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People who complain about the colour of scratchplates without acknowledging that the real problem is the existence of scratchplates.

I have sacrificed myself for the sake of finding out about the M-Vave Blackbox. I don't think I can get away with claiming it as a Tier 2 as it can be used for both bass and guitar, and I'll be using it for bass (and possibly guitar too).

Seeing as the M-Vave Blackbox can currently be had for £35 off Aliexpress, it would be rude not to. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007539930625.html Note: there are three options - the Blackbox is £35.39, the other two which are called ANN Blackbox are £60. I don't know if there's any internal difference. Due to arrive by Feb 1st.

Why don't they give the weights in proper instead of groats and furlongs, or at least as well of them? I don't want to have to divide things by 2.2 to get a proper answer. Perhaps they don't want to sell outside primitive countries.

As the successor to the Tecamp Puma 900, the Eich T900 would get my vote.

All of my 5s are 34" scale length and they seem fine.

They went flying off the shelves when they first came out and not everyone will get on with 5 strings and/or headlesses. Or they may find the neck profile not entirely to their liking, or the sound.

The practical difference being?

The BlingRay?

There's a switch on them specially for you.

One song that regularly gets misplayed is Bad Moon Rising. It's not in either band's setlist but I've done it previously, and encounter it fairly regularly at open mic nights. The first and second choruses only go round once, the final one goes round twice (or more, depending on how it's ended) but a lot of the time people do the first and second choruses as double length ones.

A.C.UR.!BL

That does mean there will be a rogue BL gone feral in Gloucester. Possible future entertainment from the JMB adverts.

Oddly, it took months before I realised it was in 7/8 - I'd simply been playing what I heard on the original track and the guitarist was playing it right, it hadn't clicked that it didn't quite fit into normal length bars. I was in a club band which went out in various forms, sometimes the guitarist was the singer and other times we had a singer. He could hit the right notes, in the right order, but song structures were a bit of a mystery to him, so the rest of us were quite adept at following him into a verse where there should have been a chorus, or vice versa, or bringing the vocals in seven bars into a 12-bar guitar solo. Still, that wasn't permanent structure changes, they were very very temporary.

It's how the last couple of basses I've had from China have been packaged.