Drax

Your luthier could just make a regular ramp to fit inbetween the pickups, give you more freedom on pickup height, and avoid magnets on pickups?

Mildly interesting - fruits of the mediocre - one of Eric Claptons cars for sale

Related to the ‘turn offs’ thread - genuine question but would anyone Not buy a bass solely because of the headstock logo? These ‘Sadowskys’ are an interesting test.

My mate found a rats tooth in a Yop yoghurt drink. He complained and they sent him £20 of Yop vouchers.

My brother lives there too and says the same. Town also has Rusty Goffe, the Willy Wonka dwarf. Yet to see the two together but would make quite the pair.

+1 for Aerodyne. Lightest bass Fender still make..

Laughing at how much unspoken disgust NBD threads must generate.

Absolutely. Wasn't for a minute suggesting you should do more of anything or chase any populism - it's great the way it is. My point was really that the FFYL piece will have definately brought your 'learn to read music' maxim to some new folk.

Brilliant. Fascinating liner notes on that one as well. Sweeping generalisation on FFYL audience but you’d assume your more rock oriented transcriptions might motivate a few more souls to persevere with notation..

Not sure I want to see her enjoying it

8.5lbs actually really light for a 5. One of the lucky ones (my P7 is 10lbs ) They’re fabulous basses, and you’ve got the best colour V7 IMO, looks great without pickguard too

Great kit. Been using TAC2 for 6 years now (into Ableton), still going strong..

Not much experience with Audacity so apologies if a dumb question - but don't you just set the start point the vocal stem fractionally later to offset the latency?

Jesus I knew these V7s were heavy... !?

‘one of the first great pop records about great pop records’ (think that was Dave Hepworth ..) Also one of the longest songs to reach number 1, until Oasis came along

Pick the one who tunes up with the volume off

Red / rosewood, looks better. Well done anyone picking out the different woods without looking, wish I’d started wearing earplugs when you did.

Dance is pretty broad .. Three favourites From back in the day And danced many a night away to this.. Dead cert if DJing a wedding..

That Oakenfold mix of Lemon, and Jnr Boys Own take on Salome, both brilliant. Not a fan of U2 but they had some great remixes in the 90s.

Sounds great. Love the dog going to sleep at 2mins..

It’s great how many photos we have of kids today. More photos in their first year than the average 50yr old has of their entire life. Made my first photo book recently (via BobBooks) - great way to preserve these memories, stacks of brownie points too.

Been eyeing that one up on the Gallery’s site. Nice to hear you’re reunited- true love!

If you liked that video you’d like his book - The Music Lesson. Great read, partly bass related but majors on music itself, and inner peace , sort of. Can’t really do it justice here but it’s worth checking. edit ; saying that as someone who has zero interest in listening to VW’s music

For him is less about competing on rate, and more the fact the big corp and sideman work has just vanished entirely. Totally get what you're saying about reframing bandmates expectations, can see that will be an issue for many.

It's a healthy debate as there's no definitive right answer. A large part of the decision comes down to where you are in the food chain. If you're a hobbyist doing originals, or any jazz, it's probably not about the money. So reduced fee at Dog & Duck etc isn't too demeaning and feels positive if you're helping an independent venue scrape by. Can see if you're on the tribute circuit - or where most full time musicians sit, my brother incl - sideman, corp gigs and teaching - playing for free is a different call.