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Tainted Love and Paranoid - both have very negative lyrics. We also play an Oasis song, and they're all f*cking depressing.

I was looking at a musical instruments auction and was a bit interested in one lot, an instrument from the Hayman-Shergold transition period - Hayman 40/40 with a Shergold badge on it. As my first bass was a Hayman 40/40, I was somewhat interested (although the auction is in Cumbria so it's a fair old trek). However, the description mentions hook added to headstock and notes engraved on fretboard. Very sad. https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/1818-auctioneers/catalogue-id-sr1811021/lot-42226f5b-b4d1-43cd-be35-b16a00d19f54 There's also a Washburn MB-6 which has presumably suffered the same owner, although it appears that they've used a Dymo for the lettering.

In another world of four-stringed instruments, many Stradivarius violins are owned by collectors but they are frequently loaned to violinists. I was rather surprised that André Rieu has a loaner, I'm sure he could afford one of his own.

Add a switch to the volume control pedal, activated when your heel is completely down, that switches on an illuminated sign saying "PUT THE VOLUME BACK UP!".

A 105 low string should be fine, plenty of E strings are 105 and they're tuned a tone higher than what you're looking at.

Who nicked six machine heads off the middle one?

Data isn't the plural of anecdote.

I didn't realise you'd seen me.

I don't use IEMs but something similar happens to me, generally towards the end of a gig on the occasions that it does happen. It's not specific notes, it's any note, and I finish up checking that I am playing the right note as it sounds so out. Fortunately it didn't happen when I played exclusively fretless, but now I play fretted and it does.

If memory serves me right, it features in the Book of Heroic Failures as the worst car that Ford ever produced, which nearly bankrupted them. There were huge numbers of faults on them - doors that wouldn't close, windows that wouldn't open, etc. Production costs were huge. In addition, the radiator grille was likened unto a lady's nether parts. I think it was the only Ford ever named after a member of the Ford family. Apparently there was only ever one case of an Edsel being stolen.

I assumed it was quoting Dance with the Devil by Cozy Powell.

Surely G♯ A♯ B. Let's not encourage this mixing of sharps and flats. Although in Cm, I suppose that should really be A♭ B♭ C♭.

Could be an inspiration for @rwillett's next 3D printed bass.

It looks like the off-track action is going to be more exciting than the competition itself. Oh sorry, that's Formula 1. Complaints in from Bambie Thug about Israel's broadcaster, possibly the European Commission about the EBU banning the EU flag, and the Netherlands' Joost Klein possibly being prosecuted by Sweden, it's all great fun.

Have you not encountered Tim before?

I use a home-made BC micro cab for open mics, paired with a Tecamp Puma 900.

Have you got a multimeter, and can you check that 9v is actually getting to the preamp? Might be the jack socket (especially if it's a barrel jack) not making good contact between ring and sleeve.

Check the lead spacing, that's very important.

Do you think that https://www.amazon.co.uk/Duck-Strength-Double-Sided-Tape/dp/B095X9NZWK/ref=sr_1_6 would be an equivalent?

Couldn't you just use a thumb rest and stick it on with 3M VHB double sided tape?

I think he's playing the Laurence Fox card. After all, white people are terribly underrepresented in Eurovision: https://eurovision.tv/event/malmo-2024/participants

I thought it was quite good.

You could have found out what music will be like when AI rules the world.

I had the fretless version of that very bass - like you, the first 5-string (but the third fretless).