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It controls you? 😆

I've started the neck carve and the final sanding. With the neck I still have probably 1mm to take off the thickness and I have to move from a U profile to a D. With the sanding, I have to do the cutouts, the tail, anything I've missed and then re-establish the edge radii. But, as many of you will know, I find it very useful to apply a quick coat of Tru-oil as a 'revealer'. I don't know about other builders, but I find it exceptionally difficult to spot sanding marks, dips and dints in a dry sanded body. So still loads to do here, but that sealing coat gives a decent indication of the wood tones that will be there in the finished article. So it's time for a mockup : I think that's very promising

Kyle already owns the biggest music instrument manufacturing brand in Korea called Dame. Through a process of mostly unbelievable luck as well as diligence, he established Sire with Marcus Miller without any industry support or representation in the US. Kyle describes the US musical instrument industry as a cartel (37:50 and 49:00) because despite having Marcus Miller on board, noone at NAMM 2009 was interested in representing the brand. Kyle also mentions that, according to Marcus, his instruments were directly responsible for the break between Marcus and Fender (40:00). They also talk about how bass prices for established bass brands have crept up way beyond the costs of manufacture (21:30/22:00) which kind of ties into the Ernie Ball Specials thread. It's a long watch at 90min but worth it if you're interested in a discussion about the state of the industry.

Duke tour was last time i saw Genesis. Saw them in Edinburgh then Glasgow where i met Phil Collins who bought our lunch. Happy days. He was such a nice guy and very down to earth. I have a huge respect for him. Dave

My wonderful wife has very few flaws. but one thing I cannot accept is the relentless use of voice notes instead of text messages by her and her mates, and colleagues. On WhatsApp they press and hold the mic icon and witter on about whatever, so an inordinate amount of my life is spent listening to... ”well, she came round and I was like - what you doing here at this time, and I was like...” and ”are we doing week 3 of Macbeth with year eleven from Tuesday or Wednesday because I’ve not got the PowerPoint ready yet” It does my head in. So on another thread I posted some music. I’d already sent it to a select few - now @Cuzzie is someone who I respect massively and I really appreciate his enthusiasm and healthy constructive criticism... Today was different, he replied with...A VOICE NOTE. Not one for swearing or violence... here’s how I replied

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Yup. Brexit was a brilliant idea and Covid will all be over and done with by May. There's optimistic, and there's just plain delusional.

It says I can't answer that.

Ebola lasted for 3 years (although they still have outbreaks now). We have 38000 people in hospital in the UK and 1400 Covid deaths yesterday, and during the week it almost hit 2000 per day. The UK doesn't have a robust test and trace system, it's always too slow and doesn't react hard enough. The result is that the UK is never ahead of the situation. In many ways the whole of Europe is treating this as flu outbreak. In countries that have dealt with it more effectively it's been treated as SE Asia treated the SARS outbreak... EDIT: And just to illustrate where priorities are in the UK, I've just seen on my Facebook feed that Taunton Race Course, which is one of the mass vaccination centres (aiming to vaccinate 900 people a day) was closed today for...the horse racing meet.

The pandemic isn't coming over here taking our jobs! Oh...........wait..........

Told ya, told ya, ner ner 'n' ner ner! 😉😄

Pickups turned up yesterday so I've got them routed out today! (they look wonky but it's just to angle I took the pic) Next job is control cavity 👍🏻

One of my favourite things about my Roland VB99 is the selection of compressors built in. They’re (mostly) transparent, effective and most of all silent. They really are everything I could need and offer lots of adjustment not normally found in a pedal or rack format and also it’s great to save a setting for each bass. Trouble is that the Roland isn’t that portable especially considering it’s plunked into my home setup so centrally with all the cables etc hidden, so I’ve usually had a compressor pedal to take when going to a practice or jam. I’ve been using a Carl Martin Compressor/Limiter for a while and recently got another with the built in plug as usually it’s the only pedal I use. I really like them but have found that in the studio it does introduce a little noise and slight high roll off. Before that I used the Boss LMB3 which I thought was fantastic for the price. None of us are going out to play at the moment so I thought I’d get some new compressors to try at home in my unnecessarily strict test environment so I’m ready for the things I have booked in from the Spring. My main requirements: - Super quiet - High ratio/limiting - Battery option is a bonus - As transparent is possible at low ratio/high threshold with no tone loss Enter the FEA Opti-fet- I’ll give it a go on Monday, doubt I’ll get a chance before then. Sounds like a worthy competitor...

Unfortunately for the "plucky Brits " story, there absolutely is a playbook. WHO has one that was followed by New Zealand. Anyone know what the current COVID stats are in New Zealand?

Interesting that you assume everyone who loves the old TE sound is a King-obsessed slap monster. Not the case at all, I can assure you.

And the Luminlays are in:

It’s funny how quickly people were willing to sign up to closing the borders over fears of immigrants, but a deadly global pandemic and we wait almost a year 🤦🏻‍♂️

My two Ibanez basses. I had an SR300 a few years ago as well. The SRH500 is lovely. It gets really close to an upright sound (especially if you put it through a piezo tone correction pedal; e.g. Zoom AC 3, or TCE BodyRez). It’s light, ergonomic and I love the neck. In fact it’s so good I have been thinking of putting a precision pickup in it and only having one bass at gigs. The Affirma is a bit more marmite. Also light and ergonomic but a bit on the bright side for my purposes. I am thinking of trying it with flats, or tape wound to see if that makes it rounder. The string spacing is a bit of a stretch for my short fingers but compensated by a shallow neck.

