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Unsure how to react to this with a single emoji, so yay for great gig, and boo for health issues - hope you're on the mend soon!

Years before I got into playing bass, I do remember one of my friends at Uni owning a cream coloured Encore P bass. I think I only had it in my hands once, unplugged so couldn't really tell you very much about it. I do remember thinking it was a nice looking bass though.

It is very purple... 07_thunderbird 64 purple moving.mp4

What a cracking gig last night with Nine Lives at the Balaclava in Fraserburgh. What can I say, it was busy and loud, with an audience who were bang up for a dance and a sing along. Can't really ask for much more than that. Genuine goosebumps moment when enough folk were singing The Cranberries "Zombie" back at us such that we could hear it over ourselves. You know you've had a great gig when packing up doesn't tire you out. Can't really say much more than that. Probably pay for this with a paid rehearsal next week - karma's a b!tch Gear was the Sire Z7 then the Epiphone T-bird into the ISO standard bass rig. Shout out to the Thunderbird, it was sounding epic last night, and I felt godly playing it. Oh and I got called "the coolest MF" by a punter last night after we finished. My ego happily accepts your compliment, sir! And have a bit of bonus video...

Back then, could have passed for white socks - no biggie

Thanks Rob, might well take you up on that. Clapham, or some grotty services somewhere - no contest, innit?

Yes, because I'm quite, quite mad. But in the good way. When you live in the sticks, you gotta go where the fun is - you'll die waiting for the fun to come to you...

If only my life was that interesting! Tonight I'm playing a gig in... Fraserburgh. "The Broch". Biggest shellfish port in Scotland, I'll have you know...

You rang?

Don't know if it's a mistake or not, but it seems the online doors have opened up again at Bax Music - the "it is not possible to place an order" banner is gone from the top and you can add stuff to baskets.

Enough with the flucking metric/imperial debate! This is "How was your gig last night?" FFS! It's bad enough when people start using it as "Basschatters upcoming gigs" but I've come to peace with that. But this irrelevant bickering can GTF - it's making the relevant stuff disappear with undue haste. Take it to bloody Off Topic where it belongs!

LOL, correction fail

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