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I'm saluting in awe - well played sir (although how close is it genuine Kawazaki 777 which was the paint TE used?)

And back to the 80s Patti Austin and James Ingram - Baby, come to me | Eddie Watkins Jr.

But wasn't the issue with Oasis tickets that there was no face value from the original seller and it fluctuated with demand?

And many moons ago I had this...should never have sold it. The guy who bought it won't sell it back to me 😭

At least I was honest...

I second that! 👏🤞

I'm in....

I've just been looking at getting a ticket to see Cabaret Voltaire at Rock City next year. The face value ticket price is £35.00 On top of that is £5.88 booking fee and a £1.50 E-Ticket charge bringing the total price up to £42.38, and this is from Rock City's own web site. If you want to buy them from any of the other ticket sites it's even more expensive. It used to be possible to bypass these fees by going in person to the Rock City box office. I'm in town for a client meeting tomorrow so I'll go and have a look to see if this is still the case. IMO if there is no way of avoiding these additional charges then they should not be additional and be part of the actual face value ticket price. And if they can be avoided by buying in person rather than on-line then this information should be made available at the time of purchase. I suspect that there is some creative accounting reason why they are additional.

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The admin fees are now going to be £100 per ticket. Cynical? Moi?

100%!!

Should also hopefully now be history. Can only resell at face value, plus service fee.

That and Dance the Night Away are my idea of hell.

So she has arrived. Quick unboxing on my lunch hour with full details/review etc to follow. My 1976 P bass 😍

No, the Ui16 was noisier, much noisier. Don't get me wrong, there are features on the Behringer and Soundcraft consoles that are not on the CQ series but as far as the basic audio performance, the CQ is better. I know someone will ask so: These are my own thoughts and experienced users, especially of the Behringer Mixers, may well have different views Soundcraft Ui12/16 Pros, User Interface is a web page, so will work on almost any device without additional software. Has few features that the CQ does not, although many were added in the last firmware update. Demo of HTML Interface is on the website Can be fully controlled from a phone. Cons Very old design (over 10 years) Very slow updayes since Samsung took over Harman, Soundcraft's parent company. Noisy pre-amps/AtoD converters. The Ui24r is a later design and reputedly improved pre amps and analogue to digital converters. It also (like the CQ range) has multichannel record capabilities and unlike the CQ has a built-in matrix. Behringer X12/18 Etc Pros: Low cost Includes a Matrix, it's like an internal patch bay. Cons: Noisy Pre amps. Wi-Fi control unusable without external router. Old design Control Software updates very slow on some platforms. In my experience, the Wi-Fi on the CQ 18/20 is better than both the Soundcraft and basic Behringer mixers. Saying that, there are occasions when even the CQ suffers Wi-Fi issues. The CQ18 and has a built-in touch screen, so you never actually lose control. In hindsight, I wish I had gone for the CQ18 although the size, compared to the CQ20, is an issue. The good news is that the settings do not change on any of the above mixers if you lose control momentarily (UK meaning not US). I should say that @Phil Starr has an RCF M18 and as far as I know, has never had an issue with the Wi-Fi on that.

Awesome!!!

Had the 1st rehearsal with the new 'Journey' tribute 'Raised On Journey' on Sunday. Played my new purple/blackburst Spector Euro CST through MY GK400RB into the studio's own TE410 with just my Chorus pedal (for when required). Boosted the mids on the GK for that Ross Valory bass tone and 'Bob was very definitely my Uncle'! Everyone had done their homework, including splitting the harmony vocals and I have to say that we sounded damn impressive for a 1st bash through! Looking forward to nailing the finer points and taking it all to the next level 😎

Sire V7 is a great first (and second, third, fourth...) 5 string and that one is especially pretty, they do tend to be on the heavier side although obviously this varies. I sold mine after fracturing my left clavicle but was otherwise perfectly happy with it and it was a fantastic live bass. It was a whopping 11.6lb which was heavy even for a Gen 1 Alder V7, usually they're in the 9-10lb region. A used Sadowsky Metro Express (the Chinese ones) might be a good alternative if weight is an issue, possibly one of the higher end Cort GB series as well if you can find a used one.