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I saw this as well: https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/

They did it again yesterday. I complained to the brewery who said "We have had a few instances like this recently so I have raised with our Account Manager at Evri so they can investigate. We are currently assessing our courier options as well." Presumably Evri drivers have been given a quota of packages they must "deliver" first time, or else, and so they drop them and run.

I'd forgotten this recent event, which was quite Spinal Tap: Sadly, no miniature Stonehenge was available.

I remember now that at the end of that same gig the drummer revealed that (for reasons lost to history) he had no way to get himself or all his kit home. As the only member of the band with a car I was volunteered to solve this. Unfortunately, the car was a 2CV like that shown below. The only way to get all his kit in was to fully open the roof (fun on a cold Scottish night) and lower the bass drum through that, and he still had kit on his lap in the front.

A long time ago we had a drummer who was very much into Taekwondo. Once, he took the singer's microphone so he could inform some of the audience that if they didn't STFU he'd come down there and fill them in. Another one from that era involved a different singer. During a charity event with multiple bands she disappeared off to a pub without telling anyone (no-one had a mobile phone at that time) and we missed our slot. Upon returning to find another band playing instead of everyone waiting for her a massive strop and storming out was the result.

I've had this with beer deliveries, and my front door is right on the pavement as it's a Victorian terrace.

I'd be interested to know how you'd describe Mastodon.

This might be of interest: https://lu.ma/qijpvfnl It's a link to a seminar for small sites, which I saw at https://social.riley.pub/@robin/113879399465222809.

In my experience PMT in Oxford have always been reasonable when it comes to trade in. They will answer emails and tell me if they want an item or not, and if they do what they would be willing to pay. Of course, that amount would be less than I'd like, but it has the advantage that I do get something, and quickly. If I list on forums or Ebay then stuff never shifts. I suppose it's good that it's almost impossible to get rid of something when I've bought it, otherwise I'd be tempted to buy rather a lot more...

Tonight's rehearsal has been a bit of a pain to organise. The BL thought it would be a good idea to have multiple people available for each role (e.g. to guitarists, one of whom can fill in on bass, 2 percussionists + drummer, 3 horns etc.) to make sure we have enough to cover gigs. But, the result is that it's pretty much impossible to get everyone in a room at once to rehearse. I'm not at the rehearsal as I, as well as one percussionist, caught Norovirus and aren't 100% yet. Even worse, one of the horn players had a relative pass away and, of course, has other things on their mind for the immediate future.

Interesting... That stuff I bought earlier this month was all guitar related, so perhaps I got away with it. Makes it harder to stop browsing all those jazz archtop listings, though.

I found what had happened; I appear to have two accounts and was logged into the other one (which is an alias of my usual email address). I probably created the second one a while ago and forgot about it. All the items are in stock but the order hasn't been processed yet (placed on the 15th).

As far as I am aware I was, but that's an interesting possibility. A shame they haven't got back in touch though. I don't appear to have an email from them confirming the order.

I put in an order 5 days ago and was charged via PayPal. But, there's no sign of the order on my orders list on Thomann's site. Still waiting for them to answer my email enquiry.

Last night's gig was at the Three Horseshoes in Charlbury. A rather nice pub, but the performance area is barely large enough for the band, no cards are accepted and it's pretty much drinks and crisps only. IIRC the landlord runs it as a hobby. The pub was empty when we started at 8:30 (the rumour was that the 7:30 lecture by the local gardening club had over-run a little) but soon filled up. There were even some Spanish tourists in addition to the locals. As usual, the jazz-adjacent long grooves seemed to go down well. Headroom was a bit of an issue...

I was hoping to join in this thread but I have already ordered a gig bag and a footswitch this year.

Standard practice for jazz! 😉

Just got back from a gig. This was a party in honour of a local jazz musician who died just before Christmas (made it to 90, and this would have been his birthday). He was a friend of our BL, so we volunteered to entertain. Good gig - the audience were very appreciative and enjoyed the material (inc. dancing at the end). The highlight for me was some recitation over musical accompaniment of prose reflecting the deceased's other hobby of ancient archaeology. The result resembled an extended jazz version of the Spinal Tap Stonehenge intro, with soprano sax noodling. Nice!

Enjoy! I got to grade 5 and found the lessons very helpful overall, even though I'm not playing classical right now. I hope it's similarly useful for you.

A totally awesome colour, esp. with that plate on it. For me it would be my Orange OBC112 cab. Sounds great, is the correct colour, and weighs a reasonable amount (I used to have to carry around a TE combo of much the same size but double the weight).

I suspect he's right; it doesn't actually know what it's doing any more than it does when writing boilerplate text. Some colleagues find that it gives them a good first approximation, though.

This book might be of interest: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil#preview I've encountered "AI" when it comes to programming and have found it to be of limited use at best, essentially as a fancy autocomplete when writing boilerplate code.

Here's my first bass. I should have kept it.

What was the issue? A problem with the conversion, or playing it afterwards?

Exactly this. The first bass I ever had was an unlined fretless, back in the 90s (Encore P copy) and it was easy enough to adapt to. I would struggle to play one with lines and dots in the same place as a fretted bass; it would be rather confusing. I'm reminded of an amusing exchange on another forum, which went along these lines: A: "Unlined fingerboards are stupid! You never see professionals who have unmarked tools - would a mechanic have spanners without the sizes marked on them?" B: "I program computers for a living and own a keyboard with no markings on the keys." A: "No one cares what nerds think!"