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Lobster has done a full review now and they sound niiiiice!

Ah, the Duck Dunn brigade

Instrument cables: A. Speaker and power cables (both <1m long) I just fold in two until it reaches a point I can fit it in my bag.

It sounds killer in both positions, I don't think I've played it enough to have a clear favourite yet.

I have a relatively small gig next weekend (cricket club) and am very tempted to use it there.

I had the gain at noon and volume at about 10.30 and it kept up nicely. The band was well impressed.

First outing for the Elf at rehearsal today. I will definitely be leaving the ABM at home for future rehearsals!

Back at the scene of the crime last night, where the ABM500 I'd borrowed from @merton decided that power amps were passé and decided to blow its one, taking down some other bits with it. I only had two people ask me if I was going to blow an amp this time... Fortunately the new ABM600 held up nicely and sounded amazing, let down only by its operator missing a cue and coming in half a bar too late on one song, causing us to have to stop and start again, but other than that everything went well. Apparently I was too loud, but oh well 🤣 I even managed in this unlikeliest of venues to find a kindred spirit with whom I reminisced about 80s kids TV shows, and agreeing that excluding Tom Bombadil from the LOTR trilogy was a good decision. The band's tab was also comped by the guy whose 65th birthday party it was, which is a great thing in a brewery tap! Back rehearsing tomorrow before the next gig Saturday week.

That's Ryan Gosling, my dude...

Here's one I wasn't aware of...

It is very fun to play!

Yeah, usually a verse and a chorus of Enola Gay as it's pretty simple, or maybe more if it's a particularly faffy setup.

As well as all the excellent points made above, I find having a good interaction with the audience helps, not just the reaction to what we've played. That can even happen afterwards, getting compliments is always nice

I use one of these: https://www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_gs_3500_b.htm. It works very well, never had a problem with it.

It seems it's quite similar in not being consistent with candy apple red. When I had a CAR Jazz no photograph I took, in any lighting, really represented the actual colour of the bass in real life.

A fairly in-depth view: I think this cements my decision to save for the Sadowsky. If it's $1150 then that means it'll be around £900 based on today's exchange rates, which means it should hopefully be a merry Christmas for me!

All the current models are being heavily discounted everywhere at the moment so they're definitely imminent.

I really like his bass playing (and enjoying playing Girls & Boys and Country House in our current set) but I went off him after he suggested that playing bass was easy. I know Dave Mustaine has said the same recently but I've always thought he was a bit of a See You Next Tuesday. The man does make some lovely cheese as well though.

Great action shot!

Sire for sure

A friend of mine who is much more musically-educated likes to call that rhythm "the 12/8 plod" (see also Black Velvet, etc)