Happy Jack

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.

Under what circumstances do you imagine someone claiming against your insurance?

As a major fan of Lull pickups and P-basses, my interest was killed stone dead by that neck. Why would you fit a left-handed Jazz neck (and with NO blocks) to a right-handed Precision? It just looks awful and make the tuners an ergonomic disaster.

Cable GAS ... God help us all!

@BillyBass can tell you what he learned ... what I learned was that his SansAmp Geddy Lee preamp sounds just sublime through a big power amp into a Barefaced cab. 🙂

Nothing is ever wrong on the Internet, Tony. 😂 I seriously doubt that my fretless playing is anywhere near your standard, so having the intonation an 1/8th tone out simply isn't relevant to me. I never check the intonation on my GUS or Ovation fretless basses, and I don't think it's ever even occurred to me to check the intonation on any of my three double basses either. On the other hand, I'll accept second place to no man when it comes to OCD. If @Andyjr1515 can produce two necks which fit and feel utterly identical (apart from the fretlessness of course), then why on earth would I suggest that he make them different? 🙂

I'd be more inclined to make a Junior Brown style stand ...

I saw NIN at the O2 when I was an invited guest backstage ... I was selling a bunch of vintage Hofners to Justin Meldal-Johnsen (introduction through @tayste_2000) and the planned meet at his West End hotel had fallen through. This was in 2009, an easy thing for me to check because the gig was just after Michael Jackson had died. They brought on special guest Gary Numan for a pretty good rendition of Cars. I wasn't a metal fan before that gig. Since then, I've utterly detested metal.

Just means that I have to slide a bit further ... 🤨