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You rehearsed under fluorine lamps?

We stuck with USB-A for a reason... there are a variety of USB-A to 9V, 12V, 15V and 18V converter cords available for use with pedals, but also the USB-A to USB-C and USB-A to lightning cables are readily available and very inexpensive so you get the best of both worlds. https://lovemyswitches.com/usb-to-9vdc-power-cable/?srsltid=AfmBOopZVrbjs29mAccByIl4AMwGF66xRajKnUtln5fc-rE7Rd5RIkAR Yes, I write all the basic outline and structure of the manuals, and then I have a couple of our outside test players who help with the editing process. One is a very experienced aerospace mechanical engineer who writes operations manuals for NATO compliant equipment (the big stuff) and the other has outstanding communication skills combined with really good intuition. Both are also excellent bass players (I'm a somewhat-mediocre keyboard player), so the goal is a technically complete manual written and edited from the perspective of bass players, to be accurate, clear, concise, useful and free from the vomitous marketing babble that makes manuals virtually unreadable. Thank you for appreciating our efforts. ❤️ We figure that if you are going to pay for a premium product, you also deserve a premium manual.

That's probably why they've lasted. In virtually any workplace, people wouldn't expect to be best buddies (or sworn enemies). As long as you can get along with colleagues/co-workers, that's fine. You make the odd friend through work, but it's not the norm in my experience. Yet music seems to be different for many. Is it because we are trying to recapture the lost halogen days of our yoof, when our first band was a band of brothers, us against the world, etc? And as for relationships within bands, just don't go there. Guaranteed to be a disaster.

I thoroughly enjoyed the selection of songs you played in Kingston this evening (I may have a few photos to post here later 😉 ) The lyrics Mar-a-Lago by the Sea had me and my wife screaming Oh and that Wilcock is very pretty

I've just been flicking through some of the videos for Total 80's. A lot of them have been blocked or are not public. One of my favourites is this one. It was taken by our guitarists daughter. It's a shame it's in portrait, but I'm just happy that it exists at all. We were gigging a lot that year and did so right up until COVID spoilt the party. Even then, after things settled, bizarrely, we were even busier post COVID. Literally up and down the country. Sadly the relationship with our agent broke down and we have now reverted to select local gigs which we manage. @Chiliwailer, I'm sure you've seen it before, but it's the purple Modulus in action. It remains one of my absolute favourite basses to play. I still have to pinch myself that you actually put it up for sale in the first place!! (yes, you still have first refusal, behind a long line of seconds 👊).

Running On Empty - Jackson Browne

regular saddle-soap ? works for me

Modified headstock and added wooden logo

@agedhorse Are you involved in writing the manuals? Mesa manuals are consistently the best I've seen - low on marketing -speak, NO bullshit acronyms and full of actual useful pointers for real-world use. Well done , whoever it was. I can see one of these featuring heavily in my life very soon.

YouCut_20250920_002834235.mp4 Bit of a late report but I can do that can't I? We played (Felis Leo) a gig in Southampton on Sunday afternoon. The band's first gig there and my first there in 11 years! I miss playing Southampton, I have fond memories of many, many venues there 😍😄 Ages ago a mate said try Music In The City, a weekend festival in various strange venues around Southampton. We got booked as the last act on in a place called St Michael's Vault. Turns out it's like an old wine cellar/jail/bomb shelter type place in the car park behind the Titanic pub! We got there early enough to watch a couple of the bands before us, turns out this festival is quite popular and well organised so we had a chilled time enjoying the bands. The sound in the place was terrible though and the volunteers were supplying free earplugs to punters 😂 When we got on stage we didn't have the crowd the other bands did but there was a few so we were happy. Those that weren't fam n friends actually were there for the duration, unbelievable with the noise we were making! Hopefully we'll get more gigs down that way, I've always enjoyed gigging in Southampton more than Salisbury (sorry Salisbury, you need to embrace your inner rocker self more 🤔). I wore me converse and the sound guy liked my ibanez sdgr 1205 bass.

I'm keen to check one of these out, for sure, but I wish you'd asked ME what features to include as then this otherwise perfect looking amp would have at least one 9 volt output on the back to power a tuner ( or other) pedal. That's got to be a good, useful and relatively cheap feature, surely? I don't want you to feel too bad about it, though; I've been playing for 50 years, owned scores of amps and only just thought of it myself... Next time, maybe...

Running Out - Scissor Sisters

Good question, I really don't know. We have tossed this idea around before but it's never gained enough traction.

Just try the v7 sire 5 in marketplace- move it on if you don’t like it. I have one and it’s awesome

I spent most of the day in a local studio recording some of my own songs. My first time doing my own material and my first time singing in a studio environment. Very exciting, and very strange to hear myself in the headphones as we layered multiple vocal tracks. I also did octave mandolin and a friend laid down some acoustic guitar. I'll be back next week to do bass, once my bass is back from the repair shop.

Not many people realise that, thanks to an oddity in the way the calendar is worked out, the 80s actually began in 1979.

It's quite possible to string a four-string BEAD (use the bottom four strings from a five-string set). It might be confusing, so you might want to use something which doesn't feel like your main four-string.

WTF is that toy bass doing within ten feet of you? Suggest you wash your hands and thoroughly de-contaminate

Too youthful

That's it! Thank you @Russ We love quoting that Boba line in his NZ accent "he's no good to me dead!"

Seriously tempted by this, but my D-800 is incredible and keeping my GAS at bay. @agedhorse sorry for the segue - are there any plans to release something similar to the Prodigy again (all valve lunchbox head)