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So who wants to tell Trudy that she's spelt Calliope wrong?

"She", surely? Not many men called Trudy.

When I bought my first Warwick Thumb in 1988, it was £950 (I got it for £900, Dave at Musical Exchange was a jolly nice chap). For comparison, a new 3-bed semi-detached house had cost me £17k five years earlier. I had terrible crises of self-confidence deciding whether to buy it and finally made up my mind that I would. Since then, I've bought two more Thumbs and three Seis (all second-hand, I'm not made of money), and haven't bothered with having crises of self-confidence again. As for Fodera, playability is a subjective thing. I've played a 4-string Fodera (since I moved over to 5-string only) and found it far less playable than not just my old Warwick JD Thumb but also a Cort GB4 I have. Based on that, I wouldn't buy one. Obviously, far better bassists than me (eg. Victor Wooten) don't feel the same way about them. Or perhaps they do, but they relish a challenge and get paid lots by Fodera.

I thought bass 1 was clearer, bass 2 was a bit more ill-defined and woolly. Based on that, I've guessed that bass 1 is the USA/Ki0gon, as it would be terrible to spend money to make your bass sound worse 😁

For anyone who may be interested - v3.15 of Helix/HX/HX Edit has been released. https://line6.com/support/page/kb/effects-controllers/helix/helix-315-release-notes-r992/

I suppose it depends how much of the process is automated. Lined fretless has the side dots in the same place as fretted, so the process is identical until the frets or fretlines get stuck in.

I bought my first real bass as a load of bits. Hayman had gone bust and there were a load of necks, bodies, electrics, etc at the Fender Soundhouse, which coincidentally had a fire, so I bought all the bits for a 40/40 and put it together. That was a good learning experience - I had adjusted truss rods, string height, and intonation on guitars before. I don't do fret work or nuts, but I'm happy doing electronics.

So I can replace a bass because it's defective - it has one too few strings?

One band I was in had rehearsed up to the point of gig-readiness - we were all experienced and playing pretty standard covers. The drummer was in another band as well, so we organised a double band gig at a local pub. The drummer, singer, the guitarists, singer, and bassist from the other band, and me were all there, wondering what had happened to our guitarist. After some time (this was in the days before mobile phones) we got a message that he'd jumped in the canal and I think had been taken to hospital. He'd always been a little strange but never seemed that way inclined before. Anyroadup, we borrowed the other band's guitarists and got through the gig (the advantages of playing covers that every bugger plays).

Saw her a good few years ago, at the Roadhouse in Birmingham, with bassist and drummer. Very good.

Alternatively he was opposed to vaccine mandates but not an anti-vaxxer, and found masks that weren't N95 ineffective and a nuisance rather than a protection (which ignores the fact that they're to protect others). There's rather more nuance to this than some would have you believe. Remarkably, the Torygraph seems the paper that most appreciates nuance: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/01/21/meat-loaf-railed-against-covid-rules-nuisance-face-masks-death/ which should be read properly.

Tamworth: Wolfsbane (and hence Blaze Bayley) Julian Cope Donald Skinner Magnum

Tonga being in the news brought this little ditty to mind (the first of the Flanders & Swann songs herein). Reflecting on it, I believe it would be rather less acceptable nowadays as it's about non-consensual sex. It's rather hard to imagine Flanders and Swann being more offensive than Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, but Wayne is giving a choice of having sex or leaving.

I'm in until somebody sells an Ibanez SRF705 (or exchanges it for a Cort GB4). Hmm, really should get round to posting in the marketplace.

I thought it was charged at the rate applicable in the supplying country, but looking into it further, it's the rate applicable in the supplying country if the supplier has annual sales lower than 10 000 Euros, and in the country being supplied to if it's more.

He said "extra VAT" - that might refer to the fact that Ireland's VAT rate is 23% and the UK's is 20%. When the UK was in the customs union, VAT would be charged at source, so he'd pay 20%, since Brexit he'd have to pay VAT at the Irish rate of 23% on importing the item.

Sad to see him go, Bat Out of Hell came out at around the time that I started riding bikes and partying with the outlaw club that I prospected for invariably included BOOH being played. Saw him at the NEC and he was excellent. A colossal amount of energy for a man of his size.

The singlecut Ritter?

That's a bit odd, his bass soon after he'd moved to the current premises and was using the garage in the field as a rehearsal room was a 5-string Warwick.

There's an acoustic duo called Karen & Mike Fleming in the USA. Mrs Zero and I (also an acoustic duo) could team up with them and be Karen & Karen & Mike & Mike Fleming.

Mus be a rick of the ligh, i looked like rather faded gold to me but maybe no.

That's the great thing about headless basses, you only get the singer in the ear if you really want to.

Look more closely. It's got chrome hardware.

Searching for picures of Alan Davey and he Rick, I found one wih a Fireglo Rick. However, i's no he one in he aucion as i has chrome, no gold, hardware, so his wouldn' be any good o use in a ribue band.

Surely he means "Watkins Rapier" (my brother had the Rapier 33 guitar). The website link gives a bit of a clue.