Merton

Glorious!

He clearly needs to spend more time on BC 😃

Didn’t see an Wals on the FS list so you’ll be ok 🤓

Last night I had to learn Girls Just Wanna Have Fun for a gig today. So now I’ve got I Wanna Dance With Somebody stuck in my head instead. 🤔

I was just saying exactly the same to Mrs Mert - you’ve saved me typing it out! Have a great day everyone

PS I saw this in an unfinished state about 5 weeks ago and it was a stunner then, this is just A-MAZ-ING

Bloody superb!

Awesome! Like HJ I also know a very good drummer for this but he’s loud and obnoxious so I’ll use YT instead 🤓

At work I’ve dealt with DHL (“Dispatch It, Hide It, Lose It”), UPS (we all know the acronym @Dood came up with!), TNT (“Totally Not Trustworthy”), DPD, DX, Tufnell, Parcelfarce..... blah blah. They all have good days and bad. Parcelfarce once delivered £10k worth of bespoke equipment to a front garden. UPS went through a phase of not collecting. DX couldn’t find a customer with whom we’d been dealing for 30 years. Everyone is human and it sounds in the OP’s case the the driver has apologised which is good, but sometimes the customer service can feel exasperating. It’d be nice if all these courier woes needed happily really!

Beautiful

Yes. Perhaps a variable one, but if not then a Thumpinator-style HPF would be fine.

The Tetris theme 😳

This. You can make it sound quite old school very easily! If you do find a suitable new amp and need to offload the Walkabout, please please PM me

This is going to be a stunner! Alan’s basses are superb

If I were gigging more than I am then I think I’d have had that by now!

Very nice! I heard you talking about this on PR last week sometime so it’s great to see these pics, even if the strap and trainers clash with the bass itself 🤓😜 I’ve only ever played a Ric once and loved its clang and the neck but like you failed to get on with it for fingerstyle. Perseverance is the key I’m sure 🙂

Lovely!

Your first post says you have two speaker outs on the amp? Should be fine

I never had an issue with it! The panels are interchangeable but it’s a bit of a bugger to do so I haven’t bothered

I concur. They’ve replaced things, fixed things, generally been good eggs whenever I go in or need help.

Yeah it irked me tbh when it became clear that I was the least important member! Being a band designed to entertain kids it isn’t as loud as a normal band but still makes little sense. I guess their thinking is that the left hand of the keys can handle low end duties...

I am in exactly the same boat in the kids band I play in. Normally a 5 piece, they have a sliding pricing scale of duo (vocals and either guitar or keys), trio, quartet (add in the drums) or quintet with me. I reckon I do about 30% of their gigs. Our situation is of course a bit different - charging over £500 for a full band for a kid’s 8th birthday is probably a bit steep for most (even here in Surrey 😜) hence the sliding scale, I just find it quite irritating that the bass is the first to be dropped. If there’s a date I can’t do they don’t always bother getting a dep, they just take more money each! So... I know how you feel. I’ve just decided to suck it up. Until I hit 40 and quit because it’ll be a bit weird

Edit - thodrik is correct