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For me the place had the odd sense of death. Not down to the usual clientele but a lot of people died of water-borne diseases whilst living in the pub as they dug the canals in the 1830s, as I later found out

If the neck is Fender, it’s had a new nut, fingerboard, inlays and frets. The body might be but again has been modded beyond meaningful originality. It’s a dog if there ever was one.

Steve…

Getting flashbacks … used to live 100yards from there and work just other side of the a610. Looks like someone painted it all since … and removed the axes buried in the wall.

Any chance you can bring this to Salisbury? I'd love to watch this 😍

You know when you turn up to a venue. The place is busy and very noisy. The staff haven't started shifting people, tables and chairs out of your way. Then the crowd are constantly in your way as you bring the kit in. Then you have to set up on top of each other, deafened by people shouting to each other. ??? Well that's how Friday night started. Despite that once we had set up, had a few minutes outside to cool off and give some respite to our poor ears, we had a really good night. Some serious rocking out, some hilarious silliness too. I took the Sterling Sub5 with the Stinger preamp (I really must come up with a better name for it!). It's rapidly growing in my affections - relatively light weight, close string spacing, great sounds. This time with no backup bass either (growing confidence in it). The Rumble 500 continues to sound awesome, even with the low Bs and Cs. The purple suede Gazelles got another outing - not that you could tell in the non-white lighting, so I wore them again for a trip into town today too

Let's compare notes.

I could only see a ground lift button

I was going through some of the charts today and found that there are so many errors I wanted to cry, especially as a lot of the charts that were on here prior to my suspending operations were no longer available as Sibelius charts and only as pdfs. Today, however, after puzzling over it for years, I have finally worked out how to use the photoscore facility and to generate an editable Sibelius file from a pdf. Today I revisited a Jeff Berlin chart 'All The Greats' which has a couple of sections that were in completely the wrong key to the other parts of the chart. I think it is now correct. What this means is that, any time I find an error on a older chart (and there are many), I can potentially correct the error without having to start the whole chart from scratch.

Me too. Probably get told its wrong (by the guitarist), and no one else will notice 🤣

Right then, I'm going to play it that way at full rehearsal next week and see if I get a reaction. I'll let you know.

I guess my biggest surprise is all the tutorials over the past 30+ years have all been wrong.

Pre/Post switch for the XLR Out?

The covers band, Top Deck, played this afternoon at The Great Northern in Langley Mill, on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border. It was the first time we’ve played there. Four-thirty on a Saturday afternoon is their standard time to have bands on. Unusual, but there was an appreciative audience up for a good time. We’ve got a booking there for August Bank Holiday as a result, so a success.

I've played that song for years and it's one of those that in the verses I improvise. A bit different every time. My band are all over any harmonic anomalies and no one ever says a word.

It's cos no one listens to the bass player! Even bass players by the looks of things on this thread!😅