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Ya - sorry my copy and quote, copied the quoters? It was a pooly written sentance by me, what i think Bassfinger is saying quite correctly. The court will decide if the Trained qualified tester was doing the job as trained and kept good records to back this up. And would also challenge the uncertified nominated tester ( competent person) as to his actions and record keeping but would also focus on why he believes he is competent for this role - in light of incident being brought to court. A far more uncomfortable situation. I am under no illusion that a passionate and conscientious tester without qualifications, can do this perfectly safely and maybe better than someone with a certificate that is not conscientious. The court will decide. My main driver on this is that, If you run a band and lets say will be playing at someones wedding that has been a year in the planning and you and your band mates may be travelling many miles to fullfill that gig, why would you risk being turned away at the door over PAT testing. Also why would you risk not having insurance to cover expensive equipment and to indemnify you against financial risk. Or Why, as has been indicated on other threads would you just buy PAT test stickers from screwfix. In hope of putting people off the scent.? Just to get back on track of ownership of images, We got an e-mail once with reference to images on our website that i had downloaded from the web. Just nice colour lighting washes of a stages. It was a good mood setting image to have some band info words over on various pages. I never replied but did remove them and found others that did not upset anyone. So it doesn't need to be someones face just a registered photographers property.

We have been on this subject a few times. PAT & PLI So here is my bit again. Not picking on these two individual comments but as examples of, so don't beat me up. As an electrician and later a lecturer in H&S inc Electrical safety. There are certified courses run to train individuals on PAT testing - been there done that. Though this does not stop a competant individual doing this without a certificate but removes that ambiguity, one less thing to prove in court. I have had individuals that were on the course that simply needed that certificate to get a job or extra pay for that role. So mindful of their reasons for being there my emphasis was always around due diligence, which is why all H&S law is written very openly, so you need to prove you have done all that was reasonably practical to avoid that situation that may occure. So I went to great lengths to emphasise that this was not about buying a tester and pressing a button. But inspection and understanding how the equipment would be used and where etc. Many bits of kit i have tested and passed on the machine I have later, on inspection seen things that were dangerous inside and required rectifying or scrapping. As a Band you have a collective responsibility to each other your audience and the venue. Under H&S Law "by your acts and omissions" So what you do and what you fail to do to avoid danger. Prove that you care and are a professional outfit that people will want to hire. If money is changing hands for you to perform, you are a business and the hirer or other third parties may wish to persue you for losses or damages. So get insured MU is good for legal advice. Playing the bass is the easy part 😁

Yes very sad, I thought she was very good on the radio, knowledgeable with a good style and manner. With Keith gone too young, brother Jeff must be really cut up. Some families seem to have more than their fair share of tragedy. I often think of Keiths second wife who also died young and so left a son without either parents.

I have had to play a few funky bass numbers during my function band days, and would say that even if the bass player and drummer have it down, if the guitarist doesn't do the right things and leave the holes you've created and have that same feel for the grove, just strumming chords in time doesn't help make the piece work and feel right. In fact puts you off what you have learnt.

Firefox may be the issue lots of comments on there, about spell checking issues

i thhenk i havve donne it noww it is on in the browser settings on English, also restarted the computer but from the above dosent seem to have worked, I'll ask a boy Cheers

Just wondered if or why there is no auto spell checker, it used to prompt you when replying to posts, but mine no longer warns me of my poor spelling ? is it me / my computer ? Cheers

If you find your radio isn't on - your late for Church

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Here is another that needs to be added https://www.atbguitars.com/store/products/basses/ and https://bassbros.co.uk/category/bass-guitars/

And this of course

I ended up a fingers only man but i am aware that limited me on some numbers. 20 years ago I always had a pick in my pick guard ready for certain numbers Here is one almost impossible with fingers I just about got away with it. If you listen to it closely you will hear how the pick is used to bounce down across one string and then up stroke the next string as the song was recorded. I have the dots for this if anyone is interested PM me

But just like going out on the bike this winter and being aware through your experience, It sounds like you already have a good awareness of the greasy leaves and the cats eyes that crop up in the band situation 👍 Edit - There are people you know that you probably would want on the back of your bike.

