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Sometimes what happens in Palmers Green should have stayed in Palmers Green.

This may be old news to some, but in a rare departure from its usual parade of the annoying and irrelevant, Facebook's suggestion algorithm popped this on to my feed: Jona Lewie doing You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties on TV in 1980 featuring a very fresh-faced Kirsty MacColl on Precision and BV's. For some reason the fact she's using the came-in-the-box Fender strap is especially charming 😊 (Note for younger or overseas listeners: Jona Lewie is known for releasing two songs 43 years ago, one was quite good, this is the other one.)

Is it the amp or the speaker that’s packed up? If nothing else, it should be possible to do something with whichever bit still works - for example take out a dead amp unit and use the speaker with another amp head.

Can I be first in with the ‘I have a digital bass… I play it with my fingers’ gag? But yes, I remember seeing someone with a MIDI-capable bass thirty years ago. Can’t remember what make it was but I think it was an early model this guy was helping the manufacturer to develop. It had each fret split into a different section for each string in order to detect by electrical contact which notes were being fretted.

I think that head has been in the classifieds for as long as I have been on this site, delighted to see it’s finally found its home!

I can’t slap for toffee, but Scott’s Bass Lessons are offering a ‘Slap Bass Accelerator’ course at the moment with a 30-day money back offer if you don’t like it, in case that’s of interest.

Cool! Hope it works well for you.

I wonder if you could use the pickup mounting screws somehow? Like a strip held in place by those screws that then presses down on the pickguard to keep it in place. Either that or a very long cable tie.

I haven’t built one but Rod Elliott has a variable frequency crossover design that I guess would do the job?

You can get little ‘media player’ gadgets that take a memory card and play whatever movies or images are on it out to an HDMI socket. Here’s one for example (not a specific recommendation though). Strangely they seem to be less common and more expensive now than a few years ago though, at least on UK eBay. Maybe nowadays everyone just uses their phone.

Sorry to hear that anyone has lost money and thanks for all the good advice. Not directly related to this scam but worth mentioning while security is on people’s minds, check that your phone doesn’t show the contents of incoming messages on the lock screen. There were reports in the news of a spate of thefts where people had phones and bank cards stolen from their locker while they were at the gym, then their bank accounts were cleaned out. The way this worked was the thief got the bank account details from the card and used them to set up the app for that bank on their own phone, which the bank verified by sending a code in a text message which the thief could see arriving on the locked phone. On iPhone you want to set Settings>Notifications>Show Previews to ‘When Unlocked, not ‘Always’.

To the very best of my knowledge the only thing special about orange mains extension leads is that they are orange, so they are easier to see.

The hi-fi community have decided that minimalist amps using these ICs are called ‘Gainclones’, so if you search for ‘gainclone pcb’ you’ll find some. How to judge which ones are well designed though…

Here it is and I only wish she’d done more like it. Superb in every way.

Ladies and gents, I give you Moby Dickless. I’m not sure how they blagged their way on to the bill at a jazz festival, but I like it!

Obviously the correct answer is the one Amy Winehouse would have made if they hadn’t got cold feet about letting her. Although I’ve always thought Love Is A Losing Game was a Bond song just waiting for its film. In its absence though, anyone who didn’t vote for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is purely wrong.

Sounds like Pablo Casals I’m 51 and don’t claim to be good, but I think I have a much better understanding now of why not than I did in my twenties - having not played much in the intervening time - so with a bit of practice, who knows?

I use Apple Music so most of my actual listening is streamed from Apple, but I buy downloads (mostly Bandcamp or iTunes) or CDs (mostly secondhand) for stuff that's not on there or I feel I really want to own and/or support the artist (obviously secondhand CDs don't do the latter) and am slowly getting through ripping my CD library into iTunes. iTunes Match means I can play the downloads and CD rips on any of my devices, but it's not part of the Apple Music Family deal so my family members don't get the same privilege, but that's fine because they mostly don't like my music anyway. I have some vinyl but no deck, so where possible I've been finding them on Apple Music then selling or giving away the originals unless they have some personal significance. I'm no… oh wait, yes, yes I am.

Looks like a blast, and I’m sorry I couldn’t have made it - maybe next year!

I liked it too, and the rest of you are a bunch of humourless curmudgeons with no imagination. While I would have tweaked a couple of things about their arrangement if I were in charge, I thought it was a wholly unironic tribute to what a good tune the original is, while at the same time transforming it from (superficially at least, I don't know if there's a subtext) a beer-soaked celebration of bad behaviour into a rather wistful elegy for it, as if describing something long gone and somewhat missed. Which would be rather anti-woke, if you think about it.

Moon Hooch at Manchester Academy 3. No bass guitars or any stringed instruments in fact, just a drummer and two wind players doing hypnotic loops and riffs over live dance beats. Rave with saxophones, basically. Previous to that, Korngold’s The Dead City at English National Opera. Amazing work, huge luscious orchestration, superb performance.

Only observing that the Fairbrass brothers are now vocal conspiracy theorists, particularly around COVID and vaccines. Not telling you what to think about that, but it might affect how their songs go down with an audience.

I’ve just re-read the thread looking for where anybody told anybody else that they shouldn’t play anything, and I couldn’t find a single example.

Before playing a Freds song I assume you’ve also reviewed the ‘problematic creators and their music’ thread…