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Hmmmmm. Either you'd need some serious amphetamines and play everything ar ramming speed, or you'd be playing a VERY long gig.

Nah, they'd flood their engines.

...then the Black Gate opened, and forth came no Ring-Wraith, but a living man, the Mouth of Sauron. 'Greetings,' he cried. 'I bring a short statement affirming the Dark Tower's commitment to prompt customer service as we face the challenge of responding to COVID-19 together...'

That is an excellent piece of work, both as a statistical analysis and as a journalistic explanation. Well worth 10 minutes of anyone's time.

Only one gig so far, Marc, with the second coming up on Friday. First thing to note is that I thought I'd allowed plenty of time for these strings to settle to pitch - big mistake! For the first 10 days I was tuning back up a semitone at least twice a day to keep it honest. By the night of the gig they had finally settled and I relaxed, but I then discovered that playing three sets of rockabilly is really quite different from occasionally checking the tuning. I must have checked & corrected the tuning at least a dozen times during that gig. My blushes were spared by the inebriated state of the guitarist, whose own tuning issues did an excellent job of disguising mine. Next, the difference between very-well-played-in Silver Slaps and brand-new coated guts should not be underestimated. The gig was seriously hard work, and my fingers were aching mercilessly long before the end. Finally, I loved the tone and I have every expectation that these strings are going to settle in wonderfully over time. Cancellations allowing, I'll be gigging this bass every weekend for the next 12 weeks. More to come ...

Covid-19, you know what I mean, At this moment you mean everything ...

You need to get out more ...

Following on from other comments, pretty much the only significant factor here is whether or not you want to play it as an acoustic bass. If so, then best forget flats, whatever the brand and whatever the colour. If you want an acoustic bass to compete (i.e. be audible) against even a couple of nylon-strung acoustic guitars, then you either need rounds or you need a very big body (e.g. a DB) or you need something designed to do this and not a lot else (e.g. a Guitarron). Against a couple of steel-strung acoustic guitars, my experience is that you need amplification.

Well that's certainly distinctive, and yes - 'fastidious' is exactly the right word.

We've been using one of these for a few years: https://www.amazon.co.uk/RockNRoller-Multi-Cart-R16RT-270kg-Capacity/dp/B00SVET954/ref=sr_1_6?m=A27DJ9FNAZH7IA&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1526642646&sr=1-6&refinements=p_4%3ARockNRoller+Multi-Cart

Srsly?

While we're at it, you may want to give SERIOUS thought as to where you choose to get your 'facts' from:

Just phoned the venue for tomorrow night, warned her that the band has had illness this week but we're pretty sure at this stage that it's not Covid-19. She says we should come and play, just don't expect a full house.

And if you're not serious, read this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-51866403?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5e6b6add3cfb2a06519c121d%26Alex Jones told to stop selling bogus 'coronavirus-cure toothpaste'%262020-03-13T11%3A27%3A22.364Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:956f12a4-5461-4dc7-8355-926bcbeaf6d7&pinned_post_asset_id=5e6b6add3cfb2a06519c121d&pinned_post_type=share

I'm finding this really helpful: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

It had to start somewhere, I guess. We nearly cancelled tomorrow's gig when the BL went down with a high fever; it turned out to be sunburn (seriously) but sooner or later it's going to happen. My two gigs last weekend were both packed, no signs of C-panic at all, but clearly that's not going to last. I'm working on the assumption that every gig for the next two months is liable to last-minute cancellation.

And you've signed up for Basschat? Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Welcome to the Great GAS Generator.

Don't forget the flipping truss-rod cover ...

Thank God he labelled the strings so we'd know what they were tuned to ...

From the title, I assumed that @alexclaber had branched out into making percussion equipment ...

Totally inspired by Bilbo's "I Was There When ..." topic, where I posted: One of the early monster gigs at Knebworth with a line-up to die for ... so good that 40 years later I don't remember anything about the gig except the point when the DJ between bands put on Jilted John. When we got to the appropriate moment, about 40,000 people all yelled "Gordon is a moron" in unison. So I thought, that's ridiculous, how can I not remember any of the bands who were there? I had a vague memory that Zappa might have been involved, but was I confusing that with seeing him at Empire Pool Wembley (along with a bottle of amyl nitrate)? Surely I saw The Tubes around then, but was I confusing that with seeing them at Hammersmith Odeon and just three weeks later in (of all places) Oxford? So ... Jilted John was a big hit in the Summer of 1978. I checked the line-up for the 1978 Knebworth Festival - no chance. I've never seen any of those acts live - Genesis, Jefferson Starship, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Kept searching and discovered "the Knebworth Park Concert", looked it up and Bingo: FRANK ZAPPA THE TUBES PETER GABRIEL BOOMTOWN RATS ROCKPILE WILKO JOHNSON'S SOLID SENDERS Blimey! I've seen Peter Gabriel live? I had no idea. Boomtown Rats? Ditto. Even more embarrassing is that I have been for many years a big fan of both Rockpile and of Wilko Johnson without realising that I saw them in 1978.

"I think it was May 1975??? I seem to remember attending 3 big gigs in the one month - Led Zep at Earls Court, Yes at QPR and Wakeman at Wembley." Yup, 1975, and my Arthur ticket was my consolation prize for not getting a ticket for Yes at QPR. Well, that plus I knew I wouldn't have to sit on wet grass for the entirety of Tales Of Topographic Oceans. Oh, and I walked past Earl's Court on the Saturday night ... and there were still tickets for sale on the door. It wasn't sold out. I didn't have any money so I kept walking.

Incidentally, and seeing as this is a genuine "I Was There" thread, can I just point out that I am one of the very few people (relatively speaking) who actually SAW King Arthur On Ice at the Wembley Pool. Seriously. Accept no substitutes. Far more people have claimed that they were there than could possibly have attended one of the three (count them, three) shows that Wakeman played. He even riffs a chapter about this very subject in his Grumpy Old Rock Star book. But I was there and I saw it.