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I've gone very lightweight with a GR Bass AT800 combo (under 10kg) but it's not cheap. 500W from the built-in speaker, add another for 800W. Prior to that, Tecamp Puma 900 and Barefaced Big Baby 2, which is still pretty lightweight. A powerful class D amp and decent 1x12 will do for most pub and club gigs IME.

I wondered if it was you that popped up in musicians wanted/available on FB but was playing a 4-string. That explains it.

A complete waster. What about the Log?

I bought a pair of Berg 112s off him many years ago. He was fine to deal with. Strongly opinionated, but that's surely true of a considerable proportion of the BC membership.

After his ban from here, he popped up on Finnbass for a while but went wandering the world or summat - can't consult the Finnbass archives to check though

I thought "tatto my robot" must be a euphonium but gwgl doesn't come up with a meaning (nor for "tattoo my robot").

I put my Hayman together from parts when the Fender Soundhouse had a fire around the same time as Hayman went bust and a load of parts were sold off cheap. Didn't get a pickup guard, didn't see the point. Neither of the Precisions I've owned had ashtrays.

A Hayman 40/40 was my first bass. I part-exchanged it for a Fender Precision, which is the instrument I used for the one and only recording that I played slap on. Then I PXed the Fender for a Warwick.

Funny, I managed to get past just about every audition in the early 80s (and since then) without playing slap. Any that I didn't get past weren't because I didn't play slap.

The Broad Street shop (which I used to look into when I was a schoolboy) got hit by a fire. There was a bit of speculation about that. It moved to Snow Hill (where it was when I bought a P from them, and later PXed it for a Thumb), and years later became Reverb Sounds. Gary, who used to work in the guitar department there, went on to PMT in Birmingham - years ago, I think when he was still at Musical Exchanges, he showed me some photos of the fire damage in the Broad Street shop.

I bought a Carlsbro Stingray guitar amp at the Dale End shop in the late 1970s.

Only trying to be helpful, you charming little man.

Are you saying that you're writing a story? If so, could I advise you to write in reasonably comprehensible English and with punctuation that generally adheres to the rules of punctuation? It may be easier for you to write this way, but it makes it hard to read.

Narcissistic tw@ttery?

I thought it wouldn't be about Fenders because nobody used Fenders for funk. I seem to have missed a connection here.

I think it went off-topic during the first post.

No, it's not about grammar, it's about the collating sequence. In a phone book, "Level 42" would come before "Level42" as space comes before 4.

I misread it, I thought he was a pasta chef at Macaroni's, before becoming a wireless operator at Marconi's.

I was born rather before the 70s, and if you did a search for the demographics poll, you'd find that there's quite a lot of us. And CMOS was around before 1976, it had started making inroads when I was playing with TTL 74-series in about 1970. But what this has to do with Windows 11, I have no idea. And Marcus Miller isn't a household name now.

Have you got the opportunity to play them? I haven't played a Sadowsky, have played a few Spectors and never got on with the necks. Likes and dislikes are very subjective, I can only mention my own experience.

Here's me, brain the size of a planet, and I can't work it out either. Something about Santana teaching Mark King to play bass at Macari's under the guidance of the OP, or something.

You've got two other threads on the same topic to say that in, this one is in praise of Coldplay!

Another vote for the SGC Nanyo here. Also Peaveys in general - I've had a Grind BXP in 6-string and 5-string form and if I was still playing 4-strings, I'd be quite happy with one of those. Hohner - the B2 (B2A for preference) or a Jack if you could get it at a reasonable price. Headlessness, once you are used to it, has many advantages. Cort - GB74, as used by Pete Trewavas of Marillion when he's not using a Warwick Thumb.

Might have bunged a bit towards the James Webb telescope.

What a monstrous tragedy. Coldplay will do no more recording after 2025, before when they plan to produce three final albums. I'll be queueing up at midnight for them when they come on sale.