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It sounds very good. Lots of midrange tone and very loud. I suspect I need to spend some time with it to work out the sound I like the best. Rob

First thing that comes to mind is the Helix Stomp. I know there are many other options out these but ive used the Stomp for both bass and keys (not at the same time or even in the same band), and it worked well. Especially good when using the midi function to change Stomp patches with keyboard patches. If you set up a chain of blocks covering the different effects and have them turned off, you can just enable them rather than needing to scroll through anything. This is how the cheaper multi FX like the Valeton's work.

My guess as to the top 10 is Stairway to Heaven Bohemian Rhapsody Freebird Hotel California All Right Now Highway to Hell Comfortably Numb Paranoid Sweet Child of Mine Smoke on the Water No idea to be honest... If there is anything from 2000 onwards, I'd be surprised. I make no claims on the merits of the songs. Rob

Now I’m back in gainful (and frankly very nice) employment I’d consider it obviously I’d have to check with management first

If there is enough interest and willingness to commit to paying the full price of the Cheddon hall hire maybe we could group together to run the event to take the strain of Mike and his team? It is a great venue which would be hard to beat on price and facilities?

Any more "mini gig rigs" to show off?

Any recommendations for stereo effects pedals that work well for both Bass and Keyboard? I'm keen to gradually build a pedalboard that could work for both. That means they need to have the option of stereo in/outs for the Keyboard (it has built-in stereo effects like Leslie speaker), not be too Bass specific (e.g. Bass compressor) and be able to handle line in as well as instrument in signals. It'd be good if they had presets that could be easily changed from Keyboard to Bass. I think the Source Audio stuff would all be good. e.g. Atlas compressor, Collider delay, Gemini Chorus (which I unfortunately sold recently). Perhaps the Boss RE-2 or RE-202. Any good stereo distortion? (distortion is one thing I'm not so keen on with the Source Audio pedals, doesn't sound as good as analogue to me) Perhaps multi-fx like the Boss GT Core. My reservation with multi-fx is I enjoy the jam band improvising type approach to all apart from the 'bread and butter/always on' effects, especially with keyboard e.g. if I instantly decide I want one section to have distortion and chorus I can easily press both on with individual pedals and easily change their parameters, I can then decide to add some delay and click that pedal on - as opposed to trying to do all that with multi-fx by scrolling through effects blocks and parameter menus or presets to find one pre-planned for that exact eventuality.

Whole Lotta Rosie hasn't appeared yet either, nor Highway to Hell. Number one will surely be between Stairway and Bo Rhap. I was just looking for Sweet Child O' Mine, which hasn't appeared yet, then remembered Sweet Home Alabama - and then, thinking of American states, Hotel California. None of them in yet, so they're in the top 155. And then California led me to RHCP, and there's none of their songs in yet.

The end of an era. Was so glad it was there after the Midlands hiatus. At leadt Midlands is back this year. Many thanks and best wishes to Mike and the Scrumpettes and everyone who helped make the SW bashes legendary.

There is the MarkBass MB58R 122 P 4 ohm 600w cab at around £600 new Not sure if it’s any good ? Im using two MB58R 102 Energy cabs but fancy a standalone single 212 cab

At the lower end, there's probably lots of songs tied on the same number of votes.

I'd like to see Joe Dart Sterling basses available to the UK without the absurdly high shipping fee.

A few years back I had a Markbass 212, can`t remember the model number but it was a very good sounding cab, and as expected, nice and light/portable. Worth checking out if one comes up.

Fender to have 21 or 22 frets on every bass. Having the high E (G string, 21st fret) is very useful. 20 fret or under basses are wrong. I'd love to see a physical version of the Vulf Compressor plugin. I love that thing and I wish I could have it in a pedal.

They did a limited run like that once. Might have even been neck through. It didn't sell enough to keep going with it.

Congratulations! Looks good. How does it sound?

Yeah that was a strange one, hopefully they can sort that and get them upstairs where they belong

Been done.

We're opening up for Epithemus' album launch on the 7th of February, so that should be fun! https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/exchange/sat-7-feb-epimetheus-140572#e140572

I hope you did some Free, what with having Paul Kossoff guesting.

Electrik Soup 90s and 00s indie classics. The Beehive, Brentford, that London. Saturday 10th January. Beehive Poster.pdf

Protection racket 7051 bass gig bag. Zip works after a fashion, handles likewise. Completely un-sellable as it's got major issues. Ideal for in house bass storage or for part of the packaging to transport a bass in a sale dispatch. Free to collect from Lichfield, Staffordshire. I couldn't bear the rigmarole of couriers, packaging etc

Thanks for pointing out the mixed Thomann reviews of the Swiff WX520 - very helpful. Given I've just recommended the unit to our singer, for whom it will be a significant outlay, I've had a read through (and pulled the reviews together in English translation in the attached note, in case of use for anyone else). I found the review by a chap called Jonz particularly good. He very helpfully listed the pros and cons and was obviously loving it, until it broke after 6 months! Shame. Swiff Audio WX520 - Thomann Reviews.pdf