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I went with the family on Wednesday night (to avoid the darned Halloween trick or treaters). A very enjoyable film we all thought. They kept it light, a celebration of Queen - there is a lot of potential for a much darker and gritty portrayal of Mercury's life that I'm glad they resisted temptation and glossed over. Of course it's mainly about Freddie, as he was the one with a personality I thought Malek did a good job. It's tough to emulate Freddie, especially with prosthetic teeth (yes, he did look like he had a couple of Werthers originals tucked in his cheeks). I'd have liked a little more from the 70s as it seemed a bit of a rush to Live Aid. However the couple of hours or so flew by, some good humorous moments, and the film left enough of an impression that we spent the following evening watching Queen videos on YouTube

Have I accidentally joined TB?

+1 a drummer I know well has one of these and swears by it. He plays some pretty big gigs too What drummer wouldn't want to feel the power of his kick drum projected into his @rse?

I use micromesh. Similar stuff. I bought a pack of pads. It's not cheap but can be re-used many times if you don't let it clog

B@rstad! I'm not buying his new long player

I wonder. Has John Deacon ever been in a Wetherspoons?

How many times have I read this thread title as: Mods...don't some sound weird?? Discordant? I don't think I've heard one speak "in the flesh" Bless them all

On jazz pickups, yes definitely.

I dropped a set of quarter pounders straight in my Indonesian P-Bass Special. I can't offer any advice on the scratchplate though

Or indeed a rapid series of on/off switches as used in digitised sound

Cyberpunk illuminated gauge

The pickups would have a much lower resistance and would affect your measurements if still connected. The only way to measure the pots accurately is in isolation

You would probably need to disconnect any wires to get an accurate reading, and it will be between the two outer lugs. It doesn't matter which test lead goes to which lug for measuring resistance. Adjust your meter range until you get a sensible reading (probably on the 100k or 1M setting) - you won't damage anything on a passive circuit While you're at it, should be quite easy to work out if the pots are linear or logarithmic. Having measured the resistance between the outer lugs, measure between an outer lug and the middle and twiddle the knob until the meter reads half the full resistance. If the knob is about centred it's linear. If the knob is nearly full on or off it's logarithmic

This ^^^. Do whatever you like that fits the music, but lock in with the drummer

Make up a thermos, get the deckchair out and spend the day sitting on your doorstep to make sure you catch them before they shove the "you weren't in" card through your letterbox

... and yet there are a lot of BCers that love playing in pubs

We have a few videos around. Usually they start recording half way through the second verse. Guitar solo comes and you get a shot of the back of someone's head, the video'ers feet; some random people dancing. Then they decide to switch to landscape and we all play on our sides for a few bars until they stop videoing half way through the final verse. ... and they still post them online and tag you for good measure

Maybe 1 point for dishwasher duties

Still building a Les Paul jr double cut with twin pickups for my guitarist. It's slow going because I'm also rebuilding/repainting the engine out of my VW camper - a large haul of spousal brownie points against future guitar build time I also have a new top to make for my 12-string acoustic. Then I can start on a bass build for myself

Word of mouth is still the best way to get more gigs. We rarely go chasing work - it comes to us.

Just an idea... Could you radius the neck blank, then fix some sandpaper to it to concave-radius the back of the board? i.e. use your neck blank as a sanding block. You'd probably want to make up a jig to keep it all aligned. That's assuming you haven't tapered the neck yet

You've obviously not seen me at work recently. Fecking miserable is par for the course these days

Blimey what a necro-thread resurrection! 6 years! I was looking at it thinking "I don't remember replying to that thread"

It would be far easier to tune the whole band a semi-tone down all the time. It will save a lot of faffing for your guitarist(s) too. We play dropped all the time and no-one has ever complained

Our guitarist plays in our band as an enjoyable break from the "day job" as a non-original member of a touring band. He says he has far more fun playing a wide variety of stuff in our covers band. The extra cash is handy too. There are a lot of interesting instrumentals without having to resort to obscure album track dirges. Everything we play has been in the charts at one time or another. Some may be slightly less well known, but are ones where we all get to show off a bit e.g. Edgar Winter's Frankenstein. The key is that we enjoy playing them AND they go down well with the crowd.