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Scott Devine, from Scott’s Bass Lessons.com the largest bass education platform.

I would personally hope and pray the grain looks nice so it can sport a natural finish. Failing that I would opt for butterscotch with that maple neck natural headstock and black pickguard.

Eat Your Brains - DJ Whoo Kid/Busta Rhymes/Venom/Slushii

Thanks Stevie , Will try later this week Pete

Those things are 'reasonably expected'. You expect a music venue to make a reasonable amount of noise. As I said upthead, a lot of these venues make unreasonable amounts of noise well into the early hours of the morning, during the week and on Sundays.

I found it interesting and I'll give more detailed opinions later.

Magenta.

It's a flush fitting pickguard so it detaches and held in place by magnets

If relevant, I'd be happy to do a TonePumpectomy and LHZ preamp install on a Spector, if people wanted to see one being done. I've done 5 already that are documented on the Spector thread.

The Mesa Big Block, every day of the week and twice on Bass Bash Sunday.

Take it easy and make sure you look after yourself!! Lost my mum unexpectedly just over a year ago, and had a tough year with my assistant off on maternity from April, plus an op that had me largely immobile for 6 weeks and still getting back to it. I know I overdid it at the day job December and January that I still haven’t properly shaken off - finding it difficult to shake off “what’s the point and why should I care?”. Still haven’t managed to delete mum’s phone numbers from my mobile and it still catches me on occasion - ridiculous really as we’ve sold the house, the phone accounts are cancelled and her mobile is on my coffee table. Dr Gig helps, but if you’re taking responsibility for all the associated gig stuff and burning yourself out then you really need the others to step up to the plate before you crack.

I think you have already said it. No need to try and make you.

Brain Sweeties - Mogwai

But in that case almost anything can be called a health issue. e.g. other people, especially other drivers, having to work, not having a job, traffic, the guvment, people complaining about the noise etc. etc.

To clarify - a couple of my instruments are zero fret. Others which don't have zero frets have nylon nuts. I'm not altering any zero fret instruments. I'm making a brass nut for an instrument which has a badly cut nylon nut and no zero fret. And ideally I'd have zero frets on everything.

Well I have a PJB C8L with a TC BH800 head and a BG-75 combo all in red, so getting a matching C4 for my TC BH250 seems like the right thing to do! There was one for sale in the town I work in recently but it was a little overpriced for me (about what I paid for the C8L), sold quickly enough though.

I sing one song with the current band, the same song I sang with another band a while back - Make Me Smile (Come up and see me). It's fairly easy, I have to concentrate so much on the lyrics that I have no time to think about the bassline, that just comes automatically (and I still get the words wrong at times). And I sing it because I'm the worst singer in the band and it's the backing vocals that are important to be in tune.

First of all we have some photos from last night... Yep, a bit better than the photos I took 😂 So tonight was at The Crew in Nuneaton. Upstairs is Queens Hall, which may be more familiar to some as a venue for original bands. There was no-one up there tonight though, just us rocking out downstairs. It's been 15 months since we last played there due to various circumstances and cancellations, but it's becoming one of our favourite gigs. The Crew is a proper rock bar, so it made a nice change to be a bit louder than usual and a bit more raucous. My Rumble master volume still wasn't even at 12 o'clock though, but was lovely and punchy. The crowd there is a real mixture of ages, from youngsters still having to show ID to white-haired old hippies, and everything in between. It really is a great place. It's getting a bit regular playing the Stingish bass (nice & light, tighter string spacing) and the Rumble. Footwear were Vans for a change (Photo again barely remembered while starting to pack up) Ended the evening with a cheeky chicken shawarma from the takeaway across the road from the venue - very nice!