Rich

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 👍👍

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.

He sent me an email:

Grant Shapps MP <[email protected]>

To: mick

Fri, 8 Oct at 17:25

Dear Michael,

I hope you and your loved ones are doing well.

Given the events on our roads and at the petrol pumps recently, I thought you might appreciate an update on the measures we’re taking to both stop the protesters and alleviate fuel and other distribution strains post-Covid.

First, the Insulate Britain protests. As you will have seen protesters have been walking onto motorways, gluing themselves to carriageways, and blocking traffic on vital roads. Targets have included the M25, the Port of Dover, and the A1M in Welwyn Hatfield.

These protests are reckless and disruptive, as well as being counterproductive when it comes to pollution. The UK has the most ambitious plan to decarbonise transport of any major economy, but preventing people from travelling to work, delivering supplies and, in some cases, trying to get to hospital is simply unacceptable.

As Transport Secretary, I directed National Highways to take out injunctions against these protesters. Now if they attempt to block traffic again, they will be in contempt of court. This can result in up to six months in prison and unlimited fines.

Next, fuel supply and logistics more widely:

Countries from the USA to Europe and beyond are suffering a temporary Covid-related lorry driver shortage. With our excellent vaccine programme having released us from lockdown quicker than elsewhere – the UK economy is growing faster than any G7 (major) economy.

During the lockdowns we were unable to provide HGV licence testing which should have brought 30,000 new truck drivers onto the road. However, since the spring we have been working to get more HGV tests done. And have so far taken more than 24 measures which has hugely expanded capacity.

Even with this Coronavirus-related shortage of 300 tanker drivers, fuel pumps continued as usual for months. However, once the story was widely reported, demand inevitably grew, resulting in the queues for petrol that we recently saw. It is worth saying that at no point was there an actual shortage of fuel at any of the 6 refineries and 47 storage centres in the UK.

Which takes me to a wider point…

Lorry drivers are essential to our economy. They do an incredible job day and night. Yet unfortunately their pay and conditions has been poor for years. Free movement whilst we were in the EU meant that many equally hardworking European drivers were attracted to drive here. A lower cost of living back home meant that lorry driving wages here were suppressed and job retention became a problem. To put numbers on it; 99% of UK lorry drivers are male and the average age is 55. In short, new recruits were not forthcoming because salaries were too low.

Better remuneration means that nearly a thousand HGV provisional licences are being applied for every day. At this rate we will be able to fix the historic shortage of lorry drivers once and for all and in the short-term the country is grateful to dozens of men and women from the army for stepping in to fill up the gap.

As ever, if you have any queries about what’s happening, or anything else that’s on your mind, feel free to reply to this email or call my constituency on 01707 262632.

With warm wishes,

Grant.

P.S. You can view the list of 24 measures I’ve taken to resolve the long-term lorry driver shortage by clicking this link.

You were lucky to get anything. Liam Werrity Fox only ever responds to praise. I'm still waiting for a reply to 2 emails I sent him concerning Dominic Cummings in May 2020.

P.S. You can view the list of 24 measures I’ve taken to resolve the long-term lorry driver shortage by clicking this link.

🤣

And how many have worked?

None!

Who are these demented flagwavers that I know not about?

Tarring? Not at all. I didn't say they were all demented, did I..? There are flag wavers and there are demented flag wavers.

Is "mented" the opposite of "demented"?

I looked up the Heights of Abraham earlier... guess what, they closed for the year on Sunday too

Today, had a lovely walk round the Derwent reservoirs. Tomorrow, it's off to Manchester on the train to visit the Science and Industry Museum.

Starting to think I'm cursed 

Ok, so we took a trip to the MoSI today... I particularly wanted to see the old station & goods shed, and the aerospace building. 

Yup, you guessed it. Both exhibits are closed.

FFS.

Lovely spot Rich, I'm only 40 minutes away but rarely go.  Try and take in Chatsworth if you've not been before

Rather a long way from Dorset, or Berkeley Square...

Pomarance, Italy

Ah well.  Thanks anyway, and I hope it's been back

Better than the bullock that was complaining outside my window all night because his bro bullock escaped yesterday and was deposited in a different field...

Thanks Mick.

My Musical Director in the choir years ago said that I was as sharp as a sausage.  Good to know I can still hack it.

How does one pleasure a turkey, exactly? Asking for a friend

Why, gobble gobble gobble, of course.