing at all!😊

My my, you're looking sprightly, bowing away in that photo..! ...

And I think I just worked out the rest of the melody. G|—-17—12—16—14—12-11-12 G|—-19—21—19—17-19—16—21-21—19-17-19—16—14—12-11-12 I knew I'd have to go up the dusty end of the fretboard, but I worked this out on my Triad 5, and it only hast 21 frets, so I was right up at the very end of the fretboard! Mark

Not many of these over here but you can see another photo and a story in my post in General Discussion "How was your gig last night". It is a 3/4 bass with a 42 inch string length and although it is not a very big bass it has a massive sound and came with a C extension and is lovely to play and sounds fantastic, too bad it's not mine.😊

If there is any chance they could have non original drivers or they don't say they are 8ohm you should probably check. That's a lot harder with speakons. You would have to find your preferred way of getting a multimeter on the driver to measure DCR. Should be in the 5 to 6 ohm range for an 8 ohm cab. Impedance goes up when it is working to push air.

Another concert with my teacher's Young Artists Orchestra, kids from 6 to late teens and a few adults to fill out some sections since many of the kids are too small to play full size cello and bass, total about 35 musicians. The bass section was the same as our Christmas concert with my teacher's 16 year old daughter and a wonderful 9 year old girl playing a half size bass and me, at 79 I am 70 years older than the young bassist! I am so lucky to be playing with these kids, they are all students who started at age 3 or 4 with my teacher's program and are unbelievably good musicians and absolutely professional in their attitude towards playing music and have huge respect for music and their teacher. This concert was mostly movie music (Jurassic Park, Hobbit and others) with lots of dramatic bits and a lot of dynamics to deal with. There was also a string quartet selection but the highlight was the 16 year old playing the Gavotte by Lorenziti with a string quartet on the Thomas Martin bass that her father found for her. She was brilliant on a difficult piece and the audience loved it. Martin basses are rare on this side of the Atlantic but I can see why they have such a good reputation, this is a BASS that can just thunder out those low notes but sounded great when she was off the end of the fingerboard. This is my fifth concert with this group and it is so different from my jazz and bluegrass gigs and makes me practice with the bow which is real challenge. Still taking lessons and hoping for another concert with the kids.😊

Oops! I Digit Again - Britney Spears

I'm 62. It's tempting to give a very long answer. I'll try and be concise. From my teens I found live music awesome. Until my early 20s I was just a ragged guitar basher, then I discovered bass and found I could play it reasonably. I got into a covers band, followed by two originals bands. Then I got married and for about 22 years did no more than the odd noodle every year or two. As divorce became inevitable I started playing for my own pleasure, put in liafs of effort, then signed up for a "weekend warrior" scheme. I discovered thst I was actually a reasonably good player with a good ear. I also rediscovered how making music was fundamental to who I am. From that scheme arose a band. We only gigged twice, then covid and the divorce finished, and I came back to Wales to look after my dad just over four years ago. Since then... I joined two bands, one, three piece blues, I am still in. My first gig with them I met a lady who is now my partner and as obsessed with live mumusic me! The other band, I left as try just weren't serious about gigging - three in two years. I founded another band, five of us playing classic/ heavy rock we all love. My dad passed last year. With the BL of the blues band finding success with a young indie band, and all if us in the other band having multiple bands I haven't had as many gigs as I want. Iwas maling up dome of the slack with dep gigs and open mic/jam nights. Then a friend has decided to resurrect his old band with new members to record a new album, and I've joined up to what is a one album and a few gigs project. Then a band I know have asked me to take on bass as their bassist has moved to keyboards. They are a really good old-style rock band playing about 30% CCR and a great bunch. So my answer: It keeps me sane and happy. My partner is super supportive. All the bands have great musicians. who are also friends. But most of all I love jamming, improvising and learning new material.

First festival of the year. The rain stayed away, and good fun was had by all.

Chord Craft is an app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. You can use all of the features for free so it's worth trying out. It has a huge song library. You just have to know a song's title and maybe the artist's name and it will find the chord chart for you. The app has all the things you would expect, like Transpose, Autoscroll, Print, and Export to PDF. You can create set lists to plan a performance. You can view guitar chord diagrams too!

I have sold faaaar too many Status basses! 😂 so most likely!

You know what they say - A lot of the tone is in the fingers.

I've been told by a bass playing friend that I make my PJ5 and Jazz basses sound very similar. Sorted!!

I've played Knebworth. A few years ago, Knebworth House, one of the Barns, great gig.

I sold mine about 3 years ago (?) Heavy instrument, but had good balance playing standing up. Mine (and the other ones exported to Asia Oceania) didn't have the TBX circuit I pretty much used it with flats (Chromes) Diamond Comp and Sadowsky preamp

Incidentally, the bottom image was an hour battling with ChatGPT and an image of my bass!!

I do have some small squares of material that would kind of work; I suppose I’m already not that enamoured with pickups being little black rectangles, so I was thinking of something that would be a bit more in keeping with the curves of the instrument. It wouldn’t be the end of the world from a utility standpoint .. especially given my skills with a saw ha ha!!