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...er, what did you guys do there.....? BBC News - Brewdog to close 10 pubs across UK, some 'within days' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmw0mmxpjlo

"Hello, friend" - a vain attempt at gaining your trust.

Whistling too... ...except for in that movie.

A Good Year For The Roses — Elvis Costello

I'm only going for the wrestling!

Hi, Can I also have the bass tab please if that's alright? There's literally no other tabs anywhere online so I'd be very grateful for any tab, even if it's not 100% :)) My email is: [email protected]

It's hard to find gig video and pics of us ( Maple Road). I don't think anyone in the band except me has any interest in pics or video. It's too bad because we have a theatre gig coming where you could shoot some nice footage. Daryl

I told them to put you above the puppet show!

Ok, I'm having a leisurely drive over to Beverley tomorrow morning. https://www.peterhallviolins.com/ Had a good conversation with Peter as to my requirements, looking forward to a good outcome 🤞

More rain. After I'd cleaned all the glue and torn fragments of wood out of the neck pocket (not a process I took any pictures of), the first order of business was to reattach the various pieces that meet at the neck block (by that I mean the solid piece of timber inside the body that the neck is glued to, not sure if it has a proper name). The top was still securely attached to this block, as was the right-hand side piece. The back was completely detached from it (along with having parted from the top 15–20-cm of the sides) and the left side piece was detached as well. I think these splits had their origins in one of the historic neck-smashy incidents. Like, they were violently snapped off the block then, and either no glued back into position or not glued back well. The steam might have separated an earlier repair, but I don't think those repairs were more than surface-level. I used a long thin scraper to clean the surfaces inside these splits and then lashings of titebond (injected deep into the joints with a syringe). I considered hide glue, but I was doing this indoors during the winter, and really didn't want my house smelling of boiled hoof. I know titebond's not traditional for proper luthierie, but I figured there should be some leeway if you're working on a plywood bass that looks like it was dragged behind a car. Here's a picture of the clamping arrangment for glueing up the side piece. It also shows the cleaned up inside of the neck pocket, with no more manky glue. I held off on glueing the veneers and patches into the pocket until after I'd closed everything up and got it secure. This second picture was taken while glueing up the back. You can never have too many clamps. I have at least twice as many now, but there's always room for more. I also noticed while moving it around that about a 30-cm-long section of the top had come away from the sides at the bottom of the bass. I again used scrapers to clean this out before injecting glue into the gap and clamping. Some of the more knowledgeable readers might be wondering how I kept the sound-post in place through all of this. The answer is that I honestly don't know. I forgot that it wasn't glued into position. Kindly it obliged by not falling out despite all the bashing and squeezing and shifting around. I didn't remember it was there until I was stringing the bass up weeks later.

Sounding GOOOOOD!!!

We've got a Sunday afternoon slot at Ellesmere Port Summer Jam on 3rd August. Not played this one before, looking forward to it.

Never too late. I always did backing vocals and often would sing one or two songs a night just to offer the singer a rest/ give the crowd something different but never viewed myself as a “singer”. That is until the singer in my originals band left and it became down to me. So I did it and it was actually ok. Then I started wondering if I would be able to carry a whole night as the “singer”. So I did it and I enjoyed it and the punters enjoyed it and now it’s just something I do or don’t, depending on the circumstances. If like many bass players, you have an ear for production and arrangement, I will say that being the singer as well gives your opinion far more clout in these sorts of discussions - piper calls the tune etc. So I say go for it. A very worthwhile thread of your musical journey.

All installed and wired, just need to stop playing and start tidying up the cables and adding Velcro.

Almost finished, Got some cables to tidy up though and more velcro to add.