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Can't help you, sorry, I've got just enough stands for what I'm bringing. Maybe someone who isn't bringing any basses could help out? Also - a week to go... (less from my perspective - leaving on Saturday) - excited!

Last night was an interesting one. The second time we've played the Black Abbot in Montrose. We were through in the bar this time instead of the lounge - a smaller room and we were worried that we'd be a bit loud but it actually sounded OK. Back to earth with a bump of course compared to Friday night, having to set up everything, move stuff out of the way, all the normal shenanigans of a pub gig. It wasn't very busy, had 20ish folk in with a further few coming through periodically from the lounge for a few songs then disappearing (but they kept coming back, so I'm counting them!) but the folk we did have were really into it - warm applause after each song (it was more like a concert than a gig) and some dancing. We got some nice comments after, and it was a nice early gig (8-11), so got home at a reasonable time for a change. Played the Sire D5 last night, it's a great bass - absolutely no nonsense '54 style P action and the neck is lovely. Small room so the amp got another easy night. We've got October off due to various holidays/work commitments, so that's all from me for a while!

New venue (for me anyway) last night - the Harbour Lights in Peterhead. What a different experience compared to the usual "wait a mo while we move the pool table, then you can set up everything" - an actual stage, with a drum riser, house PA and a sound engineer. Guy did a good job too - sound on stage was excellent, lots of monitors and good levels all round achieved with minimal fuss or input from us. The gig itself wasn't super busy, but we had folk up dancing and it picked up in the second half. It's been years since we played in Peterhead (not since pre COVID days) but some of our old regulars came to see us which was really cool. With big PA support my amp had a leisurely time turned up about half way instead of the usual 3/4 ish. Really cool gig, I hope we get asked back to play here.

A more palatable link, perhaps: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66965766

I was delighted with the service I got from Schaller when restoring a Gibson Victory Artist. It had a broken M4S tuner. As I was not the original owner (plus it was made in 1981 and technically Schaller had the working relationship with Gibson - who in this instance were less than useless of course), Schaller had absolutely no obligation to help me out at all. I ended up in an email chat with the head honcho of Schaller, and they sent me 4x the parts I needed when one would have done, a sticker and a bag of plectra, and took no money from me - I did offer to buy a whole M4S so I could strip it for the parts I needed, but they took no money from me whatsoever. Speaking of Gibson - although they deny all responsibility if the thing in question is too old as outlined in the above example, on modern stuff they were on it. I had an EB (2014) and its bridge pickup went faulty. They sent a replacement to me so I could sort it myself, no questions asked, didn't want any proof beyond the serial number and didn't even want the old pickup back first. Solid performance, I'd say.

I have never told anyone how to play the bass. I'm probably doing it "wrong"...

Oh well, as long as you're managing OK, then everyone must be managing OK, right? I'm sure there are people on the Aspergers/autism spectrum who are having a lovely time with this right now.

I'll give you a fiver for it... sorry, said it before someone else does...

Take me out back and put me out of my misery - I am dismayed at the amount of time it took me to retrieve from my tiny mind what HPF stood for...

Yes, I do. There's not much else interesting about me to talk about, I work in IT FFS.

ADDITIONAL - I got rid of it with uBlock Origin (right click on the orange blob, choose "Block Element", accept the settings that pop up (they work) and boom, it's gone. That's Chrome on the desktop, ymmv in other browsers/platforms. It would be better if we didn't have to get rid of it ourselves...

Install uBlock Origin, right click on the orange pest, choose "Block Element...", accept its plan to vanquish it, boom, it's gone. That's in Chrome on the desktop, ymmv in other browsers.

Make the eye catching orange thing go away please. "Privacy"? Frankly, with it hanging around distracting me, I don't feel like I have any.

I was expecting an in-depth discussion about how noise reduction works...

That's a new one on me too. Sure, there's always the indignant "what do you mean you don't know/play <insert obscure track, or something that clearly can't be done by a four piece with one guitar>?"

Yeah, 1100 miles in a 13-14 year old, 128k miles s#itbox, damn right I've got AA membership Also have RAC through my car insurance, but dunno what level of service that is ('cos I never asked for it, it just happened) Cheers!

Gig was actually Friday night, but hey ho. Butchers Arms in Inverurie, and it was a decent night. Started off slow, but we were grateful to a couple of lassies who were determined to dance and make the most of their evening. It got busier in the second half and ended up being a decent show - decent enough for me to do some audience bass machine gun strafing at the end of a couple of songs. We did have one guy at the bar indicate that the singer needed turning up - right at the start of a song and continued to signal as such and get annoyed that we weren't doing anything abotu it. Sure, man, I'll just get right on that with my third hand 🙄 G&L Tribute LB-100 was the weapon of choice. Amp behaved itself.

The mods are in on it... PHRASING

I'm as parasitic as they come.

I'll squeeze them in somewhere...

Well, it fits! I think I have a plan for the Markbass cab too. Then cover it all in a blanket and hopefully it'll all be fine. Also done some road trip prep work on the car - unclogged my rear washer nozzle, emptied the water out of one of my rear light clusters (bloody condensation), fitted new front wipers as the old ones weren't clearing so well. Two weeks to go...

It's the only thing I'd change about my G&L Tribute LB-100 - the vintage tint has been applied a bit too enthusiastically and it looks like it has jaundice.

Found it in the second to last place I could think of! Only used a handful of times - just checked and thankfully the batteries hadn't leaked through disuse! Will this work?

I may struggle to find it, but I think I have one of these going spare *somewhere* that you're welcome to. Barely used. Hold that thought...