Velarian

Also apologies to @Reggaebass for not initially making it clear which program I was referring to. My original post incorrectly implied that it was the Trojan Records documentary. So, a bit of car crash on my part. I wish I’d kept quiet now. 😜

Good point. It seems that my Virgin Media setup has got its knickers in a twist. I’m getting correct Yorkshire region TV but North East program listings for some reason. I’m too tired to figure it out now so will have a look tomorrow.

Ah right. Confusing.

Strange, the TV listing says it’s the Lindisfarne documentary but it’s actually who do you think you are 🤔

The Lindisfarne program is on again now on BBC1

I saw that on an earlier run. Really really good. I might even have it recorded somewhere so I’ll have to watch it again.

I’ve wish it had been me. 😩 If it was a BC member, no doubt we’ll soon see a rather smug NBD post. 😂

It went for £1750 in the end.

AFAIK it’s in front of the nut, which is where the break point of the string should be.

I had one of those BITD. Awesome cab but lugging it around was one of the contributing factors that caused me to give up gigging. 😂

I have some Gotoh machine heads and the blurb that came with them recommends Silicon Oil or Cohesive Oil (whatever that is)

That’s really interesting and it just goes to confirms what great value the higher end Squiers are.

If a 5 string is a possibility, this is a lot of bass for under £400:

Bass 2 seemed to have a slightly more pronounced tone roll off so I would say that’s the custom loom. With the tone open there wasn’t much between them. Bass 2 maybe had slightly more clarity. However, I’m thinking it’s hardly worth the effort to upgrade because of the negligible difference.

I think it depends on how heavily it’s used. Any strap has the potential to to cause wear over time. My only gigged bass (‘77 P bass) which has seen plenty of action looks like this:

I just saw that video and thought the Sire sounded better!

I can’t comment on the Ray or Yamaha but I would definitely say a Squier CV beats an Affinity hands down.

Reverb or delay?

What does it sound like? Any chance of a demo recording?

Directions to gigs seems to be another rich seam of tales. My mates band was playing in Dundee and when they couldn’t find the venue they stopped and asked a character for directions. He said he was going that way and offered to jump in the van and direct from there. When he got in, he took one look at the keyboard player who had long hair and a beard - I can’t do the accent but this character says “Christ, you’re a hairy b@stard”, which didn’t get him off to a very good start. So, they set off and after a short while he says “turn left”. They went on a bit further and he says “turn left” again and a little bit further after that he says “turn left” again. One of the lads says “if he says turn left one more time I’m going to lamp him”. Sure enough a bit later he says “turn left” and the other lad says to him “you don’t really know where you’re going do you?” to which he admitted that he didn’t. What a chancer!

My last post on the train wreck thread would probably be more applicable here!

Wondering whether your at the right gig or not reminded me of one we did at a pub which turned out to be in the middle of nowhere up on the moors . It was in the winter and, as we wound our way up country lanes, arriving at this desolate place in the rain we were already wondering what we’d let ourselves in for. Who on earth was going to bother coming out here in this weather to see a band nobody’s heard of? We went into the pub to find out where to set up and the landlord took us outside again and across the car park to this huge outbuilding. You’re in here he says. It was freezing in there and the sinking feeling continued. Nevertheless we pressed-on loaded the gear in and started setting up. When we were ready to soundcheck and switched the PA on there was a huge buzz. We’d never had this before and spent the next hour frantically checking connections and changing cables all to no avail (we later discovered it was a ground loop but didn’t know what that was or how to cure it at time). All this was with freezing cold hands with numb fingers. Anyway, we were running out of time and decided to press on regardless. At this point, the landlord comes back and wheels in this huge red cylinder thing about 10 feet long and a 18” diameter, which turned out to be some kind of industrial heater. He turned it on and within about ten minutes the place had nicely warmed up. Maybe things were looking up? Not long after the flawed soundcheck, to our surprise people started turning up. They were bikers on Harleys and trikes etc. I’m not sure if they were Hells Angels or Satans Slaves but you get the idea of the crowd that was forming, there were loads of them. At one point I went outside and there were literally dozens of bikes parked up. Given that we leaned towards the punk/alternative end of the musical spectrum we felt a bit intimidated and wondered if we’d survive the encounter. Feeling somewhat daunted, we apologised for the huge PA buzz and launched into our set. Despite the potential for it to be a train wreck, to our surprise we actually went down quite well. Afterwards a couple a of the guys complimented us and said it was like a breath of fresh air having something different to the usual diet of metal bands that played there. Feeling relieved we packed up and set off home again. I was driving and as we headed down the winding country lanes back to civilisation, we rounded a bend only to be faced with a pony caught in the headlights in the middle of the road. I slammed on the brakes, which with all the weight in the van took some effort, and we came within a gnats chuff of turning the poor pony into dog meat! Then ensued another daft hour trying to work out what to do with it to make sure it was safe. Anyway, all’s well that ends well.

Is that an M1 Mini or an Intel version? The M1 Air is fan-less and still hardly breaks into a sweat.

For an equivalent spec the Air should be just as capable as the mini but I guess the trade-off is between connectivity and portability. The Air is so svelte it is perfect to cart around. Connectivity is easily fixed by adding a hub of some sort. My plan is to add a large monitor, keyboard and mouse to get the full desktop experience. However, one limitation with the Air is it will only drive one external monitor although that doesn’t really bother me. I believe the mini will support two monitors so that may be a consideration.

That reminds me of gig we did in small pub in the 80s. There was no stage and we were just set up at one end of the room. Fairly early on in the set an oldish drunken punter was already on his feet dancing in the space in front of us, but he was gradually encroaching into our space. As he started get too close for comfort the guitarist gave me the nod, went forward got behind him and got on his knees. Meanwhile I was right in front of the guy mirroring some of his moves and he was loving it, right up until the point where I backed him up into the prone guitarist, and over he went. The rest of the audience could see what was coming and thought it was hilarious. Looking back I suppose we could have ended up injuring him but fortunately he was so drunk I don’t think he knew, or cared. It seemed like a good ruse at the time.