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Well, I now find myself in the weird position of being the conductor of a decent town brass band and I take the rehearsals on Wednesday evenings... Main things I'm working on are improving dynamics to make greater differentiation between pp and ff, plus some articulation issues. There's a lot of gigs coming up over the summer.

I Am A Rock - Paul Simon

It's got a lot of Ricky Capri vibe going on hasn't it. Also reminds of the Shaftsbury bass that looked very Rickenbacker.

I haven't used it through an amp or PA yet, just at home with headphones so far. I haven't noticed any unwanted noise through headphones at home from the pickup, usually worse with household electrics, dimmer switches etc, so fingers crossed it'll be fine. As for feedback it'll be used in addition to a doublebass on gigs, if there's going to be feedback issues, it'll be with the doublebass. All my gigs for years have been everything through the PA so never any feedback issues anyway.

Added, there isn't a mark on it, seems lightly used.

My 'band' consists of a drummer and me. I swing between bass and guitar, but tonight was guitar. I have no pride and no skill. As a laugh we decided to do one of my original songs as if sung by Lemmy in Motorhead. I was using a Laney LC15R valve amp with a Strat, brought from this very parish from @kwmlondon. As Kim lives London and I live North Yorkshire, I only managed to pick it up at Xmas and due to other commitments, tonight was the first time it got used in anger. Bloody hell, for 15W it's loud, it's very loud. Its my first and only valve amp and I still don't understand why a tiny 15W valve amp should be so, so loud. Not just loud, it sounded really good as well. We wound the gain up, wound the volume, I did my best to channel Lemmy and play and sing at the same time whilst Bev the drummer was laughing so hard, she couldn't play. We did a second even faster run where we tried to combine The Ramones and Motorhead and it was a wonderful joyous experience. It's been a utterly sh1tty week at work with issue after issue and escalation after escalation, so putting it all behind me for 90 mins of manic singing (badly) and playing at stupid volumes was great therapy. Now I can't speak as my voice has gone and I still have lines in my fingers from playing so fast and hard, but it was worth it. We've decided we're going to do it at the rather staid open mic sessions in either Settle or Sedbergh. I suspect they'll kick us out but it will be fun. Rob

Tell him Paul (with the jazz n the ric) said hi. Will be taking my vintage p there when i get a sufficient break in gigs

Solid - Ashford & Simpson

That's a slogan we can all f-ing get behind!!

Only if you are very lucky, Tizer and brown ale more likely, though I might have a decent Chablis cooling for afterwards.

It's a T2 fail. I went out last year on the bits for a Raspberry Pi MiniDexed: https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/mini-dexed I built the synth on a breadboard and have made the case and started to solder it up, but that stalled completely. My plan is also to make a cheap Taurus, but actually I need to practice playing my normal bass.

I feel your pain. I originally bought a PA because I got fed up with having to get someone less than ideal on board because they had a PA. So I decided to become that person 😁

Any pink Champagne on ice?

I always feel sorry for the guests at a Hilbert hotel, pretty much every night another infinite number of guests arrive and everyone has to move up. Not too bad if you're in room 6, but if you're in room 2,967^456 then it’s a bloody long walk!

Hard As A Rock - AC/DC

You're very welcome. We're a bit like a Hilbert hotel. We can always find space. However unlike Hotel California you can leave 😁

Had the pleasure of meeting Stephen and selling a double bass to him. Nice chap and great bass player. Hope the bass serves you well Stephen.

Very nice Bagman, looks great

I'd like to try and make it this year. Would you please add me to the list. I can bring a few 4/5 string basses as well as my double bass if anyone is interested in that (and there's room in the hall :)). I can also bring a Fearless F112 and one or two PJB Cab 27s along with some amps.

Thanks for the tips everyone. Dropping it off with PSG tomorrow.