Richard R

Status Qui? (Actually that would be a good name for a French tribute band.)

Definitely a positive result, now the journey begins. I have asked some of our team to pray for your church. "A church in East London ", based on your profile location. I'll update them.

That would definitely be easier, as would the slimline pickup mentioned further up the thread. 🤔 Of course what I should do is practice playing the basses I own, not get sidetracked by this sort of interesting challenge!

This thread has got me thinking I might have to build a Sensonido copy. Does anyone know what the piezo pickups are?

The Pillage People Hat Gossip Aga

I consider myself chastised; you did explicitly exclude removing letters but I was hoping you had forgotten.

Huey Lewis and The Newt

Pink Lloyd BBBA Then Lizzie Kazzoo

Jethro Tall Yep Dire Traits* Bevel 42 Slide * I changed the S for a space, hopefully dodging Paddington 🤞

Hope it goes well.

That doesn't make your post any less valuable, Owen. Though it does make me wish St Paul had signed off his letters in a similar manner 😁

@Bassassin - have you thought of writing an encyclopedia? Seriously, your posts are a wealth of obscure and fascinating information.

As has been said before, this thread is often an opportunity to let of a bit of steam, we don't necessarily post about the typical services where things go OK. As a contrasting example: Last Saturday almost everyone involved in worship at our church got together for the morning for one of the periodic sessions to reflect on the worship at our church. The theme this time was "excellence". I missed it, being out of the country, but I copy here the short version notes on band prep. This is pretty much what we do anyway. I'm not posting this to say "hey we're great", just to show that it's not all doom and dismay at the coal-face of Church music!

Still pondering Maggie Philbin in a corset...

Welcome aboard!

Missed out on visiting the Isle of Capri this week, shame as I was looking forward to finding this bar 😁

Get thee behind me @rwillett!!

Thanks for posting that. This confirms that I really must not buy a 3D printer, as it would end in divorce! The problems you describe are exactly the sort I like solving, and would happily waste hours doing so.

3D printing sounds expensive. And complicated. However- this is very cool and I'm following it with great interest!

I would have a chat with the minister as well. It may be that worship isn't considered as important in your church compared to teaching, or mission, or helping the poor for example. Different churches are good at different things, or emphasise different things. (One body, many parts sort of thing, but at a bigger scale). The minister may not wave a major wand/ verse of scripture/ ruddy great stick and sort things out, but they may have an insight more personal to your church. (If you're happy for me to do so then I'll share this post with our worship group. They would definitely want to pray for your group).

Welcome aboard! I started aged 51 with a borrowed bass and promptly got hooked. A couple of months later I spent £250 on a second-hand bass (much to my wife's surprise) and here I am another five years on, playing tolerably well and really enjoying myself. (And I might have bought two more basses, a small amp, and a V-bass and hex pickup on the way, but hey it's a hobby and cheaper than smoking!) Checkout StudyBass.com. Completely free and very good- read especially all the beginners' posts about position and avoiding injury.

Welcome aboard. Best to post in the musicians wanted thread too. 👍

Good album that. ^^^^^^

TBH - that's the least of the problems with that video 🤣

Bravo that man! Procrastination saves the day! (I bought a strap from the marketplace. I have the bass lead hooked round it, but I don't think that makes it part of the signal chain.)