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Interesting idea Mark 😎

The Go-Bos W.A.S.H. The Bailers The Rolfing Stones Finger (Winger) Modness NBC (ABC...) Wing Chung

We finally got a Jive Deluxe to see what the hub bub was all about.

The oldest carol I know - we performed it last Saturday and we'll be doing it again on Friday! Anyway, here is Steeleye Span performing it:

I had never heard this, so I just did a search and I'm quite happy to never hear it again. 😂 Mark

Well, we live in a golden age of consumerism and benefit from 200+ years of manufacturing expertise, that’s certainly true. Sadly it’s wildly inequitable, not at all sustainable and will be the end of us but, hey!, why not enjoy it while it’s here. Two hundred years ago we’d have been digging coal or weaving cloth and dead by 35. Two hundred years hence -well, who knows, but it probably won’t involve a Squier jazz. We only get one turn round the wheel, we don’t get to choose when it is, we make the best fist of it we can. Right, enough empty philosophising - enjoy your bass!

Yet most audience members would prefer shorter than 15 minutes…

I use 15's for 30 years, a couple of Peavey 115 and 215's, a Fender 215, but mostly EV's in Dynacord, Musicman and Mesa Boogie cabs. They gave me the sound I liked. IMO these days well designed 12" cabs can do anything a 15 could do, and they'll do it better.

Going To A Gaugin - Rolling Stones

What a lovely thing. I had no idea that these existed.

After years and years of 2x10, 4x10, 2x12, 6x10, if convinced myself that 15s are where "my" sound is. Just love them, now that I understand eq. Years and years when I didn't fully understand eq, ago they were muddy and dull. Too bassy. Having played the odd one or two 15 combos in practice rooms I always was really impressed. Peavey, GK etc. Then my recent trace valve 15 (but that was glorious anyway). Then tonight played through a really cheap ashdown head and a 2x15 hartke cab - which started shocking, but one I boosted the mods and reduced a bit of treble sounded glorious. I'm never up with fashions... And all the recent bass cab fashions seems to be 10s and 12s... Any love for 15 inch cabs?

Some Brian Bromberg, maybe? With a piccolo, or anything. Tom Kennedy, and Jonas Hellborg. If double bass playing is allowed, Niels-Henning Ørsted-Pedersen is a must, as well as Edgar Meyer. Palle Danielsson, Marc Johnson...

Have a search for "Orgel vreten"

top tip ... retroreel with the wow/flutter off and the saturation up is a nice fattener

Sorry mate, works at my end…..never did understand the machinations of FB though

I saw the Wood Brothers play a small venue in Bristol (upstairs room of a pub effectively) and it was one of the best gigs I’ve ever seen. Incredible musicianship, stagecraft and songwriting. All for £12.

but 99% of people here aren't running the business. I get where you're coming from though, there is the risk that this move could end up with hobbyists in the crossfire, or at that price anyone selling a secondhand car or posh push bike would be reportable. buying secondhand stuff I don't have receipts for how much I paid or anything - but the taxman would have to show that you were selling your bitsas for profit, not that you're selling lots of nice bitsas - and the reality is if you set your music playing up as a self employed side hustle the costs of storage, strings, insurance, new pedals, depreciation etc would soon offset any potential profits you might be making.