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And here it is... Original and Not-a-Muppet-but-something-similar Interesting how it's changed my jazz to a precision.

The band I am in is called the Desert Penguins. So here's one I prepared earlier while I wait for Chat GPT to recreate me as a puppet "inspired by the Muppets"

The Harrisons and Music Ground have released many dubious and fake guitars into the wild over their long and illustrious careers.

Absolutely. The whole point of having your own Sound tech is to have a good one who knows how your band is supposed to sound.

Well, shows what I know! Guitarist says he is leaving to concentrate on solo acoustic/bluegrass banjo. So, no band!

....and which shows what a minefield this space can be, having experienced some very descriptions of vintage instruments when I was buying my '64 - all documented elsewhere on this site - it does make me wonder how many people out there have paid a lot of money for a now cherished vintage Fender that is simply not a vintage Fender, often because the (reputable) shop took the easy route and were less than rigorous in inspection and verification. In this case looks like bass Direct haven't taken the easy route.

Tom bought my Yamaha amplifier - easy comms and smooth transaction, very responsive. Can totally recommend! Ander.

That's a good point 👍

Just stick a bit of cardboard in there, but make sure it's tone-cardboard.

Ander sold me a Yamaha THR30 amp. Absolutely perfect all round. Cheers! Tom

I've just gone back to Schallers on my Spectors; all with 4" padded leather straps. At <4kg each they are super comfy. The new type Schaller with the hex drive screws and locking security rings are 1000× more secure than rubber washers and there is less chance of smacking your bass on something when removing them too (don't ask). On my Yams and Valenti I have the D'Addario clips, again, much better then the rubber washers. These live at home mostly so the straps are permanently on. With the Spectors, because of the placement of the strap buttons, the straps stay on when they're in transit in the Mono gig bag. I had a Dunlop strap lock disintegrate on me at a wedding gig sound check in 2009. I gaffer taped it for the gig and haven't gone near those

If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher

It seems the seller and BD disagree on the originality of the body and as far as I know there’s no way to definitively date one, especially refinished? It wouldn’t surprise me if BD might be being vague on purpose to protect themselves.

I have a couple of M5s on pedalboards. I did look into an M9 for my guitar pedalboard, tried it and discovered it smothered the dynamics a little too much for my liking so sent it back. There was a guy offering upgrades to the M9 but he hasn't responded to messages or emails for quite a few years. But the mods basically made the M9 a studio quality effect.

How about the Mooer Expline? plenty of other do mini expression pedals too, check out Hotone, sonicake, Dod, valeton

Well done guys , it was difficult to pick a winner out of those! I’ll do the certificates later , in very small print , but we need to choose a photo. I reckon the first one of you to acknowledge your fine victory on this thread can send me a picture, and I’ll put it up this evening.