Woodinblack

Indeed - my polytune works fine with all my 5s.

He would have wanted Elton John dead too? I guess thats fair!

I beleive he toured as a hologram at some point didn't he?

All prices are silly now, and once things get in the collectable time then they are just bought because if you hold onto it for a few years, you can double your money, they have ceased to actually be instruments, and are just assets, like a wine or a painting, they are probably not going to be played.

You did or they did?

I regularly do it, I guess you just need to try harder.

I have black silk gloves I use when it is cold and I am outside, they stop it from hurting.

Not really that much of an issue if you are using slow attack sounds, or have a dry signal too. Obviously if you wanted to use synth lead sounds on the lowest strings with no bass content, it would be a lot trickier (although you can then just play ahead of the beat)

Sounds great, certainly no volume issue there, although don't know why they can't run a cable out the window

I'm certainly happy to have a good gig, but some gigs are much better than others. Yesterdays was such. last week, less so.

Indeed, but then you wouldn't appreciate it when it happens!

Thats weird, I haven't done any and I went through a phase of a lot.

A somerset birthday party in a beautiful setting (next to a wedding venue). Lovely people, full dance floor all night, paid well and home before one. I see a pattern!

I have had a bass die on me, wireless go flat and a couple of leads die. I haven't had an amp fail. if the amp failed, I would go straight to the PA, so not worried about a spare amp, it wouldn't be ideal, but it would work. I always keep a spare jack lead beside me in case of wireless failure, although since the first time it never happened again and I have lent it to the guitarist who's leads have failed a few times, and he never has a spare of anything. I normally have a spare bass in case, and I have enough spare leads of most types for most eventualities, and a 9v and AA batteries.

I voted for the BAM200, purely because I have one, and I know it would do the job.

Where's the kettle?

The sound isn't great, but it is enough to help with what it is I want to know. Normally it is something I did wrong, I remember there was something but can't remember what it was!

I record all the practices in case I need to remember something that happened!

Excellent, will keep this in mind next time I adjust the truss rod on mine (which I have done without trouble so far!)

I would certainly call that a bonus!

Indeed - that is my take on it. you don't have to like everything you play, but there shouldn't be anything that someone in the band hates. OK, the crowd are always going to want wonderwall, but that is ok, there are a whole group of other cover bands doing that, and we are the only band doing timber, surfin usa and baker street in our area. There needs to be something different between you and the next cover band so that there is a reason to pick one band over another, and not just what level of massacring you do to sex on fire.

Personally prefer the left, its a better shape and it is not pretending to be something it isn't. I never liked tele headstocks, even on tele basses!

That isn't a dyslexic thing, it never made any sense to me, I always have to look it up to see if it means clockwise or anticlockwise.

Good for you, I won't play it. I have no problems with brightside, but dakota I do, not specifically with playing it, just that it is a very dull song that I have never really heard a covers band done well (although in this case, done well isn't very high praise). So I avoid it for that. Luckily noone has suggested it in a while.

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