Wombat

Haven’t ALL of them passed?

Nah, you’ll probably get a little ‘otter….

I’ve not see the Libertines before. Is not singing in tune part of the song?

Playing Koko at Camden on 12 July. It’s 5:30 doors. Mr Miller must be at the stage of wanting his bed…

Aye, I was more trying to ‘lighten the mood’ a bit. I loved the LP painted with the blue check to match his shirt! Doing amazingly for 80!

John Fogerty looks like my grandad! And I’m 60! 😂

I give in, what bass was Badbadnotgoods Chester Hanson playing? Def wasn’t a Grabber that his webpage says he ‘always plays’! edit; found it. An F Bass VF4

It’s just Badbadnotgood is a bit shorter I guess

Badbadnotgood or something similar is a bit of a mouthful for a band name!

Watching a bit of Glasto today the singer in Shed 7 is obs falling foul of the ‘needs glasses/bigger set list’ as he was constantly bending over to look at his. Even announced the wrong song and the guitarist had to correct him! it’s horrible being old! 😂

I’ve been round both these blocks. i used to have the ‘one eye reading, one eye distance’ and, as only an occasional wearer, it felt like you were walking round in circles for 5 mins but the brain quickly compensates. I struggled with early ‘versions’ of multi focal lenses so went back to one short one long for a while. Recently they bought out lenses for astigmatism so I now have one for that and a multi focal and I can see so well I’m thinking of wearing them more often. Anyhoo, I can’t see without glasses so play in them if I can’t be bothers to put lenses in ( or we’re playing somewhere posh and it’s unlikely there will be a fight 😂). The bass player is the studious intellectual anyway so we look cool in glasses anyway?

You can get varifocal contact lenses now too…

Aye, I'm only stating fact. I used HD ages after HX - only recently sold my 500x. And it can be annoying that they keep updating. I've got my sound 'exactly how I want it' a few times then been drawn in to change it after an update dropped.

They have 'history' with this sort of upgrade. When they went from HD to HX (albeit a big step forward, support for HD stopped pretty quickly.

DV24 now in Germany 🤦‍♀️

And in Leeds? Plus DV24?

Get yours for $2000, which will be £2500.. looks great though

It can all be wirelessly done from your phone. Eventually 🤣

6 bass amps..

Possibly a pain. Well, definitely a pain. But it's the way they've been doing updates for ages. I've not lost anything - apart from the time to do an update.

So Helix 4 is 'buy another unit'.

New Helix in the autumn!!!!

Gear4music is still there?

Aye, I have the NUX in ears so ‘wanted’ their wireless as its 5.8. A plus point is the charging case! The thing that pushed me to Blackstar was that the NUX only have a 2hr (ish) battery life before needing to be charged in the case. An Open Mic play at goes on longer much than that - and generally people use my gear even if I don’t play - and a lot of gigs are 2 1/2 hrs. Didn’t want to risk it. I saw both at the Bass Show and another plus is the Blackstar fit in an old glasses case and take up a lot less space in the old leads bag (should we still be calling them that now?).

I had a Boss WL20 (with the Cable Tone) for ages and love(d) it. I just set my EQ to allow for the slight ‘top’ it gave. I found it gave me some ‘punch’. After struggling with dropouts recently I put this down to the (slightly) busier pubs we were playing so changed to the Blackstar Airwire i58 as it was the ‘most similar 5.8ghz from a brand I trust’ I could find. This one has switchable cable tone which I’m currently liking ‘on’. OK I have to remember to charge them but I don’t have ‘another thing to plug in’. I would add that I don’t really run (or walk!) about that much but I like the tone it gives me and they are great for sound checks as you can get to the back of the venue to see how it sounds.