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On 12/04/2025 at 15:36, jefframm said:

Agreed. I haven't actually played any paulownia wood basses - there's no one near me that stocks Sandberg - but I wonder if they would be much different than tempered pine. And one of my concerns that I've talked to Mark about re: more aggressively chambering is, in fact, neck dive. As an aside, I played my Lakland 55-94 the other day (sitting down) - and it almost made me cry how great that bass is - but just not gig-able for me anymore!

Go headless.

6 hours ago, Suburban Man said:

As I was trying to find out where the bass came from I discovered that if you want a 'knock-off' Lemmy bass from Ali Express it will set you back a grand total of £413. Fine if you only want to hang it on the wall I suppose.

Why, what's wrong with it?

Active bass? You probably want https://www.guitarmania.co.uk/product/neutrik-barrel-jack-socket-nys2203/ but do a search on the part number NYS2203 to see if you can get it cheaper. Also worth posting the the "Repairs and Technical" sub-forum.

A couple of us did anti-war songs last night - one did "If I had a rocket launcher" and "Come away Melinda", and Mrs Zero and I did "Zombie" and one of mine, "Newborn" - first time it's been played in public although I wrote it at the time of the Bosnian war, about a woman taking her newly born child that died after a few hours to bury it. All very cheerful.

Very sad to read that.

5 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I think they keep going out of fear of dying if they stop. They need something to keep them going  and people keep buying tickets. 

My parents saw The Who back in the early 2000's and said they were past it then.

I saw them in 2006, they were great.

That's a real shame about Sam. I messaged her a week or two ago to see how she was - that explains why there was no answer.

Tring me the horizon

On 13/04/2025 at 22:48, Geek99 said:

Edit: of course if stub handed plectrums to a bass player, or allowed infection by plectrum to occur by his negligence, it indeed be time to fetch the black cap and order the larger set of portable gallows .. 

Does anyone know if Stubz Thumbs is transmissible by touch?

One gig in May, then a hiatus until August and five more gigs till the end of the year - but that's partly because one or other of us is away through June and July. Another two or three are coming in, we should get to our target of 20 or so for the year.

Apparently the neck has been shimmed to improve the action. With that thicknessof shim, I think a judicious bit of filing would have been a better approach and might have increased the value to somewhere above the £50 mark.

On 11/04/2025 at 09:42, Graham_C said:

They actually have some cool stuff in their store. Not too sure on it making here to the UK from China, though. May end up being more hassle than it's worth?

Where do you think all the Made in China instruments in music shops come from?

I've had quite a few instruments from China and Vietnam over the years, no problems.

On 11/04/2025 at 14:29, BigRedX said:

Obvious. It's a short scale Woolies Special that's been stripped, de-fretted and then fitted with a mudbucker and a damaged Strat scratch plate. 

 

What else do you need to know?

 

The case looks quite nice.

The body looks very Strat too, but without the pickup cutouts. That was what was puzzling me.

On 11/04/2025 at 13:21, TrevorR said:

This Monday we’re doing a country themed night. I’ve been nabbed by some folks to bass on The Devil Went Down To Georgia, I Like It, I Love It by Tim McGraw and Gunpowder & Lead by Miranda Lambert. Should be a bit of a hoot, even if it’s not the type of stuff I normally play.

 

Last one, I played Still Got The Blues For You which went really nicely despite the lead player’s OD pedal not working. Talking about working up Parisienne Walkways in a couple of weeks! Result!

I've always thought that the Devil played far better than the plodding pedestrian redneck Johnny.

Hmmm. 27 pages of results for a search on Marillion everywhere in the forum. I've posted a few times about them, or at least about a tribute band I was in for a while, and about the Cort GB4 Custom I bought because Pete Trewavas played one. Pete Trewavas is an excellent bassist - the whole band is great, and I prefer the 36 years of the h era to the eight years of the Fish era.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176920371446

The Aguilar does have four wires, sort of. There are four available solder pads, so I could unsolder the wires and rewire them, but I don't think it's worth it for me. And having wired in a blend pot rather than VVT (as the need to control the volume simply is my major consideration), wiring the pickups in series would be a right headache.

Last night, did some bass backing for a couple of people - the most notable being backing 12 year old Amelie (vocals) and 14 year old Phoebe (guitar) doing Sweet Child O' Mine. I think Phoebe's guitar playing was better than our guitarist (but don't tell him I said that). It's good to see that there are youngsters coming on as well as the old brigade.

4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

At one it seems songs I know get performed then I get asked up and it's suddenly stuff I have no idea of... at the other I have a rep as a blues bassist and I think myself lucky to get anything not a 12 bar 🙂

A lady at my regular Wednesday night one lets me know what we're playing anything between twenty minutes before and just as we're setting up. At least she has the chords on a tablet and I can read them over her shoulder (gets trickier when the tablet goes temperamental and she has to use her phone instead). At least Blind Young George lets me know what he's doing at the start of the evening so I can check out the chords if it's not a 12-bar.

Sillie Eilish

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

A real jam is playing along to a song you've never heard before by ear 🙂

I can do that. I call it free-form jazz.

Some day I must get along to a jam night. So far, all my experience in this general arena has been folk clubs (one must perform either a Folk Song written by someone else, or a song which one has written oneself about ghosts or 18th-19th century warfare or pagan symbolism, and must be listened to in absolute silence) and open mic nights (one may perform whatever the f*ck one likes, sometimes others will leap up and join in, meantime everyone is talking to each other at maximum volume). Got back from one open mic night three hours ago, finished up playing bass behind a 14 year old girl doing Sweet Child o'Mine even better than our guitarist/singer. Tomorrow, or rather tonight, I'll be at a different open mic, possibly having to listen to a guitarist who owns a bass playing the wrong notes off time - it depends on how many people ask me to play bass.

8 hours ago, stewblack said:

Well, my gentle humour seems to have triggered some people.

Please remember this 'news' item was a comedic invention.

Really? 31st March: https://www.inkl.com/news/loud-buskers-playing-songs-on-loop-across-leicester-square-is-psychological-torture-says-judge

Zoom MS-70CDR(+) perhaps, the Plate Reverb and HD Hall Reverb have a Lo and Hi which adjust the damping on low and high frequencies.

22 hours ago, Cliff Edge said:

Control a Stomp and an iPad using MIDI?

 

May have been discussed already but before trawling 96 pages here I thought I would ask. 
I use OnSong on iPad, each song in a set list has BPM and elapsed time. I select the songs using a bluetooth page turner pedal and then select the Stomp patch I want using buttons on an Ampero Hotone. It’d be nice to do all this with one button push on something, possibly using MIDI as the Stomp doesn’t do Bluetooth?

According to the blurb, OnSong does MIDI, and you can get Bluetooth MIDI (eg https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008408092026.html) so maybe select the song on OnSong and have it send the MIDI PC signals to select the patch and mode (if you want to be in stompbox mode for some and snapshot mode for others).

12 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said:

The explosion of open mic nights has certainly helped venues to mount cheap entertainment at the expense of bands. 

The open mics I go to are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays - not at major music venues either. The Tuesday one does sometimes have bands in, on a Saturday. Are you seeing a lot of Saturday night open mics in Bournemouth?