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Send me kr100 and I won't have a problem with it 😁

A sixty (?) watt combo with a single 12" called a 'Syncron'. It was utterly dreadful. I remember, young and clueless as I was, I still got a sinking feeling when I first heard a bass through it.

I'll just leave this here for now...

Have a thing for piano black finishes lately. The Nordstrand in my other Prestige MS5 sounds really great and the preamp is useful, too. This new SR line has an upgraded preamp with the hexa mid system for what it worth. There is a 5506, pretty much the same specs with different woods and finish. One thing I'm noticing tha the bodies are wider than they used to be and i'm not liking it.

Actually I totally mistranslated "cardiology" in my mind as being cancer-related. D'oh! It is of course heart-related.

A Marshmallow World - Bing Crosby

The Kino album is worth a listen too.

Welcome Helios! Also, well done on being. Rickenbacker owner - my wife knows exactly how much money cost, as she bought it for me about 25 years ago (don't think she knows how much they're worth now though....😆😆)

Can anyone tell me if Schecter make a left handed J4 Exotic?

Such sad news... Sam was a lovely person and valued member of our community. I had many a good chat with her around the time of her flat fire. RIP Sam, you will be missed x

Looking forward to hearing how you get on with it - I nearly got the Guild myself, but really wanted a single cutaway so held out for a good sale price on the Martin. ,😁👍

Great band: classic divide with some hating post-Fish but that’s all a bit “Metallica after the Black album were rubbish”. The early work is pretty brilliant but even there I found a lot of the slower/softer tracks mawkish and bleurgh, and it’s the longer, proggier tracks I prefer, mainly because of the guitar playing. They do a two or three day event at Port Zelande every year recently that I tend to listen on Spotify when it appears). And I recall them doing fanclub releases way back when too; they really survive on their fan loyalty. Some of the early H stuff I have found poppy and so-so, but having re-listened to their entire catalogue several times there’s some amazing music on there: Afraid of Sunlight, Real Tears for Sale, No One Can are all great tunes, H is a heck of a singer. Some of their longer works are pretty epic listens: Estonia, Ocean Cloud… Steve R has done some good solo albums that are worth a listen also. I think he was once described as somewhere between Andy Latimer and David Gilmour. I’ve liked Pete’s playing since the first Transatlantic album. He probs would get mentioned more if he played at the front and did wild things, but he doesn’t (nor does he need to)

It’s an insane bit of kit

I hope it works out, but...subs have to be considerably larger than mains, which means heavier, for the same reason that basses have longer necks and larger strings than guitars. Otherwise we'd use guitars tuned an octave lower.

I paid $350 for my '65 Bassman. That was the average monthly wage at that time in the US. I paid the same for my '65 Jazz Bass.

I didn't take a pic but Amber's new bridge (not pictured below) weighed in at 188g. I've amended the calculations to reflect that. It's all installed now and she still rocks. No A/B comparison as I changed the strings, polished the frets with the FRTLZR up to 7000 grade (lovely job, if do I say so myself), detuned and set up to Eb Standard with EXL170 Balanced Tension 45, 60, 80, 107 strings to a nice low but not-too-low action. She's pure gig rig now and really sweet.

Am a little shocked by this news. Very sad. 😞

Too much boom boom drums, we’ll sack the monitor/IEM engineer. Too much overplaying, Rog, it’s The Who, you used to have Moon The Loon on the sticks!

Very sad news indeed, Sam was one of the first BC'ers to welcome me and always took the time to help me out. A very sad loss indeed. Bless you, Sam xx

I've spent a bit of time in Montana over the years (it's beautiful). I used to think there were lots of gays there, until I realised they were real cowboys. I went to a wild party after a gig in Missoula back in the 1980s and all I can say is the locals were anything but conservative.

He was a properly good bloke and really down to earth when he came to the last SE Bass Bash - and absolutely hilarious. How many players of his stature would leave his original Betsy and the Spector he used to record Like a Prayer sitting on stage after his talk and say, “I’ll just leave those there if anyone wants to have a go on them…”? Barry Moorhouse brought a range of his Bass Collection basses to try out and I can confirm that the Betsy copies are really, really nice. Properly tempted. Enjoy it! I’m not the slightest bit jealous, honest!

I saw them with Fish twice, back in the 80s, including the epic Reading '83 set. Then on my birthday in 2021, with Steve Hogarth. I was given the ticket as a present and thoroughly enjoyed it.

All of these bands should have packed it in decades ago. Surely they could pass an Act of Parliament or something. How long can the agony be allowed to continue? It's like watching a geriatric Arthur Askey break his hip trying to disco dance for the amusement of his fellow care home residents. Would be nice if they replaced Zak with Dr David Starkey, right-wing constitutional historian. I don't think he can play the drums ( that would probably Daltrey fine) but he could give the audience some very insightful observations about the cultural context of songs like My Generation and Won't Get Fooled Again while Roger and Pete have their Tena pants changed during the interval.