tauzero

The club band I was in had a set list that remained static for my entire career with them (several years), plus a few subsequent deps I did for them. OTOH, the covers band that folded a year back had coming on for 50 songs and we used 30+ of them in a gig, so we'd swap most of them round - we would keep a couple of songs in the same place though, as they made good end-of-first-set songs or they were flipping Sex On flipping Fire or Daf*ckingkota so they went in around the tail end of the second set.

Having heard so much in favour of Barefaced, and having actually bought a one10, and seeing as my poor old bones are feeling the weight even of Berg AE112s, I thought I'd keep a lookout for a Big Baby II, which seemed to be what I needed for the rock bands (the one10 is great for the acoustic band but with no tweeter, it lacks the bite I want for the rock bands). Managed to snag one on That Ebay, and although it was collection from somewhere near the South Coast, the seller also journeyed up to the Midlands regularly and so it was that we did the deed in the car park of the National Motorcycle Museum. I did an A/B against one of the Bergs and thought it seemed rather lacking with bite, even when I turned the tweeter all the way up. Then I tried turning the tweeter all the way down, and the treble arrived. That's the trouble with doing things by feel. It seems to have what I want from a cab, good range, thick bottom end, good bit of bite, and goes pretty loud. I'm toying with the idea of using the one10 as a monitor by angling it upwards - suppose it depends on how loud I want to go. Nice and light too, though a bit bigger than an AE112. Roqsolid cover on the way. Now to sell a pair of Bergs...

So it's a Hendrix style guitar for a right-hander - a left-hander strung upside down rather than a right-hander strung upside down. Can't see what's wrong with that, although it's a crappy Encore so does miss out somewhat on the Strat vibe...

I do remember one entirely live performance on TOTP:

Gene Pitney? I remember that...

If only I'd had your solicitor...

A fight case? Should come in handy for those rough pubs.

Where the inventor of the bicycle bell came from. (Thank you, Spike Milligan).

I've got a Dean Edge 10 which I've just been using for a couple of recordings. Must compare the sound with the sound of a similar 12 sometime (so as to reduce the differences from different electronics, pickups, etc), and also work out if I actually use all 5 courses most of the time. Mind you, for practicality, I'm going to just use an octave-up effect to get a similarish sound to the 10-string live - at least until I can get a 10-string headless Sei.

Ah yes, Kramers with aluminium necks. Just as pig ugly as any other headstock.

Any Trace Elliot Any Fender Any heavy gear

All headstocks are the spawn of Satan. Although they do come in handy if you're using wall hangers for your basses.

Butt ugly? Oh, hang on... I see what you mean.

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.