tauzero

1977 - Sex Pistols "Never mind the bollocks", Meat Loaf "Bat out of Hell". I only bought one of those two albums.

I saw that when it was shown - basically, it said that music and lyrics were both becoming less complex. Because, after all, nothing Adele's written can touch the lyrical and musical complexity of James Brown's "Sex machine". Oh sorry, that's wrong, the examples given were equally facile in the opposite direction, which was a shame, because cherry-picking examples slightly undermined the premise. I don't disagree with that premise though. Rock wasn't in an unhealthy state before punk, but it did provide new musical DNA which was incorporated into the mainstream.

Still doing his NYE 2016 gig, I imagine.

That's actually another of your 60th birthday gifts, discovering that breakfast is a foreign country.

That's going to confuse every GK owner in the world, isn't it? They've put the EQ the right way round.

Johnny Marr for guitar perhaps?

So the rhythm section get slightly fewer millions then. That's a burden I think I could live with. Mind you, as recently as 2016 Bono apparently thought that they split the money equally.

Didn't seem to do Mike Rutherford any harm.

I see, Fingers didn't start the action until 2016. I thought skank meant a properly long-running court action (cf. Bleak House) 😁

In this case (and probably most cases like this) it's an out-of-court settlement so we'll never find out. I imagine it'll be costs plus some payment (less than 50%) for past royalties plus writing credits and a share (might be more than 50%) of future royalties. IANAL though.

Drummer 2 should have been quietening down to accommodate you, rather than you getting louder to match him. It does seem that you have an embarrassment of riches all the same. I was going to suggest exactly what NFF has, go out for a drink with them individually and see how you all get on. Also, if you're getting them back for a second audition, dig out the songs with the biggest dynamic shifts in them to see how drummer 2 gets on.

U2's system of simply splitting it four ways has a lot to be said for it.

GAK have the Elf head plus 1x10 for £500, so presumably the 1x10 combo is going to be a similar price.

That's what gigging's for, isn't it?

After switching to 5-string almost exclusively 10 years ago, I've started playing 4-strings again in one band. I'm not finding any problems with it. Now I've just got to see how easy it will be to use a 6 with another of the bands...

Have just watched the guitar one. Mrs Zero (vocals) and I were in agreement that the bass one was the worst of the three. I thought there was a bit of an omission from the guitar one, as amplification wasn't covered at all other than a brief mention of big stacks, but the overdriven guitar amp was probably more significant than the fuzz box in creating the mid-60s on guitar sound. You'll always get omissions of quite significant things in a programme covering such a large topic in an hour, though.

I've moved on. I'm now the fat bald bloke standing at the back.

I think my version of diplomacy wouldn't get me into the UN peacekeepers. "Oh god no, it's stinky poo".

As long as they get the postcode right. I've got a Warwick Thumb incoming from Italy, DPD doing the final leg. The seller put the address (including the correct postcode) on the parcel, but somehow the separate postcode field has got a generic postcode in it (B77 1AA). Got an email saying it would be delivered 24/01, then the parcel status went from being delivered on 24/01 to customer rescheduled for delivery 25/01 (no I didn't), then to delivery on 28/01. I rang them up today to find out WTF was going on, and found out then that the postcode was wrong (not, as I say, the postcode that the seller had put on the address label, but the postcode that they'd magically derived) and so it had gone to the wrong hub and it will be delivered on Monday, now they've got the right postcode in the postcode field. I can't help but think that there's a lorra lorra cluelessness at DPD. Just think how much worse it will be buying basses from Europe after Br*x*t, with all the customs, VAT, etc...

I've been buying basses since about 1975. My first expensive bass was a Warwick Thumb in 1988, which cost £900 (beer was about 50p a pint, as a yardstick). It remains the best four-string bass I've played. I started buying 5-string basses in the late 90s, and the two Seis I own are the best 5-strings I've owned (and, indeed, played), far, far better than the crappy Squier 5-string I bought in 2007. The Esh Poseidon V is also rather good. However, everybody else on BC seems to buy expensive stuff and then find out they like cheap stuff better. Am I unusual? Should I be ashamed, or at least a bit guilty?

Makes Parcelfarce (motto: "We can lose an elephant and break an anvil") seem positively brilliant.

Perhaps we could get some hints from here: https://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/about-aa/the-12-steps-of-aa. Just replace "God" with "Basschat". And if you fall off the wagon, don't just give up. One year month week day at a time.

I know it hasn't yet been suggested as an option, but just in case - the Behringer AB100 is an A-B switch with two levels on it. The trouble is that they don't work when you're A-Bing two inputs, only when you A-B two outputs, so it wouldn't be suitable for your purposes. Have you considered a little mixer and silent jack leads?

I rather liked the look of the Line 6 G10S, a stompbox version of the G10 wireless - neat system with a dongle transmitter rather than a body pack. So I looked at the price - PMT have them at £238 but the G10 (same transmitter, slightly more basic and less robust receiver) is £99. That's quite a price differential.