tauzero

Do the band open mic nights in question run bass through the PA?

I try to find a compromise length because I also play guitar a bit and I fingerpick, for which it's helpful to use nails. I err on the side of shorter though as playing bass strings with my nails sounds really harsh. Main bass plucking finger for me is my forefinger - a broken metacarpal which finished up giving me a slightly shorter and lower forefinger means I tend to stay with one finger rather than alternate.

It's interesting, but it's got too few strings and too many headstocks for me.

Another thing. I mentioned 4+1 headstocks before (as, sadly, we're stuck with headstocks until the dawn of enlightenment). Well, any headstock that has a difference of more than 1 between the number of tuners/machine heads/bits of metal that adjust the string tension is right out, the correct numbers are 2+2 for a 4-string, 3+2/2+3 for a 5-string, 3+3 for a 6-string (although I can't recall ever seeing a bass with six or more strings having a stupid imbalance of tuners/machine heads/bits of metal that adjust the string tension).

I have my doubts about the pre- and post-coital horns.

I wouldn't have thought that that would be patentable. The headstock might be a trademark, like various aspects of R*ckenbackers, but that would encompass the entire headstock shape rather than the 3+1ness of it.

He said they were using Bluetooth, and I thought "what about the latency?" Then it became obvious that latency was the least of his worries.

There's this new Act of Parliament coming in...

Stick-on dots [1] are available. Or use a sharpie for marking maple or bound fretboards. [1] That just reminded me of a Maplin catalogue from many years ago, in which one of the items was "Sick-on feet".

A former band played a few gigs in a couple of pubs in Munich. Those were four 30 minute sets with 30 minute gaps between them. It worked quite well - it got very hot and we were glad of the breaks. No DJ between sets though. Conversely, I've played a gig where we played for 45 minutes or so then a DJ came on for an hour or so, then we returned, and it wrecked the flow.

Not sure if this counts as a gig, but yesterday saw the funeral of a friend, John Benbow, who used to run an open mic night at the Roadhouse in Birmingham. I took Mrs Zero to it, which started her singing in public, and I became the house bassist. After the funeral there was a wake cum open mic night, with various people playing a lot of Lennon/Beatles and Dylan songs (John's favourites), and me getting back together with a guitarist I haven't played with for about 15 years to do a couple of songs. Sadly this means that the only two members of the old house band still extant are the drummer and I, we've lost two lead guitarists plus John.

Don't let it go to your head.

Do you mean you were just lending me the Variax?

Standard notation has many flaws. There's lots of alternatives to standard notation. You'll have to watch it to find out what comes out on top.

If you haven't got an hour and a quarter to spare, don't start watching this. It's very good.

Pretty uninspiring. And no headlesses.

It's not a new WD-40. It's a contact cleaner sold by WD-40.

I should have checked what was in the marketplace rather than relying on dodgy memory. It's the D4 you need, not the G4. There is (or at least was) a pair a little while ago which wasn't showing as sold.

https://whamageddon.com/

Only counts if it's Wham! themselves playing it, and there's only 50% of them still extant.

Forgot to mention - while the drummer and I were setting up, we got Whamageddoned. Bah.

What an excellent neologism. A meter to measure just how good something is. Poor, mediocre, good, excellent, ultimate.

If he hasn't got a problem with weight (the bass, not him) and you would just like a less plain strap, there's a load out there - Planet Waves, Stagg, and (more expensive) Levys are worth looking at. For padded straps to help with weight, Lekato also make some good padded straps.

They're a P4 replacement. If the pickups are the same angle as the EHB1005MS (and EHB1265MS), and strings the same spacing, they'll do the job (there is a version with visible pole pieces that comes in 5-string and 6-string versions though).

That's looking very attractive.