Woodinblack

Thats what I assumed.

So I notice an event near me on my local facebook group, an open mic night. How does that work then? Clearly they are not professional, it is not outside and it is not ticketed.

You must be better than me then

Think that is probably why I didn't like them then, they were unpleasant for finger playing which is what I do mostly. I had some nylon flats and they work well on a 4 but not a 5.

I can assure you that I have mentioned bax music many many times in the last few months 🤬

Totally agree, I had that with the EHB. Its there on the spec list and I thought 'ooh that is good'. Took no time at all to dislike them and by the time the bass had to go back I absolutely hated them. First thing that goes if it ever comes back!

Ha, I couldn't have a honeymoon because my company were haphazard at paying. I had it the next year instead (and they messed that up). I do however have wonderful memories of the day!

I am really impressed at Jons voice, its still very good at his age and at no point does it feel compromised as it often does with older singers. Personally i could have done without the extended bass thing but I am sure it was good when you were there. I was going to see them at one point before I saw the price of the tickets. Having said that the last couple of times I saw yes it was free so maybe I am just a cheapskate!

For anyone who does have the locking sockets (like anyone with the new EHB ibanezes), you can take the springs out and then they are just like normal sockets, but it means you can put them back to as they were before if you wanted when selling, and you dont' have to replace the socket.

I think there is more to it than that. Not of hand on the sound, but obviously it played quite a lot like an ibanez SR

Never really got the grabbyness, but always found them a bit unforgiving, so I never really got on with them.

Nope, not had one of those, although I played it. Not sure if just a P pickup makes it more like a P. I have a Maruszczyk with a P pickup. Sounds a bit more like a jazz really. hahah - this is true, but I still have that bass!

The one on the EHB was impossible to undo with one hand, so it involved picking the bass up and turning it round to disconnect. Meaning you stand a chance of bashing it on something. And what are you getting? If your bass is connected to a jack plug, sitting on a stand to an amp, and someone trips over the lead, which would you prefer, the jack plug to be pulled out or the bass to be dragged across the stage. Or maybe the cable to be ripped out of the back of the plug? If the cable is pulled out of the bass, you can just put it back in.

When I get my EHB back from being replaced first thing I do will be to remove the locking jack. Really can't see any positive thing in them at all.

Only part of someset (sedgemoor). It means that they haven't managed to test anyone who has it. Maybe they have done the trump thing and just stopped testing!

Yeh, ours too:

What's the point having a pink sparkly bass if they don't let you in the video?

Wouldn't really call that pink. I was offered a trade on a pearl MM, but it was a 4, and that isn't much use to me. Looked good though. Isn't it always. Technically I should be happy now, but there is always that look for something exciting. I do too. I wish they did all the colours that she gets to use.

Hope he has booked the venues already!

We have open mic nights started near us. And acoustic groups in one pub

No, nor my terms. While I didn't put in the level of effort as you did, after this conversation yesterday I thought I would fix my ignorance, select them as artist on Apple Music, hit random and spent the afternoon listening. I used the skip button a few times. Maybe it is just the songs there (there were quite a few albums covering late 60s to late 80s) but they didn't seem to have that much of a range and I didn't find anything special so its not for me. Maybe it is like that thread the other day, if it is something you grew up with it is special to you.

And the answer is in case anyone ever does a search, Steinberger strings fit the hofner just fine!

Ooh, I just got an email that my spark has shipped, which as I posted up there was supposed to be 17-20th august. So i might have that soonish!

As a point of keeping on track, I am not sure anyone said they found listening to music unpleasant but did it because they have to learn it. There were a few 'only listen when I have to learn it', which is different. I have listened to some songs that I found unpleasant because I had to learn them, but that is just the way of being in a covers group - you can't expect to like everything when there are other people in the group and I am sure there are other songs they don't like. In general I don't listen to music I don't like, once I have worked out I don't like it