tauzero

I can't help but think that quite a few of us have mentioned these, yet nothing much gets said about them. So, as we've got threads about gigs and rehearsals, how about an open mic/jam night one? Tonight's open mic night at the Cavern in Tamworth was quite a fun event. Assorted bands and performers as always. There was a featured band (as there sometimes is here) called Fortunate Sons, who started their set with Fortunate Sons - although the effect was slightly spoilt by the singer forgetting the words. Gearstalking - their bassist had a 5-string SUB Ray which I thought (as it was a 5 string) was a Ray35, but he insisted that it was a Ray34. Mrs Zero and I did a bass and vocals set - Killer by Seal, Wicked Game by Chris Isaacs, Dancing in the moonlight by Thin Lizzy. There was a somewhat unusual band - the Drayton Brassets I think they're called, a band of brass rather than a brass band, trombone, trumpet, tuba, tympani (just kidding, it was a drummer), and a couple of others (also cornets or trumpets I think), doing assorted songs by Green Day among others. I got called up for a couple of numbers by the organiser, and for the final jam, Route 66 and Hog for you baby seguing into the final bit of Freebird. There's a young guitarist called James Bartholomew who is very good (just wish he could turn the volume down to 10) and he did some blistering solo work. Oh, and I also met a guitarist I haven't seen for 40 years or so, since he was supposed to be playing with me at a gig and jumped in the canal instead. More detail in the Spinal Tap thread. Tomorrow is the weekly open mic at the Shirley Royal British Legion, which I may report on.

I suppose that I should confess that a few years ago, I bought Mrs Zero a recorder. The current Mrs Zero, that is, not one of the former ones, so it wasn't some form of punishment.

Headstock shot should help a lot.

Just to follow this up - the events above happened about 40 years ago. This evening I was at an open mic night, headed to the toilets (upstairs) and waited for someone to come downstairs with a couple of drinks (bar was also upstairs). He halted by me and said "Did you used to be called Maltloaf?[1]" I said "Yes, who were you?" And it turned out that it was this guitarist. We chatted briefly - he's still playing guitar and gob-iron. [1] At one stage in my life, I resembled a slimmer Meat Loaf.

Tier 2 fail on torture implements though. Bagpipes would be a tier 1.

I don't play GUITAR as well as I play BASS. The GUITARist at the open mic I go to owns a BASS and tries to play it, badly. Why have we got to write BASS in capital letters? Seems like the equivalent of writing it in crayon.

He's still turning them out: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/356533886326

b) sounds very much like a horizontal version of the battery holder that tends to be used in electro-acoustic instruments, where the battery sits in a little box with two slots for the terminals which can only go in one way round, and then the whole lot slots into the preamp unit which it can only do one way round. I'm just glad that batteries last several years.

To be fair, the Venn diagram of "Leave voters" and "Trump voters" doesn't have much of an overlap.

A band I was friends with were playing in the basement at the Tamworth Arts Centre (now the Tamworth Registry Office where Mrs Zero and I got married), and asked me to do the lighting (nothing complicated, just move a couple of sliders up and down). They also got another friend, the late Titch, to do the pyros for them. Titch had some flash powder which he enthusiastically filled a trough with, then he tripped over the trough and deposited the contents on the floor. Nothing daunted, he refilled it. A few minutes into the set, I was wiggling the sliders (which were right by the stage at the front corner) when Titch fired off the pyro. The contents of the trough ignited, immediately followed by the contents of the floor, and the stage area was completely filled with smoke. The bassist was about two metres from me and completely invisible, I could just see the headstock appearing now and again through the fog. And one that happened to a band I was in - we had got our first gig in a Tamworth pub, and the drummer got his other band in as support for us. We set up and there was no sign of our guitarist. The support did their slot, still no guitarist. Then we found he had jumped in the canal. We roped in the guitarists from the other band as we were doing standards and got through the gig. I never did find out the underlying reason for Pete jumping in the canal (he did recover but I don't think I ever saw him again).

Surely they'll rise by whatever across-the-board tariff Canada puts on US imports. At the moment the UK seems to be in Trump's good books (Mandy's arse-licking volte face may have something to do with that) so there may be no tariff war between the UK and US, hence no price increases. This may change if there's a US-EU tariff war and the UK tries to stay onside with the EU (the most sensible course of action).

I had a pair of GK 112 cabs (a long time ago, they may have been the 112MBEs). Unimpressive, didn't go very loud and got very harsh very quickly. Moved them on for a pair of Berg AE112s which were far, far better.

I asked something similar: I haven't had a chance to try anything out yet - I did a little experiment in my lounge using a Zoom H2 which seemed promising. Haven't got a gig for about three weeks. Note that my intended use is to pick up guitars and drums rather than just the audience. If it seems successful, stage 2 is probably Behringer C2s.

I'll echo the recommendations to RTFM - while a lot of it is pretty intuitive, there's some parts that aren't immediately obvious. What you don't glean from the manual, a quick trawl of Youtube should turn up.

How heavy when it's full of electricity?

Ask in the "What's it worth?" subforum.

Rear routed body and no scratchplate - it's the only way to go. Scratchplates are an abomination.

Try a mild solvent like meths, isopropyl alcohol, or white spirit. Steer clear of acetone/nail polish remover.

<keeps eye on Andertons B-stock>

It's currently in beta testing, recognisable by the FREQUENT USE of upper case and CONSTANTLY BANGing on about Squiers. Or, indeed, Squires. Just look for Beta4Release.

I think you've used the link icon to paste that in as a link, or at least that's how it's turned out. You just need the URL itself, the bit starting https and ending jpg - simply paste that into your post. Oddly, when I tried copying the URL from that last post, it kept on putting it in as a link but when I copied the relevant bit out of an earlier post where you'd tried <img>[url=https://postimg.cc/N5MKF8Cx][img]https://i.postimg.cc/c47wDXQP/IMG-0809.jpg[/img][/url]</img>, it worked OK:

I would have thought that the second-hand value of a repaired one would be rather lower, maybe £300-£350.

I just opened Acrobat on my Android phone and it (Acrobat rather than Android) gave me the option to set it as my PDF viewer, and allowed me to open PDF files from the app.

Must admit, I hadn't noticed it was through-neck either - I'm looking out for a cheap Thunderbird body to Fenderbirdise.

£350 when intact ones are about £250? I think they've added a zero.