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Budget Rays. and with the new (but invisible) preamp, new knobs, and new pickup:

The Basschat Bike - it's had about ten owners on here, and a couple of others. Sei Jazz 5 with a couple of modifications from original spec by previous owners.

Squier Jazz 5 Modified Vintage Modified. Control plate now looks like this:

Probably time I put this in here, as I've had it a few years. Esh Poseidon V.

Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison

Birthday party function gig with my brother’s band - his first gig since finishing chemotherapy last week. None of us were quite match fit, having not played together since before Christmas, and the first half of the gig started very early (7.45pm) to a modest audience. After a very long interval and buffet, the second half started around 10.30pm but the audience were much more up for it - dancefloor was full and it all went well. I’d taken my big rig - Markbass STD102HF cab and Traveller 2x10 stacked, my old precision bass and a Yamaha. I’d really wanted to use my brother’s old red Squier P Bass project bass that I’m slowly working on, but there’s some earth buzz I didn’t have time to sort. Footwear was some sort of Ben Sherman Chelsea boot I bought 10 years ago. Beer by Peroni 0.0%. An hour’s drive home with light snowfall swirling about on the motorway. Bed o’ clock now tho.

There's a few phasers on the MS70-CDR+, and a bass graphic EQ.

The front-ported GR Bass AT210V, a vertical 2x10, has been available for a while and is lighter than this great lump.

The best leopardskin look since Bet Lynch...

… I’ve got the Mk 1, Mk 2 and Mk 3 variants and tbh I like them all. The settings/sound you get from the Mk 1 version is what made me settle on them for my fretted stuff. I don’t think you’d go wrong with any of the Mks tbh.

Solitaire - Neil Sedaka / Andy Williams

A 3Leaf Audio Wonderlove is available here in Aotearoa - I’m thinking about it

Solitary Man - Neil Diamond

I concurr. Wrap the tie around the hat.

...and today I grabbed the C4! Nice to keep the rig together, cheers buddy and apologies again for not keeping it simple and buying them both the first time 😅

After much fart arsing about I’ve decided to just go with my Zoom B3 for future rehearsals and gigs in the two cover bands I’m in. The Zoom delivers the sounds I want and is lightweight with XLR etc so a real swish army knife.

Nice move. I sold my SR5 to fund a 55-94, which was my #1 bass for 14 years. I briefly owned a very nice 55-02. IMO Lakland's are very special basses.

No - more recent. Micky McCrystal.

Another day of rehearsals at the arena, this time with links to the other parts of the show. Tomorrow we do it for real... twice. Here's the view from my house: Alan's lovely leslie cab... Posh camera... The gallery - the brain of the show.

Some low-end electric pianos only have a headphone socket. Plugging headphones in mutes the internal speakers, so a stereo jack to 2x mono jack adaptor allows even those to be connected to a PA.

I have the same amp in my music room. I usually rehearse with headphones but will occasionally plug in and rattle the windows.