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And Hayman. There was a special tool (basically a zig-zag rod) that made it easier to adjust, as it's tricky to turn it 90 degrees with a straight rod. Um. I know what I mean...

Ah yes, Kenny and his jazz men were great.

Duran Duran gets slagged off a fair bit in Barbarella. They're complimentary about T'Pau in Star Trek though.

So we can buy them and put them in a safe place, then buy them again when the flat pack arrives and we can't find them? Or is it just me?

Alan Cringean (I'll third the suggestions to get in touch with him) got Overwater along to a few of the Moffat bass bashes - they're in Carlisle, so not ridiculously far from you.

I hope I can make it for this one - I've missed the last two or three so my cake reserves are seriously low.

The originals band I'm in, Gasfoodlodging, released a CD a couple of weeks back. It's just had a review by Ryan's Gig Guide, a Birmingham/Black Country monthly that has replaced Brum Beat. Modesty forbids me from quoting it but it can be found here: https://ryansgigguide.com/2019/June/8-9/ No bribes were involved in the production of this review, and the reviewer is not known to any member of the band.

My former covers band did some gigs in Munich three years on the trot: http://lightning.tauzero.org.uk/munich.html

But we still don't know which mods we can delete.

Are we marking Blue's homework again?

I speak from experience. I owned one for a while. The first gig I had with it was upstairs.

After you've lugged that into a venue, the last thing you'll want to do is carry in an extension cab too, especially if you then have to lift the combo onto the extension. I'm sure depleted uranium is used in the construction of those things.

Ireland have done a cracking job of making sure not to have to host it next year.

It goes against my very being, but if you're tributing someone who often uses a plectrum, things are taken out of your hands. Or, indeed, put into them.

Um, holding plectrums. I use plectrums and fingerpick on guitar, and occasionally a plectrum on bass. Not sure what else they could be used for, except maybe an emergency biscuit if you carefully cut it to shape.

They're very useful. I've got one stuck to the scratchplate on my Variax guitar, and another stuck to a strap plectrum holder and clipped to the strap of one bass. I wouldn't stick one on paintwork or onto wood.

Pretty sure mine has all the screens the same, but I do my editing on the PC so only really use the screens to check which patch I'm on and for the tuner.

I started on guitar, had a Les Paul copy and a Carlsbro Stingray. Then a few of us started a band at uni, and I became the de facto bassist. At the time, Fender Soundhouse had just had a fire and Hayman had gone bust, so they were selling off parts of instruments, and I used all my money (£75) to buy all the component parts of a Hayman 40/40 and assembled them. The Carlsbro Stingray then got fitted out with a pair of bass drivers, and I used that for a few years (even got borrowed by Jeff Hateley of Wolfsbane at one point). Eventually I got a Laney 150W amp and Ohm 15" cab, but that was years later. I do have photos which I may eventually scan in.

No, that's The Archers.

And in Off Topic, discussion of when GRR Martin's The Winds of Winter might be released.

There's a book on the subject that is quite interesting: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/85560/temperament-by-stuart-isacoff/9780375703300/

So Buster Gonad was based on a real person then.

It doesn't need it every gig, perhaps every five or ten, and takes me about 30 seconds to do. I don't leave it in vehicles but venues and rehearsal rooms are not infrequently at extremes of temperature.

My beloved Sei fretless is very temperature sensitive - not just the strings, the neck moves. I carry a set of allen keys and a capo with me and adjust the truss rod when necessary (so easy on a headless, such a chore when you have a headstock). The initial attack on a string will be slightly sharp due to the greater deflection causing a higher tension in the string, but you need to ignore the brief flash into the red, the sustain period of the note is where you need to tune.