tauzero

Are you sure you haven't restrung it as E-C and forgotten you'd done it?

Inauspicious start to last night's gig when we arrived to find the thugball was on the telly and there were a dozen or more Villa fans in our bit of room. It finally finished and we started loading in, trying to move through the thick as pigshit thugball fans who stood in our way with glazed expressions, completely unresponsive to being asked to move. Then Mrs Zero and the drummer's wife wanted to sit at a table close to us but a miserable old git repelled them. Still, eventually we managed to get set up and the gig itself went well, with just the one car crash when everything went wrong in "Place your hands" (we did manage to get to the end). I think our second 45 minute set finished up at 75 minutes. The gaffer loved us and wants to get us back - just hope the agency sorts us out some more gigs there outside the football season.

Nowadays I operate on the "run what you brung" basis, with a spare T-shirt that if I need to change into I'm too knackered to bother.

I've dropped them an email. I'm sure the number of strings filter was working only a week or two ago.

O'Neills in Birmingham - managed to park to load in just outside, then had to find a parking space. Then at the end of the evening had to drive the quarter of a mile or so from the parking space to outside the place (half an hour or so), load out through hordes of Brummie morons, and finally get out of the city centre - so desperate to get away that I finished up with a speeding ticket for 40 in a 30 on the ring road. Vocalist got a parking ticket. And now it's in the CAZ, and I'm not sure that any of us in the current band has a compliant vehicle - not that I'd ever want to play there again.

I saw the pickup switch and immediately thought "spark plug tip". But who'd have known it was from a Ford Mustang, with the vastly increased performance from a Ford Focus spark plug tip, despite being absolutely identical? You must admire his pride in the sanding burns on the truncated headstock, and leaving half an original logo on the headstock. His supply of enormous white felt washers is evidently inexhaustible and a source of great pride to him. Not sure how well a 7-string pickup with pole pieces will handle 6 strings, or how the butchered neck pickup will cope with life when it looks most likely to start self-harming.

Has anyone else found that the Bassbros website has an issue with search filters? Looking specifically for 5-string basses, I get this result on both Chrome and Firefox: Not sure whether it's at Bassbros's end or whether it's one of my multiple anti-advert filters.

I was in one band with a talented but somewhat strange guitarist (I knew him from various musical events). I'm pretty sure it was our first gig, and he hadn't turned up. Then we got the news he'd jumped in the canal and was now in hospital. We were doing the gig with another band, who we shared a drummer with, so we also borrowed their guitarists - our set was very much standards-based so they didn't have any problems. I think we discussed another guitarist but it never happened, then some time later the singer got hit and killed by a car.

I can see how that could be a problem. Especially if the person you were arguing with was the cornet player.

I have a rather plentiful supply of straps as I put Schallers on almost all my instruments (bass and guitar), and as Schaller strap buttons are incredibly expensive I would buy an entire straplock set and a strap to go with them, giving some thought to coordination. The one thing I have to beware is that since the S-locks came out, not all of my older straplocks fit the S-lock equipped basses so I need to check before leaving the house.

Excellent, looks like I get all the sweet popcorn then.

Just use "Ignore user".

My unicorn.

Are you sure? I thought he'd joined @snorkie635's.

I must be slipping. I try Fender, and despite 75% of the denizens of BC being Fender fanbois (and goils), no response whatsoever. Someone else goes for Gibson, and despite the fact that only @neepheid loves them, there are pages and pages of responses. Bah.

Building from scratch, but it's currently a collection of unconnected components. So, is it the actuality or the intent that counts?

Due to personal reasons, our viola player had to leave and we were carrying on as a 3-piece. Our vocalist/guitarist was always very sweary on stage and the drummer finally objected to it. Guitarist rang me up and asked me if he was too sweary, and when I said "well..." he threw his toys out of the pram and put up a notice in the rehearsal room - "Drummer and bassist wanted, must understand that there is only ONE BOSS in this band". Funnily enough, the band is still going, about 30 years later.

We were looking for a drummer for our 4-piece, doing a mix of covers and originals. One turned up and set up and told us to start and he'd join in. We started a song and he sort of joined in, doing a straight four on the floor beat at his own speed. We tried the same song again, same result. Then we tried a different song, same result. Fortunately we finished up with an inexperienced but very capable and quick-learning drummer after that rather traumatic episode.

Rather like an Aria Sinsonido with wooden wings but it isn't. The top wing just doesn't blend in with the rest of it at all.

For those of us who aren't privy to the innermost workings of Stingrays, it would be quite helpful if the teeny tiny picture was somewhat larger so it's possible to see if something is being misidentified, and which side of the debate is which and who is right and who is wrong.

I think I'm in a state of Schrodinger's abstinence. I've bought a PCB for @LukeFRC's Iron Man pedal, and ordered a few components for it, but does it yet count as failure or is it only failure when the pedal is assembled? Knowing me, that could mean I'll be out of the 2026 abstinence challenge.

I'm sure it's obvious why of late I've come to hate this bass: Yes, it's great to play, and sounds superb, but it's got a dragon on it. Nilo has shown me the error of my ways and now I know IT SHOULD BE A UNICORN!!

He turned them down in 1990, as it was the year after the year the music died.

What are you mostly going to be using it for? If the main use will be the four bass strings and there will be a bit of chording in addition, a 5-string E-C means you'll be stretching over one additional string to reach the four you'll mostly use (like playing a B-C 6-string). If you were to get a 6-string and string it E-F, you'd have to stretch over 2 additional strings to reach them. As for fretted versus fretless, you could experiment with your acoustic fretless - try playing an octave C , third fret A string and 5th fret G, then slide it up to an F, then up again to an A, and see how well you kept the octave as an octave. That will give you an idea of the issues facing you if playing chords on a fretless.

It means that some bitter, envious people can scream into the void of an internet forum about how dreadfully unfair it is, and how nobody deserves it.