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Yep, thanks to all and especially Rob for organising (and sponsoring!). It was great to meet you all and an amazing opportunity to try so many fine basses.

It was good to meet you today. and the big surprise for me was how much I loved your Gibson Ripper! I've never played one before. Rob

Pretty hard to control my monitor mix from a sheet of paper. 😳

Hame! Thanks to Rob for organising another excellent day with good weather, great gear, good company, and nice grub. 😀

I think most of us can cope with stuff that's a bit more than three or four chords from memory. Even the odd bit of Bach 🙂

It’s a bass vi (30”) just currently tuned as a baritone…🥸

NSVM graduate (just!) here, class of 1984. Shocked to hear this. I really hope the school is allowed to keep going forward. It's a valuable and remarkable institution. Please keep us updated, Floyd. Wishing you and everyone the very best with the campaign. Rick

I still come across a few venues with a really noisy light... in one it's the main stage light, so Jazz bass with both pups on max all night!

Did someone let children in? They’ve hung their 3:4 sized toy bass amongst your other worthy instruments just checking it’s not April 1st today

After The Gold Brush — Neil Young

White Broom - Cream

Older drivers were not very good. Nowadays most are flickerless (400 Hz dimming is pretty common). They do not pollute surroundings that much anymore, although some chinese brands are not so well performing.

I like the way the advert didn't mention ipads on stands, but since someone mentioned them the thread has been well and truly derailed 😄

Read 'em and Sweep - Meatloaf

I think it’s horses for courses, Motörhead, Guns N Roses, Sex Pistols, for bands like that crib sheets & iPads just aren’t “the look”. Now people could take a pop and say well that music isn’t difficult, wouldn’t be needed, well prob not except the Slash parts.

Love In A Vacuum - 'Til Tuesday

I may choose to visit the statue at Hellfest in France rather than Stoke on Trent. It does look really good though.

Nice little day in the studio, guiding for the album…

Hoover dam. Bob Mould

I am not a masshoosive fan of Frank Zappa although I very much respect his artistry. He took the whole thing into areas where no-one else dared to go and his musicianship and compositional acumen are undeniable but I sometimes think he forgets to make thing beautiful and overemphasises the ‘cleverness’ of it all. I also came to it late so I was elsewhere in terms of my headspace so maybe I didn’t give him a fair listening. This track is an exception, of course, and I always think of it as Zappa’s ‘hit single’. The part is a tough read because there are a few ‘odd’ notes in there (I would go as far as to say they are wrong/poor choices but you can’t be sure with Zappa!). This is the bass part (as far as I could figure it out from the mix) to ‘Peaches En Regalia’ from the 1969 Zappa album ‘Hot Rats’. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/peaches-en-regalia-frank-zappa/