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Headless 5-strings are the way to go.

'Relax' went through three phases - first as a somewhat lyrically ambiguous song, then it got banned for being about sex, then Holly Johnson revealed it was about gay sex.

You lose out on 90% of the benefits of a 5-string though. The ability to go below bottom E is as nothing compared to the power of the Force ability to play in a greater selection of neck positions. Still, as long as people keep buying 5-strings, misunderstanding them, and selling them on, I'll have a plentiful supply of little-used 5-strings to buy.

IANAL, but the invitation to treat etc still applies. It is, however, inadvisable to attempt to haggle over the price of items bought from a supermarket. There are a couple of exemptions - antiques, good sold at auction, products provided as part of a service. Having done literally minutes of research into this, there doesn't seem to be any way that it's legal not to price up instruments in PMT, either individually or with a price list (although they might be getting round this by having prices available online - the requirement seems to be that you can find the price without asking a member of staff). https://www.lawdonut.co.uk/business/marketing-and-selling/consumer-protection/unfair-trading-trade-descriptions-and-pricing-faqs#UTTDP12 says, in part: "More generally, failing to display prices could constitute unfair trading if the omission is likely to affect how customers behave. For example, customers might not choose to use your service if they knew in advance how much it would cost."

The first few I learnt weren't with the assistance of the records, it was just the guitarist saying what the chords were and me making something up. Back in the USSR, All Right Now (and I played in the verse), Sweet Jane, and some originals that we wrote spring to mind (it was 1976 so details are a bit hazy).

All the time, except when I'm playing a 4-string (TBH I'd rather play Marillion songs on a 5 but Pete Trewavas plays them on a 4 so to be a proper tribute, except fatter and balder, I have to too).

Pah! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_(guitar)

Was that Interparcel's terms or the terms of that specific courier?

Ah, the Lightglass. I'd like to say that I am paid by neither every other bass manufacturer than Fender, or, as part of a double bluff, by Fender. I am, however, currently sponsored by the DWP.

But... but... it causes offence! And causing offence is an enormous offence! I have a right to be offended, you know, and it causes me enormous stress.

I think relicked is probably more correct than reliced, which sounds as if you're putting parasites back on that you took off during the process of abusing the instrument. I bought a very tatty P decades ago - a sunburst with the lacquer seriously chipped and knackered. I took the lacquer off and stained it consistently dark. I suppose that now I'd be considered a criminal in the BC Fender purists' eyes.

Maybe that's the sound they all want?

I am evidently unreasonable and also consider Prince to be vastly overrated. House of the Rising Sun has already been mentioned, not sure if Hey Joe has yet.

That's surely like saying Nothing Compares 2 U or All the Young Dudes. Springsteen wrote it but it was never a single for him, like Prince wrote Nothing Compares 2 U and Bowie wrote All the Young Dudes. Because the Night by Patti Smith wasn't a cover, it was a recording of a song written by Springsteen.

7/8 bit kicks in at 0:52. Not as complex as most of those already cited, but I used to play this in a club band and one of the clubs we played at had line dancers. That gave us considerable entertainment. Others - Times Like These - Foo Fighters, main theme to Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield.

Several pillows stuffed in front of the speaker can make most exotic bass guitars sound like a P bass.

Roses are #FF0000 Violets are #0000FF All our base Are belong to you

It's temporarily on the back burner - the power supply was getting very hot. When I checked it, it was an AC/AC 2000mA PSU (for old PODs and Variaxes) not an AC/DC 3000mA one. There must be some protection circuitry in the HD500 to prevent a reverse polarity PSU knackering it - a bridge rectifier would do it and also allow AC to power it. I don't think it's an ideal situation so proper PSU ordered. The seller tells me that's the PSU he got with it, so the mix-up has happened somewhere back down the line.

You think that's complicated? The tenth Doctor married his daughter, who was actually the fifth Doctor's daughter, so he became his own son-in-law in an incestuous relationship. Back to the topic at hand - the purchase of a Line 6 HD500 has definitely put me out of tier 1 running. I suppose we can't have a "it was a real bargain" category, can we?

New multi-effects - Line 6 HD500. Picked up on Ebay for a frankly ridiculous price. The Zoom B3n supplies my needs for one band but I wanted something with a good octave up (the Zooms sound really odd) among other things. Put in a comedy bid for it and won. Picked it up today. Impressions are that it's bloody heavy, has a good intelligent harmony, and Line 6's editor scrimps on screen real estate (I hate that term) so I finish up squinting trying to read the teeny tiny writing. There's an option to buy the Line 6 bass amp pack, which I'm toying with - it has the SVT model and that's what I use on the Zoom. Any opinions? Also, is there any way of getting an effect like the Boss Slow Gear out of it? [Later] Ah, found it. Auto volume. Should have looked in the other other manual which describes the effects.

The Imprecision.

Push it into the ear it's easy to push it into, backwards, then push it all the way through. Simples.

The basic tenet seems to be that the organisers of the festival have the right to say who takes photos for public consumption. In the OP's case, it's the festival organisers that have used the photographs, so presumably they've given consent to themselves for the photos that they've given consent for to be used in the publicity material.

Yes, this thread started off about TNT though. I've insured musical instruments for somewhere over £1k with UPS and couldn't find anything in the small print about it not counting and they'd got their fingers crossed when they sold it to me.

I didn't realise it was that time of day already. Thought there were still a few hours to go before the next "I love P/I hate P" thread.