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I can only say: ENJOY!!

It does indeed have a tone pump. I'll give that a try.

Another totter along the pathway to full-on gigging on Friday, but (spoiler) alas not on bass. Leader of my former band couldn't find a dep guitar player for the 5-7pm slot she had been given at a mini-festival in Shaftesbury. Dep number 3 in her little black book could do the first set, so I got the call to do the second set on sax. It felt like a good idea as up til then the furthest I'd driven post my stroke op and recovery had been a 30 mile round trip, so the chance of doing a 90 miler in daylight and getting some pay for it was nice. Mrs G came along too... The traffic was very bad most of the way (it's getting to peak holiday time down here in Dorset) so we were a bit late arriving at the venue, which was a de-frocked church converted into a social event centre. The stage was set up amongst the gravestones, (in the dead centre of town?) and was rather impressive, being an inflatable shell over a proper raised playing area, with a pro sound guy and a full PA with massive speakers and foldback monitors - top marks! We sat and listened to my old bandmates doing their first set,after which the guitarist packed up rapidly and exited to get to his next gig. With just my tenor sax to set up and radio mic to plug in we were ready to continue after a few minutes with set 2. If you're a sax or brass player you'll be familiar with the need to transpose chords and melodies when playing with keys and guitars; I'd been used to playing most of the numbers in set 2 on bass without this embuggerance, but this time I was busking 9 out of 12 for the first time, which was a bit of a challenge especially with 'Sweet Caroline' and 'Country Roads' both played in B concert = C# on the tenor, with 7 accidentals to manage in the root key, and no chance of cheating with a capo... Anyway, it went OK 95% of the time and the punters seemed to appreciate the different sound of a sax-led band for a change, so I was able to successfully chalk up gig 3 after my 5 month medical lay-off - however, I was cream-crackered today!

When Jaco went to bed, only needed four springs?

@Merton and I will need to toss a coin to see which of us brings the Trace TE-1200 😂

I looked into it and there are other sellers over there with the same ads and pictures, there's even a very real stolen Stingray 5 pic (logo and all) and more. It's a deep scam that looks tightly sewn up. I guess it's just buyer beware at the end of the day.

The V4B is my main amp, just my opinion here is that it sounds amazing, and the eq is very versatile, it has got a lot of mid and high if you want but it also does my reggae and dub lows very well too, and I’ve never had any issues with it, I’ve had lots of amps and still got quite a few ,but this is my favourite

It more than likely has a tonepump preamp inside, turn the level down to just under half way.

Leafy Meadows - John Paul Jones

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: