tauzero

Jose Feliciano was just as admirable as he was doing "Every breath you take". If I'd known being famous just required being stinky poo at singing and playing guitar, I'd have had it made years ago.

The later and rarer Superduperfly, aka Superfly 1000, had a fan fitted and was much cooler (I've had both, and like Bill, used them out of their pretty but heavy and heat-retaining outer casings). Perhaps putting a better fan into the ELF would improve the cooling.

There is one - in Basses for sale IIRC.

Another vote for Interparcel/UPS from me. You will find horror stories about any courier (including UPS) but I've found them reliable and non-damaging, plus they insure musical instruments.

I listened to it through headphones. You mean it could sound worse? Did Sting mouth "crap" at the end while he was clapping?

Pickup selection inspired by He Who Must Not Be Named, didn't bother measuring to find out where to put the bridge (maybe he simply doesn't understand the theory, he certainly doesn't come across as knowledgeable), and he's crap at stringing. Typical guitarist, in fact.

Years ago, there was a pricing error on a digital camera which someone spread the news about on a newsgroup or two. It was about 50% of what it should have been, so those of us who ordered one were in the position of being able to say that it didn't seem obviously mispriced, and we got them.

Two fairly proper ones, I think. Memory's going a bit. The old covers band folded at the end of 2016 - joined an acoustic band, an originals band, and a prog rock covers band, plus still playing as a duo with Mrs Zero. The duo has done a few open mics, the acoustic band has done a few slots at whatever open mics that are actually all pre-booked slots are called plus one that could probably be classified as a gig, the originals band has done one gig, and the prog rock covers band hasn't done any, although we're well on our way to having a full set list - both songs for the first set and one of the songs for the second are sorted out.

There's some excellent bass playing on the early Kate Bush albums.

Possibly because it isn't? He's credited for guitar.

Here's one of mine - a Sei Original Must find a photo of the Warwick Thumb.

It would work with a mono earpiece using a mono jack. To a degree, anyway. And the signal level is about the same from a passive bass as an active.

Except that the active preamp wouldn't switch on, as the jack socket relies on ring and sleeve being shorted. Well, maybe it would, rather badly, depending on the impedance of your headphones, of which the right channel wouldn't do anything and the left channel would be very quiet.

Perhaps it says more about how few people read BGM than how many admire Alan's work. Does that get me a free Krell?

Oh no! A music stand! I thought he was a world-class bassist...

I've got a pair of RCF ART 710As for PA duties. Specs say 50-20kHz frequency response, max SPL 129dB, 700W RMS power split 500/200 between woofer and tweeter. It would be nice to leave my pair of Berg AE112s at home and run through the PA, perhaps using Tecamp Puma/BF One10 for bass monitoring. This is up against a not overly loud unmiced drummer (maybe I could put a bit of kick in the mix), and keys would also go through the PA. Am I being over-optimistic in thinking of doing this?

If it's not in tune, that's a deal breaker for me. I'm not that technically minded.

You should be ASHamed of that.

I'll be bringing an incredible talent at procrastination sometime soon.

That won't work, they've got standard A pitched at 435Hz not 440.

Notlob

Early 900s (like mine) don't have one either - I put one in, with guidance from Thomas Eich, as I thought I might have an overheating issue (I didn't).

Squire. So you can have a guitar spelt the same way as the illiterati/those who are unable to read a headstock spell it.

Meatloaf. Seeing as the ones that first sprang to mind (T Rex, Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd) have been nabbed, and I'm not sure about playing with David Bowie as he'd sack me, although I could also be tempted by Focus. Still, Meatloaf - I like Jim Steinman's writing, there's a lot of energy in the songs and enough complexity to make them interesting but simple enough that I should be abler to remember them.

I'm sure I recall mention of someone having a neck built by Jon Shuker. Might be worth a search to see if you can find the post in question.