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I’m loving the new SR500 colour

For the last decade or so, I normally do a solo acoustic gig on NYE, but this year I’ve elected to take a break. It’s my daughters 11th birthday and this year she literally begged me to stay at home with her. Apart from the covid years, when I was desperately ill anyway, she’s never had me home. So this is the year Tbh, Im enjoying it too

I just want an Ibanez EHB. Nothing fancy, but since covid, I can’t manage much at all in the way of weight, and I’m stuck on the side of the stage which always has a wall in headstock range, so the EHB looms in my future, should the day ever come when I can find the money. A simple wish but it’s mine.

Funnily enough, my keys player had a heart attack on stage once too. He survived thank goodness.

I just got home. Survived. Slept most of the day and arrived just before start. Sat down for a few songs and didn’t sing. So glad that’s over!!

I did one once when I was feeling very ‘off’. Turned out I was coming down with meningitis. Worse was the next one when I was ‘recovering’ from said meningitis after my spinal tap. I also played with measles once and a bout of sciatica mid gig once stopped me from being able to operate my pedals unless I lent backwards! My worse was just a flu type thing as a vocalist. I should’ve cancelled that one. The whole reason I searched out this thread, is cause I’ve just spent all of Christmas laid up with a fever and violent cough etc and tonight I have a three hour gig I can’t get out of. My wife has agreed to drop off and pick up and I’ve told the band I’ll arrive just before we start and leave as soon as we finish and I’ll probs sit down. Thank goodness for IEMs, but the fact that we’re using a dep engineer has me nervy! Spending today in bed in readiness.

Thanks. It’s not as ‘contrasty’ in real life, the pics make it stand out more.

I’m all about the active these days, after years on passive. I did break out my jazz once, and my band’s engineer told me never to bring a passive again 😅 I’ve decided just to leave the SR300 as it is now. It’s fine, just not as good as the others, but then it’s also much cheaper than the others

My laser stomp was pretty amazing for the solo gigs, that and my SR300 purely for the colour!

I decided to cover the screws between the pickups and prevent finger damage above the pickups. Reversible, I’ll see how I feel about it after a few days.

Sky veil matte

No, the previous, 9th or 10th I think. There was a Smiths band on and us.

I was there last week I think, was Freezing apart from near the heaters

A few weeks later and many many coats of beeswax. It probably doesn’t look much different in pics, but it does in the flesh, just waiting on a better preamp to arrive now.

Was the barn Tucker’s Grave by any chance?

I switched a year back and it’s the best thing I’ve ever done, for all the reasons already given. I use the KZ10s and a rolls pm50 as a more me box, also have a custom cable which carries both my guitar signal and my headphone signal. It’s just ace

Standard wmc Christmas party for me last night, we play it every year, pleasant enough night, I was just glad to be somewhere warm tbh! I played my incredible SR1200 all night and my shoulder was killing by the end of a 2.5 hour set with no breaks, even though it’s super light compared to something like a fender. Im vaguely considering selling it and putting the ££ towards an ehb1000.

Quite a drive to a barn in Somerset last night, rather nippy as you can imagine, and challenging acoustically too, but all in all a decent enough night, glad we decided not to play tonight tbh. 5B83290C-8D92-4C92-A451-870616F3DF9B.MOV

Thanks. It is

And the project bass is finished

And it’s done! The electronics worked first time! Which has blown my mind! My first ever attempt at wiring active electronics (other than idiot proof emg and East!) The set up is spot on, and it’s even lighter than my other SR500. The sound isn’t as good right now as the strings I put on are an old set, and the artec preamp isn’t as good as the stock one - but it’s not that far off!! I’ll keep an eye out for a better one to go in now it’s all together ill need to make a better back plate too. At the minute it’s a rough one cut out of an ice cream tub lid and wrapped in vinyl!!