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When I played bass for a ceilidh band for which Mrs Zero was the caller, she would occasionally (and sadistically) call on me to assist with demonstrating a dance. I could just about manage Strip the Willow ("Shut up, Willow Jenkins!") but it wasn't pretty. TBH, my moving about while wearing a bass is quite suspect.

That's one for the "things from your childhood that wouldn't work today" thread.

We're not exactly gender balanced on BC, which is maybe why women's sanitary products have been overlooked. That was briefly a the Brexit benefit, as the UK made sanitary products zero rated before the EU changed the regulations (and even then it wasn't to zero rate them but to allow individual countries to zero rate them).

"US consumers" also encompasses US manufacturers, when the manufacturers are buying in (for example) steel or aluminium. And it is not just a means of revenue raising, it is also intended to discourage imports in order to change the balance of payments.

I can't dance to anything.

Not quite last night - Tuesday was the Kingfisher in Castle Bromwich, started by running through a few songs with mine host while the attendees trickled in, then the other bassist (Simon) and I partnered with various people, including me on bass for Simon while he guitared. I made a right cockup of a couple of songs with Annette, who I regularly accompany here and at the Shirley Legion. Mrs Zero and I did three songs from films - Ring of Bright Water, The Hanging Tree from the Hunger Games tri/quadrology, and I'm a Believer from Shrek. Wednesday was the Shirley British Legion again, no Blind George for a change, and there were three bassists. To be more accurate, there were two guitarists who know which end of a bass to blow down and one bassist. Did a song with Annette which we had intended to do the previous night but she'd decided not to at the last moment, Bad Dreams by Teddy Swims, plus Back to Black, and got them both right. Seeing as Mrs Zero and I had given Ring of Bright Water and The Hanging Tree a run-out the previous night, it seemed only right to do them again.

PS. The bridge pickup is 2cm closer to the bridge than a Ray5 pickup is to its bridge, so it's not a perfect emulation of a Ray plus a Jazz. There's quite a variety of sounds to be had from it though.

VAT is also charged on sales within the EU, so that argument falls flat on its face at the slightest examination.

Hawai'i did before it was stolen by the US.

The US imposes higher tariffs than the EU on trucks, and is very protective of its pickup market. Although them good old boys that drive pickups with their rifles racked behind the cabs aren't going to drive anything but proper American iron. https://www.ft.com/content/4eb97d9e-1b17-11e9-9e64-d150b3105d21

One singer and one guitarist.

I know I said I'd never buy another Fender or Squier. A man can change his mind, can't he? Saw this 5-string Jazz defret with a humbucker pickup in the bridge position and went and had a look at it. Very nice neck (unlike my Standard Precision Special V from almost 20 years ago), great defret job, and a switchable humbucker - series, parallel, and single coil (I assume). Humbucker installation wasn't perfect but the slight waywardness of the rout is imperceptible from any distance. There's a couple of minor dings to the lacquer but nothing much. The owner was suffering from arthritis and had to sell the bass not long after buying it. It came reasonably set up, I lowered the strings a bit more and put straplocks on and so far that's it. The humbucker isn't ideal as it's for a Ray5 or similar with the narrower string spacing but I don't feel any great urgency to replace it. Photos from original listing. Control plate with 3-way toggle switch You can see the serrations from the fret tangs here, but there's no tear-out and the unfretboard is lovely and smooth Pickup rout for the humbucker isn't perfect but it's not bad. I think I could do with replacing the pickup screws as some of the heads are a little chewed up.

I was just about to post the same thing. There's an update to the firmware available at https://www.boss.info/us/support/by_product/katana-go/updates_drivers/12b0d6f6-b2c4-41d3-8f65-b1247ce1eb4b/ which I presume means that the Mk 1 and Mk 2 are software compatible. Just did the update, all went well, and I didn't have to re-do the pairing for the audio side - on the MIDI side, the app happily scanned for and picked up the MIDI channel on the Go. Externally, the only change seems to be that instead of having a big knob for volume, there's a side mounted control which I would have thought would be more fiddly.

Keep a look out for used Seis in the marketplace too - the Bass Gallery has them but they sell them at rather higher prices than you'll see here.

Photo 2 shows the whole instrument including the HB style headstock although you don't get to see the rear of the headstock.