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What’s the Framestrap, NJ?

Sections of the media have been trying get Glastonbury taken off the BBC for years. Events his year have given them a golden opportunity to demand the coverage is cancelled.

Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa

Glastonbury and the BBC are now inextricably linked. Its profile will shrivel when they lose it to streaming. As will the chance for enemies to attack them.

I watched quite a bit on BBC over the weekend and my only gear comment is that most bands I saw were using P-basses or P-style basses. 🤔

Although you wouldn't want a little bit of graphite to snap off the tip of the pencil and find a home somewhere in the plug socket, perhaps making a little bridge between two shiny copper components...

Is it just me or has the media really gone all out on the Glastonbury bad thing this year? I've seen so much, mostly just straight up lies about how unhappy attendees are, thousands leaving early disappointed, £10 a pint for beer, bands not turning up. It seems like much more of an attack than usual. Possibly politically motivated because it's unpopular with their tory/reform followers?

5 string Conklin here for £550… https://www.facebook.com/groups/321515614550229/permalink/23978327848442340/?sale_post_id=23978327848442340

I really like small-bodied headless basses. I had an Ibanez Axstar for a while which sounded superb but in the end I couldn't get on with the narrow string spacing. Then I bought an ACG Border Reiver which has more by way of body, although it's still small compared to a normal bass, and that's just amazing, as you would expect. But I still quite fancy a true cricket bat, and the Hohners do look good... Part of the pleasure of the ACG is that it feels heavy for its size, but because it's small bodied, medium scale and headless, it's actually very light. So you get a bass that feels satisfying solid, but also light on the shoulder, at the same time.

Check Lord of the Strings website: https://lordofthestrings.com/en/bass?types=4&categories=6&subcategories=30&order=3 Is Markus Millar the German Marcus Miller ... ? 🤔😂😉

Ah, I thought that it might be the Hohner as it doesn’t have the Spirit logo. I remember those well. I wanted the style rather than the exact one. I believe the Spirit basses are wood too and I must confess I always prefer passive, simply because a flat battery is one more thing to go wrong. It makes sense that the Hohner would be superior as you aren’t paying for the name.

Ah excellent, that’ll be me tuning in then too.

There is a B2A for sale locally to me for £350. I've had one before, I don't need another one but I'm very tempted just because they are a very good bass in a very small package.

Got the mixer in yesterday afternoon. It wasn't supposed to arrive until Wednesday, but sure enough, Gear4Music somehow managed to get it to me less than 36 hours after I bought it online. Tried the Behringer X Air app on android, absolute crap. Tried MX Mix, marginally better. Tried Mixing Station, and now won't be going back to either of the other two apps. Just been able to plug some guitars, a mic and my bass in so far, trying to hash out the input gain levels for our band by using the same gear as will be used by them. So far, a lot easier to use than people seemed to suggest.

All The Things She Shed - Simple Minds

Mark radcliffe and Stuart Maconie have show on 6music at the weekends. Lard was Mark Riley , he also has shows on 6 music.

Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Van Morrison

House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals

The House Where No-one Lives - Tom Waits