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That does mean there will be a rogue BL gone feral in Gloucester. Possible future entertainment from the JMB adverts.

Oddly, it took months before I realised it was in 7/8 - I'd simply been playing what I heard on the original track and the guitarist was playing it right, it hadn't clicked that it didn't quite fit into normal length bars. I was in a club band which went out in various forms, sometimes the guitarist was the singer and other times we had a singer. He could hit the right notes, in the right order, but song structures were a bit of a mystery to him, so the rest of us were quite adept at following him into a verse where there should have been a chorus, or vice versa, or bringing the vocals in seven bars into a 12-bar guitar solo. Still, that wasn't permanent structure changes, they were very very temporary.

It's how the last couple of basses I've had from China have been packaged.

I can cope with one or two frets. As soon as it gets to three, I've got no chance. Especially when they then throw a few barre chords in too for good measure.

Harley Davidson closing their Reverb store. No more of these: or these

It's also advisable to resize your pictures so they're a reasonable file size, if you haven't already done that - 4MB pictures will rapidly eat up your allowance. And if you give them fairly meaningful names, and need to reuse the pictures, you can use "Other Media" | "Insert existing attachment" to do that.

There's a song about that. "Mustang Sarnie".

I think we were separated at birth. What you could try (with no guarantee that this will work) is to put up four 8' x 1' (if we're insisting on using antique measurements) shelves above the current desk-like object, and transfer the topmost strata from said desk-like object to the shelves. This will also allow you to impose a temporary organisation on the objects thereby moved, and possibly even dispose of some of them (unlikely, I know, but you may find the right hard place in your heart).

Rather ironic given that the USA had brought in legislation mandating which side the foot controls should be and determined that the gear shift should be on the left, where the Japanese had it, not the right, where the Americans and British had it.

Our singer works for a dog rescue charity - a small scale one, it's not Battersea Dog's Home. We've done a charity gig for them, in a village hall, with helpers doing the drinks sales and suchlike. We were quite happy to do that unpaid. Mrs Zero and I have also been in another band which did a couple of charity gigs - again, these were local charities and we knew the organisers. We did do one where we got paid - we gave half our fee back.

Is it good for metal?

It was just a case of sorting out the stops and the accents.

Just thought I'd add a bit more to this, in case anyone else encounters something similar. I was using the Spark Neo for a bit of practice today and there was a noticeable amount of white noise coming through. When I put my hand on the transmitter, it stopped. A short extension lead moving the transmitter away from the bass and towards me also stopped it. Then I swapped bass to another active bass, and that also stopped it. Can't see anything wrong with the shielding on that bass (Antoniotsai with aftermarket Bart pickups and Delano Sonar preamp), I'll just stick to not using it with the Spark.

It's cut and boost, but asymmetrical.

I've had three Peaveys: a Grind BXP 6, a Grind BXP 5, and a Zephyr C5. Both Grinds were 35" scale, the Zephyr was 34". String spacing on the Zephyr was 16mm, on the Grind 5 16.5mm, and on the Grind 6 a rather tighter 15.5mm. Sticker added for cosmetic purposes: The Zephyr had a slightly fatter neck than the Grinds - that went first, the other two later.

Dirty Roses: Summer of 69. Not an intentional structure change, it's just that despite us having done it for several years, the drummer still can't sort out a fill for the end of the middle 8. TBH, we really ought to drop it. Tainted Love. Just an ending that works for us. Twist and Shout/La Bamba. We just do it as a medley at the end of the night, it's generally fairly random where we switch from one to the other and where the lead breaks come. Paranoid. No structure change, it's just that I think I only play about 90% of the notes because my fingers don't work fast enough. I'd love to drop it. I think that's it. Bonnevilles: Born on the Bayou. Not sure if we've done a structure change or not, haven't listened to the original since we rehearsed it earlier and worked out what we would do. Off the top of my head, that's it. It's not just cover bands who change structures, if you have a listen to the original "Don't you forget about me" off Glittering Prize and compare it to the live version on Live in the City of Light, there's quite a major restructure. And then try and find a Youtube video where Simple Minds play it the same as they do on that live album, rather than yet another way. And I really don't know why it happens. I know the guitarist in the Bonnevilles has commented on how I play Sweet Child O' Mine because I play it as per record with the correct hold of two bars on the A at the end of the Em C B A bit, as does everyone else I've played it with, but another band that he plays with does it some different length (stuff that, I'm playing it the right length!). So once a mistake has established itself, it's often difficult to extract it.

Bonnevilles rehearsal, went over two new songs - Confidence Man (Jeff Healey Band) and Born on the Bayou (Creedence). Unfortunately the drummer was a bit behind as he'd been listening to Born on the Bayou and some other Creedence track because he hadn't spotted who Confidence Man was by and had found a CCR track that had a name vaguely similar to Confidence Man. Still, we managed to go through both songs a few times and work out how we were going to play them (I might have a listen back to the originals to see how close we are). Plus I've suggested another couple of old ones, Shaking all over and Summertime blues, although I would like to do them like The Who did them rather than the more pedestrian originals.

Only if the would-be purchaser doesn't then buy a different instrument, and the factory only makes that component for a USA manufacturer and can't change to making another (or the same) component for another manufacturer.

They don't want to make him soggy, he'll take an age to burn.

The difficult second album did for them.

Saturday we were at Wilnecote WMC, which is now the home (literally) of Sub Zero. I don't know why, but I seemed constantly mentally off balance when setting up the PA and my rig. Finally got it all together. Took the Poseidon out again today, having restrung it with Elites 40-125. Also started using the Zoom MS-70CDR+ instead of the MS-60B+, as I've mentioned in the open mics thread, as there's more choruses and a better pitch shifter on the 70 than the 60 which means I can pitch shift Sweet Child O' Mine instead of playing it a fret down (I play it with the other band and on open mic nights in D, so playing it in C♯ is going to cause confusion at some point). I think we played pretty well although there were a couple of minor fluffs, and the side dots on the Esh are very small and on a stage without much light from above it's easy to miss your positioning which meant my quota of bum notes was a little higher than normal. Audience was fairly sparse (January and February tends to be) and we didn't get any dancers. Our singer has got a pitch shifter for his guitar which means that the change into Sweet Child O' Mine, our last song, is a lot smoother as he used to have to change guitar for a downtuned one just for that song (the guitarist has a Variax so can pitch shift on the guitar). Gear - Esh Poseidon V -> M-Vave wireless -> Zoom MS-70CDR+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212. Footwear remains Caravelle memory foam trainers.

I've had to adjust my truss rod at gigs more than once, although only once halfway through when I realised that there was a slight backbow - however, it's easy with Sei headlesses.

Alters the behaviour of a component in the signal chain, but as that component is general purpose then probably T2.