I've got an Indonesian Lakland and it's a real quality piece of kit. Conversely, I've played American Fenders anf Gibsons that have been garbage.

I find the idea of pre marking a time as when things can open up again rather stupid. Stuff should open up when it is safe to open up, not at some prefixed date of when things should open up. We have had a much harder time of it than pretty well all other countries. Just do the hard thing now so we don't have to keep dragging it out

Absolutely stunning @Andyjr1515, I keep coming back to perv at this thread, even when there's no new posts! Eude

There's a thin line between blind optimism and stupidity

1: Fool For Your Loving This is what I played on Fool For Your Loving on Whitesnake's Ready An' Willing album from 1980, as accurate as I can manage. Fool For Your Loving NM tab.pdf

One in one out... out bass was a £500...in Bass £1750 still...one in...one out...

No, I wouldn’t want to bet on when pub gigs will get back to normal, because frankly I haven’t got a clue when that will be. We are currently running at around 1,500 Covid deaths per day and Britain has the highest number of deaths per capita in Europe. This is expected to last well into February. The UK’s vaccination programme is running into serious logistical problems (like others in Europe), but British exceptionalism demands that we create a few headline figures so the UK is pressing ahead with maximising the number of people who get the first vaccine without the follow up dose. Of course, this will do little to stop the spread of the pandemic. The only gig I’ve got in the diary for this year is a club in May. Until a couple of months ago, I was relatively optimistic that this would go ahead. However, this has been overtaken by events and we will not be doing that gig (and I doubt that the club would consider going ahead with it). As it happens, this was double booked with a mate’s wedding (already postponed from a year ago). They will go ahead with a small ceremony, but the big wedding and reception was cancelled before Christmas. I suppose that it is possible that there might be some sort of outside gigs with a socially distanced audience in the summer, but I’m not expecting to play a proper gig until winter next year at the earliest, quite possibly early 2022. I hope that there the Govt learn their lesson and don’t cave in and allow live music / pubs to open without restrictions too soon, otherwise we will be in the same position this time next year, wondering if there will be in any gigs before January 2023…!

Everyone is aware of the difference, it seems its only you who cant grasp the point being made about claiming "World class" status, for anything. Who cares, just do what is needed to get us out of this and stop making stupid nationalistic claims.

"Range?" Sorry, just to confirm that word again. "RANGE?!!" Trace Elliot have a sad window corner in crack converters where their new products (sorry - range) is covered in dust because nobody wants it. The 12 band Peavey era was great. This new stuff is pish.

I bought one last a few weeks ago. It's absolutely superb. So punchy and clear. I'd say it's better than the pre in the abm. There are loads of wiring options and tonal adjustments. The drive is a proper drive rather than the warmer on the ABMs. Very loud, very solid pre. I got mine from pmt where it was indeed labelled the "FS origin" pedal, but it was in fact the new "originAL". £199 compared to £379. It's a big saving.

I think a lot of people do

Lonely Days, Lonely Nights from the 1981 album Come An' Get It. Lonely Days Lonely Nights.pdf

In daylight it does nothing...photos in the dark and we all go..."Ooooo"

What, is Teresa May retiring?

Saturday morning wit a brew Strugglr .m4a

Like Steve, I believe this needs to stay on page 1....bump

Optimism is a wonderful thing but I've mentioned before it needs to be tempered with some realism. Look at all those poor folk who, right up until midday on Wednesday, were expecting Trump to remain as president. What is their fall back - It's still a fix? He didn't lie to us? Deep State? and other self talk to convince themselves that they're right and everyone else is wrong? @Al Krow I'd be keen to know what inside track you have on this fixed date of the end of May? To me it reads a bit like the old Donald Trump 'double down'! The whole world, I think, can acknowledge the collective effort to get a vaccine developed and out to the public as well as the logistical task of getting it distributed. What raises concerns for some of us and I'm in this camp is we're effectively looking at giving the vaccine 'off license' and it's not really, nor could it really have been, the panacea that it's been promised due to what appears to be the evolving strain and this off license use. I'd be surprised if the Boris Government don't suggest the cold snap is another goverement plan to stop the virus in it's tracks and will somehow lay claim to the weather as part of their strategic roll out across the country!

My point, which you obviously missed, was that making spurious claims regarding the "World beating" quality of anything is very much propaganda until proven to be so. As recent Covid history in Britain has shown.

4 years to get ready and we are still in the middle of nowhere : extraordinary ! There should be a stronger word than incompetence for this !

Here's what my pedalboard looks at the moment. C4 and Gemini are the most recent additions.

Hanging was never the same after they brought in VAR.

Ditto a few times, including backstage at the RAH that time he played Firth of Fifth with The Musical Box, and a lucky visit to his home and studio. Lovely humble and modest chap. I can confirm the original artwork for Spectral Mornings hangs in his downstairs loo.

Call yourself a bassist?? 30 years in you should have owned at least a million basses, 15 cats, had your own bee hive and taken a bus to Belgium to meet @Hellzero

I’ve been playing for just under 30 years, and have had less than 10 basses. I still have 3 of them!

And put your Allen key to the max in the bullet (that's the way it's called) post of the truss rod, because the alloy of the bullet is softer than your keep. Everything will be fine and you'll avoid rounding the inside Allen imprint and damaging it forever. Also use the correct Allen key (metric and imperial is not the same).

6. Transcription of Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City from Live In The Heart Of The City (1980). Some bits are hard to notate, with my ability anyway! Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City (live).pdf

2: Is This Love My transcription of my bass line from Whitesnake's Is This Love from the 1987 Whitesnake album. Is This Love.pdf