Kirky

Thanks for going to the effort of sharing this with us Michael, it's a fascinating insight. And congrats.

I was lucky enough to be on the bill at what I believe was their penultimate gig, at the Sweetwaters festival in NZ in 1984 (I think). We opened the main stage on the Saturday and they were the last band. Their set was very much the Stop Making Sense set as I remember and they were simply awesome. Every song, every performer were spot on. I saw David Byrne's tour last year and I'd say it was equally as good. Great band.

Zilla cabs do them. I've been tempted myself recently.

I'm driving from Archway to Harrogate on Monday. If you can get it to Archway I'd be happy to bring it to Yorkshire.

Check out the two albums by The Knitters, a skiffle (ish) band made up of members of X and the Blasters. First album in particular is very good.

Was playing my fretless exclusively since I got it. Then I got a nice fretted Jazz from @stewblack earlier last year. Now I generally take both along to gigs and do one set on each. As we change the sets around a bit it means that everything gets played on both basses after 3 or 4 gigs. I think it's helping my playing, making me think about how to get the best out of the bass for the song.

Very cool.

I've made two ampmaker kits, the WF55 mentioned above, and the P18, and 18 watter now discontinued. I've got it's successor, the P1800 in a box waiting for some time to get started on it. The instructions provided are very good. Prior to making my first I'd made a few pedals and done some pedal mods, always following instructions. Both amps I've made will last a lifetime I'm sure, they're both very decent quality. There are certainly a few nervous moments when you do the first tests, but following the instructions carefully gave me confidence. However next time I might get a friend who is a more experienced builder to give it the once over before I do the live tests.

We often get requests, but we keep playing anyway. One time a girl shouted in my ear mid song asking if we knew any One Direction songs. We're a blues band. I told her to ask the singer. She shouted "which one is the singer?". I told the band about it in our break and the singer said she'd shouted in his ear mid-song "are you the singer"! They're special in Knaresborough.

In the last couple of weeks I've seen Flipper and Yo La Tenga, both at the Brudenell in Leeds. I'm not that familiar with either of them. Both were excellent. Great to see Watt plying his trade again.

I've used Copydex glue for tolex in my own builds and have never had a problem.

@peteb a mate of mine in Harrogate has one. He is a member on here but I can't remember his basschat handle. I'm sure he'd be willing to let you hear his. (I hope I'm remembering correctly that you're in Yorkshire). Let me know if interested and I'll put you in touch.

Otley, not outlet!!

The Crown in Yeadon is a nice small Yorkshire pub. There's a few others but I don't know them well. The White Swan is ok I think. Otley is a short taxi ride away and there's lots of good pubs there, the Junction being particularly good.

Try not to laugh out loud. I speak from experience. Which is ironic as most of my own auditions for bands have been pretty dreadful.

Under My Thumb is much more offensive than Brown Sugar. Wasn't Rumble (an instrumental) banned too?

Lots of info here https://community.musictribe.com/t5/Recording/Using-the-Powerplay-P2-for-Wired-IEM/m-p/237996

Anyone know where I can get a P2? Noone seems to have stock.

Limelight 202, the only fretless Limelight?

https://www.dawsons.co.uk/armourdillo-defender-bass-guitar-gig-bag Anyone tried these? I'm after a decent gig bag for my new jazz.