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When I built this out of reclaimed pitch pine it came in at 9.5 lbs. After the router attack it's a lovely 8.25. A late 70's Musicmaster that is so heavy you hate playing it is begging for the router. No-one's gonna want it as is if it's that heavy. Go the rout route and then you'll play it all the time.

I only ever tried the EB Cobalt flats yet, but those never ever stuck to my fingers (I got hands that are normally dry but very suddenly can get very sweaty, so I'm all over the spectrum).

At no point did you come off as being judgemental. I thought this thread was a good exercise in highlighting what we play and think we hear vs what is actually being played. Something every musician can relate to ☺️

I played Morecombe punk fest a couple of years ago with my ankle broken in 2 places - even managed to drive there (left foot in plaster, electric car with one foot driving!).

We have a wedding gig in August and I'm already dreading it!

Cheers John, Yep, we're very lucky to have her. I've found a longer clip on an instagram feed. Hopefully this link works.

I did a gig sitting down as I had a knee replacement, that was ok, other than it being the hottest day of the year!

Gig last night, a wedding. I am not generally a great fan of weddings, but they do pay well and many of them have been great. Normally it is a pain to load in and out while they are doing speeches etc. This one we had a little flap at the back of the tent to load in, but luckily it was just me and the drummer so loading in wasn't too bad, the guitarist came later once we had everything in. Quietly got everything loaded through the various speeches. For some reason the X-Control wasn't working - I know it wasnt the X18 or the router as I had wireless, but swapping cables didn't work. In the end the singer found if he started it holding the ethernet cable up, it worked. Time for some new ethernet cables! They had changed their mind about the first dance song, and wanted something to dance with everyone with, but didn't have an opinion what, so we went for 'saw her standing there' as it is generally love based and we can't normally play it as the drummers dad always wants to sing it, and he is at all of our public gigs, it went down a storm. So everyone danced for 5 or 6 songs and then went out of the tent - it had been raining for a while and suddenly got nice. So it was largely an empty tent for most of the first half until obviously 2 songs before the half time, when everyone came back in and danced. we extended a few songs then had a break. Came back in and everyone had gone off again, half into the pub the marque was in the garden of and half outside, so we did half the set to one woman, who to be fair was enjoying it, and her other half came in later so there were two of them. Towards about half an hour before the end, a large group came in and started dancing and enjoying it and then inevitably everyone was in for the last 2 songs and after the landlord gave us a hard '1 more song' and we did that song, were all shouting for more songs. As usual. Then as we broke down, or trying to, a couple of the guys were trying to set up a silent disco, which involved lots of them standing in the way while we were trying to break down and making it really slow. It was ok but I am not a fan of weddings!

Have to admit i stood at all the gigs i did and from memory i vaguely recall my leg was a bit aching but not that bad i had to sit down. Here's me standing at one of the gigs. You can just see the white plaster cast under my jeans on my right leg. Altho a roadie did all the lifting of my gear i still managed to wire it all up. I was using a Roland pre-amp with 2 Mattamp power amps that i had positioned on my LHS so i could make changes as and when required. Unfortunately at this particular gig one of the power amps started smoking badly and when roadie went to switch it off he got a shock from it. He was ok tho and simply pulled the mains plug instead. Dave

And quite often the customer will ask for a receipted invoice 😁

Indeed - if anything it seems to have been swept under the carpet of history. It doesn't appear to have been hyped or marketed at the time either, so it's not even much of a noble failure. It just doesn't seem to have been given much of a chance.

Last year my foot got trapped under a forklift truck which fractured it in 6 places. It also did loads of damage to the ligaments. I had the metalwork removed 4 weeks ago and I'm still hobbling around a bit as it's not fully healed up yet. I had to rehearse and gig sitting down with my foot (in a cast) on a chair which was a bit awkward but it was doable. I couldn't carry a single thing as I was on two crutches so bandmates and my poor Mrs did all the work, even setting up my rig. Upside was that I couldn't drive so I enjoyed a few pints!

Well, I will do two, although the first one was last saturday, just hadn't got round to it. Last week was a local 'pub on a beauty spot' event - they play gigs on sunday afternoons through the summer, and they are well attended. They don't pay well, the landlord is tight and he knows that people really want that gig, they do, only certain bands are allowed in. The venue is a semi-permenant marque over a fixed shed/stage, its made at the start of the season and taken down at the end. Parking in general is a nightmare, but the band have access to an area at the back, getting to it is another issue due to the traffic trying to park, took 10 minutes to get past the car parks! This was the first of the summer gigs, so looking forward to it. Luckily got there before the guitarist so it was an easy setup, I took my BC12 speaker and a TC450 as I was a little concerned about the Evox8 not starting when we were at the last gig, and didn't want to be doing an ourdoor gig with everything through one Evox8, turned out nothing to worry about, it was fine. Busy as usual, sound was clear and good, crowd were good, although the bass (the rick) sounded lifeless. Midway through the third song realised that the compressor on the 450 was nearly flat out, which was the issue, dialed it out, all sounded good. First half went ok, but seemed a bit flat for some reason. At half time people were doing their usual complaints about the sound, although not usual, in that noone complained about the vocals, I took the mixer in during the week a few weeks back and spent some time eq'ing the vocalist from a multitrack and since then he has been gushing about how it sounds, and noone has complained. People complained the guitar was too quiet, I didn't think it was, they also complained the bass was too quiet, well, not having that, so that went up a bit. switched the Maruszczyk at half time (for no particular reason) and the second half the crowd were more into it and it went down a storm - the second half songs are more poppy than the first - also the new tracks 'A little less conversation', 'staceys mom' and 'all the small things' went down well. In the end we must have been going too fast or had too short a break as we started to get really close to the running out of 44 track setlist time! Later someone posted some grainy videos of us on facebook, the bass was pretty loud in the first half!

DUDE! Sorry to hear about that. Hope it is fixed and able to let you back on stage ASAP>

Same here. I have very dry hands (they never seem to get sweaty), but after playing flats for a few minutes it feels like they’re sticking to my fingers. Again, Yukl The only thing worse is those latex strings you get on U-Basses. They are truly weird.

Danny McCormack is touring with one leg* so you've already got him on the... back foot. Hope you get better soon man. *(well, he's touring with The Wildhearts, but, you know what I mean)