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Flown to Munich and back from Stansted and Manchester (total of three return trips) with my bass in a Hiscox case in the hold. No problems.

A few years ago, I got kicked out of a band which had started to pick up some momentum because another bassist who was a friend of the lead guitarist and drummer saw them getting more successful and said he wanted to be the bassist. I thought that he was a sh!t and the lead guitarist and drummer were sh!ts too. Eventually I forgave everyone, but I can understand the distinction and sympathise with your drummer mate's POV.

I've had band T-shirts in three bands. One band wore them for photos and occasionally at gigs, another (a ceilidh band) always wore them at gigs, and the last band had them done for some gigs we played in Munich which were to raise funds for a wheelchair for the guitarist's girlfriend (who lived in Munich and had MS) and some of us wore them for some of the gigs.

We do - the singer's iPhone on shuffle play. I keep suggesting that he removes the songs that we play from it, but he never does.

If you use flanged bolts, you don't need washers anyway.

On the purchasing front, had Stevie got something lined up for bulk purchase of drivers at a reduced price, or am I imagining it?

Well, we talked about earplugs a few times on Finnbass, but I don't think this issue ever came up. Is there hearing damage that can occur via another mechanism than excessive sound arriving at the cochlea, wahtever its transmission route (and not including physical damage to tympanum, malleum, stapes, or the other one)? Because if it's sound arriving at the cochlea that causes the damage, you'd hear the sound. So if something made the sound a lot quieter, it would reduce the potential hearing damage. As an experiment, I tried talking to myself. When riding a motorcycle at 90mph on a closed private test track, failing to use earplugs results in excessive and painful noise levels, thus demonstrating that a helmet does not act as ear defenders. When wearing a pair of Howard Leight's finest Maxes, the level of noise is considerably reduced. This allows me to talk to myself at a volume lower than normal conversational volume and still hear myself without having to ask myself to repeat myself. Obviously this is possible through bone conduction. As the noise level is considerably reduced, surely this demonstrates that earplugs, even of the 50p a pair 33dB orange bell variety, are effective. All tests conducted on a closed private test track by a rider who hears no internal voices.

Another brick in the wall Summer of 69 Or take any song that you don't already know and play it on a five-string, which is what I do.

I'm still there. That'll be the foul mouthed weirdos and perverts contingent then.

I shall stop blowing into my bass forthwith. I shall also reconsider taking the violin up again, but there are many, many reasons I shouldn't. I was at the dental hygienist this morning, and when she was running the scaler around my upper teeth, this thread came to mind.

"Where the wild roses grow" by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue is probably another one to avoid. If they ever get divorced, though, it would be pretty good for that.

I would reverse that, bass on the slower numbers and cajon on the faster ones. Bass on the Shania Twain too. That's based on my experience of playing in a band with bass and cajon, and another with no percussion. For Happy Jack - the strange ribbed things that you stroke is either a fish (guiro) or something dressed up in a ribbed condom. Obviously the choice of which depends on exactly what sort of gig is being played.

'Edelweiss' from the Sound of Music. 'New Rose' - The Damned 'Yellow Rose of Texas' - trad. 'Goodbye English Rose' is a bad idea for so many reasons, but mainly because it's shoite.

Which video is it, and where's the reference? I just whipped out the multimeter and checked continuity on a pot in a bass preamp that I happen to have lying around. The pot is metal-shafted, as you almost always get on instruments, and there's zero resistance between shaft and pot body. As is usual practice, one end of the track is connected to the pot body, so the preamp earth is connected to the pot shaft.

I don't know how accurate the message to them was - I phoned up and someone in the office passed the message on to the stage crew. When I talked to them direct, I was able to say it was black with white piping, which may have helped somewhat.

I took a detour on my home tonight and dropped in on the Robin. They had another hunt for the cover, and this time, possibly helped by my description, they found it. So all's well that ends well, sort of.

Thanks for all your work on this. A water jet cutter might be the tool for the job.

It's not the surface area, it's the volume. That is, the area multiplied by the cone excursion (Xmax). So a 12" with a big Xmax could be louder than a 15" with a smaller Xmax. Any advance on volume? We'd have to go to four dimensions...

I've used this lot since it was called EPC (about 40 years): https://powder-coatings.co.uk/

I doubt very much that a mixer would want to deal with speaker-level voltages. I have alternative things I can try if this experiment doesn't quite work out (as opposed to being a dismal failure) - running separate amps for each cab is quite simple (and I have a spare amp or two), but involves more wiring, and I want to keep things to a minimum.

Wasn't worried about that, I saw them soundchecking. Venue is full PA, and his head was a Fender Rumble 500 with a touch of overdrive at nowhere near full whack. Still, I'll find out for sure at a rehearsal tomorrow.

Just spoke to the venue. Bassist said he'd folded it up and put it under the drum riser. It's not there now. Now to try and extract £50 from him to replace the cover...

People who have faith in the fundamental trustworthiness of humanity, despite six decades of experience to the contrary.

I passed it up to him on the stage (as they were just starting to soundcheck when I arrived) with its cover on. Apparently he folded up the cover and put it under the drum riser. Whether it's still there is another question.