Rich

I think it's still OK on that part of the plate. It always used to be anyway... I guess I'll find out at the MOT   

The letters and numbers are all the correct font, height, spacing etc. It's exactly the same as the old plate except for the clef in place of the stars.

I’m afraid it’s not @Rich. To be fair, there are thousands of plates that fall much further outside of the rules, so I probably wouldn’t worry too much about it. At least ANPR will be able to read your registration number (should it be stolen etc). 

Yes, there's no way I was going to do anything daft with the actual reg number, it's asking for trouble. As I said, it's identical to the old plate apart from the clef instead of the stars and UK instead of GB. I've still got the old plates just in case I need to put them back on in a hurry. I can't see that happening though (he said hopefully). 

Just back from having both of mine done but in separate arms 🤞

One shot in each arm here too.  Slight ache in the pfizer arm but otherwise fine.  I've not heard of anyone else taking them both in the one arm.

I had the option of both in the one arm at least an inch apart.

@andybassdoyle it's something the MU are involved in. Well worth looking into.

https://www.hearformusicians.org.uk/

Those things are excellent and that scheme is a great thing. Had mine for years and wore them last night. Can't be without them! 

I'm going for my appointment to get the mouldings done today!

I don't know yet -- picking it up today.

@Marc S to answer your question, yes it sounds faaaar more expensive than 102 quid. Really superb tone... smooth lows and crisp glassy highs, and lots of power. I still can't believe my luck, a Spector for the price of an Encore. 

Nice @Rich

They do look good, as I said.

Its great when something like this happens. Result indeed

I think Daz hit the nail on the head, reform wherever possible has to be the aim, but sometimes society just needs a break from some types - as famously put to Messrs Kray a few years back.

@Rich I'm 100% with you mate, in fact I would go further and actually offer to kick the sht out of them.

One wonders how the people in Liverpool who were throwing bricks at the prison van transporting the then 10 years old Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, would have viewed an adult who killed them?

I like the blue one.  Too many frets though.

ooh the bottom one. You would, wouldn't you‽

Richard Jones is also the bassist with The Feeling

I think much of her band is/was made up of members of The Feeling, if not all of them.

Rich also stood in as Bassist for Bryan Adams a few years back. 

I play in several bands, from tributes, to covers, to originals. There is always room for both, but perhaps less room for the original stuff, sadly.....
Though in fairness, I've played quite a few venues where they either like, want or tolerate original material - and those venues and crowds ARE out there. Trick is, finding them, together with appealing to the masses who want covers..... and winning them over.
A few covers, to get people singing & humming along, and tapping their feet or dancing, is no bad thing and handy to have in your repertoire.
Perhaps what you're really tired of, is the same covers or the same genres of covers? Seek out interesting / different covers and try a few

We've considered replacing the set, but TBH we've done the covers thing for 10 years (our first gig was the 7th Feb 2008, I still have the set list) and want to do something completely different. And Tammy's songs are too good to keep hidden. We will pop 2 or 3 covers in there too, I expect.  

Happened with my band - not 10 years, but a couple of years doing the Blues pub circuit, couple of new young members, written a whole load of songs and now going out in November on a 9 date national tour.  Good luck!

Enjoy the day.

I read that Sylvester Stallone's now with wife No.3, his first marriage was rocky and the second was rocky too.

Rich, how did the day go?

Fantastic. The weather was amazing, a 24 hour window of glorious sunshine in the gloom. I've never seen my lass looking so happy. Managed to make her cry (happy tears) with my speech, so a result there too 

I absolutely love them. Use them on all my fave basses. Really surprised to read this. I also like that they retain their tone for so long and last ages with little tarnishing. All a matter of personal choice of course and Lord of the strings is a kosher provider I guess. They defo look cool too (I know I am a tart ha ha)   

Agree. Plus don't care for the feel of them and, unless they've changed, the coating insulates them from ground. They do look cool though.

Elixirs on there now, all is right with the world.

*sigh of relief*

Seems like most people are clear after 5 days or so. Fingers crossed.

I know someone that waited the best part of 2 years to finally get away with his girlfriend, a couple of days after landing, she got food poisoning and they had to come home early.

He's saved you a fortune.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/maldives/entry-requirements

Negative PCR test no greater than 96 hours before arrival

I owned a Fender Musicmaster bass years ago and got rid of it after about 3 years, I got it for £75 which admittedly was a bargain but the bass itself was dreadful, it must have weighed about 14ibs, had one of those dreadful two saddle bridges, the cheapest pickguard and the only way i can think of describing the tone is "murky" it had very little high end and strangely not much low end but it seemed to have a lot of the muddier mid frequencies, the tone control did almost nothing.  Now on Ebay there are Musicmasters going for nearly 1.5k !!! Insane amount of money when you can get a Mexican Mustang bass which is a much better bass for under £600

Half tempted to put my crappy old Hof up for sale warts and all for a stupid price and see if anyone bites  

Just think, you could have this lovely P bass neck, yours for only £1297.00 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1972-FENDER-PRECISION-BASS-NECK-made-in-USA/174297048267?_trkparms=aid%3D1110002%26algo%3DSPLICE.SOI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225076%26meid%3D14ffd87c1c824b61b07b1d9df4838bc4%26pid%3D100047%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D174285765143%26itm%3D174297048267%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSellersOtherItemsV2&_trksid=p2047675.c100047.m2108

Yes can see some, yes. If they're doing anything sensitive they drop off the radar, but there are usually a few to be seen. 

