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Dirty Roses rehearsal, the first in a while - this was to run over the Christmas songs for the December gigs. Slade, Santa Claus is coming to town (Springsteen), Rockin' around the Christmas tree (Brenda Lee), Last Christmas (Whamageddon). All went well. We had a chat at the end, and it turned out it was the happiest the singer and drummer had been in a band (and the longest). We're also not certain about what to do following my impending hip replacement at the end of March - I'm perfectly happy with them getting a dep in but I also do the PA so they probably won't bother, just take April and possibly May out.

OTOH, barrel jack sockets are the work of Satan and should be viewed as consumables.

I would say it's being truthful rather than ignorant. And bully for you. I don't know the presenter of the second episode, and based on that episode, I have absolutely no desire to ever hear any more of her playing or that of any bands that she's been in. I suppose I should try to remember her name so I can avoid her.

I have no idea who she is. And this episode has been a real load of old bollocks. Mrs Zero was also watching and was even less impressed than me. Several bassists saying the only bass to have was a Precision. Funny that Mark King, Darryl Jones, Guy Pratt, and Gail Ann Dorsey weren't asked.

New music/computer room. I'm already worried I haven't got enough space.

I don't bother since Test Match Special ended.

On the ones I've made (BC 112, BC 6" micro, my own Plenty), I've rounded the outer edge with about 12mm radius and left the inner edge as is. The micro cab (leatherette covered) has a cheapo round speaker-sized grille, the BC 112 (Tuffcabbed) and Plenty (leatherette) have metal grilles, and I've got a piece of aluminium grille for the 8" cab. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362491694497?var=631653707862

Damn confusing metric units. Far simpler to use imperial: 0.00055426 furlongs.

There was about five minutes of that. The rest was mainly a history of Joy Division, New Order, and a plug for the current Hook & Son band.

You get to see a couple of minutes of Mani talking in episode 1 of the Sky Arts programme "Greatest Basslines", aka "Hooky on Hooky".

Yes, I thought he was very analytical, along with Glenn Matlock who was citing his Jamerson influence in Anarchy in the UK.

No, I did. It was my cock.

Rang Jon today - he's got the board off and he's sending me photos of various pieces of macassar ebony in the next day or two.

Presumably whoever is selling it on Gumtree would know.

Could be that they restocked greens and blacks at different times, and the wholesale cost had changed in the meantime.

Seems rather odd as when I bought mine (second-hand), the new prices were identical for green and black.

Ublock Origin is now obsolete but there's Ublock Origin Lite which I use (in my case, with Chrome, and I also use Ghostery and Stands adblocker).

Not really necessary if you're not putting cab corners on, although I suspect that rounding the edges would make them a little less prone to damage. If you are putting cab corners on, they need to be flush with the faces so rounded edges are a must.

Nah, you want Lexan. If it's good enough for the Robot Wars arena, it'll stand up to anything.

PS. Mani puts in a few appearances.

Square window every time. But then I would say that, as the toy under it is the same as my Chinese zodiac sign - a cock.

Just watched the first episode. Would have been better titled "A history of Peter Hook with occasional talk about other bassists, and other bassists talking about Peter Hook." The bit with Glenn Matlock talking about Anarchy in the UK, which was in fact split into two bits so the second part could be shoehorned into a bit on James Jamerson (he must have got all of two minutes), was interesting. There were a few other interesting bits, but it was 45 minutes about Hooky going on about his personal history and Love will tear us apart, and 15 minutes about basslines. Where a bit of analysis was squeezed in, by people like Glenn Matlock, Guy Pratt, and Adam Clayton, it was rather more revealing, but there wasn't a lot of that. I'd wait for the highlights programme to come out.