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Saturday night, back at a WMC that Dirty Roses have played at before. Went down well, which was nice. I've done several years of social club work so I'm used to the bingo and play your cards right, it's still a novelty for the others. Antoniotsai dragon bass -> Lekato WS-90 -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212. We have our youngest fan.

You might as well cast a horoscope as use Myers-Briggs. What colour hat is natural contrariness, and what one is a desire to treat cause rather than symptoms?

I often put my Zoom MS-60B+ on top of the amp with a short lead. At one gig, everything went silent at one point and I saw that the pedal had vibrated off the amp. So I took to using a longer lead and putting the pedal on the floor, except at a couple of open mic nights where the pedal sits quite happily on top of the amp and stays there. Until tonight. Bah. Another open mic one, this time when playing guitar - I'm so used to playing wireless that at the end of my slot, I just stood up and walked off stage, causing a mic stand and music stand to come crashing down. Oops.

Oh yes you did.

ITYF it has to be in his uncle's attic to be authentic.

Something that saves me doing the same thing is remembering that the pins point in the direction that the signal goes.

Or buy a You Rock YRG1000 for a lot less. Or an Artiphon Instrument One.

It was easy for me - I did this at school, where MD stood for Master's Detention, and as I had a few of those it was simple to remember. So the Motor was on the left and the Dynamo on the right.

It's an ETLA.

Try using the 5th string instead of not using it because you don't need it. You are allowed to play it further up than the 4th fret.

Ah yes, another hate. Using your PIN number to withdraw money from an ATM machine. Examples of RAS syndrome.

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The hissing of summer lawns?

Hope it has a lovely grain. Or maybe stain it if it's rather on the pale side:

You just have to remember that the left hand is Motor and the right hand is Dynamo, then First finger is Field, seCond finger is Current, and thuMb is motion. Fleming's left and right hand rules (no relation).

Nux Mighty Plug or Boss Katana Go will run headphones and you can select effects on them - the Boss is superior to the Nux but they're both perfectly usable. Further up the budgetary scale, there's the Positive Grid Spark Neo which is a wireless dongle combined with wireless headphones, and for another £100+ there's the Boss Waza Air. All four of these allow you to play music on a Bluetooth device paired with them so you can play along. I've got the first three of these and my very much preferred option is the Positive Grid Spark Neo as it's wireless and the included headphones are good quality. The Nux and the Boss Katana both need you to supply headphones which does mean possible extra expense but also means you have a choice of what headphone you use.

Out of interest, how did it compare with other cabs? I never did any comparisons, just used it I think for one gig and then went to a GR Bass combo so I could have a combo that was even lighter than the cab.

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Not giraffics?

I was trying to find a photo from a recent gig which is the only one where we all wore shorts, but there appears to be no photographic evidence. Probably just as well. In our defence, it was ridiculously hot.

Ditto, I was wondering whether it should be in "Notable deaths".

No, a much better idea is to buy a 5-string, then sell it on in three months with "I've found I don't get on with 5-strings" in the advert. Incidentally, I moved to 5-string after 30 years on 4s.

I didn't realise it was showing adverts, I run an ad blocker. I find the search function really poor on JMB. It's sort of better on Bandmix, except that 75% of the people on there don't understand how to set the filters for what they're looking for, so they look for accordionists, bagpipers, and triangle players as well as bassists, when they're actually looking for a drummer.

I met someone called Ged for the first time after a couple of years on a bikers' email list. "Hi Ged" I said. "It's bloody Jed!" he replied. As there were several of us meeting up, "it's bloody Jed" got deployed a few times. I wonder if Geddy Lee has the reverse problem.

If he'd called it the Graphics Exchangeable Format, I'm sure everyone would have been happy to call it Jeff.