Piers_Williamson

As an owner of a 1980 PEB Stingray I've found this thread really interesting. To add a niche comment, the mis-alignment on mine is on the E string, not the G String (which is perfectly aligned). They must have had one jig for the positioning of the pick-up/bridge. This hasn't stopped me experimenting with the relative height of the G string (using the adjustment screws, not mucking about with the pole pieces. IT sounds pretty even to me, but the bottom end response of the E String is pretty full on at all times.

I think that Glasto vid. is one of the very best combinations of act and audience I have ever seen. It was just brilliant!

This is very true. What I didn't make clear was my sister and her son (who owned the ferrets) are both vets. Over the years there have been cats, dogs, Lincolnshire Longwool Sheep, ducks, Alpacas, an owl, chinchillas...oh...ferrets...and the funniest of the lot was Cyril the Squirrel.

My sister kept ferrets for a while as part of her homage to Dr Doolittle's menagerie. They were very playful (if slightly smelly) and liked ambushing things/people. Small persons' birthday party balloons were a particular favourite for full on attack (no flinching at the noise). One ferret tried to ambush my sister while she was on the loo. It unfortunately decided to pounce just as she got up while simultaneously flushing the toilet. There then was a mad scrabble with a slightly desperate look, for the ferret to climb back out of the toilet, looking slightly bedraggled but still up for some more mischief. I can also recommend ferret racing.

This intrigued me. Are you happy to share a picture of said high end bass?

The sound of a Six

check out the solo at the end of this (albeit it was apparently recorded on a Danelectro)

It would seem he had two!

But are they Pre CBS Rust wraps?

since we are getting into show and tell territory..... This one form Feb 1980, so a bit younger. It looks like a batch of lefties were made around then....this is my second...

Is the fight with an angle grinder on this one because the previous owner retro-fitted a comfort-curve or what ever they are called? It's a lovely looking bass by the way. I wish you joy in you releasing your inner Bernard Edwards!

I do have a somewhat involved cautionary tale about different forms of tuning... Our keyboards player (an aged pop star who didn't do tech) had a pretty ancient keyboards set up where the backup (motherboard...internal) battery finally gave up the ghost. He had a panic and asked the rest of the band to help. We looked it up on the internet and found the (very involved) replacement routine on a You Tube demo, which we proceeded to follow, half an hour before a gig (big mistake!). The routine involved opening the keyboard and taking at least one very substantial motherboard off to find the one CR32 buried at the bottom of the last motherboard. OK so far. We replaced everything and turned the keyboard on (five minutes before gig) to discover that the pitch of the keyboard had returned to factory settings : (concert (??) pitch). Basically this required all the band to de-tune about a tone, about 30 seconds before said gig. The Keyboards player then re-discovered the tuning option on his keyboard to return to normal (10 seconds before gig). Luckily we all had our own tuner pedals to return to where we started.

I bought mine ages ago (it's bomb proof). The functionality is way OTT for me, and there are now much lighter versions. Also your tuning is only as good as the rest of the band (weak link theory). I think it will last longer than me. My guitarist uses the boss pedal 😁

So these are bomb proof and utterly reliable if they are plugged into the mains. If I am honest, I don't understand 95% of the functionality (and hope I never will), They are heavy, but they are very accurate, including those OMG moments between numbers when you think you pulled a little too energetically on a string... If you look carefully you will see it on mute at the front of my Pedaltrain.

Did you learn this one too?

Antidote to big rigs...my humble set-up for our Cuban Jazz outdoor last night. Note Noble and Cali Compressor on the floor. Also DI'd through the PA

Their video does look like the Marshall factory packaging area......very ACDC esque, but with no egos...as you say