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Sadly it'll never happen again. Josh and the rest of the band don't get on. I was lucky enough to see Kyuss, Kyuss Lives and Vista Chino and all were incredible.

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

I saw the Eagles in , I think, 2001 at the NIA in Birmingham when presumably they were sober and it was one of the most disapointing/boring big name gigs I've ever bean to. They weren't playing badly by any means, they just gave impression of being bored and just going through the motions. I diid find out later in one of those bbc4 documentaries that some members of the band were barely speaking to each other during that that European tour so possibly that was the problem rather than the sobreity.

I know a doctor in Turkey who could probably arrange that swap for you.

I'd be fairly suprised if they didn't do a fretless. Sire seem to do a fretless model of just about everything in their range. For me it's one of the things that sets them apart from other makers of 'copy' basses.

Honest to god, people love to waste £££ on modding. With all due respect to @Stub Mandrel, but what constitutes 'vintage sound'? 60+ years ago, when all this was fields, Fender were producing fairly low quantities of basses and as cited in Tom Wheeler's American Guitars, "quality control was out the window", pickup windings were erratic, there was little consistency in manufacturing and Fender was known to use whatever was on hand. Christ, they were putting Stratocaster pickups in some bass models, then wax potting the covers to hide what was in there. 60 years on and we're all sitting here rubbing our collective chibs, going, 'Mmm, 60s Vintage pickups, gimme some of that, I need more ponk in my tone.'

I set the vol of the TV to 0, 3, 6, 9, 12... why on earth I decided to study acoustics?

I saw the Eagles on their ‘Hotel California’ tour in 1977 at Stafford Bingley Hall. I’m not sure who was more out of it, most of the band or the audience. The smell of dope was prominent all night. Didn’t stop it from being an amazing gig though ( and that’s from someone who was not partaking due to being the nominated driver).

Joshua Redman Greasy G funky bass guitar line from Meshell Ndegeocello

Absolutely stunning.

Have you got the Schaller straplocks on your strap? If not, this won't work very well as a strap pin. Assuming you have, if the straplocks on the strap have a circular knurled knob holding them on, they're the new variety. If they have a hexagonal nut holding them on, they're the old variety. They are not fully compatible. The new variety of straplock will fil onto the old strap pin, but the old straplock won't fit onto the new strap pin. I'm pretty sure that https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/136795583018 are what you need except that they're chrome, not nickel.

I use Procell batteries which are Duracells, and take my life in my hands[1] by getting them off Ebay, and they last (literally) years. But my basses get far less use than @kiat's, on a busy open mic week with a gig and learning a song or two as well I'd probably be looking at six or eight hours, and that would be on whichever of three (or so) basses I picked up. And maybe that also explains a lot about the quality of my playing. [1] Hyperbole, OK?

It's very much a step by step process, and once you understand the purpose of each step, you don't need much other than guidelines and guide measurements. And apologies if that sounds patronising. Are you starting from an instrument with possible issues with fret heights, or is this a bass which just needs truss rod, bridge height, and intonation set up?

The trouble with doing anything electronic about the LEDs is that you're doing something electronic about the LEDs. If they're mounted flush to a board, you may have to wreak a certain amount of havoc to introduce a series resistance. And if the limiting resistor is SMD, that's even more of a nightmare. This is one case where addressing the symptom rather than the cause is the best (or at least simplest) course o0f action.

If it's just windings rubbing against each other rather than a full transition between open and short circuit, it won't show up. I had a couple of curly cables in the 70s. Put me off them for life (and cables put me off cables for life too, wireless all the way now).

I have a very similar pedalboard with a 15-pin D plug, and looking at the interior, it simply connects the switches to most of the pins via diodes. Unfortunately two of the pedals are broken, and although the very helpful makers sent me two spare pedals free of charge, I have to find a way of removing the spindle that they're mounted on. Anyroadup, if you're not scared of soldering, electronics, and programming, you could make a MIDI pedalboard from that (just using it for the switches), a multiplexor or array of diodes to reduce the 13 notes to a 4-bit binary number, and an Arduino.

*ducks* Lots of guitars in their cases count, right? 😊

Find a music shop with a decent selection of basses and try a few out. Don't just try the Precisions.

Either Tonelib or Zoom to get their arses into gear and produce Windows and Android editors for the more recent Zoom models - the MS-Plus range, the B2-4, and I think the B6 too.