Richard R

There ought to be an extra badge. A bit like "supporting member", but something like "Ten years gone and counting" As Andy says, this is a good place.

I dithered about buying the Warwick Alien 5 string that was posted in the marketplace last week, and now it's sold. So I'm still in.

That's wonderful! A proper drinking song, and the dancing just gets better as it goes along.

I read this as that the action is too low for you to play slap, and that you want to raise the fretboard as part of the fix. Does that mean you're going to raise the bridge so you can get your plucking fingers under the strings, and then raise the fretboard correspondingly so the action there is still low? Won't that mean the strings bounce and buzz on the frets all the time as they are now vibrating vertically? Sorry if I'm being thick here, I don't play slap and I'm just trying to understand the problem. I'm also not a luthier so I can't help practically either, sorry. ☹️

Probably, yes. I'm too tired and missed the joke.

Seriously? They are clearly visible to anyone passing by, and will get soaked.

That doesn't fill me with confidence. So the van is secure, but third parties just swipe my card details with a man-in-the-middle attack and buy themselves a load of brand new gear instead. 😲

That does sound a lot like ELO. How was the gig?

I suspect both bagpipes and accordians are indifferent to theramins.

That's pretty exceptional.

No need to organise anything at all. At the last Midlands Bash I did persuade @Andyjr1515 to show us all how to properly set up a bass - tbh just an excuse for me to get him to sort out the intonation on mine! - but usually we all just talk and play bass. There's often a raffle of bits and bobs, any surplus to charity, and a 40 minute "amps off" lunch break is a really good idea too.

A Steve Lawson bass clinic? Count me in! I don't use any pedals or play complex melodic solos, but I absolutle love his stuff. In the even that you've not heard it, check him out on bandcamp, and start with the best of compilations. There is 20 years and 60-odd albums.

You're just jealous of my loincloth collection. @ghostwheel - you may find that those of us who have been on this forum for too long may tend to slip into "in-jokes" that aren't intelligible to others. This can be very rude and make newcomers feel excluded, so feel free to either ask WTF we are on about, or tell us to stop. Or both!

Welcome aboard! Your English is fine, my German is unspeakably bad!

So now you would still run across a major a-road to avoid us, but would put up with the pedantry until the motorway had cleared a bit? Bumping bump.