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Can't see any signs of him in https://courtlistings.co.uk/magistrates-court-listings/leicester#past-section PS: Mick Mason, not Danny Sapko.

Got halfway there, hit a traffic jam just as the singer rang me so I answered - drummer's car had gone titsup so rehearsal cancelled. Trickled along the M6 to junction 7, turned round, and came home.

I was trying to remember who did the "basses against a fence" photo years ago. That was impressive. @cetera?

And there was me expecting

Although with Gardiner Houlgate, the buyer's fee and seller's fee total around 50% so the seller gets about 50% of what the seller pays (about 75% of the hammer price).

I suspect that shipping from the USA would make it prohibitively expensive for most of us.

These days, if you say you're English you get arrested and put in jail.

Call me Botus Fleming.

Eden Glowplug Tube Warmer - bass distortion pedal. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116789082040 Description: "The Eden Glowplug Tube Warmer Pedal is a processor designed to keep music producers and beat makers warm during long studio sessions. This innovative device, created by the brand Eden, features a Glowplug model that efficiently emits heat, ensuring users stay comfortable while working tirelessly on their music projects. The pedal design allows for easy control of the temperature, providing a convenient solution for maintaining a comfortable environment in the studio."

If you mean they were stiff, they might be improved by the thrust washer mod - just do a search for "thrust washer" and you'll find it.

And white spirit, meths, or isopropyl alcohol (whichever you prefer the taste of) to get any gummy residue off. NB: for external application only. Contents may settle during transit. May contain nuts.

The annual Ride to the Wall happens today, and as the Wall in question is about 15 miles from Tamworth, some people ride up the day before and stay in hotels. One of those hotels was the Liberal House, where one of my bands (appropriately, The Bonnevilles) finished up playing. I started to set up and realised that I'd managed to forget my amp - I'm used to getting all of the gear out of the garage and as I don't do the PA for The Bonnevilles, I'd got distracted by moving the bits I didn't need out of the way. Still, it was only a 15 minute round trip to pick it up. We had to fit into an alcove so tiny that the guitarist finished up outside it, and the drummer was sitting on the bench seat in the alcove, as was my cab (on its side). I'd brought a headed bass - rather stupidly, I didn't think to pick up a headless when I went back for the amp. Audience was mainly bikers ("They like both kinds of music - rhythm AND blues"), a large proportion of whom were wearing fleeces/trackies with RCT RIDERS emblazoned on them - Royal Corps of Transport. Mrs Zero sat and talked with some of them - it was the first time she'd seen me with The Bonnevilles, her hip replacement had rather interfered with coming to see us before. All went well, though because the bikers had to get up early, a lot of them buggered off to bed before we finished at spot on 11. Gear: Antoniotsai 5-string dragon bass -> Lekato WS-90 -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> supine GR Bass AT212. Footwear as usual but damper than normal.

I can't imagine having enough storage space to pack away all my basses.

It's been a good few years since this thread got posted to. So here's my headless fretless Original 5: The headless Flamboyant 5: The Flamboyant 6: And the Sei Jazz 5, aka the Basschat Bike:

My new to me Uberhorn is awaiting surgery but here's a placeholder:

That's from a while ago - that settee's long gone. The basses are all still here though. The observant may notice the fingerboard end on the fretless isn't standard, I got Jon Shuker to replace the original board which had been nicely defretted but of course had lines on for an unlined ebony board and he shaped it that way.

I have quite a few. However, when I don't know how big the venue is or I know it's small, I'll take a fretted headless, if I've got room then I may take a headed bass instead and that will be a choice from a selection of three or four. For open mic nights I'll take any one of a dozen, generally 5-strings but occasionally a 4 or a 6.

In fairness, there's been bugger-all genuine news for days (I'm keeping an eye on the Talkbass and TheGearPage threads). And there's never a thread in which people can't say what they could have bought a Wal for in 1983. That's the law, although if they're less than 50, some doubt might be thrown on their claim.

Or, for those of us who don't move in the exalted circles of promoters, showing the landperson that you should get another chance.

OTOH, I have Seis and a Shuker and wouldn't touch a Wal as I find them unpleasant to play (might have another Status though). People want different things. Shuker, Sei, Overwater, GB, and ACG (can't miss Alan out) wouldn't be replacements for G&L as they're not the same volume of production - well, possibly Overwater, less so now that they've dropped the Aspiration series.

My old club band played at one social club NYE gig. We were in an upstairs room, children were only allowed downstairs. The room was half-empty. The consolation was that of the three raffle prizes, we won two (I got whisky, the guitarist got vodka). I've played at weddings - only a couple with rock bands, rather more were with the ceilidh band. For the ceilidh band, we used to use sashes[1] for same-sex dancing pairs to determine which was "man" and which was "woman", but when we did one for a wedding between a gay vicar and his partner, we decided that we could finish up overthinking things. [1] Against my advice, orange. And our dulcimer player wore a bowler hat. Fortunately we never played any Irish gigs.

Move the bridge, which is embedded in the full-length fingerboard, and lose a little off the headstock end.

More detail in

I remember you having severe doubts about keeping it - glad you managed to overcome them. Sadly your original thread has been Imgured. The biggest issue is that the fingerboard runs the length of the bass - however, as Jon said, he knows how it went together. And that also means that he can change the scale length while he's at it, so there is an upside.

Evri seem to have improved of late. Our local drivers have always been good, it's been the bit in the middle where Evri let you know that a parcel has disappeared into their cavernous maw and you know it'll be a week before it gets regurgitated that's been the bad bit, and that seems to have speeded up of late.