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It's worth having a look at Glenn Fricker's Spectre Sound Studios videos on Youtube. They're from a metal perspective but should still be relevant across a broad spectrum of rock guitar. He's very complimentary about the Harley Benton cabs, mainly because of the drivers that they use.

I was on a cross-channel ferry in 1997 from Newhaven to Dieppe, and entertainment was provided by Sid and Doris Bonkers (© Private Eye) on guitar, bass, drum machine, and dubious vocals, including a ground-breaking rendition of 'Delilah' in 4/4 instead of the more conventional 3/4 time.

Depends. Do you think you can carry the shorts off?

It should have given you the option to confirm the size and weight.

So it's only me that is struck by the 10cm prongs sticking out of the top horns?

I've been over the message now and looked at the Ebay website. I assumed it would give a proper choice of carriers, like using Interparcel or Parcel2Go would, but it's actually a choice between Evri and Royal Mail. Eligibility: maximum value of £750, maximum weight 20kg, and there are also maximum dimensions. Evri - no side greater than 120cm, and ((two shortest sides added together) * 2) + longest side not greater than 245cm Royal Mail - up to 61cm x 46cm x 46cm Insurance coverage for full value from the moment of dropping off. A P bass is just under 120cm long, in a box it will be over 120cm. Buzzards and Thunderbirds will definitely be ineligible, headlesses worth less than £750 will be eligible unless they're in oversized boxes.

I assumed it would give a proper choice of carriers, like using Interparcel or Parcel2Go would, but it's actually a choice between Evri and Royal Mail. Eligibility: maximum value of £750, maximum weight 20kg, and there are also maximum dimensions. Evri - no side greater than 120cm, and ((two shortest sides added together) * 2) + longest side not greater than 245cm Royal Mail - up to 61cm x 46cm x 46cm Insurance coverage for full value from the moment of dropping off. A P bass is just under 120cm long, in a box it will be over 120cm. Buzzards and Thunderbirds will definitely be ineligible, headlesses worth less than £750 will be eligible unless they're in oversized boxes.

As I feel my teeth itching every time - it's "drawers", not "draws". @Dad3353's apostrophe cruiser needs repurposing.

And that bloody Scouse woman will paint them all pink with purple dots or do something shabby chic with them.

I confess to once upon a time being part of the problem. I gave up in 2004, the second Mrs Zero continued (she always smoked a lot more than me). At the end of 2005 I moved in with the future third Mrs Zero, and in 2008 bought the second Mrs Zero out of my house in the divorce. It was a right state when the current Mrs Zero and I moved in, yellow doors and walls and the mirrors were all tinted. That's not to mention the dog piss in the main bedroom and guest room carpets. Still, we managed to get it all cleaned up eventually. As for smoking and health - the current Mrs Zero has COPD from 35 years of smoking (she gave up at the end of 2004), and the previous Mrs Zero died of cancer, but as it was anal cancer and not lung or throat cancer, it was probably from being an alcoholic.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/matching-pair-of-5-string-basses-in-american-white-oak/1495479441 Seems a bit dodgy as you can only pick up after paying by Paypal (although it doesn't specify F&F). However, what really struck me was the top horn strap peg extenders.

Doesn't seem to be far removed from the current system - "You’ll still be able to choose the carriers by going to Postage Preferences in your account settings. We recommend enabling all carriers for the most competitive postage rates." So instead of going to Interparcel or Parcel2go or whatever and then choosing a carrier, that bit is done by Ebay. I'd like to know what the implications are for insurance and whether Ebay will give a choice of carriers to use or just show the cheapest.

My pet piamh is Irish names.

Saturday night was a local WMC. Local to me, that is, the rest of the band had a bit further to travel. I'd played here about 15 years ago with a club band and remembered it having a nice big stage. I think it was the first experience for the rest of the band of having the bingo between the first and second sets. Load in and out wasn't the greatest as it's a longer walk than I'd like, but with four people doing it it's not so bad. We didn't use our frame to hang the banner from as there was a rail above the light curtain at the back which was a convenient height. Following my experience with the originals band where we used my Alto TS408s as monitors and they proved more suited than the Alto TS308s, I swapped roles and used the 308s for FOH and the 408s as monitors. That all went well. Sound was good on stage and off. The gig went well. Not too many cockups, none really noticeable. I used the Sei Original 5 headless fretless and the Antoniotsai 5 dragon bass, through a Lekato WS-90 wireless and Zoom MS-60B to Tecamp Puma 900 and GR Bass AT212. Footwear was, as always, unbranded memory foam trainers from Ebay. Edit to add: they've just contacted us and asked us to go back there in August. I think that's the measure of a successful gig.

If I used the criterion of being literate to at least O-level standard, there's a couple of bands I've had several happy years with that I'd have missed out on. Using a Bandmix profile which contains a misspelling as the immediate cause for rejection without listening to the music does make me feel that @NancyJohnson is being rather over-precious. Then again, he's also been quite disparaging about open mic nights and again I've had a couple of great years with one band formed from open mic acquaintances, and the originals band I'm in is also the product of an open mic meeting.

To win it by spending 10% of what it was worth, you'd be buying 5% of the tickets (as the ticket total is about twice the market price) so you have a 1 in 20 chance of winning. Enter 20 draws and you'd have roughly a 2/3 chance of winning one or more, and if all the draws were pretty much the same, you'd have spent double what one item was worth.

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Vlad will have him round for a nice cup of tea somewhere with a scenic view, like the top of a skyscraper.

The covers band charges to pay, although we do do very occasional charity gigs for nowt - they're gigs direct for the local charities in question though, not charidee events with promoters etc. I've just joined an originals band - that looks like being unpaid, at least for a while, but I don't mind. I think the eventual plan is to get paid.

In response to the title of this thread, I would say that this post merits the answer "yes".

I sent the bass next day, it arrived next day. I would agree that once a non-nextday package arrives in Evri's maw, traversing its labyrinthine intestines takes several days.

I used Evri to post a bass a couple of weeks ago. No problems. Did you ask whoever told you that what they thought of the moon landings?

A rather more minor issue with DPD which does highlight an issue with their computer system. I ordered two items from different suppliers - a pedal from G4M and some rechargeable batteries from Ikea, both of them for drop-off at the local post office. I got notifications that both were in transit, then got a notification that the pedal was ready for collection, with a QR code. Went to the post office, and the lady on the desk went looking for my parcel. She returned with the Ikea one. I told her that there should be another one as well, and she had another hunt and found the G4M parcel. She gave me that but wouldn't hand over the Ikea one as it wasn't showing on the system. Then the next day I saw that the parcel was now showing as collected. I've been back to the post office - the week that I'd been in to collect the stuff, the staff were agency staff, and the full-time lady never managed to find the parcel. Ikea have refunded me (for the batteries, not the postage) and I've bought the same thing from Ebay, delivered to my house. I've raised this as an issue with DPD - the G4M parcel racking history shows as in transit, then ready for collection, then collected. The Ikea one just shows as in transit, then collected. I assume that the QR code is generated at the point where the status changes to "ready for collection" so it would appear that an item can be collected without a QR code, which makes a mockery of security.

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You never know, their stock levels may suddenly and unexpectedly increase enormously.