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Wait till Mr Hall sees the one on the right...he'll be all over him... 😀

Noooo, that's not how it works, at least IME; I've found that the rate of Pick Loss is directly proportional to how many you have: I buy them in 24s, and immediately lose half a dozen, whereas the last half dozen seem to hang around forever...until I buy some more...

If we use the formula 1 x guitar = 0.25 x bass, then you're golden...

Eight at the moment, tho three of those are cheapos in bits and haven't been touched in a lonnnng while. Three main gigging basses. Oh, and a Shuker build (still) underway...

A few years ago my other half bought a couple of tickets for the Hebden Trades Club - it's a great venue, and one of those 'Never heard of them, but we'll give them a try' kinda places. Young lad on his tod, just him and his acoustic. You know that goosebump thing when you're in the presence of The Real Thing*? I think tickets were £8, about 30 people there. We chatted to him afterwards and wished him well. I recall he was a big lad, very nice. It was George Ezra - next thing I heard from him gigging, he sold out the Manchester Arena... * Not the 70s disco band...tho we did accidentally audition their singer once...another story entirely. It didn't go well.

Not on the scale of some of the fantastic ones on here, but in the early 80s we used to rehearse at the Boardwalk, and some evenings we'd go to the Hacienda afterwards if there was a potentially interesting gig on, in the days before the DJs took over, and it was more often than not half-empty. One evening we were in the City Road pub opposite wondering whether to go, and my pal said "I heard it's some American bird shooting a dance video, she'll be miming..." so we all went 'Pffft' and didn't bother. Madonna.

Al. Not always the case, I'll admit, but it had to happen sooner or later... 😁

Finally, someone talking sense...

Love it...

Ohhhh, now there's a coincidence - I was just scouting around EBay for something like this to take on a holiday I've got booked, plus something to use for jam nights for the easiest possible load-in. I did some gigs in Italy a while back and borrowed a FrankenSteinberger thingy, which I enjoyed more than I thought I would... And a P pickup improves everything... 😁

Yup; I have a beeeeyoudiful Dingwall I never use; I know I'll regret selling it, but it's on my mind... I suppose I might look into trading it, as there's the excitement of getting a new bass in the deal, rather than just cash, which will be very quickly absorbed in Other Stuff...

In the spirit of the Covid-19 thread elsewhere, I can't see people being brave enough to go somewhere that most of the point is to handle something that lots of other people will have handled...

Having known a couple of farmers, I'd say kicking badgers is a pastime best indulged in by people who feel that two feet is one too many, and are keen to investigate the recreational opportunities offered by hopping everywhere...

That head...I just...can't... 🙁 It's like a very poor Wishbass, without any of the charm or actual manufacturing skillz...

We've had this with a couple of venues on the same main street; one gives us at least half a dozen Satdy night gigs a year, it's a great venue, pays well, the other ummms and ahhhhs about booking us, but then will phone up at short notice for the odd gig, usually on a Sunday night, when it's much deader. Guess which one got all arsey when the LL found out we were playing at the other... 🙄

That program is like a documentary for IT folk... 😁

Shows how much he thought of the band doing him a favour...I'd definitely 'forget' to do it next time... I'd agree with the premise that the more you're getting paid, the better you're looked after: wedding gigs (with a few exceptions, mostly because of arsey Wedding Planners getting involved) are a good example of this. The Charidee stuff is very often apologetically neglectful, sometimes bordering on exploitative (in those cases where most other people are getting paid)...

A career in IT, not as exciting as people think, tho I've seen huuuuge change in my time - when I tell the younger engineers here I started programming lathes using paper punch tape, they look at me like I'm Gandalf... Poacher turned gamekeeper after the Bafta-winning CGI company I was IT Manager for went bust overnight a decade ago, and I was invited by our small ISP to cross the line and join them. It's all about Cloud Services now, tho I look after our Data Centres in Manchester and London. Still not very exciting. My retirement plan consists of me slumping sideways at my desk and being put out by the bins.

Oooo, Shouty Jazz...you might have inadvertently created a whole new subgenre there, Bilbo me old chum 😁

I'm a big fan of figured woods, but I've never troubled myself massively over the sources thereof. I've also liked to have basses made from woods from this country, tho it's not a complete deal-breaker, if the right piece of marmalade-looking birdseye maple came up from elsewhere, for example... You may have something to talk about in a marketing sense with ethical wood supply, as long as you've done your homework. Even concentrating on domestic woods might bring an advantage in the marketplace; there are plenty of people who Buy British (and it only takes a cursory glance over on The Other Place to see there are even more in the States who are pretty rabid about Buying American)...personally, it might be on my shopping list, but it'll be a loooong way down past the actual bass itself... As far as the tone is concerned, exotic timbers definitely...look nice. It's been done to death on here, but as there's very very little actual scientific evidence for the tone of a wood (and given the natural variation in different pieces of even the same wood, there's unlikely to be), it may well have a small influence on the tone, but many other factors (like construction, pickups and placement, EQ and hardware, strings, etc) have a much, much bigger effect on the tone of an instrument. HTH... M

The jar thing is rare in my experience; we've had it a couple of times, and the jar's never been counted, just handed over to us; it's always been 'for the band'. We've used it before ourselves: we do an annual Charridy gig at a local pub, we have the bucket out front, and it gets hawked around, but it's always very clear it's all going to a Charidee we've picked and announced.

Exactly my experience with MB heads (LM, LM Tube, etc) - I found the preamp I used was always on (for assorted tones, a fair amount of rock), which suggested to me I was simply using the wrong amp... I did like the F1, tho - I was using my iPad with BIAS software as a modeller to get the core tone, and the F1 (filters off, EQ set flat) provided the amplification...and it's very, very small...

#sorrynotsorry... 😉 If I was in the market for a Class D there'd only be one I'd bother with. I still kinda regret selling mine, but my amp circumstances changed (IEMs), and I needed the money... 😕

Just run the strap across the front of the rear wing...forward roll cured... 😉