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He eventually got it right, and starts discussing going on tour...

Can't we have a party instead? We haven't had a good one since "Waste of TIM", or maybe "Mods please delete log in error".

You should expand your cultural horizons to include Monty Python.

Perhaps this is the answer: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235469422986

There's also the SRF705 with the Bart MK-1 pickups rather than the Barts in the EHB1005F, plus a piezo bridge.

I would consider how much worse it would have been if the unicorn had got in through the cat flap. I would also wonder why the cat has now got steel claws. As nothing even slightly approaching this has happened in over 40 years of cat ownership, I think it would be unlikely. I do make regular checks of the fence to prevent the caribou getting in and nibbling the croquet hoops.

£150 an hour 20 years ago is almost as good as a divorce lawyer used to get.

The headstock, the nut, the neck heel... surprisingly, he hasn't converted the pickup to a single coil. I think this one has appeared here before though.

Did you say "figuratively" when you meant "metaphorically"?

It's quite impressive that he manages to hold the guitar at the same angle as Brian May is holding his in the picture above the piano.

You could just get the bare board USB PD decoys and solder the leads to them the right way round. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335286849794 for a few to experiment with.

The volume or the treble. More helpfully, as you turn the volume pot down, the resistance between tip and sleeve will drop. Turning the tone pot will make no difference, that only affects AC and determines how much treble is shunted to ground.

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I'm having to restrain myself and telling myself that I already have a Nux Mighty Plug and I only use it for an hour a week at the most. It does look rather nice.

That's because they're simpletons who don't understand how to circumvent the issue (well, it's Guitarworld so what do you expect). Certain wireless units have stereo jack plugs which are how they're charged (not the vast majority of Line 6 devices). Active basses almost always use a stereo jack socket in order to switch them on - the ring and sleeve are connected to ground and battery negative respectively. I think these rechargeable bugs will work with basses which are wired one way round (eg. ground to sleeve and battery negative to earth) but not the other way round. Ah, just found this on the page for the Boss WL-50: "*1 The typical TRS output jack wiring of guitar active circuit is audio to tip, ground to sleeve, and battery ground to ring. In rare cases where ring and sleeve are wired reversely, the guitar active circuit doesn't work properly with the WL-T." - https://www.boss.info/uk/support/by_product/wl-50/support_documents/eade711c-1f5a-4951-988b-e8e863611c64/ There are two ways to circumvent this, if you have an active bass which is incompatible with the bug. The first method is simply to switch the wires to the jack socket over. This does require very minor surgery on the bass - anyone who can wield a screwdriver and soldering iron without impaling themselves and suffering third degree burns can manage it. The other is to get a short extension lead, mono jack socket to mono jack plug, plug the wireless into one end and the other end into the bass.

And Ginger Baker then brought this to mind:

Back in 1990, the band I was in got ourselves in to pay on Telethon '90. The host was Jimmy Tarbuck, though the only time I got (briefly) to speak with him was at some ungodly hour in the morning, when we were wondering when we'd be on. I sought him out at the same time as a few guys from another band wanted to find the same thing. He looked along the line of us (about half a dozen black guys in proper band uniform and a white bloke in a lumberjack shirt) and said to me "You're not with them, are you?". Well, it was funny at the time. More recently, I was on series 7 of Robot Wars (on Channel 5) with SMIDSY. Didn't talk much to Craig Charles but I did wind up Jayne Middlemiss (and nearly enticed her onto the back of my bike). We also took part in Techno Games as Sprocket - I did Techno Games 2, and I still have my silver medal from coming runners-up in the football. Got to have a chat with Phillipa Forrester, who was just spectating at the time due to pregnancy, and with Noel Sharkey. We also took part in the sumo, during which we opened SMIDSY's jaws, which was against the rules. Derek Foxwell came over to tell us we were disqualified and why, and then they wanted to film us being told about being disqualified. So we stood there, Derek came over to us, and said "You're disqualified. Now f*ck off." This explains why in the broadcast version, Derek is grinning as he tells us we're disqualified and we're trying not to snigger.

Presumably this isn't intended to cover comedic musicians, like Tom Lehrer, Flanders & Swann, Jake Thackray et al. There's all of Gong's "Camembert Electrique" for a start, and I like this very short track by Sam Brown:

"I find your lack of satisfaction disturbing".

I think it's my second favourite power tool, just behind the angle grinder.

Who by, and why? I only have active basses and I use a Line 6 G50 (among others) with no problems. In fact, I don't have problems with any of my wirelesses - Line 6 G50, Smoothhound, Lekato WS-50, Harley Benton Airborne Pro. Of these, the first two use the 2.4GHz band and the second two the 5.8GHz band. If you're just going into an amp or using a single pedal, a rechargeable bug type is more convenient as you don't have to set up a power supply for the receiver. If you're using a pedalboard, a base unit receiver with power supply is more convenient as you don't have to recharge it.

As long as you bin it in my bin, I agree.

I'm a bit of a Variax fanboi, I've got a 300, a 700 acoustic, 705 bass, JTV59, and now the JTV69. It'll get an outing tomorrow night at an open mic (where there's one other JTV59 and four other 700 acoustics).

Didn't make a note of it and I don't really want to open it up again.