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Recently added to our setlist. Luvvit.

Bang, bang - Cher

I have a friend that attended that Halifax gig, He also said she was excellent.

Same here

Yes that was the one

Nearly £8k for a wooden necked B2 😳

maybe an ABY pedal in front of it with the B routed nowhere, then once you've loaded your signal and frozen it you could switch the input off ?

I feel old - my STP was to thicken up oil for ratty engines in old cars.

My first rehearsal last night of the year 2026. I missed January's rehearsals for various reasons. Three new tunes added, and that all went reasonably well. Feeling a little rusty after the new year break when the last I gigged was late December. The rehearsal was also an opportunity to try out a new sound for me. Usually it's a big thumpy scooped P-Bass sound I go for which works well for blues numbers. However I've been playing my Sadowsky quite a bit lately after getting the hang of an active bass again. It has a mid-forward tone being a single Musicman type pickup which is quite near the bridge, and reminiscent of the Stingray I used to play, only more mid focused than the Ray ever was. I've also returned to round wounds after nearly two decades playing flats. A recommendation to try stainless steel Elixirs has worked out well. They are quite smooth to the feel and quite dynamic sounding. The rest of the band seemed fine with the hike in low mids, a slight cut in the lows, and a smidge of zing at the top end. Curiously, I can hear what I'm doing much better now with this new sound and although it's quite cutting on its own, it sits well in the mix when the whole band are playing. Gig on Sunday so will see how the new sound goes down live.

Only bass I’ve ever bought new that’s worth more than I paid…..

I've got 4 Japanese Yamaha 😉 basses, I've always been a fan and have always fancied an NE2, they are so classy and beautifully made. I went to a Nathan East clinic years ago and fell in love with the BBNE2 then. Flagship Yamaha bass.

That single pickup/piezo stealth is a big pile of retro ish cool. looking at my bank account, I can just about afford to save the photo off the internet 🤣🙄🥴

Another 12-13 years later, I just bought an HX Stomp XL from Bob, top man to deal with. Many thanks.

Off to Horbury WMC for a 40th party attended by around 150 people apparently, although you wouldn't know it from the lack of audience involvement. Hey ho. The evening started auspiciously as I managed to find a parking spot literally three feet from the door! After I'd recovered from the shock we set up pretty quickly, said hello to the birthday girl and her husband, soundchecked, then sat around doing nothing for an hour and a half. Went with the by now tried and tested Siredowsky - ABM - Two10S combination, which sounded pretty good on a larger stage. At halftime I was approached by a local guitar tech who preferred his business card, so I'll have to look into that as I don't have a go to one in these parts yet. Managed to grab a bowl of curry, made by our guitarist's ex apparently, before heading back on stage. We all played really well, and our newer songs are sounding really good, apart from our drummist truncating Two Tribes again! We had a couple of half-hearted dancers for a couple of songs but that was about it, but star of the night was the 9(ish)-year-old girl who was dancing and cartwheeling on the dancefloor for the entire second set, which have me a bit of a boost. Before we started our singist approached us all and asked if we'd fancy giving London Calling a bash. Hell yes, I would!

I know it will never happen, but if Status Graphite were resurrected and able to offer the same range of instruments again they could charge double what they were before Rob's retirement and their order book would be full. I'd buy one.

Thank you, I should've checked this. Yahaya isn't my favourite brand. A meeting with a luthier might still be an option. A copy of the original would be a nice addition. As my old bass teacher once said, it would be easiest to change from fretted to fretless, if both instruments were the same (meaning muscle memory etc.).

It's a very fun song to play, I wish I could persuade our lot to try it but I suspect it's a bit outside our usual wheelhouse.

Thank you!

I think it was in Bassist magazine. I remember her saying she preferred it as she didn't have to think about different chord varieties ie major/minor.