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On the more musical front, Gary Glitter was superb.

Headless basses are brilliant. Cut the weight by about a kilo, bass balances better, tuning is more stable, you don't put the headstock through the light fittings every time you take it on and off, and you only stick the end of it in the singer's ear if you really mean to. And they should have at least five strings, four strings are rubbish. The fact that Fender have never made a five-string headless bass is evidence that they are a really good idea.

Not even the brilliant Duran Duran? Or the superb A-ha?

Focus have already been mentioned - Hocus Pocus hasn't but Sylvia has. Great bit of 80s: And back to glam rock: Finally, just a small sample of Mike Oldfield's output:

I went to a place that cuts wood to size. I think everything was cut about 1mm too small, but I can live with that. Due to having a biopsy on my right hand a couple of days ago, I'm slightly limited in what I can do for now. I think I've got all the ingredients though, except for a grill cloth.

Sei Flamboyant 5 headless. Not sure whether it should be fretted or unlined fretless so one of each please.

According to the courts, so is "My Sweet Lord". "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette doesn't contain any ironies.

That's a nice bass, and actually deserves the word "rare" in the description too! Does the active circuit have a trim pot to adjust the level by any chance?

So they don't have to look as if someone took a sander to them then? 😁 Have the strings (or at least the A string) been slackened off?

No, but on my 50th birthday, when we played the Dudley Beer Festival, one of them (and my girlfriend at the time, now Mrs Zero) did grab me and badge me and silly string me and bewig me.

Mike Batt is a member of Mensa. He could have worked it out.

I used to play in a ceilidh band with two Morris dancers, so it appears I am now in your bad books.

My opinion is that they're really annoying, and there's much better ways to accomplish the same thing.

Another alternative is a hardware synth module with the MIDI controller keyboard, like a Roland JV series. Or even a Zynthian - https://zynthian.org/

It's possible to buy or make DC blockers if phantom power might be a problem. https://www.instructables.com/Phantom-Power-Blocker-protect-Your-Dynamic-Microph/

In that advert, it's a bit of a quest to find words that are spelt correctly.

A guitar, amp, and bluetooth transmitter/effects unit: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175184992982 New prices - £130 for the guitar, £30 for the bluetooth thing, CR-10T amp can't be found new but £20 second-hand. A snip at £600 for the lot.

Nanyo Bass Collection. IIRC there's one in the marketplace at the moment.

George Whasington? How easy is it to remember what button does what? Quite a spectacular bass. Is that a 32" scale?

Probably ABM, it's what Sei use for their headless basses.

Indeed, all you need to take to a gig is two workbenches and a concrete floor. To really do a proper experiment, you'd need to use the same bridge and headstock and attach them to long thin pieces of wood of similar dimensions and perform a full spectrum analysis of the output. The strings, pickups, and electronics will be the most significant influencers of tone (assuming that the material used for body and neck is adequately rigid). The wood used to connect them will have some effect, it's the amount of that effect that is questionable. My feeling is that it's close to negligible, others (mentioning no names) will differ.

There's probably a way of controlling it via the USB port to enable bank up/down. I've done something similar with an MS-60B and a B3, and I'm sure there's a topic on it somewhere. Found it: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/275453-zoom-b3-ms-60b-b1on-usb-control

Depends on your definition of "northern". There was a free magazine called Solihull & District WHY a while ago, and Solihull is firmly in the Midlands (the bit of England that all northerners and southerners forget exists, but if it didn't, Bristol would be next to Liverpool).

Can you have it the other way round? The Velvet Underground and Nico? Sorry, I've skipped "U". Just found One Man Army and the Undead Quartet.

I think whoever wrote it had been listening to "A spaceman came travelling" quite recently. Not too offensive at all. I did see one song from one of the semifinals (so I'm working on dcurrent information) - Armenia, and whoever wrote that song had been listening to Mary Hopkin recently. Standard Eurothump rhythm.