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It's worth noting that re the Hofners, the el cheapo Ignition is hollow with vintage style pickups and the Contemporary has a centre block and modern pickups for a more contemporary sound. The Ignition is closer in tone and style to a proper Club, albeit nowhere near as good. This made my mind up when buying one. I also have a Longhorn but can't really compare as the Dano has rounds and the Club flats. The Club with LaBella flats is lovely, solid a deep sounding but can go reasonably bright, but not clanky, the Dano with rounds can get proper gnarly with a pick. Purely for control reasons I'd have a Dano, stacked volume and tone for each pickup the Hofner control plate is just wrong no matter how you dress it up. Love them both though.

I've played in loads of small places, no raised area, face to face with punters. Only once has anyone played one of my basses and even then I offered the trial. It was before we started and he was genuinely interested in my Variax, him being a bassist. We chatted bass for a bit and I told him what it did and said "have a go". Another reason I don't get asked could be because my concentration when playing manifests itself in the look of a deranged killer.

Yes transmitter went first.

Yeah there's no warning when they run out. I was hoping maybe the light would go red for bit before so you knew you were on borrowed time but a two hour gig on full charge should be fine.

Yes that's what I'll do. I just kept using them until they died just to see. I haven't tested the range yet, I might go out front tomorrow during sound check to see. I'll go for a............

I actually thought along those lines as I connected my board to my amp last night. I could buy another pair to do as you suggest but I'm sure latency would become a major problem. On the plus side I might be in time with our guitarist then 😁

I've found that the charge lasted for two two-hour rehearsals. No noticeable change in tone or volume but very slight latency issue. If, without playing a line, you just do one sharp pop you can hear the string slap the frets a fraction before the amplified note. I don't slap and only play a few octave pops in the Specials tunes and I don't think it will be an issue live, certainly not an issue with my normal playing in rehearsal. Works well on electric and doublebass. I'm going to gig with them tomorrow and see how it goes, I'll have a lead laying by my pedal just in case. 🙂

I don't know, I'm not a courier. If, for instance, they will be in the same area the next day but have far too many drops today and time is getting on, they might feel it's easier to shove a card through your door and worry about it tomorrow when it might be quieter. Multiple customers drops at one address speaks for itself. I seem to be getting into a position of defending couriers, which I'm not, merely saying I can see the pressure some are put under in order to make the company maximum profit, and as with most jobs, when employees are put under too much pressure to carry out an unachievable amount of work the standards will inevitably drop.

Yes quite, although under pressure (dum dum dum da da dum ) some drivers just don't give two f's either. I'm lucky in that I live in a quiet rural area and have a large gated car port type thing, all the regular couriers know to leave stuff in there, in fact a lot of the neighbours stuff goes in there as well, I've got quite the distribution hub going on.

I don't want to stick up for these companies as clearly they need to get their shizzle together, but the drivers are getting it from all angles. I used to work on a lot of DPD vans and speaking to the drivers when they came to collect them, they quite often had 180 drops to do in a day, and being in Cornwall that could be a good few miles between each drop. It's just impossible hence dropping a number of parcels at one address or just entering 'sorry we missed you' on the system and hoping the next day was quieter. We, the end user are complaining about them but they are getting more shiz piled on them by the management of the depots.

Ooh you dirty boy!

Quite, I never said they were good, just not one hit wonders 👍

Yes, confidence is good, an ego is not.

A local bunch of older musicians got together recently having been in other bands over the years and called themselves 'Metal Fatigue', which I thought was a good name for an aging metal covers band. The only problem was they were seriously middle of the road rock.

I've been ordering bits and pieces and stripping the old cabs for parts. I'm going to try and get most of the parts together and make a proper start on this over Christmas as I've got a couple of weeks off. I've got some stainless steel sheet and some aluminium 10mm hole mesh on order, and I've been sawing up plywood in preparation for making the head casing, which I've decided I don't like doing after the summers mishap. The cab and head are going to be plywood which I'm going to stain and lacquer so I'll be looking for tips on dyes and inks soon. I've sort of got a plan in my head for how this'll look but it might change as the build progresses. As I've got a pair of the celestions I may as well build a matching extension cab, a single 2x15 valve combo might be a bit heavy. 😂 No pictures for a mo as it's all very boring at this point. 🙂

I can be a strange thing that can't be explained sometimes, whether someone is the right fit or not for a band. One of my current bands had been asking me for a couple of years to join but the time wasn't right with other band commitments. They ended up kicking their bassist out as things got too bad and auditioned for a replacement, one was very good apparently but for whatever reason just didn't fit. They couldn't find a suitable replacement and were going to quit so I relented. Another thing that's been touched on is image. We're not massively image conscious but we are a Mod band (I don't know if the Mod scene ever happened in America Blue, it's a very British thing which I think would intrigue you) so it is important to us to look the part. A leather clad, long haired rocker wouldn't look right, certainly not a 50s/60s rocker . When we play bigger events we're all suited and booted.

I'm sure I saw No Sweat supporting someone back in the late 80s or early 90s, Thunder maybe. My mate bought the CD bought it was fairly throwaway stuff IIRC. Edit : I've just tried to look it up and if it was Thunder that they supported then the gig was December '90, popular rock was about to change in a massive way. They'd have been trying to make it big when that style of rock was becoming very uncool.

I would say yes, which means Si must be the lead guitarist, and also be MacDaddy on here, and wants to focus on bass more rather than lead guitar. Which just leaves the issue of the missing drunk punter, presumably deceased at the hands of Sylvie for asking if she could put a song on for them.

I've always said that, to me, that's the most perfect pop song ever written.

Is it 1 - the wood that has faded, 2 - the lacquer that has yellowed over time or 3 - the finish that's got scratched and worn where the sticker wasn't? If 1, then short of PaulKings suggestion (not that mad if a strong UV lamp was used) there's not a lot you can do. If 2 or 3, then a good polish with a suitable compound may bring the finish back to the level that was under the sticker.

Ah fair enough, I'm using the mobile version of the site so I can't see locations. You're in the States then I assume? As an aside, the bass player, Tony Butler, lives about 15 minutes from me and gives lessons, he had a pretty unique style and sound from memory. 🙂

I'm about to do the same BT. 😉 Big Country? One hit wonders?

I've just bought them to try, only paid £14 and something. I got some introductory discount and then used PayPal which converted it to USD which for some reason deducted another $3. I won't pretend to know what I'm doing. Here's the link to them cheaper, ￡18.59 57%OFF | KZ ZS10 Earphones 4BA+1 DD Hybrid In Ear Headphone HIFI Bass Headset DJ Monitor Earphone Earbuds KZ ZS6 AS10 ZST ES4 ED16 BA10 https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/nsYlqibe

Lackadaisical Strange-tailed Tyrant. Or just google some bizarrely named animals, eg (all from one of those top ten sites) Lumpsucker Screaming Hairy Armadillo Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko Hellbender (salamander) Raspberry Crazy Ant Wunderpus Photogenicus I'm sure that last one was an Ian Dury song, but would make a great Riot Grrrrl band name.

When half the band haven't noticed the camera.