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If relevant, I'd be happy to do a TonePumpectomy and LHZ preamp install on a Spector, if people wanted to see one being done. I've done 5 already that are documented on the Spector thread.

The Mesa Big Block, every day of the week and twice on Bass Bash Sunday.

Take it easy and make sure you look after yourself!! Lost my mum unexpectedly just over a year ago, and had a tough year with my assistant off on maternity from April, plus an op that had me largely immobile for 6 weeks and still getting back to it. I know I overdid it at the day job December and January that I still haven’t properly shaken off - finding it difficult to shake off “what’s the point and why should I care?”. Still haven’t managed to delete mum’s phone numbers from my mobile and it still catches me on occasion - ridiculous really as we’ve sold the house, the phone accounts are cancelled and her mobile is on my coffee table. Dr Gig helps, but if you’re taking responsibility for all the associated gig stuff and burning yourself out then you really need the others to step up to the plate before you crack.

I think you have already said it. No need to try and make you.

Brain Sweeties - Mogwai

But in that case almost anything can be called a health issue. e.g. other people, especially other drivers, having to work, not having a job, traffic, the guvment, people complaining about the noise etc. etc.

To clarify - a couple of my instruments are zero fret. Others which don't have zero frets have nylon nuts. I'm not altering any zero fret instruments. I'm making a brass nut for an instrument which has a badly cut nylon nut and no zero fret. And ideally I'd have zero frets on everything.

Well I have a PJB C8L with a TC BH800 head and a BG-75 combo all in red, so getting a matching C4 for my TC BH250 seems like the right thing to do! There was one for sale in the town I work in recently but it was a little overpriced for me (about what I paid for the C8L), sold quickly enough though.

I sing one song with the current band, the same song I sang with another band a while back - Make Me Smile (Come up and see me). It's fairly easy, I have to concentrate so much on the lyrics that I have no time to think about the bassline, that just comes automatically (and I still get the words wrong at times). And I sing it because I'm the worst singer in the band and it's the backing vocals that are important to be in tune.

First of all we have some photos from last night... Yep, a bit better than the photos I took 😂 So tonight was at The Crew in Nuneaton. Upstairs is Queens Hall, which may be more familiar to some as a venue for original bands. There was no-one up there tonight though, just us rocking out downstairs. It's been 15 months since we last played there due to various circumstances and cancellations, but it's becoming one of our favourite gigs. The Crew is a proper rock bar, so it made a nice change to be a bit louder than usual and a bit more raucous. My Rumble master volume still wasn't even at 12 o'clock though, but was lovely and punchy. The crowd there is a real mixture of ages, from youngsters still having to show ID to white-haired old hippies, and everything in between. It really is a great place. It's getting a bit regular playing the Stingish bass (nice & light, tighter string spacing) and the Rumble. Footwear were Vans for a change (Photo again barely remembered while starting to pack up) Ended the evening with a cheeky chicken shawarma from the takeaway across the road from the venue - very nice!

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My points b and c were perfect germane and your accusation of 'bullshit' is as peculiar as it is nonsensical. In fact, the situation I described is exactly what happened to The Point in Cardiff, inclusive of my points a to c and probably an additional d, e and f too. But thank you anyway for eventually actually addressing my sole question, even if it did take you 8 paragraphs of huffing to get round to it.

Which is what I was playing in church today - alongside piano, electric guitar, drum and cornet. OK the volume was set to '9', and the acoustics are fantastic, but it was loud enough.

... or knowledge, or access to it.

There may be circumstances when it is in the national interest for a few people to be lumbered to noise annoyance, eg wind farms, airport flight paths etc (but even these are debatable), but for the population in general, they have an expectation that they should not be subjected to loud music at antisocial hours, dogs barking all day, drum/bass/guitar practice playing the same thing over and over, and the law appears to be on their side. Just because we always used to do it does not make it right today. The current trend for wedding venues to require IEMs, no stage amps, no stage monitors, and all PA speakers pointing at the dance floor to keep external noise down is the way forward. David

The red ones do look good. I was tempted by one recently, but mine are all black and the gear tart in me wouldn't have allowed it.

I have owned/own Fender Professional MK 1 P bass, a Sandberg VM4, a Japanese Squier P (40 mm neck), a Sire V5 and an Indonesia Squier P Bass Bass Special. They are all very good!! And then I bought a cheap Fender Power Jazz Bass Special. The neck on this is Fantastic!! 22 frets, 62 profile jazz neck, P body with bigger cut aways at the horns. PJ so all the tones you need. It's now my go to bass. This will do whatever you need and be a pleasure to play. There was a great one on eBay or Reverb recently for £700 ish.

£2740.40 GBP... Some people have more money than common sense.

It's all about noise, not what you're trying to make me say as it was absolutely not my point. Let me put it another way. You come to this place once in a while, enjoy the noise or even make it yourself, then you go away. It happens to you, as I wrote, once in a while, but the neighbours have to live with this each and every day with other people doing exactly the same as you, so this noise becomes a medical issue for them. This could be avoided if the noise is limited to the place mentioned, by simply using dampening or limiting the PA to what's legal, which is NEVER the case. It's not because it was there first that this is not a nuisance, and your b and c points are pure bullshìt trying to make me say what I didn't. What I'm saying is that if you want to make noise, go on, but respect the neighbourhood without annoying them and if this noise is coming from a pub or a venue, it's their obligation to tame it. Of course, I would never decide to live nearby some known noise makers, being it a pub, a venue, an airport or anything else and then starting to complain as I knew it would be a real nightmare from the start. But some people have not my choice or sometimes discover afterwards that there's a noise maker nearby that was closed for a period, but reopened and then the escalation starts. You know Angles and Saxons were Germanic tribes: Does this make U.K. a German property?

A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld - The Orb

Video shoot, I'm in. I think a would be good at it. Lol Daryl