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I did notice that overhang 😂 Dave 🤩

I tried a lot of stage pianos before PMT closed their doors. My 2p: The Nords sound good and have great interfaces, the samples are all somehow more musical and characterful than a lot of the competition. But, the nicest Rhodes samples tonally are lacking depth/richness because the samples just aren't big enough. Keyscape absolutely runs rings round them. Likewise, the Steinway D sample shows its age which is a shame because it's nicer tonally than the bigger 'White Grand' (Steinway A). The Yamaha grand sample is better than any of Yamaha's own. One general criticism of the piano samples is lack of 'ppp' samples, they could have a softer tone at the bottom. Hammond sounds great. The key to pricing stability is their sound library, but get a model with resonance modelling. Crap actions on the electro, weighted or otherwise, passable on the stage but far from the best. Yamaha YC/CP: VERY disappointing pianos, just bland digital-sounding. Shame as the organs on YC were good and the interfaces are great. Didn't like the action on the 73 or the 88. Looking at 88 key models which I appreciate you're not sold on: Yamaha p525: much better samples and action vs CP. Good if you don't want all the organ stuff Roland, all the pianos sounded awfully dull except the RD2000 'German Stage' Expansion which was actually good (also nice action). The rest haven't surpassed the old 700NX IMO. Kawaii: pretty good sounds, certainly musical, decent action too (88 note weighted tho). I ended up with an MP7SE. Organ/FX not as good as the Nord but the piano key/sound connection is the best of the bunch. Not light though! Something I'd like to take a punt on, but haven't tried, is one of the Studiologic Numa X - either the 73 or the GT. Demos/reviews of the EPs and the downloadable Steinway D sound superb to my ears. Not sure if they have organised sounds though

Played thru a Hartke rig once and loved the tone. I think it was an LH5000. Hopefully you'll get a decent sound from that rig. I've had much worse supplied backline to the point i no longer use it and always bring my own gear. Dave

Girls on film - Duran Duran

Dirty Movies - Van Halen

I was in Carlisle last week

but not that they are bad. I'm quite enjoying the chorus B atm

Just picked up a GP5. As already noted elsewhere, the octave is crap, but there are some really nice sounds to found in there. I'm waiting on an Mvave chocolate controller, so we'll see how it stacks up after that.

@King Tut so you're playing with Stray?

dirty women - Sabbath

There are people around here who would turn around and run away if they saw a stack as uneven a that 🤣

No need to part with any cash!

Tempted to start a rumour that he’s gone on to Ric’s but don’t wanna get chucked off the tour. That’s mine making itself comfortable.

My brother wants a pedalboard and was looking at 3D printed end pieces. I don't know if this will work but it's a fully 3D printed design, quite thick walls, obviously. I clicked normal instead of fast, so the printer is saying it will take 15 hours+ I may need to add strengthening ribs (particularly for the middle strip) and maybe make more space for a PSU inside, but I have lots of red filament (thanks for the tip, @rwillett although not 36 rolls!) Happy to share the STL once debugged.

A mate of mine sent me a message about the Dave Murray before we knew the price. We're both fans. I saw them on the Powerslave tour and quite a few more since.

Lots of Sabbath stuff is in e flat. A few stoner bands play in drop C sharp so the drop D equivalent of a half step down. I have heard a few stoner bands play in drop D too, but more in the prog/psychedelic side rather than doom. Some of Queens of the Stoneage stuff is in standard. Most of Alice in Chains is a half step down. Monster Magnet too. 95% of all Tool songs are also in drop D. You can certainly play heavy music while not downtuned. Honestly, if I really wanted to play heavy stoner/doom music and the guitarist wasn’t willing to tune down then I would just find a new guitarist.