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Just home from a paid rehearsal, a quite well paid rehearsal, as it happens. Played to our wives and the bar staff, essentially. However, we have a few regular folk who come and see us every time we play, and they were absent tonight. When I asked the guitarist where they were - apparently last time we played this pub, the landlady made a comment about one of the chaps ethnicity. This floored me, and since we have a rebooking in December (already arranged) we’re in a quandary I think we’ll cancel the gig, and if we have to explain why then I’ll happily tell the landlady to her face.

I look at the pics every month in the hope of inspiration, but... My creative process (if you can call it that) is incredibly unspontaneous, slow & laborious, ideas can take months to develop & just as long to record satisfactorily. It's very rare that any composition is 5 minutes or less, and although I dislike them, can't play them & obviously have never used them - unfortunately I can't guarantee no bagpipes. So maybe next month...

Mine's more a corner with a Cajon to sit on and a laptop perched on a cab!

More pricey but better finish https://thebassgallery.com/products/yamaha-bb2024-1

Fender Marketing dept. pitch meeting, Corona: "So, any revolutionary new ibass deas guys? We are being called lazy online due to a lack of anything other than re-hashing our two core models for the last 65 odd years." "Have we done an active PJ this year?' "We have?!" "Oh, ok." "How about something, something Vintage?" "Oh ok." "Hmm, too early for another Ultra..." "How about some signature Jazzes BUT they are for indie female players?!" "Oh, we've done that too... ok...' "Ok no wrong answers here, anything goes, let's go!!!" Crickets One guy: "How about a bass that can only be used for scoring a Tarantino soundtrack and not much else?" "Go on..." "Right, a Jazz, probably. But it's a... "Stick a P pickup in there" "Ok, a Jazz with a P pickup, but also let's make it godless heinous and semi-fretless" "Ok guys we're on fire here, what else?" "Give it a weird paint job, a semi-expensive neck bucket and wonky effects, slap a Custom Shop logo on it and charge $15k for it..." ... ... * Single senior executive clapping slowly, before entire board room joins in one by one leading to a standing ovation! * "We'll bring out a MIM or Jap version, followed by a Squier Paranormal line in 6 months and charge $2k" (then discontinue it in 18 months) "We've sorted the company's earning for the next two years guys, well done!"

definitely having you on there. They’ve had two batches in since first one in April. still could be worse, ordered mine from andertons at beginning of may. Told me they had ten coming in a week, still waiting…had the opportunity to go for one from guitar guitar in July when they were available but as I’d already paid in full I stuck with it assuming supplies were being distributed equally

Not really the same place: South Belgium very close to Luxemburg and France borders. Nope, used to be part time, a (very) long time ago, but a lot of people here have a lot of instruments, you know.

I think Zoom expression pedals are wired differently - I couldn't get the 2 expression pedals I already had to work with a Zoom B3 I had unless I forked out for a Zoom one.

Might need just a TS cable (off the top of my head but I could be wrong)

@Russ and @JohnR did you both order yours from Guitar Guitar? I’m probably making a bigger deal that I should but it’s annoyed me they’ve sent out units without fulfilling the preorders. I have an email from them saying sorry if you saw them for sale on the website but we’ve not received our order yet, it should arrive on the 8th. Would love to send them your order numbers to call them out on this if either of you are willing to DM me this info? Again a wholly pointless exercise and I’m glad you both have them, just a little frustrating as I’ve been waiting weeks to order one and will have waited 3 weeks from paying for one when I could have just had one next day several days ago.

There’s a 4024 at Bass Bros, not my ideal finish but you’d be hard pressed to find a better bass at £1500 https://bassbros.co.uk/product/yamaha-bb2024/

Microsoft natural keyboard- not seen one of those in donkeys years

Wowzas. Full time musician? I lived in Mons for a few years recently and your place has a familiar feel about it. I wouldn't consider Belgium a romance country though, even Wallonie 😉)

Probably the right choice!

I’d look at a premium Yamaha, head and shoulders above the rest in that price range 👍

You did well to capture all of that in one picture without tidying up 😁 @RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE . Task completed 💪 💯. Work in progress, nothing wrong in that!

Hmm no suggestions other than the classifieds, is £2K not going to get me there? I’ve seen a few nice used Sandbergs that are close to my specs, maybe that’s an option..

Liking the Daleks How are those Adam monitors? Tidy boards. The only pedal I recognise is the TC tuner on the shelf😜

Holloway Girl - Marillion

I recently went to watch a live band in a local pub. They are a pretty well known band in Ireland, never made the big time but are well respected. The bassplayer had one of those on the rather cramped stage next to him. He played a total of 4 notes on it the entire gig. But then again, at one point in the gig, one of the 2 drummers on stage was playing a diggeridoo duel with a guitarist, also on a diggeridoo. It's been a while since I saw anyone play a diggeridoo, now all of a sudden 2 show up at once. 😆 Great gig, but madly chaotic at times.

That's a cool alternative to the electrical/mechanical maker/soldering gear-focused desks many of us have.

Yes, but you'll have to add the few others downstairs. 😉 Good guess, even if I'm not sure Belgium is considered a romance country, but the place where I live has been the French Forest County (a province, officially) over a very long period and our house is already on the 1604 maps...

That's compact! How's the Jazz bass sound through your TC cab, so you have a TC amp too? (I've a BAM200 and an active Lakland JO5 Jazz looking for a light, punchy cab for pub pop/rock/blues gigs)

Sorry it's slow week, guys, but I am away for a couple of weeks. I have a laptop with me but no bass so am not progressing much at the moment.