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I'm using a Nokia T20 which is OK. There are a few Chinese tablets from Oppo, Honor, and Xiaomi which would be worth looking at. Also the Samsung Tab A9+ comes in at around £180, so a bit more expensive than those but gets good reviews. I may treat myself to one.

Quality is very variable but open mics generally offer a friendly audience. Some players improve through playing in front of audiences - Mrs Zero was one of those, when I took her to her first open mic night to do some John Denver standards she was rubbish but I knew she was better than that, took her along to the next one and she was much better, and she finished up fronting a rock band. However, it is a two-edged sword - one guy who turns up sporadically to a couple of open mic nights should have the mic closed (his guitar playing is OK though).

Maybe a quarter or a third full. It was a showcase night, with four bands on - we were first on and Mrs Zero was rather tired so we only stayed on for one other band. Our drummer was the sound engineer there until a couple of years ago when he started doing sound in Birmingham.

"Temperament" by Stuart Isacoff explains the history. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Temperament-Stuart-Isacoff/dp/0571234461

Recently joined an originals band - trio of keys/vocals, drums, and bass. The BL got us onto the bill for a showcase at the Arches in Coventry as the opening act. So, after two and a half rehearsals, we did three songs together, then the BL did a couple more solo. We got quite a few compliments. The smoke machine did obscure our drummer somewhat. Photo taken during soundcheck when he was still visible. Videos can be seen here:

First gig for us - just three numbers (well, we've only had two and a half rehearsals).

That happened to the vocalist with one band. We drafted in Mrs Zero as a temporary replacement who became permanent (and was a considerable improvement, in my totally unbiased opinion).

The more you do it, the better you get.

Ikea Ivar or Hejne, just don't put shelves in the lower part.

Quick summary - use a PC, get Facebook Purity. https://www.fbpurity.com/

A friend of mine announced on FB that he'd be putting a set into his bass. I read the description and said "that load of pretentious bollocks has put me off ever using those in any of my basses."

Last night was my regular Wednesday night at the British Legion in Shirley. Took the 10-string Dean for a change. Mrs Zero was feeling unwell so I got to sing and play guitar, which the audience suffered without wincing too much. Accompanied a few people, notably Blind George, who is blind, called George, and is a 14 year old rather good blues guitarist who will be doing a slot at the Upton Blues Festival this year.

It's not in Kansas now.

There's bound to be another one.

Don't think so, the spec says that the outputs are mono jacks.

And 1590H. A handy reference attached. Hammond boxes.xlsx

You may have noticed that further on down I acknowledged not having noticed it was a through neck.

I can't help but think that quite a few of us have mentioned these, yet nothing much gets said about them. So, as we've got threads about gigs and rehearsals, how about an open mic/jam night one? Tonight's open mic night at the Cavern in Tamworth was quite a fun event. Assorted bands and performers as always. There was a featured band (as there sometimes is here) called Fortunate Sons, who started their set with Fortunate Sons - although the effect was slightly spoilt by the singer forgetting the words. Gearstalking - their bassist had a 5-string SUB Ray which I thought (as it was a 5 string) was a Ray35, but he insisted that it was a Ray34. Mrs Zero and I did a bass and vocals set - Killer by Seal, Wicked Game by Chris Isaacs, Dancing in the moonlight by Thin Lizzy. There was a somewhat unusual band - the Drayton Brassets I think they're called, a band of brass rather than a brass band, trombone, trumpet, tuba, tympani (just kidding, it was a drummer), and a couple of others (also cornets or trumpets I think), doing assorted songs by Green Day among others. I got called up for a couple of numbers by the organiser, and for the final jam, Route 66 and Hog for you baby seguing into the final bit of Freebird. There's a young guitarist called James Bartholomew who is very good (just wish he could turn the volume down to 10) and he did some blistering solo work. Oh, and I also met a guitarist I haven't seen for 40 years or so, since he was supposed to be playing with me at a gig and jumped in the canal instead. More detail in the Spinal Tap thread. Tomorrow is the weekly open mic at the Shirley Royal British Legion, which I may report on.

I suppose that I should confess that a few years ago, I bought Mrs Zero a recorder. The current Mrs Zero, that is, not one of the former ones, so it wasn't some form of punishment.

Headstock shot should help a lot.

Just to follow this up - the events above happened about 40 years ago. This evening I was at an open mic night, headed to the toilets (upstairs) and waited for someone to come downstairs with a couple of drinks (bar was also upstairs). He halted by me and said "Did you used to be called Maltloaf?[1]" I said "Yes, who were you?" And it turned out that it was this guitarist. We chatted briefly - he's still playing guitar and gob-iron. [1] At one stage in my life, I resembled a slimmer Meat Loaf.

Tier 2 fail on torture implements though. Bagpipes would be a tier 1.

I don't play GUITAR as well as I play BASS. The GUITARist at the open mic I go to owns a BASS and tries to play it, badly. Why have we got to write BASS in capital letters? Seems like the equivalent of writing it in crayon.

He's still turning them out: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/356533886326

b) sounds very much like a horizontal version of the battery holder that tends to be used in electro-acoustic instruments, where the battery sits in a little box with two slots for the terminals which can only go in one way round, and then the whole lot slots into the preamp unit which it can only do one way round. I'm just glad that batteries last several years.