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Jeah Michel Jarre Famous bassist.

When tuning a bass always tune UP not DOWN to a note. If tuning a bass with string retainers, gently press down on the D and G strings between nut and retainer after each adjustment and before checking it.

Might join when I get my new workshop started out as I do have some amp/effect building pretensions 🙂

Pah, we demand handover AT the Bass Bash!

You need some very posh equipment to machine wind a toroidal transformer, and hand winding is difficult enough to make it pricey.

Without wishing to be rude or hyper critical, why do people expect a natural product to be 100% consistent? If you want blemish free, get a carbon fibre instrument...

He's got lots of other items including a Stagg guitar at £100. He's seen the one listed in the US at $2,999 and is taking a punt. Original price was 345 euros.

I'd [probably get drummed out - my Fi is not very Hi 🙂 My view is its far more accurate than guessing. Great for checking R and C values etc.

Those little beasties are tremendously useful I used mine to match transistors when repairing my Trace Elliot. Fitted it in a 3D printed case, here are stls if they are useful to anyone. Box Bottom.stlBox Top.stl

I don't see the likes of Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga struggling to fill stadia. So why has rock, which is still popular, not got mass appeal any more?

Some won't have heard this... Bend your strings at 90 degrees before cutting to length to remove the risk of the windings unravelling.

Having been in the alternative positions of (a) playing a song twice and (b) playing a song that we jammed once or twice a couple of weeks ago I'd say ideally a band knows what it's encore will be and is prepared not to play it if they don't go down well... even if that scenario is wildly unlikely.

Phil Cambell and the Bastard Sons - if they find a new vocalist? Thunder? Black Star Riders? Or am I being naive?

Is it me or...?

Nylon, which absorbs permanent marker really well and it doesn't come off. Would be a poor application for teflon.

All of us have a few quick tips and wrinkles for looking after/customising/repairing our gear. These might be ways of locking straps to the best way to fit new strings. Share yours here. My first one doesn't even need a description!

Don't Airbourne has at least one ex-AC/DC musician on board? They don't so much ape AC/DC as do what they would have done if they hadn't shamelessly followed the money.

Best wishes, Blue, hope it all goes well.

Not many, several.

Do thumbs count?

No longer either of those I'm afraid! It's very decorated and I use lots of fingers now 🙂 I am tempted to strip it back and wrap it in Carbon Fibre viny - but it's a bit fo an awkward shape.

Back in the day I twice took it and my Fender Performer along to a recording studio. Both times sound engineer thought it was active beacuse of the huge output and insisted I used the Hohner over the performer. My first band in 1987, through a borrowed amp and my 15" speaker cab. Ignore fretless, I soon switch to thw B2:

Yep, truss rod. Mine probably has the lowest action of all my basses.

I think at least five for six folks have missed this bit! I suspect gear lists are not essential other than for whetting appetites, but the organisers will need an idea of numbers and going through 20 pages counting up the 'I'll come' posts and deducting the 'I'm not coming now' ones, after carefully checking to see if there are any a duplicates or cancels which weren't actually booked could be something of a Herculean task 🙂

First delinquent pulls out length of chain... Second delinquent whips out a flicknife... Third delinquent struggles to get his iPhone to recognise his fingerprint...