Richard R

Welcome aboard! I was going to ask where in Stroud you live, Stroud being a small town just south of Gloucester. Then I looked at your profile and it seems you live in a huge country just south of Canada.

Welcome aboard! Yeah, you're a bass player. It is apparently curable but who would want that?

Welcome aboard! Go on, what are you hunting for?

Absolutely this. If I am in the congregation then I can worship. If I am playing, running the sound desk or manning the video feed then it's work and that is what I am concentrating on. Even if the band are in full flight and you can hear the spirit moving in the congregation, if I'm on the desk then I am listening and making sure everything is working, not participating. Which is why too much time supporting is draining. The only time that is different is preaching. That isn't work in the same way as all the prep is done and then it's up to the Lord how the delivery shifts depending on the unknown needs of the congregation, and then there can be a very definite sense that one is delivering God's words. I imagine if I was as experienced playing bass then the same could be true of playing, but I don't think so. Preaching is being a channel for the spirit, all the physical aspects of worship are, for me anyway, enablers for the congregation.

My singing is usually tolerable for a few bars then goes all to pot. To those who keep saying "anyone can sing" then I have to reply "by the same token anyone can spin bowl". I would like to be able to sing, I probably could learn to sing, but I know it would be a hard slog and I would prefer to spend the time practicing bass 😎 Good on you @Sardonicus. Both for singing and for putting in effort to become better at it.

Yes, yes it is. And if your indestructible fretboard breaks Andy then the entire forum will be round your way with pitchforks.

Welcome to BassChat - about the only sane place on the entire bloody planet!

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Proper workshop. 👍

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Splutters coffee everywhere!

It says on the web site that the fret slots might need to be wider as the material is harder than wood.

Never heard of Richlite. If nothing sticks to it, does that mean it's also incredibly smooth? I'm imaging playing with a fingerboard like teflon would be "interesting".

Very cool!

So, the $64,000 question: Do you get swifts if you only have the neck made? I mean, it won't be a full @Andyjr1515 guitar, so the swifts would be misleading. Maybe you get one? Or a couple of pigeons? Anyway, the neck will be fab and the pickups are very shiny, so this should be good. 👍

That comment sums up the best of BC. 👍

Thank you for all your organising @jebroad . The sports hall in our church halls would do, or one of the smaller carpeted rooms, but the parking and load in/out isn't straightforward. Parking may be getting better with the nearby carpark removing the 3hr limit, I'll investigate.

Well you're all wrong. There is even less place for humour in music than there would be for a dog turd in my pipe and slippers. As a recent convert to the Sillhill School of High Intellectual Theory I am firmly convinced that humour should be careful contained and kept for very rare and special occasions, as I believe orgasms are. I am now off to burn/melt my recordings of Half Man Half Biscuit, Tom Lehrer, Flanders & Swann, Kitt and The Widow, Peter Sellers, and Muse.

I've been wanting to try an Ibby fan fret for a while. I've played my friend's Dingwall, and I can tell it makes sense, but 37" was just too long. And he wouldn't lend it to me for the 6 months I would need to acclimatise.

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Just had an email to say that Joe Satriani is postponing the European leg of his tour until spring 2023. ☹ Hopefully still going to see Nick Mason.

Just skip the words on the livestream and sing twice as loud 😄