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More importantly, can you remember how to drive? 😄

Which Italia do you have? I briefly had a Mondial and quite liked it, although don't remember it being that light. My GAS has also been stopped by not having any gigs to justify buying anything! In fact, may be having a Covid enforced cull before too long. Trouble will be which ones go / stay - those I don't regularly use but just love having , or the ones that earn money but are less 'special' to me. Decisions decisions.....

Thanks Mart. I know exactly what you mean about the band thing. Not only is it my work but also a social activity too - am lucky/blessed to work with a great set of musicians and also guys in the crew who I have n't seen since March as well. We regularly have 4 week breaks from each other during December, but this now feels like an eternity. I've been walking every day in the countryside which is helping me a bit mentally, but that human interaction is still absent. I hope you manage to keep optimistic through this, and that your band can hold it together until things improve. All the best.

Think that's about average for a USA Sub from my experience. Still great basses. 👍

Crikey, how heavy is your P? 😆

Well, perhaps inevitably, the last remaining gig in my diary for 2020 has been cancelled. Was going to be a Sunday afternoon outside with properly organised spacing and everything. However, the venue has said they can’t get a guarantee from their insurers to cover the event so that’s it. Must admit I’m pretty pis*ed off now, and am having to think about alternative employment. Even if gigs are allowed in early 2021 it’s still over 6 months away and I’ll need to earn money somehow before that. With all the regular news of companies cutting their workforce or closing completely I’m guessing what work is out there will be very much in demand. I’m 62 and have never been without work ( or claimed any benefits ) all my life, so not looking forward to it at all.

My inability to gig with anything much over 7lbs or so is nature’s way for curing my GAS I think. Very limiting in what I can seriously consider basswise. Now lightweight amplification, that’s another matter.....😉

Found this on iPlayer whilst looking for more Glasto stuff over the weekend. Amazing voice and performance, and also proof that Jools can play a lot more than just boogie woogie. Stunning.

We use one of these in my acoustic duo. When there’s only two of you it saves one of you having to stop playing to turn the page. Works pretty well using bluetooth.

I share your pain, but using a sharpie and writing each set on one side of an A4 sheet of paper still works for me. (Strangely I can usually remember what song comes next, but not the key!)

Exactly my set up too. ForScore is great, although I only use it’s basic functions. Apparently you can set the song tempo so it scrolls through parts and other stuff too.

That's interesting - I've seen the Specials but a bit out of my price range TBH. If a s/h Stingray surfaced that was sub 8lbs I would be very tempted as have always loved MM stuff. I've had a fair few Rays over the years - a 78, 88, 94 and 2001 (IIRC) as well as a USA Sterling (which I mistakenly thought would be lighter!) and a couple of USA Subs. All fantastic basses too.

Great basses, had a couple. I only sold mine due to struggling with anything over about 7.5lbs on long gigs, which has unfortunately ruled out these and Stingrays for me. IMHO the white looks even better with a matt black MM scratch plate which ties in nicely with the headstock. ( Never a fan of the original tread plate one ).

You could try www.westfieldfasteners.co.uk Usually stock a lot of stuff like this.

They were reasonable to good quality, great value for money and (hopefully) benefitted the charity too, what’s not to like? 🙂

To be honest, nah....

I bought one, blue with a rosewood board. Did it really to help the charity but the bass turned out to be pretty good, especially for the price. Sold it on here ( I think) to a happy buyer. Haven’t seen any since for some reason, maybe people mainly kept them, like I should have done!

So if we're going off piste from the hits, Ry Cooder has done some beautiful stuff including his take on this -

Pretty sure you won't hurt the amplifier, it's the speakers that are prone to failure if 'abused' by bass guitar frequencies.

Loving the title ......👣

A Deville (especially in 4x10 mode) not a million miles away from a Fender Bassman combo, guitar amp originally designed for bass. I’ve gigged with a Marshall valve guitar head for bass. My bass head had died so had to use it, wasn’t too bad either. Conversely back in the day a lot of guitarists preferred Marshall bass amps to guitar models! Musicman used to make an amp (HD150 ?) suitable for both which had a valve power amp, sounded immense.

Good call. Whilst not being a massive fan of The Shadows stuff, Wonderful Land is (for me anyway) their best tune. Great chord progression and at just a tad over 2 mins long a perfect pop single of the time.

Also this classic -

Just beat me to it - the original and still the best. Staying with hits, I love this beauty -

Good to hear that, sounds like a decent bloke. A bit contrary to the old gag - ‘What’s the difference between a cow and the James Last Orchestra? The cow has the horns at the front and the c*nt at the back’.