Happy Jack

What is this 'balance' of which you speak?

Thirsty.

It's a folding jobbie, travel bass.

That is looking bloody gorgeous!

Your wish is my YouTube ...

Bit of a wizard, was he? 😉

Agreed, but do note that this would NOT give rise to a claim against you!

Opinions vary, of course, and there's no 'right or wrong', but I've played the thick end of 500 gigs in the last 10 years, with multiple bands and at multiple venues, and I've never once needed PAT, insurance, or any other fine scheme designed to part me from my limited supply of money. IMHO you are dealing with risk assessment here. PAT - who is at risk of your faulty wiring causing death or serious injury? Well ... erm ... that's you, isn't it? And in whose best interests is it to ensure that your equipment is NOT badly wired? Oh yes, that's you again. Insurance - who is likely to sue you, and for what? I can imagine being sued for a trip hazard (probably a speaker cable, maybe a monitor) or for equipment falling over (almost certainly a PA speaker toppling off its stand). Has this ever happened to me? Trip hazards = No. How difficult is it to route your cables away from drunken punters and dancers? Falling PA = Yes. But that only demonstrated how things really work - a drunken dancer crashed into the PA tripod next to me and knocked it over ... onto me! Thing is, she would have had to be doing something really strange to knock it over onto herself, if you think about it. So why does this subject keep coming up? Because any serious venue must have insurance (Public Liability, maybe Third Party), probably pubs must have too. And their insurance policy will have a clause requiring them to insist on the people they engage (that's you, the band) to take out insurance too so that, in the event of a claim - no matter how unlikely - the insurance companies can have fun suing each other. None of this has anything to do with the real world of pub rock, it's all basically a scam to part you from your money. Much like almost every other form of insurance.

" This is a well-used guitar which I am selling on behalf of someone. " RUN AWAY NOW

On the subject of the 'orrible rubbery strings, you can achieve a great deal simply by taking a small tin of talcum powder in your gig bag, and dusting your hands with it before each set. May attract some funny looks from the rest of the band, but it really does make a difference.

Shouldn't this topic be merged into Notable Deaths?

Yup, I'm not seeing any splinters or obvious fractures, so it looks like a glue'n'screw job.

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Are you still looking for a bassist, because I'm still not interested. 🙂

What's wrong with the one it's already got? 🙈🙉🙊

Logically, the damages should be all the revenue the Plaintiff lost from Spotify as a result of Taylor Swift's plagiarism, and that's an amount that could easily run into pennies.

Cropped pics? Looks more like a cropped stick.

Best bet is just to do some searches on Basschat ... the subject has come up at least twice during this year alone.

Until he retired, I'd have recommended getting them custom from @obbm. There are other custom cable makers available through Basschat, but if you're on a budget I've always found the best value (in terms of quality, signal and longevity) have been the original Fender tweed cables. Boring, I know, but true. It's probably more important to know which cable manufacturers to avoid, in truth. Planet Waves have a very bad reputation here, for example.

I'll miss him.

Wow! I'm impressed. 😂😂😂

Estimating the volume that your rig will produce based on the claimed wattage of different brands and designs of amplifier is unlikely to be the pathway to enlightenment. Quite apart from the fact that my 100W all-valve Matamp is way louder than my 800W GK Class D head, a 200W Class D head does NOT produce one quarter the volume of an 800W Class D head ...

All understood, and I'm NOT trying to persuade you otherwise, but demands that performers have Third Party Insurance are usually driven by a venue / agent / booker having their own insurance which requires them to ensure that YOU have insurance. The driver is that, e.g. should a punter manage to trip over a cable, fall and hit her head, sustaining brain damage, when her family sues the venue the venue's insurance company will try to counter-sue YOUR insurance company. Given your description it seems unlikely that you can avoid all this nonsense, in which case I imagine that arranging your cover through the Musicians Union will make most sense. This whole insurance scam (as I see it, anyway) is one of the reasons why I prefer to stick to pub/club gigs. I have never once been asked for proof of insurance, nor have I ever once been sued.