tauzero

I play at several open mic nights where most of the guitars are acoustics with pickups. They get run straight into the mixer. Same for the singer's acoustic with my second band, which he just uses on a few songs. It would be an idea to get a feedback blocker - a disc that fits into the soundhole and reduces feedback issues. https://sygnusguitars.com/best-acoustic-guitar-feedback-busters/

Tried searching for the phrase "good for metal". I initially put the words in without quotes and was prompted to search for the phrase "good for metal", which I clicked on, and the search string was then enclosed in quotes. However, as well as returning the properly matched phrase, I also got plenty of results which were just "good" and "metal" (with "for" presumably being somewhere in the text that doesn't get displayed in the search results). So the phrase search looks as if it just searches for good AND for AND metal, not the actual phrase.

The first appearance of the phrase on Basschat was 2009, but it was a serious enquiry. Incidentally, the search function is crap when looking for a phrase - it doesn't search for the phrase, which is a fairly fundamental requirement of searching for a phrase.

Best wishes, and I hope it's been caught very early.

Notably "the dude with the Steinberger" and Glen Browne with the five-string (I don't know him, I just made a note of his name). The third episode was far and away the best. If the best snippets from the first two episodes (Glen Matlock on the Anarchy in the UK bassline in the first episode and a couple of other bits, the bit on slap and on singing when playing bass from the second episode) were shoehorned into the third episode, you could chuck away all the rest.

He appeared in the first episode talking about reggae bass.

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).