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I bought Simon's One Ten. It arrived mint, as described, brilliantly packaged and in good time. No problems at all, thanks for the deal.

I take a fretted and a fretless, and tend to play one set on one, and the second set on the other. Mix them round too. I've never had a string break or any other issue that needed a second bass. Mike Watt does (in normal times) a couple of hundred gigs a year and as far as I know only takes one bass out. I guess in an emergency a support band might sort him out, but he seems to cope.

Love Billy's voice, but I recently discovered the Divine Comedy have recorded a version of Party Fear Two and without the distraction of the vocals (and, to be fair, production) of the original, the quality of the song really comes to the fore. Worth checking out.

Good luck Darryl. Great performance in that video, thanks for sharing .

I have basses and guitars to hand in the room where I'm working so pick on up 5 or 6 times a day for 5-10 minutes. So more than usual. I've put the ashtrays on one of my basses and have been completely adjusting my right hand style to suit. I used to anchor my thumb on the neck pickup, but now I'm resting my thumb across the strings, almost jamerson style, and resting fingers 3 and 4 on the astray. Seems to be working well, feels less tiring and a little faster.

Yeah,last time I asked the Zilla equivalent was around £185, and you can choose colours.

Big Radio 6 fan. Marc Riley and Cerys Matthews in particular, but no shows that I listen to are awful.

This thread has made me wonder if anyone has heard from @Bluewine in a while. Hope he's ok.

Swans, Dinosaur Jr, Fog (I think they were called - J Mascis again). Bob Mould at the Cockpit was pretty loud. A lot of gigs at the Cockpit were very poorly mixed

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I found it impossible to play whilst singing the backing vocals.

When I watched this I though EC was dreadful. Harrison and Edmunds in particular were very impessive

I 'bought' a bass from Matt (acting as a middle man for a mate buying the bass for his son). All very smooth, great comms, swift dispatch. Deal with confidence.

Counting the Beat (the Swingers) was a favourite of mine back in the day.

I saw him play at the Barbican not long before he died. He was so frail he had to be led onstage, but then he sat down and picked up his violin and was like an 18 year old again. It was amazing. One of the most natural musicians ever.

@sifi2112. With those rechargeable batteries do you have to unplug everything when not in use? I'm wondering what the advantages are with this over something like a Volto.

If you don't want a traditional flight case Zilla do some nice things, racks that look more like traditional head cabinets.

My GK Fusion 550 is perfect. Every now and then I get a tube amp itch but while selling the GK to fund is the only option, it will remain unscratched.