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There's some Youtube videos of how they appear. Mrs Zero watched one of them (can't remember which now) and said it was accurate.

Just bought a telescope from Russ @binky_bass - all went well and it arrived quickly.

There is a 1-band parametric EQ too which I've used as an HPF on mine.

It would certainly be worth shielding it, both the control cavity and the pickup cavity.

BC house jam micro cab and TC BAM200. Used for open mic nights and some gigs (with PA support if needed). Slightly unsightly seam and cab feet are because the handle is on the top and the BAM200 is rather short in the foot department, so can't straddle it.

Budget Rays. and with the new (but invisible) preamp, new knobs, and new pickup:

The Basschat Bike - it's had about ten owners on here, and a couple of others. Sei Jazz 5 with a couple of modifications from original spec by previous owners.

Squier Jazz 5 Modified Vintage Modified. Control plate now looks like this:

Probably time I put this in here, as I've had it a few years. Esh Poseidon V.

There's a few phasers on the MS70-CDR+, and a bass graphic EQ.

The front-ported GR Bass AT210V, a vertical 2x10, has been available for a while and is lighter than this great lump.

A lot of bassists (including me) started as guitarists, and I know a very talented guitarist who started as a bassist (and can still play bass well, and drum too). I agree about the different mindsets - it is possible to switch between them, but not everybody can develop both mindsets.

Just think how much cheaper it would have been if it didn't have any screws in it.

1W RMS = 133W PMPO. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267370732623 (see the bottom of the box)

Following on from Thursday night's open mic, Mein Host had asked me if I'd like to play bass for his duo at a local pub, the Market Vaults, on Friday (last night). I said yes, and a set list arrived on Friday lunchtime. A few of the songs I knew, most of them I'd at least heard a few times before, and one or two I wasn't at all familiar with, so spent a while copying chord sheets from Ultimate Guitar and having a quick play through some of the songs. Headed into town on the evening and all the car parks were rammed - managed to park a few minutes walk away. Fortunately I was only carrying the 6" cab, TC BAM200 amp, gigbag, and Sei headless fretless, so I coped. The Market Vaults is a long thin pub, and we were at the back. Immediately to the right of the stovepipe PA is the passageway to the toilets, so the photo shows the entire available performance area - I sit to play, so I was sitting on the bench on the left with my amp just by me and the monitor right behind me, and just enough space between tables to put my tablet stand in. The gig itself went well. A couple of fluffs (not all by me) and I hadn't got the chords written down right for Crazy, plus for some reason I hadn't got the final draft of my chordsheets on the tablet so I had to remember a couple of the songs. And afterwards I was asked if I'd like to do more gigs with them (I said yes). Edit: Using Sei Original 5 headless fretless -> Lekato WS-90 -> Zoom MS-70CDR+ -> TC BAM200 -> BC house jam micro cab. Footwear - the usual Caravelle memory foam trainers, which was a bit of a risk with snow forecast.

Wednesday night: another night of accompanying a couple of people, and doing two songs myself, while the guitarist who owns a bass insisted on crashing everybody else's sets with out of time and tune accompaniment. He's a very nice chap but utterly incapable of playing bass (which he has been trying to do for 15 years at this open mic) so I think my time there has come to an end as it's frustrating and musically painful. Thursday night: different kettle of fish. Due to there being no other bassist there, I'm house bassist. Normally Mrs Zero comes along and we had planned to do three songs with Mein Host and one of the drummers (there's always between one and three drummers there), but she'd had an ocular migraine and wasn't feeling well. As it turned out, a duo that I was backing were doing "One way or another" (one of the planned songs) so Mein Host also got recruited, along with one of the ladies who knew the song, and we did that and "Sex on fire" (another planned song). And at the end of the evening, Mein Host said that the following night he would be playing in a duo at a local Tamworth pub, and would I like to come along and play too? I said yes - the story will continue on the "How was your gig last night?" thread.

It would be worth talking to Parcelfarce to see what the situation is from their end.

Just thought I'd add back to this - turned out the place I'd seen the list of variants wasn't here but TB. Which means I can't post a link to it here, but looking for "Music Man Basses 101: EBMM, SBMM, S.U.B., USA SUB" will turn it up.

You can view PDF files on your tablet, just get Adobe Acrobat reader. I used PDF files on my tablet for similar purposes. I transfer them using Dropbox - I'm too cheap to pay for Dropbox so I have to access it via a browser on the tablet, but I just create them in Dropbox on my PC or laptop and then download them onto the tablet so I don't have to rely on an internet connection to see them. Another reason for using PDF files is so I can use a page turner - more for songs where I'm singing so I've got the lyrics too and it goes past a page. I use a Lekato page turner (can't remember whether I set it to portrait or landscape) and set the PDF viewer to single page mode rather than continuous.

Sometimes the Downing Street OBs provide great entertainment.

Thelema Instruments website at thelema-instruments.de no longer exists. However, it's on the Wayback Machine and the Antbass is a different kettle of fish. https://web.archive.org/web/20131207080247/http://thelema-instruments.de/antbass.html So the original question still stands.

And half a dozen basses for the raffle.

Browsing around the Bass Gallery website, I happened across an Antbass Pharoah: https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass/products/antbass Headless neck-through bass - just the thing to pique my interest. But only four strings. So I set off on a quest to find out about Antbass, which came to a very rapid conclusion when there was absolutely no sign of them on the internet except for this very bass. Does anyone happen to know who, what, when, and possibly why? Judging by the photos, it has a distinctly used (but looked after) air to it, and the brass cover which I assume conceals the truss rod access looks a few years old.

I remember us getting stuck in Maria once. Came out of a chorus, did a verse, then the bridge, then instead of going into the chorus again, Mrs Zero went back to the verse, then the bridge, then a verse again. Realising that we were in a death loop, I started singing the chorus after the bridge came round again and so we managed to finish it, otherwise we'd still be there. It is a bit of an odd arrangement though, the bridge can either precede or follow the verse.