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I saw a BMW a while ago with the apposite TWA77Y. I see personalised plates as a harmless indulgence, except for the ones with spacing messed around with and black screws in inappropriate places when it means it would be difficult to make out what the number actually was.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1469616774' post='3099711'] Not really. It could be, but It's a narrower definition. A cover band plays music it didn't originate. [/quote] I'd suggest that they play music that they neither originated nor performed the first release of (so Elvis and the Three Degrees, for example, aren't cover acts). If you wrote it and performed the first release of it, it's an original, and if you wrote it, someone else released it first so you got the royalties and then released it yourself and got even more, it's having your cake and eating it.

[quote name='Tobe' timestamp='1469550081' post='3099300'] But the problem comes with each 2x10 been 8 ohm. thus stacking 4 takes you to a 2 ohm load. The 810 uses 32 ohm drivers so the 8x10 is 4 ohm! [/quote] Didn't Ampeg realise that they could get a 4 ohm 8x10 by using 8 ohm drivers? It wouldn't be hard to sort out a custom wiring harness to make 4 x 2x10 at 8 ohms into an 8 ohm load.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1469602377' post='3099585'] Where are you drawing the line between making a demo in the studio and a global number one hit? He must have made some form of recording of it that Mott used as a reference? [/quote] A definition someone used was "recorded and released". That's the definition I was referring to. Presumably you don't regard a demo on a wobbly cassette recorder [1] as "released". [1] Not that I think that's what David Bowie would have done for his preliminary recording of "All the young dudes".

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1469389076' post='3097950'] But there will be a version originally recorded by the writer somewhere we just haven't heard it, I doubt Bowie described the song over the phone to them? [/quote] He let Mott do it before he'd released any recorded versions of it himself.

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1469197977' post='3096563'] If Lennon/mcCartney recorded and released it, then Cilla's version is a cover. I think this is the definition - if the song was recorded & released by someone else first, then any future version, live or recorded is a cover. [/quote] Which produces such oddities as David Bowie's cover of "All the Young Dudes" and Bruce Springsteen's cover of "Because the night". I don't think Prince did a cover of "Nothing compares 2U".

[quote name='Alan Fourstrings' timestamp='1468959946' post='3094748'] But I bought this Buzzard to play it live, and I take it to gigs when the stage is large enough, you're right, I don't want to hurt anybody . [/quote] I can relate to that, I had a bolt-on Warwick Buzzard and at most of the places we play, it took up over 50% of the stage. It was, of course, considerably cheaper than a Status Buzzard...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1468934587' post='3094441'] 'Gay' presumably meaning 'bad' or 'sub-standard' and not the archaic and outmoded usage meaning 'homosexual'..? [/quote] Indeed, that was a bit more irony. As a child that was born on the Sabbath day, I feel entitled to interpret the word "gay" as I please.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1468933388' post='3094423'] The ironic nature of your post has been lost in the telling. [/quote] I was going to go off into further exposition on the nature of irony and words, such as "wicked" being either good or bad, or "cleave" meaning either to join together or to split apart, or "flammable" and "inflammable" meaning the same thing, but I decided that was a bit gay so I didn't.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1468912845' post='3094187'] Until this morning I had lived in blissful ignorance that such a silly, pointless word even existed. [/quote] I knew it existed, but as the past tense of the verb "stink", not as a noun.

They were in Milwaukee.

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1468797733' post='3093441'] yes Ive got one [/quote] And you still don't know how it works?

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1468796662' post='3093434'] The Behringher pedal allows 2 basses to be plugged into to the same input [/quote] No it doesn't, that's physically impossible. It allows 2 basses to be plugged into 2 inputs, one into each, and the output can then be plugged into an amplifier. [quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1468796662' post='3093434'] and the levels set by the controls on the pedal, put your foot on the pedal you can switch between 2 basses, why is this muppet making an issue of something so simple!! [/quote] The levels are not set by the controls on the pedal in the way that you think. Read the instructions (conveniently reproduced on the first page of this topic), or get someone else to explain them to you if they're too complicated.

