tauzero

I speak from experience. I owned one for a while. The first gig I had with it was upstairs.

After you've lugged that into a venue, the last thing you'll want to do is carry in an extension cab too, especially if you then have to lift the combo onto the extension. I'm sure depleted uranium is used in the construction of those things.

Ireland have done a cracking job of making sure not to have to host it next year.

It goes against my very being, but if you're tributing someone who often uses a plectrum, things are taken out of your hands. Or, indeed, put into them.

Um, holding plectrums. I use plectrums and fingerpick on guitar, and occasionally a plectrum on bass. Not sure what else they could be used for, except maybe an emergency biscuit if you carefully cut it to shape.

They're very useful. I've got one stuck to the scratchplate on my Variax guitar, and another stuck to a strap plectrum holder and clipped to the strap of one bass. I wouldn't stick one on paintwork or onto wood.

Pretty sure mine has all the screens the same, but I do my editing on the PC so only really use the screens to check which patch I'm on and for the tuner.

I started on guitar, had a Les Paul copy and a Carlsbro Stingray. Then a few of us started a band at uni, and I became the de facto bassist. At the time, Fender Soundhouse had just had a fire and Hayman had gone bust, so they were selling off parts of instruments, and I used all my money (£75) to buy all the component parts of a Hayman 40/40 and assembled them. The Carlsbro Stingray then got fitted out with a pair of bass drivers, and I used that for a few years (even got borrowed by Jeff Hateley of Wolfsbane at one point). Eventually I got a Laney 150W amp and Ohm 15" cab, but that was years later. I do have photos which I may eventually scan in.

No, that's The Archers.

And in Off Topic, discussion of when GRR Martin's The Winds of Winter might be released.

There's a book on the subject that is quite interesting: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/85560/temperament-by-stuart-isacoff/9780375703300/

So Buster Gonad was based on a real person then.

It doesn't need it every gig, perhaps every five or ten, and takes me about 30 seconds to do. I don't leave it in vehicles but venues and rehearsal rooms are not infrequently at extremes of temperature.

My beloved Sei fretless is very temperature sensitive - not just the strings, the neck moves. I carry a set of allen keys and a capo with me and adjust the truss rod when necessary (so easy on a headless, such a chore when you have a headstock). The initial attack on a string will be slightly sharp due to the greater deflection causing a higher tension in the string, but you need to ignore the brief flash into the red, the sustain period of the note is where you need to tune.

If you try https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Blacken-Steel-with-Motor-Oil/ then please video the process.

I was delighted when I got rid of my old Trace crap and went class D. That aside, the biggest loss near me was when Musical Exchange in Birmingham (second-hand and new) became Reverb Sounds (new, occasional second-hand thing) and then went bust. There's a few shops doing a small amount of second-hand instruments (only one which is a specifically musical shop though), and there's a couple of bass specialist shops in the UK. Plus there's a few of the larger ones, like PMT and Guitar Guitar, though they tend to stick to the unimaginative.

Not my cat, but when I had an open access cat flap, a neighbour's tom came in a few times and sprayed up the side of my Carlsbro Stingray guitar amp. So I caught the thing and took it to the vet to have its goolies cut off. Never came back after that.

I find many Bob Marley songs are improved by a spot of Marillion.

I've just bought one. It's had one gigsworth of use so far and is in the garage so won't be able to check it till tomorrow, although it sounds like you can't actually see the problem until it all falls apart.

Gimme Gimme Gimme by ABBA, approximately as reworked by Yngyngwyngy Malmsteen - I can't remember the name of the band that we nicked the version from but it was similar to that one.

I use a fretless all the time in the covers band. And in the originals band, come to that.

Just saw this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401761199360 Thought I'd mention it as Jon Shuker has often been praised here.

I don't care. As I use headless basses almost all the time, there isn't an issue with some stupid ugly heavy lump of wood at the far end of the neck, not unless I shove it into the singer's ear.

I was rather surprised that a Barefaced One10 was still on That Ebay a day after it was listed at £135 BIN, so I bought it. I was the only bidder for a Line 6 HD500 that had a start price of £50.