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The school hall is set well away from the street - someone would have to walk across the car park / playground, go through the front entrance into a foyer area and then into the hall itself. Can keep just one entrance to the hall open (from the foyer) - highly unlikely to get any people just passing by

Well, technically I have no less than four sig basses - All bought for very different reasons: Sadowsky Will Lee - because I really like the idea of a very narrow nut width & I can see that the mid boost switch would be very useful live. I think WL is a fine player but I wouldn't buy a bass just because it had his name on it. Alleva Coppolo Willie Weeks - quite a departure for Jimmy Coppolo to build a P bass with a pair of J pickups and his full active J circuitry. This was very appealing as I liked the idea of a P body but prefer two pickups. However I have to own up that part of the appeal of this one was because it actually belonged to WW himself and went round the world on a Clapton tour. Performance Louis Johnson Dragon - again I'm an admirer of Lj's work but not enough to buy a bass just because he helped in the design. Big attraction of this was that it's hand made by a great luthier team and this particular one is actually not a 'standard' LJ signature because it has an additional J pickup in the neck position instead of LJ's 'stock' design which has a single humbucker at the bridge. Traben Bootsy - no excuse at all for this one. I'm a huge Bootsy fan & always loved his star shaped basses. When one became available at a price I could afford I snapped it up, bought totally on a whim and hardly played but I like it a lot & it's the combination of his influence and crazy shape that I like (although I've just stuck it up for sale as I really don't play it enough & it seems a shame!)

[quote name='Bloodaxe' post='865913' date='Jun 13 2010, 01:24 PM']I have [i]no idea[/i] what you're talking about. However, if I can blag a lift, the Bloody Explorer might make an appearance. [color="#FFFACD"][size=1][i](note to self: - draw the curtains next time)[/i][/size][/color][/quote] Bloodaxe was a comic figure in the Spawn series - loosely based on Eric the Bloodaxe a Norse viking character (or something along those lines, lol). I think also in other comics like Marvel's Thor etc

[quote name='Bloodaxe' post='865902' date='Jun 13 2010, 01:05 PM']You've just given me a cunning idea... Hopefully more later.[/quote] You're not coming in full 'bloodaxe' fancy dress are you?

[quote name='Bloodaxe' post='865895' date='Jun 13 2010, 12:58 PM'][b]I.D.[/b] Previous bashes have gone with a sign-in sheet & sticky labels with all writing on - seems to work.[/quote] Might look a bit cheesy but a label with site nick-name & then 'real' first name might help people to identify each other?

[quote name='Beedster' post='865837' date='Jun 13 2010, 12:02 PM']Hi folks Many thanks for the above, and apologies for taking my time to respond. First session with the new SR16 (courtesy of Molan) this afternoon, I'll let you know how it goes. C[/quote] Wow that arrived quickly That extra 90p was obviously well spent, lol. Hope it works well Chris

[quote name='dood' post='863898' date='Jun 11 2010, 12:23 AM']I'm watching the RC50 demo videos now Cheers Molan! Keep 'em coming! - I'll drop Josh and Steve a line too.[/quote] Steve is well worth an evening of your time if he ever plays live anywhere near you. Lovely guy & good teacher too. Here's some vids: Simple demo At work With Lobelia

Josh has an RC50 & it's pretty cool - worth zapping him a note Steve Lawson uses one of these now I think [url="http://www.looperlative.com/"]http://www.looperlative.com/[/url] Maybe give him a shout as he's a real looping whizz & usually pretty chatty [url="http://www.looperlative.com/"]http://www.looperlative.com/[/url]

So I have a yearning to check the neck stamp on one of my basses but I've never done this before. Is it simply a case of unscrewing the bolts & sliding it off & then screwing them back until they feel 'tight' or do I need to be super careful about anything?

Alesis SR 16 any good? I've got one I don't need now as I'm running a PC based app instead. It's in near perfect condition and cost me £50 a couple of months ago

Another big thumbs up for Ville - top man and a great sense of humour, always makes me smile We did a deal quite a while ago now and still in touch now & then

School caretaker says the hall will be fine with multiple amps running simultaneously and there is access to a fridge we can use on the day

I bought a case from Marc recently - my second deal him and he's always great to deal with Turned out to be a bit more expensive than planned as the £35 case materialised into a £300 pair of hi-fi speakers at the same time, lol. Speaking of which - Marc is very much the man to speak to with regards to hi-fi stuff

last time I was asked to lend something I simply said it was fine so long as I got 100% of the value as a deposit in cash before it was used and that I reserved the right to retain any part of this if any of my gear was damaged in the slightest way. Obviously difficult to prove at times and damage could, theoretically, appear at a later date. However in this instance it wasn't an issue because the band in question immediately 'found' their own gear. . . I have offered to lend stuff to friends I've made here on BC several times though and would absolutely try to help out if someone had an important gig or session etc.