Great comments here, Skinnyman summed it up for me. I have had similar issues in the past, but one thing we always did as a band was agree on what version of the song we were learning. The Single as played by the BBC 🙂 ? album version. or maybe specific Radio edit? Hopefully everyone had done their homework come rehearsal day, but my Mrs (singer ) would always have a tape or CD player there to iron out any points that individuals had forgot. That way there is no arguement. To back that up I would get drummer to agree to stick to the record. Mistakes happen, Vocalist may drop a verse etc or guitar may forget the bridge ? Then as a one off thats where everyones musicianship steps in. The ability to use your ears and know where to jump. This is so the audience don't even know something has happened. Lastly Volume, my pet hate. Agree that it is too loud in the rehearsal room and you can't continue like this. and at gigs look at the venue and comment to each other that we'll need to keep it down in here due to people eating and wanting to talking. We would have a quiet set 1 and then a louder bopping 2nd -3rd as required. We would also supply recorded dinner music so we did not always have to play while people were eating and socialising at the start of the evening.

Just to re cap on pfretrock's wiring diagrams - how have you wired these two pairs of pups ? could you draw this out for us (me) just want to check back over what i did on my five string pictured above. My pups do have reversed poles on each pair, so a north and a south on each set, but as i later changed from vol, tone vol, tone to installing a pup balance pot So this is now Vol, balance and tone, tone. Could someone just reasure me to how this should be wired and i'll go check and draw mine out. I just wondered but i guess if wrong it would either be a dead short or hum. I was thinking of changing this back to my original pot layout but I always find i prefer any bass with two pups to have them both on full anyway 😄 the two controls interacted and each tone also affects output of the overall sound. Cheers

That sounds like a plan Bunny That was when we started enjoying it more, a gig every other week seemed to be a good balance. I would settle now for a small 60's band just playing the bass - someone else can do the P.A. and lighting duties, No chasing the gigs or running the Van, Bliss.

Hi Blue, glad to hear you are well and easing your way back into the madness, Like most of you guys Bass is what makes life fun. I took early retirement 5 years ago, don't know where that time went 65 now. I'm with Mr Finn my attitude has changed and now more selective. Think my first paid function gig was 1974. Everything has changed now, back then you could drive over and put a card in someones hand the phone would always ring. and you just needed a couple of good agents who knew the business to get you into places you didn't know. Now the customer doesn't know from a website if your are genuinly a local band or a bunch of deps based 200 miles away. i don't want to spend hours managing a band persona on line (facebook twitter etc) when the best website gets the gig and maybe not the best band. So Big band jazz is my main outlet now and enjoying it. No bad back, no Van on the drive, No web site to maintain with all that entails, (pictures, video, recordings), and No tax man to worry about Take it east out there guys

I do like their sound and back catalogue. Like many of you on BC who play or have played in a basic Guitar / Bass / Drum setup There is knowhere to hide and your contribution has to be very relevant to the song. So he gets my vote without having to dissect his every track.

I can recommend the Stellartone Tone Styler Passive Tone Control, as a direct replacement, they give a broader range of tones in increments than the the old pots with fixed Cap' that drops off a cliff after just a fraction of a turn. You can look them up on the Bassdirect site - other establishments may keep them.

Very Rare - The Bikini Atoll prototype, Leo went back to the traditional passive Tele basses in the mid 50's after the test as he found the early active models didn't stand up well to the initial blast.

The Saga continues - having posted the wooden contraption video to our guitarist, saying I have him sorted for Christmas. He replied saying he has one in the roof he bought back in the late 50's. Today he proved it. Just to show there isn't much that is new in the world these days.

Just to add to the debate, I watched the Freddie tribute concert again last night and noticed all three precisions i saw him playing had high mass bridges fitted, maybe he has a neck dive issue ? just saying 😁

Here is my effort to achieeve this, made with a little help from the boys at Shuker central

You got me going now - trying to find that i came across this and now know what to get my guitarist for christmas 😁