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At the time it burnt down, my old mate Bricko owned it (aka Colin Wall). No, not an insurance job. Before that, the Edward it was named after was Eddie Fewtrell, one of the Fewtrell brothers, who sent the Krays packing when they tried to move up to Birmingham.

I lived there for 20 years before moving to Tamworth - born in London but brought up on the mean streets of Solihull.

The Hall Green Grass of Home

All the Small Heath things

Solihull Man (although Solihull isn't in Birmingham and you'd get lynched for saying it is)

Are there any local open mic nights? Or even karaoke nights? If so, they might be worth checking out.

You might influence them in their musical direction.

In the Hall of the Mountain Kings Heath A Farewell to Kings Heath

You forgot the Watneys Party Sevens.

PS. And you obviously need another 5-string, just in case.

It's quite easy to slip into concentrating on playing what the tab says, and not manging to get it to match the music .I finish up like that sometimes, and I've found that what is needed is to listen to the bassline as a melody and hear the tune, and become familiar with it. When you know what you're trying to get to as a musical piece rather than a series of numbers on a page, it's easier to get there. I probably haven't expressed this very well, I know what I'm trying to say but I don't know whether I've conveyed it well.

John Cage, 4' 33", repeated as many times as necessary.

What's inappropriate about that?

Although I'm in the single member ownership class, I wouldn't advocate it over shared ownership - which is the best fit for you is going to depend on many things. You've made a big investment for which shared ownership is a good way of spreading the cost but could be troublesome in the future. With a member leaving, as I see it, there's three ways of approaching it. Split the cost of buying him out among the remaining members and keep the PA owned just by those members Have any new member buy in an entire share immediately Have any new member buy in gradually from gig proceeds. If they're using the PA from the very start, depreciation doesn't come into it. Option 2 would be the least likely to work as it's a steep buy-in. I suppose option 4 is carry on without a rhythm guitar.

It was you who said "4 strings: comfort. 5 strings: versatility". As my 5-strings are as comfortable as my 4-strings, and more comfortable than many 4-strings I've played, I wouldn't agree with that. And not everything I said was triggered by what you posted. Like I said, it was a part of the trigger for that post, not the entire reason (otherwise I'd have quoted you). Perhaps you should have read my reply more carefully.

A couple of members here (including me) looked at controlling Zoom pedals over USB. Those were DIY projects though. For plug-and-play, you want something like HX Stomp and a way of transmitting your program changes via DIN MIDI.

A bargain, but not in the 25% off sale (no 5-strings are).

I thought I'd seen MN3207 mentioned recently in some kit I looked at, but it was MN3007. However, either can be used in https://aionfx.com/project/azure-analog-chorus/ . Another one for the MN3207: https://aionfx.com/project/blueshift-spatial-chorus/ (100 resistors, 65 capacitors!) And https://aionfx.com/project/xenotron-modulation-machine/

Yes. If you're not going to make use of the top string, it's increasing the stretch over the unused strings to the strings that you are using. Conversely, if you have a B-G 5-string and you don't use the bottom string, you don't have to stretch over any intervening strings to reach the four that you are using. In my case, I find the B string useful but there wouldn't be an advantage to having the C string for what I'm currently playing so a 6-string would be pointless but a 5-string isn't.

Partly inspired by it but I've seen an awful lot of "I had a 5-string once and couldn't get on with it" posts over the years.

The simple amplifier https://lv2plug.in/book/#_simple_amplifier is close to that. A single control which just requires a tiny bit of arithmetic manipulation.

I used to play in a club band that did Music. At one club, they used to line dance to the songs - this got quite interesting when we hit the 7/8 section.

I like Neil Young too, although his voice and his guitar playing aren't exactly virtuoso. I can understand people not liking him.

Got their name from a band meeting trying to determine a band name when they were all extremely well-oiled, and one tried to suggest "The four horsemen of the apocalypse" but it came out as "The four poxmen of the horslips".

The singer with a club band I was in used to ask first, were there any birthdays? Second, were there any requests? Third, would anybody like to get up and sing a song? We kept trying to stop him, but he just kept on doing it. So either we were lucky and they asked for something we knew (10%) or we couldn't play whatever it was (90%). And of course the occasional singer from the audience was almost always awful, and would almost always be singing to a song that we would be busking.