WalMan
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Wifey just found a photo album from our first holiday together in the early 80's. Damn but we were both so thin and I was batting waaaaay out of my league 🤣
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Two pups and a preamp won in an auction to go with the Jazz neck coming from Kiwi, so now I just need a body and assorted hardware
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Looks like I need to start a new Soundcloud account as I haven't used the old one for at least 5 years and can no longer reset the password as the email doesn't exost anymore, nor can I resurrect it. DOH! 🤦♂️
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Insomnia can sod right off 😡 I need to be up for work later today 🤬🤬🤬
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Woke up at 5am today after just five hours sleep. Couldn't drop off again so I got up. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you get up at 5:30 for no very good reason.
One of the very few useful things my father ever said to me was, "Never fight insomnia. If you can't get back to sleep, then get up and do something useful."
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10 days in, still testing positive for C19 and it's got onto my chest. This is getting boring now
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BRACE BRACE BRACE…Assorted For Sale threads incoming. I have too much gear not getting used.
Also I have a hankering for another BF cab 🤦♂️🤣
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Missed the 5string Status neck that showed up at BassBros at the weekend 🤬Been after one for yonks, more so since I got the FrankenJazz with a Status 4 neck 😢
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Back in the room after an op to fix issues with my left ankle - well a couple of hours now but anyway.
Knocked out midday. Came round in recovery at 3.
Now the recovery begins and I rely on others to shift gear for me at gigs 😁
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Very odd!! Just went to put a new set of Elixir Long scale strings on my Status S2 (headed) and the taper on the B starts before the nut rather than after. Never had that before and checking the B on another set that I have the taper starts within a few mm's on both sets.
If I cannot work this out it looks like I shall have a load of brand new Elixir 45-130 long scale strings I had for stock to move on
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Busy week coming up:
- brush up on songs for deps 1 & 2
- rehearsal with main band
- brush up on songs for dep 1
- rehearse with dep 1
- brush up on songs for dep 2
- gig with dep 2
Relax 🤪
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This year's band Christmas song and video in the can and ready to go.
Not entirely in character with our usual style but has elements...and it's for Christmas, soooo
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Thought about posting some clips from Sunday afternoon's bash running through songs from 40 years ago with my first band as it felt good in the room, but maybe I'll pass as some of the Vox (well most of them) are pretty painful. So other than chopping out clips of just the band perhaps not
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Brilliant customer service from Darkglass 🤩
Picked up a Microtubes 500 in a no recourse auction and it went pop the second time I used it.
Emailed Darkglass for a UK service centre and they said “send it back to us and we’ll fix it”…which they have. Marvellous 😁
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The UPS nightmare is over ... for now anyway.
Returning an amp to Darkglass for repair and it's been doing the hokeycokey at Stanstead UPS/Customs warehouse for the last week. But after numerous phone calls it has made it back to Finland.
Calls went along the lines of
UPS: You haven't included the Customs form
Me: Yes I have it's with he address label, and I've emailed it to you.
UPS: OK we've got it
Tracking showed it cleared then back on hold with exceptions. FFS!!!- Show previous comments 1 more
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Darkglass arranged it, and we got there in the end, but for a week it was touch & go. I almost said to the Newhaven depot "hold on and I'll drive more copies down to you" as they are only a few miles along the coast.
The classic with the call on Thursday was them saying they'd been emailing me since Monday to resolve it, so I asked the email address they'd used and it meant absolutely nothing to me. Gave them the right email and did get an update there, but they somehow managed to send it first to a gmail account I have, just for my private phone that I rarely use and don't monitor the email account (because I never use it)
My next worry will be when Darkglass ship it back and what sort of a mess we'll have getting it back through Customs - particularly as I got the amp in an auction that appeared to be a lot entered by UPS for an item they had had sat uncollected or paid for in customs since last April. It shouldn't be a problem this time as an out for, and back in after repair, but I shall be monitoring it like a hawk!
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OOPS! I appear to have acquired another amp in an auction
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Cheesy Christmas single and silly video ready to roll next Thursday (too early? It'll be December after all.
Really not our usual style but I think it sounds good & catchy
Spotify presave for your Christmas cheese 
...or maybe not directly