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Absolutely the right call if the thrill is gone, Dave. It breaks my heart to think of not reading your gig reports, though!

Had a lot of fun mucking about with a mate who was in my last band tonight. We're looking to get another band of some sort together and played stuff by Therapy?, The Levellers, The Wildhearts and Allison Russel for an hour or two. I thoroughly enjoyed it and am really keen to get back into action after a long layoff.

My thoughts too; I used a Squier J tuned C F A# D# and had no problems through a 2x15 and I used the same 45-105 strings (Roto's) that I used in standard tuning.

Do farmers do magic tricks better than magicians grow triticale?

Just jump in, I reckon. That works for me.

Yeah, definitely LPB. I had a Strat in LPB and it was identical. Cracking bass at a bargainous price, my friend.

Wow, that's a really smart. I love a good bitsa. What is it like with the tone fully up? I've not experimented with capacitor values on a bass before and as I don't use the top half of the tone pot's sweep very often I wonder if a lower value cap might be fun on one of my basses. Cracking job all round, sir!

Penthouse?

I'll give you £6.37, a squirrel and a date with my sister for that nice LP bass....

You sound like you've used that line successfully before!

I'll be there on the Saturday. I'll be the handsome one.

Glad to hear you've made a positive move, Dave. That's the way things go, sometimes, and it sounds as if you've been ready to make the jump for a while. Best of luck in your future endeavours.

That's just showing off! I remember seeing the guitar that Simon made for Prince (well, one of them) and being blown away by it. The Gus instruments are so far away from what I play but I would love one, because they're a real sight to behold and are very original. Yours is a real beauty.

Cheers - I think I may need to do a bit of Youtube-fu and see what it could do for me.

Another vote for this; there's very little to actually go wrong, and barring something truly bizarre the solder joints or a short would be my suspicion.

For me it's my Cali76 Compact; I love the way it gives me my sound, but bigger and fatter. I'm feeling the need for a crazier overdrive/fuzz, and the Holy Island Mountain mover (thanks to @0175westwood29 for the inspiration!) looks like it might fit the bill nicely.

I'm "learning" this; it's a blast from my past and it's ridiculously easy; I'm having fun with it nonetheless!

What fresh heresy is this?! Have a word with yourself, boy!

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That's a great montage, Cat. Here's to the next 35 years (you'll still be there!).

Did you play "Unknown Legend"?!

I've been listening to "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis" a lot this week.

I gig with what I like to play. I have pedals that cost me more than one of my favourite basses, for example, but that's just happenstance - I like the pedals and I like the basses. None of my gear is top end, but it's workmanlike and reliable. I like to tinker and upgrade bits and pieces here and there but I'm not precious about having the "best" gear, really. My Jazz Bass is an early 1990's plywood Korean job with crap tuners, poverty-spec electrics and nasty ceramic pickups, but it plays well and sounds surprisingly good. I have a Player P that I bought new a couple of years back, and that's probably my "highest" end bass.

I had an identical pair of New Rocks back in the day. A friend of our drummer made disparaging remarks about them and I went off him a bit. Fun fact; the next time I saw him he'd just lost control of his car and driven into the forecourt of a car sales place at 60-odd, totalling his 205 GTi and about fifteen other vehicles.

@StingRayBoy42.... You're a very busy chap, aren't you?! It was all going so well, and then you mentioned Morris dancing. We can still be friends (just).