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I love mine - bought on a whim, mega cheap, a few years back and use it for two or three songs at every gig. It was one of the lesser Squier variants and I had to change the bridge and significantly shim the neck but it's more or less right now. Especially with the Newtone Bass VI strings set on it. I don't think it would ever pass as a proper bass and I wouldn't want to play a whole gig on one but for our gtr/bass/drums three piece it covers a lot of sonic territory and gives a bit of variety. I'd probably swap it for a different colour though - everything looks better than white.

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I don't know about Tod but there are are a couple of good guys a few miles down the road here in Rossendale.

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Weird! We were there last week and had a completely different room - the green room in the adjacent theatre.

Isn't the hall of fame just a misguided extension of a sports halls of fame? I understand the desirability of a baseball or whatever HOF in the era when footage didn't exist or wasn't easily rewatched - greats and their achievements could easily be forgotten. But for music, in the recorded sound era, surely it just becomes a distasteful self-congratulatory irrelevance? Of course, there's also the highly unbecoming bickering re which current/past members are admitted or get to play I do feel for the Ramones though, who seemed to spend a significant part of their later career and post-band life resenting not being in the HOF when clearly their influence was seismic. Of course, their sales were relatively meagre, they were still touring in a bus and many of their best lps were out of print - a band ripe for recognition in the pre-internet, pre-streaming, pre-cool music on major TV shows era. I dunno. If it makes more people listen to Jane's Addiction or gives some validation to people who have barely made a living despite making great music, who am I to object? .

I don't have much time for Liam Gallagher but it's difficult to disagree with him here. Stopped clocks and all that...

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Bit of a disaster situation here but is there anyone with a splitter who can drive a (name) band from the Manchester area to Bristol on Friday and on to London on the Saturday, returning overnight on the Sat? Please direct message me to discuss!

I think there's a logical conclusion to that train of thought that involves not playing at all...

Thanks for the replies. It turns out it was a combination of issues. My lead had an intermittent loose connection as did one of the spade connectors to the output socket. While sorting this out, one of the other spade connectors (from the tone pot) crumbled... I couldn't bodge a repair of the spade connector but remembered belatedly that I had a whole set of unused EMG connectors in my spares drawer. All seemed well with the older battery but I've replaced that anyway. Will just have to remember to replace that wee connector cable in case I ever sell the spare pickups I nicked it from. Not sure I'm entirely convinved of the benefits of these plug and play solderless connector systems - seems like more points of potential failure with the added bonus of making a simple soldering iron fix more problematic.

Just trying to track down the route of an issue... Last night my bass went silent just before the last two songs of the set. It's a Jazz with EMG JVX pickups which run off a 9v battery tucked behind the control plate. At first I thought I'd muted the amp - no. Amp on/off - nothing. Tried my back up (passive) bass - nothing. Back to the Jazz via a couple of DI boxes - nothing. At which point I gave up. The soundman came up to me afterwards and said he was convinced it was the bass - and sure enough when I messed around while packing down, the Jazz was still silent while the Rick seemed fine. So I assumed it was simply the 9v in the Jazz dying and in my flustered state I'd somehow muted the amp when trying to swap to the Rick. But when swapping the battery today, the old one was reading at something like 7.2 on the multimeter which some light Googling leads me to believe should be sufficient for most purposes. Plus running the bass on the old battery into an amp at home seems fine. Also, I seem to remember the last time the battery went, there was a period of distorted sound that gave me adequate warning of imminent failure, rather than the apparent sudden cut off as last night. I've checked my lead and the wiring inside the Jazz and all seems well. I don't have access to the amp I used last night at present so I can't check that properly yet. But what are the panel's thoughts re the voltage on the old battery - is 7.something volts likely to be the culprit here and in resting the battery overnight I'm just getting a brief final surge of power on testing today? GIven that I was getting nothing through the DIs, I'm thinking the bass is the most convincing explanation but why is it working so well this afternoon and why did the passive back up bass seem to be silent last night too?

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