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LOL@"toy bass" - it certainly is diminutive. Compact and bijou! Congrats on finding something to your liking.

Next gig for Nine Lives is at the Balaclava in Fraserburgh on Saturday 7th June...

I briefly owned an OG SB14 many years ago, but never played a USA Sterling. My question would be - what do you think you're missing out on by not having a EBMM Sterling?

"good enough is good enough"

Can confirm that the Tecamp Puma 900 is a hell of a nice amp - I briefly owned @Acebassmusic's one before I got a chance to score a Markbass combo at a killer price like a week or so after. It was far too good an amp to have languishing around as a backup, so I put it back out into the ecosystem for someone else to enjoy! Taste knob == witchcraft - the good kind!

Aw no! Hope you heal up quick, mate!

Parody?

I live in fear of an email from Moog's legal department on a daily basis...

Whatever the correct length of D'Addario XL nickel rounds go on my 32" Squier Jag H...

Weekend report time! On Friday night, playing with Nine Lives at O'Donoghues in Aberdeen. A late one - 11pm-2am, and just as well because it was dead when we arrived to set up, not a soul in the place. Ooft. First half had quite the "paid rehearsal" feel about it, but it did start to fill up towards the end of the first half and into the second it was a damn sight better. Curiously, at the break, this lassie came up to us, told us that she was on a work's night out, complimented us as a band (thanks!) then asked for our autographs! Only the drummer and I were around at that time, but we played along and briefly felt more important than we actually are, lol. Gear was Sire D5, then Squier Jag H (with Ibanez CAP double humbucker) into the usual Markbass ISO Standard bass player's rig... But soft! There's more! This afternoon, we played outside on the back of a lorry at the Ellon Gala. Second year we've done it, nice to be asked back. It's a freebie - for the community, innit? Makes me feel a little less mercenary. Supposed to be playing at 4pm, well did a monsoon not chuck itself at the earth around 2pm? We had to close the side tarp of the trailer, and feared the worst for the gig from a health and safety perspective. Thankfully it rained itself out and the sun eventually burned through the clouds. By the time we started, it was glorious again - god bless the Scottish weather, schizo as it is! As you can see, gear was a delectable G&L Tribute SB-2 into the most boring bass rig in human history. Noise making evidence...

My conscience is clear. I entered with the best of intentions, but when you're nearly 50 and a bass comes on the market which has been living rent free in your head for 12 or so years, you don't hesitate. Life is for living - you can't take it with you etc. But I am 100% out. Try again next year. There is no redemption - I am comfortable with the notion that I'm going straight to hell anyway

It's a cesspool out there

I know, wasn't accusing you of anything, I just thought I'd muddy the waters with a different perspective

I don't know if your aim is to basically have a cheapy version of what you already have, but if you want something 5 string, G&L, string spacing on the narrow side but a little different - there's a L-5500 for sale in Exeter on FB right now... https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1851951122259966

If I may offer a counterpoint and another data nugget, I have owned several G&L Tribute basses over the years: L-2000 L-2500 (briefly, took it in a trade - don't play 5s so I can't tell you much about it, sorry) M-2000 LB-100 SB-2 (twice - currently own a surf green one) And each one has had excellent build quality. I would have absolutely no qualms about buying one sight unseen. Experience is a personal thing, I get the whole "once bitten, twice shy" thing, but in reality it's just bad luck. I'm 6 for 6 so does that mean I have been incredibly, lottery winning levels of lucky? I think not.

My personal take is that the locking jack - in a bass/guitar context - is a solution looking for a problem.

Heh, they're almost as divisive as the barrel jacks!

This sucks. Sorry to the OP - terrible situation. I have only tangentially been affected by such shenanigans - was in a band and the band leader waited until I was on holiday to sack the drummer (my mate, who I brought to the band). Turns out my mate was fed a BS line about the band leader having tinnitus and not being able to play with a live drummer any more, except the charlatan had been tapping up a new drummer behind his back. Lovely stuff. I quit on general principle when I got back - in person. I can't deal with that kind of nonsense! Every other band has been fine. My first band dissolved amicably - the drummer and I were sidemen (which was made clear from the get-go - "if you want to write songs, go do it with another band" is a rough quote of what was said - it was curt but it was clear) and one day the band leader called a meeting, said he didn't want to do this band any more, cashed us out, shook hands, done. And no, the band didn't suddenly reappear with a new singer and rhythm section - he was true to his word and formed an entirely new band with a very different musical output! Fair play. I've been playing with my drummer in bands since 2009 - we're owners of the PA, we argue like Waldorf and Statler, we're a unit. Everyone else can be replaced (not that I want to replace you - if any of the people I'm currently in bands with read this!)

The place is about as Irish as my big toe

Absolute tripe!

Busy weekend ahead for Nine Lives - on Friday night playing at O'Donoghues in Aberdeen, then on Sunday afternoon playing on the back of a lorry at the Ellon Gala - yay, outdoor gig!

You know when you're stripping wallpaper and you find some funky 60s/70s wallpaper behind the stuff you're stripping?

You're all as bad as each other.

My strings arrived today (well, yesterday, technically - but I got the delivered to the Amazon locker at work, and they arrived after I left work). Happy to report that all are fine, look legit and all the Players Circle codes worked.

HA