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U OK hun?

An old friend of mine, known as Edward Ian Armchair, was fronting a band at a local gig soon after his father had died. He was rather disgruntled at the fact his dad's ashes had been sent back to him in a plastic urn, and held it aloft, complaining about it. Another couple of friends had a contact who had moved from the Tamworth Herald to the Sun's showbiz pages, and they rather overhyped the story, so it appeared in the Sun as Eddie having thrown his father's ashes over screaming girls in the audience. Incidentally, Eddie (aka Kevin Knowles) was on TV a little while back, in Joe Lycett - Summer Exhibitionist, with his array of creepy plastic dolls.

My band has only done three or four gigs so far, so I have yet to fully train them, but at least they're eager to learn and to help. I've just got two monitors and two mains for a vocals-only PA (one main and two backing), orange leads for FOH (XLR-XLR) and green leads for monitors (TRS jack-XLR), but I must get round to telling them that for each I have one lead longer than the other (so the XR12 can go one side or the other of the stage without miles of surplus cable). I've also got to get the vocalist to put the speaker stands up right (he keeps pulling them through so the bottom of the pole is above the inner strut pivot points). Still, everyone is good at helping load and unload.

My preference on an unlined board is dots at fret positions 3, 5, etc. I have three two unlined fretlesses like that and one lined fretless that I had the in-between dots removed and markers put in at the fret positions instead. Added: I also have one unlined fretless with little position markers at the fret positions and dots where they'd be on a fretted bass. I prefer it without the little markers and with the dots on fret positions 3, 5, etc.

No, a search on Atrics on the forum generally shows mentions of them being on Ebay from around 2005 and also being branded H&S.

I'd got a song that I've got a couple of verses and a chorus for, and I input it to ChatGPT and asked for another verse or two. It gave me a couple of verses and a chorus which were somewhat banale and I certainly wouldn't use verbatim, but may have stimulated me into finishing it. Sometime.

If the "carpet" on the base does pull away, here's what I used to replace it: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334573958726

I've got two of those. I've just had to remove the "carpeting" on the big one (and the rubber lining under it) and replace it with a sheet of loop material. The small one is about to get some pedals put into it, the whole layout is going to be dry-run before putting it into place when the patch cables arrive.

Paranoid: "SOS you hear these words, telling you now of my fate". Actual: "And so as you hear these words..." I discovered the truth a year or so ago, so it lasted even longer than "dark star chasm" in Another Brick in the Wall.

I had an Atrics double neck some time ago. I had a feeling they were Chinese rather than Korean. @Burns-bass had one up for sale recently, and I remember there was a thread about another bass but it was misspelt "Artics" so you could search for that.

McDonalds customer service is very variable. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66933961

The bukkake song?

Damage or a reflection?

It took a year for my previous band to notice.

Slab bodied set neck Thumb copy. I think there's some good basses coming out of China but it's very much pot luck.

Try switching the cabs off. They seem to absorb an awful lot of effect - using the 70s chorus, it was completely inaudible with a couple of Ampeg cabs in but became nicely audible when I switched the cabs off.

There's a couple on Ebay. One fewer now.

If you really want lightweight, there's the GR Bass AT500 Cube or AT800 Cube, under 10kg for a 500W combo which in the case of the AT800 can have a further 8 ohm cab added for the full 800W.

No Facebook activity since 2021 and the website doesn't exist. Doesn't look promising.

I've got an MS-50G, two MS-60Bs, and an MS-70CDR. Would have had the MS-100BT (I think it was) if Zoom had had the sense to create an Android app for it, instead of restricting it to iOS. I'm looking at making a mini pedalboard with a Line 6 G50, TC Spectracomp, Vong-Filterung HPF/LPF, MS-60B, and MS-70CDR, plus an up/down patch switch for the MS-60B.

Haven't had a Crafter bass but I do have a Crafter acoustic - excellent guitar, quality well above its price point.

Thinking about it, I wonder how many viola and violin players have it in for my former bandmate who plays a 5-string electric viola.

My apologies for my part in that.

No they couldn't, unless you want to be particularly perverse about interpretation. Are you sure it's not you being argumentative for argument's sake? Welcome to my very short ignore list.

I'm not attempting to change you from your appointed course, I just don't want other people who might be tempted to try 5-strings and find that they benefit from using them to be put off from doing so in the first place.