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Agreed, especially re venues closing 😕

"Dress code applies" ?

I’m not surprised the bass was lively - using an SVT /8x10 set up in a smallish pub! Didn’t know people were still doing this, but strangely glad they are…..🙂

Laney have removed their content of his as well. On Friday they released a custom colour for the Lionheart Fountry with Giacomo all over the marketing. All pulled. Yikes.

Thanks for the heads up Gary.

I just noticed that I said it had started misbehaving "after 20 years" - that should be: "after 40 years" !

Good plan, I will make a hawkwind tribute called Motorhead I guess it would be a better name than Lost Johnny!

More pickguard chat - what year did Fender start making white pearloid?

Thanks Downunder - a good suggestion but sadly no I don't think it's corroded socket contacts. It doesn't have an FX loop, just preamp line-outs which don't interrupt the signal path. I've been over the internal plugged connectors from the preamp to the power amp to clean them, Deoxit etc. - though I should go over it all again to be on the safe side. Both the front panel input sockets behave the same (and after plenty of wiggling etc.), multiple good input leads tried (and the leads are fine in any case when DI'd into an audio interface). There is an open frame preset potentiometer on the power amp board - some sort of bias adjuster presumably - which looks a bit exposed to the elements so although it has been bedded in that position for years the contact point may have deteriorated I suppose. A bit more digging to be done today..

A very fine bass indeed and I bet that neck just glides like Torvill and Dean? Enjoy for a very, very long time. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Undeniable! 😂

Yeah, I agree. As ever, the pickguard is the Achilles heel, but I can live with it.

Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun - Beastie Boys

It is a shame that venues are closing everywhere and musicians can barely earn enough money to survive, let alone prosper. Yet it is lucrative to make short-form and/or blatantly fake content on social media. It seems wrong that the best outlet for creativity now is basically hyper-performant shredding videos filmed in the spare bedroom. Doctored, sped up, mixed from a billion takes etc. My band sometimes records with guys who mainly focus on technical djent-y style metal. They always put down a grid and snap everything to it. They punch in individual notes. They put wraps on the strings at the headstock to remove unwanted overtones. It is beyond clinical, and YouTube musicians just seem a sort of weird additional couple of rungs on this musical spiral. Superhuman performances.

It's just people showing off, isn't it? That's as old as time itself, but I don't understand why you'd want to waste time watching it...

Magnificent dead-eyed bass face there 😁😎🤘🤘

I Fort The Law - The Clash

Midi Vanilli?

The advantage is that 95% of Hawkwind song names would work as a name for the band. There was a Hawkwind tribute locally to me looking for a synth player. I was tempted as I have a Moog Rogue and an equally vintage analogue echo unit, but I figured it would get boring quite quickly and I would rather be playing bass.

Tread very carefully, as it's easy to effectively move the problem along the board. Literally do a couple of strokes of the files and keep on checking for rocking on the adjacent frets. Also make sure that the fret that you suspect is causing the problem, is actually seated in properly. Sometimes all that is required is a gentle tap with a light weight hammer.