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Sounds like I'm in the minority in finding agreeable people to play music with

Not so! You can finalise a transaction begun the previous year. It's when the deposit goes down that counts. "If you have put down a deposit on something before committing to this, which then requires a final payment within <year of abstinence thread>, that single payment permitted."

Hence why I said "anything within our collective technical capabilities"...

Hard disagree on this point! That's maybe how your band works, but it's not universal. Everyone gets an equal say in our band, and everyone has a veto, they're just not d!cks about using it. We're an open minded four piece and are happy to give anything within our collective technical capabilities a go, and let the audience reaction be our ultimate arbiter.

We do a rocked up version of The Weeknd "Blinding Lights" and it always goes down great. I prefer it to the original, honestly! Whenever you're trying to genre shift something, you know it has worked when you get that look on punters' faces that roughly translates into "oh damn, I wasn't expecting you to do that song!" followed by them singing/dancing along.

I would add a side to this - we usually play a (slightly) slower number second to last - it's usually Lewis Capaldi's "Someone You Loved", but we do rock it up a bit. Lighters out moment, then play a rocker to finish. One time we got asked to play Someone You Loved again and ended up playing it three times (!)

There is a cheese pile which we refuse to play, and SoF and Dakota are on it (along with Sweet Child of Mine). Can't kill Summer of 69 though. And why does Bad Moon Rising *always* work? Ditto on the Tainted Love - always goes down well because everyone knows it. We play it at northern soul speed and add nods to the Soft Cell version (chiefly the "*Bam* *Bam* - Get/Run away" bit)

Don't make me explain the joke Unless it wasn't funny of course, then

Bash him over the head. We all have to play songs we wouldn't necessarily listen to in order to entertain, it's the job, innit? It's not about him, it's not about what he likes, it's about the punters. Give the punters what they want, simples. He needs to get that through his thick skull, otherwise every time I've played "Don't Stop Believin'" through gritted teeth has been for naught. People have been sacked from bands because of this stick-in-the-mud attitude before, and just because he's BL simply means he could end up bandless.

Oh look, it's Oskar Schindler's pedalboard...

It's not that it doesn't mean anything, it's that it means different things to different people.

Once I get the mounting saga completed (waiting for proper screws - not Lace's fault, cheapo bass in non-standard pickup route shocker!), and I get it into a full, war volume scenario I will update.

Normally a PF500 would have to be in a rehearsal rental room for at least 5 mins to acquire such damage. These couriers are savages.

We're still officially in the hype stage.

Dinna fash yersel', fit's wrang wi' this noo?

They're pretty damn invisible in those shots. Hopefully they'll take better pics when they have the actual units.

Oh yeah, and we all look as handsome and are as strong as the guy on the box.

Thought I'd dredge this up to say Andertons has one black one left at a mere £199... https://www.andertons.co.uk/soloking-mj1-classic-4-string-bass-in-metallic-black/ Bit naughty of them to claim it used to be £299 though - they were £249 when I bought mine and it wasn't reduced IIRC.

Describing sounds in words in a universally understood way is hard.

Also, the Embassy is usually significantly cheaper than the Thunderbird, the geometry is "better" (in that the tuners are not in the next time zone), and the Embassy I had was super light - great if you like that sort of thing/have back issues.

Eh, it's a rat bass, I'm not that bothered what's on the headstock. Thanks for the info though.

Beat me to it

I would have typed this almost exactly the same thing. Especially the considering selling losses as "rental" - damn, I thought I came up with that

Fair point on the first one. In a way it's better than trying in a shop - you can take it to a band rehearsal or some such setting and try the bass in the real world application you intend to play it in going forward. Just be careful with it during transportation and the session, of course! On the second one - people* who are fortunate enough to live near such places would do well to check their privilege before telling us chancers who buy sight unseen that we're doing it wrong. * (not having a dig at you here @TimR, merely using your sentence as a jumping off point)

Fitted a little quality of life/aesthetic improvement - Sire style 3 string retainer, and thank you to whoever made this bass for putting the original string retainer in front of the A tuner, so could use existing hole and no holes to fill