Rich

Sound of da Police - KRS-One

I shudder to think of the weight. I slipped a disc just looking at the photo.

Hell yes, the more the merrier.

This, entirely and absolutely. For me, by far and away the most useful aspect of a 5 stringer. The main reason I still use a 5 with one of my bands is that some of the songs are an absolute arrse to play up and down the neck on a 4 and are far easier across a 5.

Also this. More of a vocal tool than anything, I used it for live harmony BVs with a band I was in many many years ago, since when it's been gathering dust. It's been around the block as you can see by the rack ears, but it's working fine. I never tried it with instruments, I imagine it should work for them too. It's too big to be a paperweight and the wrong shape for a doorstop. I've got a copy of the manual knocking around somewhere. No power supply, but it takes a bog ordinary 9v power supply and only draws 250mA.

This here.

We rehearse there too, come to think of it my FX were dreadfully noisy a couple of times a while back. I assumed it was my cheap crappy 9v power plug.

Which rehearsal room do you use?

Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl

I played 5s almost exclusively for a good 20 years or so, but in the last 3 or 4 years I've started using 4s again too with one of my bands. For no reason other than I've got a couple of nice 4s and wanted to use them, and the big fat string wasn't seeing any action in that band. At the end of the day it's your money & your choice. Do what's comfortable and what makes you happy. Keep your 5, get a 4 and see how you get on. If you decide to stick with one or the other, that's cool.

Skinhead Moonstomp · Symarip

A lawn Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan

+1 for this. I had a Focusrite Platinum Trakmaster and the sound was cleanliness personified. A superb bass preamp if purity is your thing.

Scuba Snacks - Fun Lovin' Criminals

Whelkome Home - Peters & Lee

I'm going to wear a ludicrous shirt in memory of Simon. No way I can compete with this one though!

Big Seven - Judge Dread

Ditto the above. 🤞

"three guiding principles... need to be inscribed on the wall of every live venue: 1. Shut Up. 2. Put Your Phone Away. 3. Don’t Be a Richard." Amen to that. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/14/behaviour-music-gigs-live-shows?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1Xr7PF_feLvx8VI4eE7eg1rR5V2BxVtOigsvCxFuKg5VPkg2r7CU6Rf4M

That is the best thing anyone's said to me all year 😋

Close Action - Big Country

Not to me, you haven't

Yes, that too

FTFY.

When the two bands I was in (quite a few years apart) that were most likely to break through, didn't. One of them was agonisingly close. Somewhere in a 'sliding doors' parallel universe, there's a version of me that's as rich as Croesus.