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Your amp shocks someone. Your PA system falls on someone. One of your bandmates throws a guitar in the air and pink torpedos up the catch and it hits someone in the mouth. Someone trips on a cable you put there. Someone trips on a cable you say the Venue put there but the Venue say you put there! Seriously - the opportunities for a flip up are endless! The Venue is only liable for their own negligence - not yours as well. And they will try to make any problem your problem. Or rather the insurers of the Venue will try to blame shift to the band if they can. If you both have insurance the insurers will carve it up between them to avoid a fight. There is also something REALLY scary now. It's called Qualified One Way Costs Shifting, or QOCS. If you sue someone for an injury and you win the opponent pays a lot of your legal fees. Not all, hence the percentage deduction that a law firm can make from your award. Now flip it - you are the band. Someone claims you have injured them. You are the defendant instead. The claimant sues you. You do not have insurance so you have to pay for a lawyer yourself... You manage to win. You don't owe the claimant a penny. You'd think the claimant would then have to pay your legal fees, wouldn't you? After all, you won. You successfully defended the claim. Not anymore. QOCS means that even if you have bankrupted yourself defending the claim the losing claimant does not have to make any contribution to your legal fees. You might have spent £25,000 defending a reasonably heavy claim. And you won't get a penny back. It's gone. There are some VERY limited exceptions of course, but generally speaking if you successfully defend an injury claim you don't get your legal fees back. So don't think "I will never cause injury to a punter" - think "Even though it won't be my fault if a punter is injured, can I afford to defend a claim properly?" And don't think about "No win, no fee" for DEFENDING a claim. The lawyers don't offer it, because due to QOCS there is no other party to get their fees from even when successfully defending an injury claim. So you'll get billed monthly like any regular client. If you ever get a letter of claim for an injury (QOCS doesn't apply to non-injury claims) and you are not insured you are effectively forced into working out whether it's cheaper to settle quickly compared to the fees you could pay defending the action.

I used to deal with that too. Spreading myths doesn't help.

To answer the OPs question I'm in Equity and I've had PLI for about 15 years. Never a claim made against me - despite my magic shows having a fair bit of pyro. (Actually far too much pyro, but it's fun!) But then again I haven't had a claim against my car insurance or my house insurance in that time either. But I haven't got the funds to pay someone if through my actions they need a couple of months off work so I'm more than happy to continue to buy the cover.

You would need to cause catastrophic life changing injuries to someone who would still live a normal life expectancy. 24 hour nursing care (an easy £100K per year every year maybe for 50 years) / future surgery / 40 years of loss of earnings / etc etc I used to work out stuff like that for a living.

Just been reading more about the new EQ. Seems to take the old EQ-20 and massively improve it. I think I'll need one!

2K raised in a month. That is not going well!

I had one of those. It was very good. Should never have sold it.

These have been out for ages

Remove it then! I'm a habitual modifier of basses. If I wanted that passive I'd just take it out and save it in case I ever wanted to sell it so I could put it back to stock.

That PJ Ibanez must be worth a look. Don't have to use the J pickup!

If you have Netflix - Guthrie is in the band for the Hans Zimmer "Live in Prague" show where they perform all Zimmer's big movie hit themes. Crank it up and let it wash over you!

Do you have a photo? that sounds ace!

Whata donut! Despite being a huge fan I completely forgot about the Sandberg VS4! Usually under 8lb and a slim neck too (same for all models) Need to get saving then!

At the music trust I play with I was strongly encouraged to volunteer to play bass for the kids Uke Orchestra. The kids are between 6 and 12 years old. It is not the highlight of my week!

I've tried the 734A - it's lovely and about 1.5 lb too heavy. Yamaha do like building heavy basses!

Gimme Some Lovin’ Blues Brothers. Billy Jean Michael Jackson.

Barefaced Two10. Vintage tone, lightweight and loud.

I quite like that. I wonder how heavy they are.

Yes. Keeley Pro. It made me sell my Cali76

Rehearsal went well this morning. The sound was definitely chunkier and had more clank when the tone was up full. I did cut the bass on the amp a fair bit to make sure it wasn’t getting too boomy. Im going to put the La Bellas on the lighter P bass now, as the other one is too heavy for a 3 hour rehearsal. Im actually tempted to try a set of the 760 on my Sandberg jazz.

No. Modern P bass nut width according to the website.

Not according to the fender website. 41.2mm nut, not the 38mm of a jazz