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One featuring the fretless work of either John Giblin or Pino Palladino. I'll go with Fish's Vigil in a wilderness of mirrors with John Giblin, although I'd also be tempted by a Paul Young album.

Too major a modification to be classed as maintenance/setup, unless over 50% of the frets have already fallen out without assistance.

Looking at just the repairs side, rather than the emotional attachments, is it worth just re-making the solder joint and seeing if that sorts anything out? Shouldn't matter about the ninth fret, you shouldn't be all the way up there anyway. You don't have your pal but at least you have something to remember him by.

It does look like the Black Eagle, maybe with the standard mishap to the headstock sort-of repaired hence the Fenderish blob at the end. I thought a different video might be clearer but he's playing a different bass. No decent shot of it until 1:20, that's a 2+2 headstock, possibly a Gibson but I'm no expert. According to Wikipedia, Gary Taylor was the bassist. There was also a Gary Taylor who was the bassist for The Herd and, in the late 70s, Gerry Rafferty, so that may be the same one. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/gary_taylor_f2/credits/

OK. Good to know.

One U2 song, no Simple Minds, no Duran Duran, no RHCP. I know there's a lot of whinging going on about more modern bands not getting so much of a look in but those are 70s/80s bands with a lot of success and a lot of good rock songs under their respective belts. Prince did get in with Purple Rain. AC/DC - rock music for people who think they ought to show they like rock music.

If you have a circular saw, you could make a saw sled. I did that for my build which is currently stalled due to doing it outdoors.

The six knob design makes sense as it caters to the passive-only luddites by having a V/B/T with active/passive switch at the front, then a three band EQ with mid switching at the rear for those of us who like a bit more tone shaping.

Comparing the leg cutout with my Sei Jazz and Squier Jazz 5-strings, it looks to be in about the same position, it's just that there's more of a cutaway on the bottom horn. The top horn is above the 12th fret too, so balance should be as good as instruments with bloody great lumps of wood with metal on at the end of the neck is ever going to be. Sensibly they've gone with a 34" scale.

An entire album? One single would do. I thought Queen's last good album was Night at the Opera - of course that suffers from having Bo Rhap on it, not because Bo Rhap is a bad song but because it's been so overplayed. They moved from straightish rock with their first album to prog by NatO, then it started going very very commercial. And thanks from me too.

Number 8 is rather unpredicted.

GnR have popped up with three between 50 and 44, SCOM is still to put in an appearance.

Don't worry, Steve saying "X is Y for people who don't like Y" is his standard formula for saying "I don't like X and I don't think anyone else should either".

Not many at the Crown in Shard End tonight - one of the two Neverley Brothers and one of the two members of Archive couldn't even get off their respective drives, there were assorted ailments causing drop-outs (including Mrs Zero), and one other cried off due to the weather. We got told at 8:15 that it had to end at 9, although we actually went on till about 9:20. I restricted myself to bass as I didn't want to extend the night any more. Managed to get as far as the hill leading up to my house, and couldn't make it up - left the car at the bottom of the hill, reasonably parked, and walked home. And Caravelle memory foam trainers, though pleasant most of the time, are by no means waterproof.

Bat out of hell might get into the top 20. And maybe another Bowie track or two. Given the worship for Prince on here, it's a bit surprising that he hasn't put in an appearance.

As you've already demonstrated that your taste is rather different to the average Planet Rock listener, I'm sure that there will be at least three RHCP songs in the 500.

Whole Lotta Rosie hasn't appeared yet either, nor Highway to Hell. Number one will surely be between Stairway and Bo Rhap. I was just looking for Sweet Child O' Mine, which hasn't appeared yet, then remembered Sweet Home Alabama - and then, thinking of American states, Hotel California. None of them in yet, so they're in the top 155. And then California led me to RHCP, and there's none of their songs in yet.

Trex - that cooking fat.

What happens if you update to 3.80 then 3.81 then 3.83? Alternatively, can you update online rather than from a downloaded file?

If the active/passive switch has an unused pole, you could use that to switch the power to the preamp, assuming the pickups themselves are passive, then practice with it in passive mode.

Well, that went downhill quickly. "Do you want to buy it or are you just being a clever dick?". So I said I was just telling him he'd described it wrong, and he was too arrogant for me to buy anything from him.

Messaged him to say it was an Explorer not a Blitz, and he's messaged me back to say Hamer never made an Explorer, that was Gibson, 100% it's a Blitz and he has a collection of Hamer from 20 years of running a Def Leppard tribute. I've messaged him back to suggest he googles Hamer Explorer.

GR Bass AT212 if you can find one cheap. And there's one for £50 less than £900. https://reverb.com/uk/item/86885913-gr-bass-at-212-slim-carbon-fibre-2020s-carbon-fibre

Rest of the band watching the bassist set up the PA after they've plugged in their cables and the drummer has got in the way.