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If they've kept the neck profile the same as on the Cort Custom GB4, it will be a fantastic bass to play.

That drummer was still accelerating into "Don't let your son", so the additional rehearsals didn't help (or maybe nobody had bothered to tell him). The reggae seemed rather fast too. Then he said it was over too quickly. It wouldn't have been if he'd played at the right speed though. I don't think that the female singer was helped by having mentors who went all Whitney Houston on her whenever they demonstrated a point. The other band did OK. The bassist could have done with a longer T-shirt though, when he lifted his arms up at the end that wasn't a great look. 😁 I also couldn't figure out why they needed 32 minutes to play four non-prog songs, and WTAF was going to be said in 20 minutes of speeches? That said, they had fun and the crowd seemed to be enjoying it.

I read that as "trowel" and thought "shouldn't you have bogroll too then?"

Help other band members with their gear. Make sure you're not always the first to the gig, otherwise you'll be forever helping other band members with their gear.

Never mind, I'm sure you'll be able to exchange it.

Kate, Dolly, Pat, Duran Duran, Eurhythmics for me. Pat Benatar because I think she was one of the few women putting a huge footprint in the male-dominated world of rock (pronounced rawck) - I'm surprised she isn't showing that well in the Basschat poll.

I could have bought a Hofner violin bass from the 60s rather cheaply about thirty years ago. I didn't, because it was so utterly dreadful to play.

And that's why you should go wireless. Which reminds me, another thing I've learnt is, er, go wireless. And headless basses are less likely to go through the ceiling/fluorescent light tube/singer's right ear (left if you're a leftie).

I don't know why many makers keep putting those ridiculous heavy headstocks on their basses. Pointless balance-wrecking lumps of wood.

When the drummer came in on "Don't let the sun", he was about 25% too fast. Either he can't play slow or he was desperate to get it over with. Male bass player seems rather better than my first impression of him. Carol is really bloody annoying, although she has a better sense of timing than the "I can't feel it" drummer.

A beautifully crafted lyric like He had slyly inveigled her up to his flat to view his collection of stamps And he said as he hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar, and the lamps: for example? Or We've gained notoriety And caused much anxiety In the Audubon Society With our games They call it impiety And lack of propriety And quite a variety Of unpleasant names But it's not against any religion To want to dispose of a pigeon maybe? Beautifully crafted and humorous need not be mutually exclusive.

Yes, but at the cost of becoming a slave to Bill Gates. The thought that comes into my head when hearing yet another theory about Them implanting things that will track the conspiracy theorist is "why would anybody want to track you?".

A picture's worth a thousand words, so here's a couple of kilowords. The basic jack-jack plus one DC extension: I have another one to power an MS-60B (centre negative) and a Smoothhound (annoyingly, centre positive), for which I use two wall-warts. Colour coded, as are the wall-wart plugs, and put into a braided sleeve (took ages but it's lovely and neat):

Keep leads tidy. Coil them properly, velcro-tie them. If you use wall warts or similar PSUs, don't wrap the leads round the body of the wall-wart. Wrap them round your hand and use velcro ties on them. And if you use more than one wall-wart, put some coloured heat-shrink on the plug so you know which is which without having to go back to the wall-wart itself. Periodically go through the leads bag and weed out anything you don't need. You will need: 1) all the leads to connect your gear up (you're probably doing the PA too, so those leads too) 2) spare leads for all of 1) 3) spare lead(s) for the guitarist(s) (which should be bright yellow) Besides the set list being in big enough letters, make sure it's in black ink and that you've made any necessary additional notes (like which key it's in or which note to start on or if it's one of these modern tunings like drop-D) Make sure that at least one person other than the singer reads the setlist and tells the singer if he/she has suddenly skipped two songs (adult supervision). Please feel free to have a 20-page discussion if you are a singer who is offended by this. Have a checklist for car loading and make sure that everything is in Make sure there's enough extension leads Colour coding leads can be handy if you're doing the PA If you're running a pedalboard with separate PSU, get a DC extension lead the same length as the jack-jack lead from the pedalboard to the amp, cable-tie the two together, and keep the pedalboard PSU by your amp

Well, I was going to mention Flanders and Swann (two mentions so far) and Tom Lehrer (just beaten to it). Another couple of names - Allan Sherman, Ivor Biggun. And I've written a fair few comedy songs too.

NT Thumbs are 26 frets (well, one of mine is zero frets, but it used to have 26). However, they are also considerably better looking than that.

I use a Tascam GB-10, though that's not exactly what you want as you transfer MP3s or WAV files to it. They do work well though.

A decent 1x12 (eg. Barefaced Big Baby 2), or two 1x12s stacked. 500W+ amp.

I've been in a couple of bands where they could gig without me, although they preferred not to. I preferred them to take the gigs if they could rather than miss out on them, although I think they would have asked about alternative dates (something you can't really do for weddings, birthdays, or saints' days, of course).

I was so happy with mine that I fitted another couple of basses with them.

I can see the point in an established band which was all-male or all-female who were looking for a replacement musician wanting to keep the gender line-up as it was. But when you're trying to put a band together, refusing to countenance a considerable proportion of the musical population because of their sex seems somewhat short-sighted. I could understand wanting a vocalist of one sex or the other, but bassists, drummers, keyboardists etc don't play differently because they're one sex or the other. Still, his putative band, his rules.

My 1987 Thumb has the one-piece bridge (Schaller 3D). I think the change came in 1988, I've seen 1988 Warwicks with the two-piece setup.