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The keyboard one is nowhere as painful

Thanks all for your comments - I’ve just pulled the trigger! Time to find my screwdriver 😂 best of luck with your hunt @Woodinblack!

Probably going to cut down the amount that I go to the Shirley British Legion open mic night, as the guitarist who plays bass badly is also the one sat at the mixer who can just grab his bass and impose himself on whoever's playing, and I'm finding it a bit stressful (it's OK when somebody other than me who can play bass is playing, it's not so good when you're anticipating 25% of the notes being out of tune, time, or both). Plus we only get two songs apiece so Mrs Zero has even less to do than I have. Still, I did get to play a couple of songs with Annette that I've never played (or, in one case, heard) before, so that was fun. Rather sobering event coming home from it. I leave the M42 at junction 10, and the roundabout was partially closed off by a number of police cars and another couple of vehicles, plus an ambulance. Going past the scene, I caught a glimpse of someone lying on the road with a full-face helmet a metre away from them. No sign of activity around them. It didn't look good.

La Bella Super Polished Strings arrived... and the E snapped during installation. Not La Bella's fault as I was trying to fit them on a shortie and their website does warn against winding the speaking part of the string around the post, although this is the first set of flats of any brand that I've had break doing this with large traditional post sizes - even their DTF are fine. The IAH set are fine too for this. I did contact BD to see if I could buy just a replacement E string, but they don't stock individuals and getting one from La Bella would take about 6 - 8 weeks. I've put the old strings back on instead. Just annoyed that I've thrown away £35. Hopefully La Bella will get some shortscale ones made at some point.

Gone with the Wind - Allie Wrubel

I have a 6 string fretless Dean Edge as my main bass and I must say its fantastic! Its from around 2006-2009 (those years are a little hazy...) The original model was black but I brought it from my friend after he swapped the necks on the two that he had because he thought the pickups would work better thay way round and he wasn't wrong. So mine is red with emg-hz pickups Neck is smooth and flat, very easy to play and sounds great DI, or amplified alone or with effects. For their price now, you can't go wrong!

Yes that's right. This is the bass in question It has fret markers on the side at every fret which is madness because they're all single dots, the same size

I don’t think I can ever watch that show again after they murdered that old Jazz bass.

I just have the one ric - well, 2 but one is a 5. So are they all the BT-5? I asked BTN music who until recently had one, but no such luck. At the moment it is not too bad as I am only using it in drop D, so I take a 5 string and the ric drop D'd, but it would be handy,

From KMA: Queequeg2 Moai Maea https://kmamachines.com/machines/

You pointed that out to me a few months ago and I immediately passed it on to Andras who will send me the updated one. It’s a minor omission rather than a wholesale change which is why it got missed for so long. Also, much of the base internal structure is the same as it was from 2015.

just watched it,well worth a look , Sranglers fan or not. The Repair Shop on bbc i player series 15 episode 2 ,,,with the added bonus that you can skip past all the other bits you might not want to see.

If you paid by credit card you’re protected but I’m sure it won’t come to that Their address is very vague ?? No unit number street or postcode I would expect more from a manufacture unless it’s early stages of setting up new place ?