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"Where the wild roses grow" by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue is probably another one to avoid. If they ever get divorced, though, it would be pretty good for that.

I would reverse that, bass on the slower numbers and cajon on the faster ones. Bass on the Shania Twain too. That's based on my experience of playing in a band with bass and cajon, and another with no percussion. For Happy Jack - the strange ribbed things that you stroke is either a fish (guiro) or something dressed up in a ribbed condom. Obviously the choice of which depends on exactly what sort of gig is being played.

'Edelweiss' from the Sound of Music. 'New Rose' - The Damned 'Yellow Rose of Texas' - trad. 'Goodbye English Rose' is a bad idea for so many reasons, but mainly because it's shoite.

Which video is it, and where's the reference? I just whipped out the multimeter and checked continuity on a pot in a bass preamp that I happen to have lying around. The pot is metal-shafted, as you almost always get on instruments, and there's zero resistance between shaft and pot body. As is usual practice, one end of the track is connected to the pot body, so the preamp earth is connected to the pot shaft.

I don't know how accurate the message to them was - I phoned up and someone in the office passed the message on to the stage crew. When I talked to them direct, I was able to say it was black with white piping, which may have helped somewhat.

I took a detour on my home tonight and dropped in on the Robin. They had another hunt for the cover, and this time, possibly helped by my description, they found it. So all's well that ends well, sort of.

Thanks for all your work on this. A water jet cutter might be the tool for the job.

It's not the surface area, it's the volume. That is, the area multiplied by the cone excursion (Xmax). So a 12" with a big Xmax could be louder than a 15" with a smaller Xmax. Any advance on volume? We'd have to go to four dimensions...

I've used this lot since it was called EPC (about 40 years): https://powder-coatings.co.uk/

I doubt very much that a mixer would want to deal with speaker-level voltages. I have alternative things I can try if this experiment doesn't quite work out (as opposed to being a dismal failure) - running separate amps for each cab is quite simple (and I have a spare amp or two), but involves more wiring, and I want to keep things to a minimum.

Wasn't worried about that, I saw them soundchecking. Venue is full PA, and his head was a Fender Rumble 500 with a touch of overdrive at nowhere near full whack. Still, I'll find out for sure at a rehearsal tomorrow.

Just spoke to the venue. Bassist said he'd folded it up and put it under the drum riser. It's not there now. Now to try and extract £50 from him to replace the cover...

People who have faith in the fundamental trustworthiness of humanity, despite six decades of experience to the contrary.

I passed it up to him on the stage (as they were just starting to soundcheck when I arrived) with its cover on. Apparently he folded up the cover and put it under the drum riser. Whether it's still there is another question.

The One10 is a monitor for me. The BB2 is the FOH speaker for the bass. Our PA can't do bass.

I want to try to reduce the onstage sound from my BB2, which I'm pretty much on top of, so I'm going to try using a One10 pointed up at me on stage and put the BB2 by one of the PA speakers. Should be an interesting experiment.

In this case, the bassist thought his cab was in the band van. For convenience, we both used his head.

Hohner B2AV. Nice and compact so it doesn't take up much extra room.

He didn't realise my cab had a cover on it or that I'd lent the other bassist a lead. I never thought to mention it as I assumed that the other bassist would take as much care of my gear as I would of someone else's.

I've always been one who's happy to lend gear. I know there are strong opinions either way, and I wouldn't advise anyone else what to do. Last night, we supported a Blur tribute band at the Robin 2 near Wolverhampton. I'd had a message late in the afternoon from our guitarist, asking if it was OK if the bassist borrowed my cab. I said yes, got there, passed the cab (Barefaced BB2) over to the bassist, and also lent him a speakon-jack speaker cable. I wanted to leave before the end, and our guitarist said he was happy to take my cab back to his place just down the road from me. So he did, and then I got a message from him to say the bassist had forgotten to give him the speaker lead but had put it behind the bar. After work today, I took a 15 mile or so detour to pick the lead up, got home, then went to pick up the cab. The guitarist brings out the cab, but the immaculate Roqsolid cover is missing. To say I am p!ssed off is an understatement. The guitarist has messaged them to ask about the cover. I am not a happy bunny. Stuff lending gear to anyone else.

When I was a teenager, people said I looked like Donny Osmond (who is three weeks younger than me). Later, other people said I looked like Meat Loaf. Then when I was forty or so, it was Jack Nicholson. The most recent comparison was Barry off East Enders (whoever he is/was). It's just been a gradual decline...

The greatest guitarist there has ever been.

I use Schallers, have done since getting my first Warwick just over 30 years ago. There was a Schaller-compatible straplock by Boston which overcame the issue with the nut coming undone by simply having two nuts per lock - tighten the first nut down, then tighten the second nut onto it and it acts as a locknut. Although I've found that using a spanner and tightening the nut really tight rather than trusting that pliers will do the job works for me.

Your 1 looks more like a combination of lack of commitment and lack of self-awareness, like a group mind Dunning-Kruger effect. Lack of ambition would be typified by a band that I left after about three years, when the set list remained identical for all that time. I came back and depped for them a few times over the next five years or so - still the same set list. Not just the same songs but the same order too. You have a more fundamental issue if nobody but you recognises that there is an issue. As for your 2, I am sometimes the adult supervision and sometimes the supervised. I've never been in a band that required more that a gentle hand on the tiller (and a couple of spare leads in the bag) - that level of mollycoddling and direction points to either deep-rooted psychological problems or them all being about ten years old. Although, come to think of it, you haven't said how old they actually are. If they're pre-pubescent, or even teenagers, their behaviour is understandable. Anything older than that and they have issues.