obbm

Thanks for the mention. I'm still here but happily retired. Initially I used VanDamme, an excellent cable but found that it easily knotted and twisted. Then I moved onto Klotz AC110 which was low capacitance but proved to a bit stiff. In my later years I started using Sommer LLX, low resistance and low capacitance cable and also very flexible. All my current gig cables are these. Needless to say all with Neutrik connectors. To the OP, get yourself a soldering iron, solder, side cutters, Stanley knife, etc. and have a go, it really is very easy to make your own cables.

I've worn glasses since I was 6 or 7 and for many years have had vari-focals so a definite yes as I'd be blind without them. I do however have a pair of tinted and graduated glasses made by the singer in a former band, whose day job was an optical technician and had his own opticians shops. They are nice under stage lighting but now need updating as my prescription has changed a bit in the last 20 years.

I met him at one of the Bassist Bass Days in Guildford back in the early 2000s. He gave wonderful talk about his career and went to lengths to explain how he managed to get the slap sound on the theme to Minder when he didn't know how to slap. He very kindly signed my copy of 17-watts, which I still have. It's a great read and there are very many similarities between his schoolboy bass playing and mine, even down to humping the family radiogram around to use as a bass amp. I just loved the story about the orchestra, the conductor and the Sailor's Hornpipe. A great loss. May his contribution to music be his epitaph. RIP Mo.

so you're spanking your plankton.

Oh if only we had a drummer. Trying to form a relationship with someone else's recorded drum tracks is an impossibility. ☹️

I think I'm going to cockle a snook at this whole series of posts.

Need to see photos Chris, especially the cable.

I have two Backbeats. The first was a very early one which died, it wouldn't charge. After many emails back and forth I was able to buy a replacement board from their dealer in Netherlands. Before he sent it he asked me whether I wanted "rumble on the aux in" as apparently there is a mod which removes it. I asked him to leave it on. Please don't ask what the mod is because I have no idea.

My set up for our opening for Falmouth Soul Sensation last Saturday. FOH through Bose PA. in the Old Church at St Day. Amazing acoustics

It's a Metro HPJ. I can certainly bring it. I used to also have a UV70 but I traded it last year.

Although it's a long haul from Falmouth I will try and get there this year. No idea what to bring however. By the look of it I think just a good appetite.

Having not taken it out of the house for many years I restrung my '71 Jazz with some used Sadowsky 45-105 Black Label Flats and used it at this mornings rehearsal. I definitely reckon that I'm close to getting the tone I want and the reaction from rest of the band was amazingly positive. The only snag is that the tension feels a touch too high. I'm thinking of trying some Rotosound 77 40-100 flats as they are in period, wont break the bank and should be slightly lower tension. What do you reckon?

Although I played in my teens/early 20s I stopped in order to spend time/money on other things. Restarted at 44 but the period from 54 til 62 was the best and most interesting. Still playing at 77.

I was 17 in 1963. We formed a band for a school dance. Now 77 and still gig occasionally.

Not venturing fully West then. Hall for Cornwall in Truro is a really good venue now. I reckon you'd get a full house.