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Well it looks like I will be able to come as the tummy tuck (AKA hernia repair) has worked well. At a recent Bash, I was given a load of faulty cables. I am in the middle of going through them and repairing them. If Mike lets me, I will take a small table and display them to sell. They will not have the lifetime guarantee I give with my bespoke cables, but they will be good spare cables and I will guarantee them for a year. There are instrument (2-6m) and speaker cables (0.5-1.2m). Where the current connectors are usable, I will reuse them, where they are not, I will replace them. Most of the instrument cables will have a straight plug on one end and a right-angled plug on the other. The speaker cables will have SpeakOns on both ends, either Neutrik, or Rean. Prices from £5-10. Of course, I will still be taking orders for any special cable requirements you have in the meantime.

Andertons do an EastCoast Mustang/Precision short scale for about that money. And you're under a tenner away from a Squier Bronco. https://www.andertons.co.uk/eastcoast-msb-short-scale-bass-in-seafoam-green-rosewood-fingerboard-perloid-guard/ https://www.andertons.co.uk/squier-sonic-bronco-bass-guitar-tahitian-coral/ I don't think you're going to get much better for such a small amount of money.

In my other band which is not not exclusively 80's, we do Nik's 'Wouldn't It Be Good'. I don't know what it is about that song, but I just love playing it and it always gets people singing along.

Could be a BG250 or something like that? It's a toneprint loaded one, one of the cheaper ones they brought out in the last few years. Agree with you on the abuse, I had a low opinion of Ashdowns from using abused MAGs in rehearsal rooms, but for years now I've been Ashdowns all the way.

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen

Anyone know who does good repaint/finishes around London or SW area? Going for something like this on my white bass:

Found it, thanks! When I googled the numbers with ‘Fender’ I didn’t get much but plenty of info on TB i can’t fully see the number on the neck p/up as it’s obscured by the foam but I can see the etched number so it turns out they are ……. The 33746/33753 set used in early AmStands ('95-2000), American Series ('01-'07) Thanks Tony

It’s still very much in the board ready for the tour 😉

Forgive the stupid question but, when I link a course on my tablet to my Rumble 40 aux and plug in headphones, I get a lot of buzz/feedback which is annoying to say the least! There are sometimes when I want to do the course / practise quietly but this is preventing me from doing so. Any help gratefully received! Many thanks and all the best!

Yeah , she’s great !

I'd never judge an amp at a rehearsal studio, they get so much abuse. which TC amp was it?

Thank you kindly 😼👍. Will check this out now ! Before I do , I must say that I need to get more symphony x. Imho they blew dream theatre off stage at Wembley in about 2007 ! I have the iconoclast album which I will have to listen to for first time in ages😌

It's a house band for an awards show. My guess is that George Duke has something to do with the band, and his bass player for a few years around that time was Larry Kimple, so I'll throw that name into the ring.

TLDR: that isn’t equality, it’s noblesse oblige in progressive clothes. Ah, “punching down.” That ghastly little phrase, which sounds less like a moral framework and more like an instruction one might find in an IKEA manual for assembling an oddly-shaped ottoman. The idea, if you’ll allow me to paraphrase it badly, is that comedians should never make jokes at the expense of those with less power or lower status. Very noble. Very high-minded. Very - how do I put this delicately? - patronising in the extreme. We’re being told who counts as “up” and who’s stuck “down.” That isn’t equality, it’s a hierarchy disguised as virtue, and the moment you divide people like that, you’ve abandoned the very principle of treating everyone as equals. And here’s the obvious truth: people are equal regardless of job, money, or social status. A duke and a dustman may move in different worlds, but both are flawed, both ridiculous, both capable of laughter. To declare one “fair game” and the other “off limits” is to recreate the very divisions equality claims to abolish. Shielding people from humour doesn’t honour them; it quietly marks them out as lesser, as fragile, needing special treatment. I’ve met, in my time, any number of the allegedly powerless, and I’ll tell you what: many are sharper, wittier, and far more capable of puncturing pomposity than the self-appointed guardians of their honour. To exclude them from the rough-and-tumble of humour is to infantilise them. Shielding some groups from jokes doesn’t respect them, it sidelines them. It’s not kindness; it’s exclusion in a sanctimonious mask .

Written by 80s legend Nik Kershaw, kind of qualifies it

Here you go: Symphony X - Domination (Bass Line).