TimR

Always follow the singer. Caveat: if the guitarist starts the wrong song, the rest of the band should immediately recognise which song he has picked from the setlist and go for it. Or at least find the right sheet of music before the singer comes in.

I've also had the support bassist get his lead trapped under the dressing room door and instead of going back and seeing what it was caught on, he just grabbed it with both hands and yanked it. Which freed the cable alright, but left the jack plug in the dressing room. 😆 I begrudgingly lent him one of my spares.

This has happened to me twice. First time it was the E string and I had to restring my bass EAD on the ADG heads during the first verse of the first song. Second time was during a set and I had a spare bass in the pile of cases and boxes.

Yes. Probably badly worded. I mean I don't take her to gigs that she doesn't want to go to. We've been to plenty of gigs together. The other members of the bands I play in bring their other halves to some gigs, but they sit at the back and look bored. I've been playing in bands for 40 years now and she's seen me play enough times now.

I don't get this. I don't take my wife to gigs and she doesn't take me. She doesn't even come to see me play. It's healthy to have different interests.

Very good point. It's a completely different story to thousands of fans not watching Royal Blood.

Yes. Doesn't everyone know that Twitter is just a massive collection of batshit crazy people. In the old days every village had an idiot. Now we have a whole village full of idiots. We call it Twitter.

"Play something we know" 😆

In this era where everyone appears to be suffering with undiagnosed neurodivergence of some nature; I liken these people who appear to be on another planet as the trainspotters version of music spotters. I have a friend who goes to gigs, knows a lot of the artists and musicians names, knows what bands and other artists they've played. Knows what instruments they play and on what tracks on what albums they've played them. Is front row at gigs, often getting priority tickets. He doesn't dance, and doesn't appreciate even people talking around him. I quite like the wedding gigs comment above, a few of them and you soon realise playing for 3 hours to a crowd who have no interest in dancing and are only there to catch up on family gossip reminds you that quite often, you're just providing background music. If one gig in 5 is a massive dance fest, then I'm happy, the problem is if you're only doing one gig a month you'll only get 2 gigs a year like that. 😆 Try playing in a jazz trio in a beer tent at a fete. No one is there because they enjoy jazz, not even the bass player... but at least you get polite clapping between piano solos.

Don't banks offer fraud protection? Mine has signed up to voluntary protection so paying via transfer should be fine. All you do is get their AC details or send them yours. There's not a lot they can do with an AC number and Sort code but if its protected against fraud again you should be fine. If you do a lot of trading it's wise to have a separate bank account to your working bank account to protect your payments for mortgage etc. I thought I also saw a way to pay via credit card that attracts a cash payment charge, not sure if that's protected. Check your CC provider. Ultimately if the banks want you to be using transfer, they need to make it much less risky.

PasswordPassword1! Would take 26tn years to crack according to the list posted previously...

Password1! if you want to make it really strong.

The hacking isn't done by some character in his bedroom. It's done by organisations with server farms, and whole call centres full of staff dedicated to making scam calls and setting up fake Facebook profiles and pages. It's not one man with one computer trying one password after the other to see which one it is.

My friend's daughter can unlock her mum's phone via facial recognition.

Least embarrassing option. Silent tuner pedal. It'll be bad enough with guitars widling endlessly.

Makes sense. Would be good if the account automatically locks you out after 5 wrong attempts either permanently or temporarily. Stops the brute force attempts. Maybe it does...

He'd need an email to log on to basschat as the compromised user?

But how does anyone who knows my email know I use basschat. And vice versa, how does someone using basschat know my email?

How do the hackers obtain your email address. Is it on display somewhere that I'm unaware of?

No standard gauge strings and same make as I always use. I don't think the intonation has been right for a while.

I'm fairly sure Bass guitar frets are equal temperament. I'd expect the note fretted at the 5th fret to be exactly the same as the next string open note. Harmonics are a different matter. I wouldn't tune using harmonics. I know people do, but I don't understand why.

No. I did think so initailly, but just resting my finger and pulling it to the fret was doing it. There was visible relief on the neck when I put a straight edge on it which has eased right off. I had an old 80s Japanese bass that was like a boomerang and I had to straighten that every time I got it out of the case. I shimmed that but it was never right.

Yes. They're ok where they are. Guess I can shim it in the future if I feel I ever need to.

Yes. It threw me for a bit. But if you think about it, I put a rule on the frets and there was a slight bow, so was bending the string slightly more. It was only a couple of cents but noticeable.

Put new strings on my bass and noticed that around the 5th-8th fret the intonation was sharp. The action at the 12th fret and intonation were spot on and the saddles as low as they'll go. So I've given the truss rod a quarter turn and that's bought everything back into tune. Great. I'm wondering though if having the saddles as low as they'll go indicates the neck could do with some shims. Ibanez SR400.