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HA, I just remembered, I went completely missing during the middle bit of Back in Black one time. Total mind blank moment. The rest of the band found it funny. No-one in the audience cared or mentioned it.

Accept that you're human. Works for me. Haven't been fired. No-one has ever come up to me at a gig and said "see you missed a note at 1:43 in that song". Mistakes are fleeting moments in a show or a song. Don't dwell. Practice the song after if it really bothers you.

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I got mine here - https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/east-knob/ - but they're out of stock of most of them. You could ask them when they reckon they'll get more in.

Why can't all pedals agree on where the input/output and power go? That's hella neat and tidy, love it.

I wasn't aware you were playing...

I'm being sarcastic. To some, you've committed some heinous violation of the originality of your bass. Me, I don't care, it's not my bass. But you fixed it and I applaud that.

Apologies one and all, I have been remiss in my duties as caretaker of this year's thread and missed the end of October/start of November summary. So, here is your end of November/start of December roundup. One fell in October, and one fell in November. That leaves 18(!) still standing with just under a month to go. Impressive stuff folks - stay strong, you remaining 18; you're nearly there!

Well, that's just knocked a hundred quid off its value Or added to it, if you're famous...

You're talking to thin air - first post, one follow up, hasn't been back since. Anyway, back on topic - UK/EU price gouging

Nit, aff it. I have something on back order slated to arrive at the end of January to ease the shakes, then that's it.

This Saturday, Nine Lives play another new venue for us. I don't know why I'm even mentioning it here due to remoteness, but we'll be playing at the St Olaf Golf Hotel in Cruden Bay (effin' where?).

Leading on from my earlier point - why bother? You've got a working bass - you've kept the old pots for the "provenance" or whatever psychotic requirements will be brought to bear whenever you sell it. What's the problem now?

I really don't get what all the fuss is about. Why is there this fascination with having the original, shagged out pots anyway? It's this kind of counter-intuitive stuff that drives people to put new innards in old pot casings. Pots die, it's a fact of life and heavy use. Replacing them is the sign of a well looked after and maintained instrument, no? I'm pretty sure even the most... invested classic car enthusiast isn't that concerned with having the original, factory installed spark plugs in the engine, are they? Or have I just opened up an entirely new and even wrigglier can of worms?

It's your bass... and I'm with you on the clear pickguard - I'm about to send my Z7's guard to earlpilanz for copying - I wanna see more of that burgundy (mist) and the routing around the pickups is surprisingly tight considering it was designed to be covered up - no swimming pools here! Personally, I'm glad they have kept their headstock. It's part of their identity. Compared to some of the utterly ridiculous monstrosities that exist in the world (which I'm sure are designed with the express purpose of ending up on "worst headstock ever" type threads/posts), the Sire headstock is pretty innocuous and I really don't get why people dogpile on it.

Ooh, not seen that one before!

Look again - the headstock has been shortened and reprofiled a little on the Z with the tuners smooshed together a little closer. Still quintessentially theirs though, and I think that's a good thing, f the haters Measurements (D5 compared with Z7) Headstock length from nut to farthest edge D5 - 239mm Z7 - 208mm Centre of E tuner to centre of G tuner (approx) D5 - 145mm Z7 - 131mm

My favourites are Sire and the G&L eye gouger, because they inspire so much ire in people with way too much time on their hands.

Last night, played Wilsons in Aberdeen with Nine Lives. Nice to get back into it after a weekend off. Overall a good gig, decent turnout and folk up for a boogie. Technically, it was a game of two halves though - first half went great, good levels, clear vocals, everything going great. Drummer wanted to add a monitor at half time and for some obscure reason this made everything go bad - couldn't get the monitor working anyway and the piddling about lost our lovely levels. Managed to get it back but then my pedalboard threw a bit of a wobbly. Might be a dodgy cable - swapped the one from the board to the amp and it seemed to help. Switching on the OD was introducing hum, worse when the OD was cranked. Managed to get to the end of the gig, but I have some fun pedalboard diagnostics in my near future, yay! Gear used: G&L Tribute LB-100 then Yamaha BB1200 into the usual Markbass tone cubes.

I'm surprised everyone went straight for replacement and no-one suggested magic spray (switch/contact cleaner). Servisol Super 10 (I think it's called Kontakt now) - spray some inside the pot (there will either be a gap in the casing where the green arrow is pointing, or you might have to scoosh it in the wee hole in the top of the casing where the yellow arrow is pointing). Give it a good scoosh then rotate the pot fully one way then the other a dozen times or so, see if the clears the muck from the wiper and brings your pot(s) back to life.

This is disappointing. This should be 100% a "no wrong answers" type thread, it's personal opinion! Stop effin' bickering about stuff that doesn't affect you in the slightest!

First song I played live was The Specials, "Nite Klub", 2008 (September, I think), The Tunnels, Aberdeen. It was a one-off band my wife put together for a birthday party. I played a Squier Bronco.

I'm happy that you're enjoying the M. Very pretty in what looks like honeyburst? It highlights how everyone's different though. Having owned both a Tribute L-2000 and a Tribute M-2000 I vastly preferred the L. I found the M more "polite" for want of a better word. Also, just to correct you on a point you made, G&L only yanked the Tribute M-2000/2500. The Build to Order USA M-2000/2500 is still listed: https://glguitars.com/product/build-to-order-m-2000/ https://glguitars.com/product/build-to-order-m-2500/ Although availability off the shelf here is absolutely nil, USA and Tribute. I suspect G&L have hit hard times in the last few years and have basically shrunk back to their home market almost exclusively.

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You should count yourself lucky with your 11 day wait. I ordered mine on the 18th Nov (admittedly not Prime, I'm not that frequent an Amazon visitor) and my alleged delivery date is 27th-30th December. Just as well I'm stocking up and not needing them now. I had to change the delivery address though - I usually get nicknacks like this sent to the Amazon locker we have on campus here. So I did that, thinking they'd be here in a couple of days. The Uni's shut between Christmas and New Year - d'oh!