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@agedhorse Are you involved in writing the manuals? Mesa manuals are consistently the best I've seen - low on marketing -speak, NO bullshit acronyms and full of actual useful pointers for real-world use. Well done , whoever it was. I can see one of these featuring heavily in my life very soon.

YouCut_20250920_002834235.mp4 Bit of a late report but I can do that can't I? We played (Felis Leo) a gig in Southampton on Sunday afternoon. The band's first gig there and my first there in 11 years! I miss playing Southampton, I have fond memories of many, many venues there 😍😄 Ages ago a mate said try Music In The City, a weekend festival in various strange venues around Southampton. We got booked as the last act on in a place called St Michael's Vault. Turns out it's like an old wine cellar/jail/bomb shelter type place in the car park behind the Titanic pub! We got there early enough to watch a couple of the bands before us, turns out this festival is quite popular and well organised so we had a chilled time enjoying the bands. The sound in the place was terrible though and the volunteers were supplying free earplugs to punters 😂 When we got on stage we didn't have the crowd the other bands did but there was a few so we were happy. Those that weren't fam n friends actually were there for the duration, unbelievable with the noise we were making! Hopefully we'll get more gigs down that way, I've always enjoyed gigging in Southampton more than Salisbury (sorry Salisbury, you need to embrace your inner rocker self more 🤔). I wore me converse and the sound guy liked my ibanez sdgr 1205 bass.

I'm keen to check one of these out, for sure, but I wish you'd asked ME what features to include as then this otherwise perfect looking amp would have at least one 9 volt output on the back to power a tuner ( or other) pedal. That's got to be a good, useful and relatively cheap feature, surely? I don't want you to feel too bad about it, though; I've been playing for 50 years, owned scores of amps and only just thought of it myself... Next time, maybe...

Running Out - Scissor Sisters

Good question, I really don't know. We have tossed this idea around before but it's never gained enough traction.

Just try the v7 sire 5 in marketplace- move it on if you don’t like it. I have one and it’s awesome

I spent most of the day in a local studio recording some of my own songs. My first time doing my own material and my first time singing in a studio environment. Very exciting, and very strange to hear myself in the headphones as we layered multiple vocal tracks. I also did octave mandolin and a friend laid down some acoustic guitar. I'll be back next week to do bass, once my bass is back from the repair shop.

Not many people realise that, thanks to an oddity in the way the calendar is worked out, the 80s actually began in 1979.

It's quite possible to string a four-string BEAD (use the bottom four strings from a five-string set). It might be confusing, so you might want to use something which doesn't feel like your main four-string.

WTF is that toy bass doing within ten feet of you? Suggest you wash your hands and thoroughly de-contaminate

Too youthful

That's it! Thank you @Russ We love quoting that Boba line in his NZ accent "he's no good to me dead!"

Seriously tempted by this, but my D-800 is incredible and keeping my GAS at bay. @agedhorse sorry for the segue - are there any plans to release something similar to the Prodigy again (all valve lunchbox head)

There isn't really a definitive answer, I reckon. You can only consider whether you like the idea, and whether you're comfortable with any possible reactions you might be able to anticipate, then make a choice about whether it's something you want to do based on that. So my take on being in a band of white British guys playing Zombie in particular is that I wouldn't, not "you must never"

I click the button, and nothing happens. Doesn't stop me buying things, so I must be logged in. Firefox on Ubuntu Linux.

Deffo the Soul Train ‘Lady of Soul’ Awards in 2005. According to IMDb it was held at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, probably September. Jimmy Williams ( pictured in the previous post ) looks like a strong contender for our mystery bassist too, as well as using a similar style bass ( although maybe a fiver? ).

I can confirm I am not a Russian bot, but I do find it interesting that there is still no clear consensus this many pages in. It shows that the answer is clearly not as straightforward as you might hope. It’s good to discuss these things.

Apparently Johnny Marr had a bit of a scare this week with UPS and his guitars.