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Killing Jake

Or the Dean Michael Schtinker.

You could always use flatwounds instead.

Why do you want to change them?

Temperature always in celsius for me. I can't grasp fahrenheit at all plus it has no logic to it.

Me too. The UK has been officially metric for over 60 years, it's about time people started moving out of the 19th century.

I've just had an email from Strings Direct telling me that tomorrow is World Strings Change Day. At about £30 a bass plus a tenner per guitar, that's about a thousand quid I've got to find, not to mention two days of work. I think I will ignore it and hope it goes away.

I was the giant in one previous band of hobbits, towering above them all in my 175cm majesty (0.0086992 furlongs, or in more modern units, 5.671323e-17 parsecs).

Pink Lloyd, the well-known Welsh prog band.

Somewhat busy for a part of the evening - about two minutes before getting up to accompany one guy, someone else (sax player) decides he wants to do Baker Street when it's his turn, so I'm just starting to jot the chords down when I'm on, then it's me and Mrs Zero, then I'm accompanying a harmonica player with two guitarists and two never-ending 12-bars (12-bores, I accidentally christened them), then it's the sax player plus Mrs Zero on vocals and female guitarist on, er, guitar after I scribble down the last four chords (sax player was playing the right notes in the right order but completely the wrong length), then I accompany the lady guitarist for her set, then a former bandmate who has just come back from a holiday in Japan did a slot so I accompany him too. Evening gets finished off by the perpetrators of the 12-bores, with the guitarist that I first accompanied taking on bass. Just for a change I didn't accompany Young Blind George as he was doing Midnight Rambler - I don't know it and unlike everything else he does, it's not easily busked to.

Steppenrolf Frank Rappa

Despite him just getting his name as the title of a thread on BC, he's not dead yet.

The enormous wealth generated will be shared out among the population so everybody will benefit. Well, a few billionaires will become trillionaires, and everybody else will starve except the medical staff they will need to keep them alive for hundreds of years.

They could become ambulance drivers picking up all the people knocked down by driverless trucks.

It would be a bit impractical to have effects pedals powered by IEC connectors. Wall warts should be reliable as long as they're looked after - wrapping the lead round the plug is a good way to damage the lead.

I'm another one who still has the Puma 900 - I moved to a combo for a while but kept the Puma in case I needed it again, then moved back to separates so it is now paired with a GR Bass AT212.

I've got short fingers and if I'm playing a walking bass line, I use one finger per fret wherever I'm playing. I think that's the only time though, mostly I use 1, 2, 3 or 1, 2, 4 over three frets.

Sorry, it's the SUB 5. So many different SBMM/EBMM basses, it's like they were Precisions...

When I did Robot Wars I wasn't sure whether to approach him or not - being as I'm rather shy and he was sat in a corner reading the paper, I decided against it. Philippa Forrester was much more approachable in Techno Games.

The thread, yes. BC in general, bassists are mostly angels with the odd exception:

That's going to work out expensive when she wants her own W&T - not many basses with a neck as nice as them.

In fairness, when the plans came out, LFSys didn't exist, and a Barefaced 1x12 with a bit more power handling would be about three times the price of putting one together. I really think that somebody should buy mine.

You'll generally only have three leads to worry about - ground, battery negative, and signal. As long as ground and negative aren't connected together, and signal goes to tip, you're OK. The issue of which of the other two goes to ring and to sleeve is generally not relevant except if you're using one of the Boss wirelesses which have stereo plugs and charge through the plugs, as they expect (IIRC) ground to be sleeve and battery negative to be ring.

That stirred me into walking across the room and looking in the soundhole of mine, which turns out to be a DE6 - looks identical to the DE7. A quick bit of research shows that mine has a spruce top and the DE7 has a cedar top.