tauzero

Capos don't help, and nor do odd chord shapes - the guitarist in the covers band I'm now in can't play barre chords and even plays open G oddly (frets top G with a finger, bottom G with his thumb, and doesn't care that he's got an open A playing) so I have to try to remember to look at the charts on my music stand and not his hands.

Maybe the seller has a matching pair, 6-string and 4-string. There isn't currently an auction for a 6-string though.

You can get single-string tuners, but they're not cheap either - £40 apiece from ABM.

I'm either going to be up for this or the first to break it - found the bass I was after, in Italy, and due to both the seller and me being busy over Christmas, we've agreed to do it all post-Christmas.

They have the suffix "M" if they have the magnetic pickups, so that would be (but isn't) a CR5M.

Cheap headless 4-string bridge/tuners are easy to come by, not so 5-strings.

Unfortunately, it coincides with one of the two annual meet-ups with a bunch of fellow bikers that I go to, and I'll be 100 miles away on a motorcycle at the time. I had hoped to get to this as I've missed the last two.

I've found that playing with the current covers band, where the percussionist supplies the PA, we don't have much gear generally, and a BF One10 is all I need, means I don't feel like I've been hit multiple times by a baseball bat the next day. If I have to load up my PA and cart in a load of stuff, I start the gig with a problematic back.

At least some of it is on Youtube, though there doesn't seem to be a DVD.

Of course they were faked. The proof is at http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/stuff/nasa-fakes-moon-landing.html

One of them has built a rocket, and managed to go up a little way and survive coming down, in an effort to prove that the earth is flat. There is also a nutter who thinks that, based on his observation of a shadow, the Earth's axis of rotation is now a lot more inclined than it was. Strangely, when I pointed out to him that Polaris still stayed in the same position all the time, so the axis must still be pointing at it, my comment didn't get published on his website. http://www.divulgence.net/ for anyone interested.

I'm going to be getting one of those. It's called a redundancy payment.

Best just squeezes in to 2018, bought in January - Barefaced Big Baby II. Replaced a pair of Berg AE112s which were great cabs, but I was looking for even lighter weight. I now have that and a One10, I'm happy with Barefaced. I suppose I have to put a Mobius Megatar as my worst purchase, simply because I haven't actually managed to apply myself to start learning how to play it. It's bad enough trying to work out which of the three million tuning schemes will suit me. Looks like it'll be a New Year's resolution.

http://bandwerkz.com perhaps?

If the decimal point on the price was one to the left, I'd be very tempted.

Looks very realistic to me (mind you, I haven't owned a P for 30 years or so). And the seller is honest, too. If I actually wanted a P, this would be a good candidate. Might need a new nut though, not sure about the string spacing. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/70s-P-Bass/323595337047

Isn't there another complexity - continuous vs music power, as opposed to RMS vs peak? Music power is the transient power that can briefly be attained, which generally historically has been twice the continuous output, so peak music power = 4 x continuous RMS. As you say, PMPO is a random number - a quick check on That Ebay (looking for "pmpo computer speaker") shows some items with PMPO = RMS x 2, and one pair which has 80W PMPO = 6W RMS (incidentally, the ones with PMPO = 2 x RMS seem to have got there by thinking of a big number, saying that's PMPO, then dividing it by 2 to get RMS).

You're nicking our line-up. It works brilliantly, guitar/singer, keyboards, bass, and bongoes/cajun, playing assorted generally 80s stuff, including a bit of reggae and some David Bowie.

One fretted, one fretless. I'm not that extravagant.

I've never seen a through-neck SGS Nanyo before. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Collection-Bass-Guitar-by-SGC-Nanyo-with-Original-Case/132882989629 Gotoh hardware, looks rather nice. Wrong number of strings for me, I'd be very tempted otherwise. Bugger, just seen I'm not the first to notice.

I thought I was going to be able to do this. Then I started playing the Warwick Thumbs again after many years of them hanging on the wall after I went to 5-strings, and Mrs Zero said how much she likes the sound of the Thumbs, but I play 5-string in the other two bands so I'd need a 5-string Thumb. Damn.

I switched to primarily 5-strings in 2007 or so when I finally found a 5-string neck I got on with. However, having joined a Marillion tribute band who play a semitone down, I've brought the Warwick 4s back out of retirement as Pete Trewavas plays a 4, and also I don't have to keep retuning any 5s. Still using the 5s in other bands and with no intention of changing that, unless I start using a 6 regularly.

It would also show I can afford to buy underpants, not like poor Mr Kravitz.

I'd be delighted if my jeans fell down at a gig, it would show the diet is working.

As another example, Stairway to Heaven is a classic demonstration of how a song doesn't have to rhyme. It does get a bit more rhymey towards the end, possibly after someone nipped out and bought Percy a rhyming dictionary.