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1468795562' post='3093426'] and he said he wanted 2 basses into one input! whats difficult to understand about that? [/quote] Yes, he said he wanted two basses into one amplifier input. That would mean one bass goes into input A and the other into input B, the output would go to the amplifier, and the switch would be set to give two inputs and one output. And when you do that, only one of the level controls alters a level, and the level that it alters is the overall level, not the level of one channel. What's so difficult to understand about that?

I agree with Muppet about getting all the requirements listed and getting the answers well in advance of the gig, to reduce the stress around the organisation. With that anxiety removed, you may find everything else fades away, and if not, you'll still be better placed to analyse what is still causing you stress.

Interparcel and UPS for me. Herpes have once again left a parcel for me behind the bush to the side of the front door. They regularly either do that or chuck it over the gate, ditto Yokel, neither of which I would entrust with anything more valuable than a used paper cup.

If you're changing EQ too, Zoom MS60B with one patch set up for one bass and the other for the other.

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1468659387' post='3092411'] I've just dug mine out and I'm sorry to say Tauzero is correct and I was wrong. I could have sworn it worked that way as I've never used it to feed one bass into two different amps. Apologies to all [/quote] It's easy to assume it as you'll most likely adjust the A channel as it's the first one you'll plug something into, hear that it changes the volume, and assume it's the same for B as well. Plus when you look at it, it seems obvious that it'll set the input levels. TBH, I went looking at the instructions after I found by experiment that the input levels weren't individually set.

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1468621077' post='3092278'] yes you can, have you got one? see those knobs on the top that say `Level`, you can turn them round so you can have the same volume from both inputs to the one output. [/quote] Good lord yes, I've got one, and I'm also capable of reading the instructions. Which is why I know that the level knobs set individual levels only when they're used for one input to two outputs. [url="https://www.parts-express.com/pedocs/manuals/248-6006-behringer-ab100-manual-42682.pdf"]https://www.parts-express.com/pedocs/manuals/248-6006-behringer-ab100-manual-42682.pdf[/url] Read the instructions for 5 and 6.

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1468538975' post='3091702'] Cheap as chips option. You can set the output level of each channel to your amp on the pedal. I've got one, works perfectly [/quote] I don't know why people think you can set the levels differently when using it as an A-B switch on the inputs. You can't. The only time you can set the levels differently is when you use it with a single input and A-B between two amplifiers - ie. two outputs and one input. You can't set the channels to different levels if you're switching between two inputs.

Primarily a bassist, I also play guitar for songwriting and to accompany Mrs Zero when we go duetting.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1466290636' post='3074780'] Quite. In the UK some clubs will only book through an agent but bar/pub gigs at the lower level are done band to landlord. [/quote] Some pubs are doing that. Sadly, the agencies they use don't seem to want to use us, despite the venues themselves loving us - I think they must have their little list of favourite bands.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1465486596' post='3068690'] I like it! Milwaukee is now part of Basschat folklore [/quote] What made Milwaukee famous...

[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1456920453' post='2993498'] [i]oh no! the bridge has gone, poor old red just can't carry on but smart old blue, he took the milky way[/i] [i]-------[/i] Ah the old classic... With the timeless message that fat people are losers. [/quote] So red couldn't take it to the bridge after all. There's a lesson in that for all of us, I think you will agree.

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1465411660' post='3068055'] Yup, drives me round the bend too. Unfortunately, they do know about squeezing info into short time frames, so an 'empty' bar or beat gets lopped out for the sake of brevity. It's actually a fairly clever way to pack your ad with just the strongest hooks of the song. Incidentally, the first place I heard All Right Now was on a chewing gum advert... [/quote] I appreciate that they're making it as short as possible but the extra half beat or beat could easily be fitted in and not extend the advert at all.