Worth also watching the firefighters; water bombers and spotting aircraft. 

It's not usually possible to see the fast jets doing operational stuff or operational traiing, at least for me.  But if you want to watch fast-jet training, try west Texas (T-38s) and Snowdownia (Hawks, mostly from Valley).  Sometimes you can see the electronic targets over the North Sea, but not often the aircraft flying interceptions.

Sometimes you get exotic stuff too.  Hurricane hunters (mostly P-3s) over the Caribbean).  NATO AWACS and reconnaissance aircraft over Bulgaria.  Spitfires, Mustangs, SAAB Tunnan.  The Canadian Lancaster when it came to the UK via Iceland.

You stood no chance with that mix!  You usually have no idea until it's too late.  Stay hydrated today and good luck.

I'm fine now, I only really felt dodgy up until mid afternoon Saturday.

What a mix, yes you were asking for it.  We've all been there I'm sure.

Dioralyte is your friend, especially if you remember to drink it before going to bed.

Map looks familiar

I'm sure he would do you a basschat discount @Rich and knock £200 or so off the asking price? 

...and the benefit of paying the extra money for a pro players former bass is that you'll automatically be as good as them...

Wahey, I was at that gig too! What an odd place for them to play, but a storming set! 

Local view

Love JTQ.
I think the best time I saw them was at the Cardiff music festival about 20 years ago. They played during a thunder storm. Thunder, lightning, torrential rain and Acid Jazz. It was awesome.

Bit more than a bumper, alas.   The bollard was alongside. 

I was thinking about making a gag out of that but it's past time I showed some sympathy.

I've been caught with coloured matched bollards that look to be part of the fence two feet behind.  Got no sympathy from the establishment that had them painted that way.  Daft.

Feeling for you.

Ouch!

Ooh - I'm all intrigued now! lol  

You've got a new toupée?

Yup. Pale finish, heavy relic, aged hardware. But that's enough about me. 

^^^ This.

I'm starting week 5 of 'furlough' - use the time do do things for you and your family (this does not include murdering them! ).

You may never get another chance like this.

Sorry to hear the Rich. I'm hoping it's not too inconvenient for you or leaves you financially out of pocket.

I hope too that you're able to use the time to do things you'd been wanting to do for a while.

In second week of furlough at this end....having to hide the credit card from meself to stop random boredom purchases

Pics or it never happened. That's certainly a thing for NBD, assume it would apply here too.

Is the SB fretless/passive/etc? We need details please

It's completely passive, ultra-long scale, massive neck dive unfortunately, and sounds really sht. 

sounds like a keeper to me

I only have the one fiver these days. But having recently bought a decent Mustang, my long scales have been feeling unloved and have cause to feel twitchy about their long term status.

Go 6!

I’ve  gone back to 4s for some time now, since re-emerging from just about giving up. 
 

I like it. Simplicity and I’ve not needed a 5 in the band environment or when practicing.

I used to view a 5 string as the ‘standard’. 

Blimey, what couriers are still delivering at 11pm Saturday, even Amazon stops at 10 pm here..??

Whoops. I did of course mean 11am.

Ah!!! Easily done!! I think strings direct are based near Southend, not far from me, they've always been my first port of call for strings too 👍👍

My neighbour has a small hole on the side of his roof, where I constantly see tits enter. I have already let him know very early this year, so he can fill up the hole before nesting starts, but apparently he missed it, now he'll have a noisy loft I guess  

I had a teeny tiny gap at the side of my PVC fascia board under the gutter, and amazingly these buggers could still enter there. Would not have believed it without actually witnessing it. We chased them out then had it filled in with silicone, as they were very loudly knocking in there every morning, like some tiny woodpeckers. Only from like 7:30 to 10am just to definitely wake me up on a weekend, then they stopped for the day 😁

I'm a big fan of great tits.

I'm a great fan of...

Sadly, Hugo seems to have scared them off. 

I wish I had the time to play

I recently got a message on my phone about something I'm selling on Gumtree. After a couple of messages, the not uncommon "I'll send a courier to pick it up at 11 tomorrow, is that ok?" surfaced. I just replied "no problem, but I'll be at work at that time, you can collect from there, it's a Police Station and it'll be open".

Silence.

Also, do forward the text message to the national phishing reporting number (7726).

Also: 5G is the cause of COVID 19!!! It’s them mobile towers that are spreading it!!

One of my neighbours works for BT and was getting verbal abuse to that end last year...mainly from students who were passing joints around amongst themselves!!

Rare footage of engineers covertly installing the 1G mobile network that led to the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918.