tauzero

I was in a prog rock covers band that sadly never got past rehearsals. There were some excellent songs that I would have loved to do. And we did the best cover version of "I know what I like in your wardrobe" that I've heard. Favourites among them: Back street luv - Curved Air Don't fear the reaper - Blue Oyster Cult In a broken dream - Python Lee Jackson Nights in white satin - Moody Blues ("our song" for Mrs Zero and me) Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Sylvia - Focus Tomorrow night - Atomic Rooster Silent Running - Mike & the Mechanics (bassline only slightly more complex than Waterfront but a great song)

That explains it then, I don't think I went past page 1. <makes note to look further down in future>

I used to play with a ceilidh band. For some reason on one occasion we'd swapped to using my PA - we normally used the dulcimer player's, who was married to the melodeon player. The melodeon was always a nightmare as it was very liable to feedback. I could hear it OK, and it appeared that the guitarist and dulcimer player also could, but at the end of the set with the mics still live and a face like fury she bellowed "I couldn't hear myself in the f*cking monitors!". Mrs Zero (who was the caller) and I eventually left the band - it was a good band but it was getting too stressful with the seriously mardy melodeon player. I'm not sure why people think eye contact is so important. The only time I make eye contact is with the keyboard player when the singer/guitarist goes off-piste and we exchange glances (all in good humour). Ear contact is useful though, as is playing all the right notes in the right order.

Tasty!

Seeing as I can't have a Sei, it would have to be a Warwick Thumb headless (what they should have done in the first place), 5-string but with 4-string pickup placement, JD neck profile (shallow), fretted and unlined fretless.

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Depends whether he's playing chords or notes, and what he uses as a reference point. Our guitarist (who can't play barre chords, removing that complication) uses a capo on various frets and just tells us what chord he would be playing if there wasn't a capo, the keyboard player and I work it out from there. It's useful to be able to read a guitarist's fingers for chord shapes if you get thrown in at the deep end, which is even more fun when they're using a capo.

I've only heard my nephew, a talented multi-instrumentalist, play a couple of times, as he lives in Cornwall. He has put a couple of videos up on Facebook but only keyboards, drums, and guitar, he hasn't put any flute up yet.

Yes, see page 1. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boston-Guitar-Strap-Locks-Chrome/dp/B0013NDUP0/ (also available in gold from Amazon) or https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Boston-Straplock-system-Black/264998676193 for black ones. Also https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264970357764 The ones with two nuts on the strap bit are better than the ones with one nut. Boston have proved compatible with Schaller but not all Schaller clones are.

That depends on whether it's new or second-hand. If it's a second-hand bass worth £250, £310 is quite a lot to pay.

GR Bass AT Cube 800 combo. 9.5kg (or 5/17ths of a furlong in old money) which is good for my back.

What do they have issues with?

I have a G50 on the big pedalboard (which will get used some time), a Smoothhound on the little pedalboard (which before that I was using with a Zoom MS60B as an ultra-mini pedalboard), and also have a pair of Muslady cheapo things for rehearsals so I don't tread on leads. I'm quite impressed by the Muslady ones, and the guitarist got a pair too after trying them out. As for fully wireless, I do have a pair of Sennheiser wireless headphones (not Bluetooth) but the compression on them is very noticeable. I generally used wired and put up with the dangling cable.

They're not available new any more, hence the perfectly reasonable 356% mark-up.

So a lunatic is going to sexually assault her and run away, and the headline will say "Nut screws washer and bolts"?

It would appear they're over-egging the risk to life bit: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/chernobyl-safe-visit-tourism-ukraine-b1913150.html Probably more likely to decrease your life expectancy if you drive to/from a gig.

A quick Google reveals that it's a 4x10 available in 8 and 4 ohm versions, so it's presumably a 4 ohm job rewired so the 4 4 ohm drivers are in series.

The most usual British usage is that they're all bolts. And if you're fixing an unthreaded part to a threaded one, it's a screw. "Screws are used to assemble TO threaded objects". Not a screw or a bolt.

I bought a pair of Audio-Technica ATH-M20x after recommendations on here and they're excellent. I have a pair of Sennheiser HD20somethings which they replaced that have now gone into the office (aka bedroom 4) which were also good but are now obsolete.

Basses - four German (three Warwicks and an Esh), three UK (Sei), the others are from assorted Far Eastern countries - Vietnam, China, Korea, probably Indonesia. One of the Vietnamese basses was my main bass for some years until I got the first Sei. Country of origin doesn't feature in my consideration of what to play. Amplification - Germany, Italy, China. Cabs - UK. Pedals - probably all Chinese.

Apparently it's the usage that determines which they are. Both bolts and screws can be partially or fully threaded. Bolts are used to assemble unthreaded objects, using a nut (but not a botanical nut). Screws are used to assemble to threaded objects.

No I haven't. If the bit on the strap turned a bit when I put it on, I knew the nut was a little loose so tightened it with my fingers, then tightened it up properly when I got home. It wasn't a regular maintenance job.

With all the references to "Toon wood", is the advert author an expat Geordie?

It's not a significant problem, and you snipped the bit where I mentioned the solution. And I have never wanted Dunlops, they look far too prone to failure whereas Schallers cradle the strap peg. And I've never had to lube the Schallers in 34 years.

The Boston variant of Schaller: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boston-Guitar-Strap-Locks-Chrome/dp/B0013NDUP0/?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=nav_ya_signin& Double nut, separate peg and screw. The real improved version of the original Schaller.