tauzero

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.

Except that the active preamp wouldn't switch on, as the jack socket relies on ring and sleeve being shorted. Well, maybe it would, rather badly, depending on the impedance of your headphones, of which the right channel wouldn't do anything and the left channel would be very quiet.

Perhaps it says more about how few people read BGM than how many admire Alan's work. Does that get me a free Krell?

Oh no! A music stand! I thought he was a world-class bassist...

I've got a pair of RCF ART 710As for PA duties. Specs say 50-20kHz frequency response, max SPL 129dB, 700W RMS power split 500/200 between woofer and tweeter. It would be nice to leave my pair of Berg AE112s at home and run through the PA, perhaps using Tecamp Puma/BF One10 for bass monitoring. This is up against a not overly loud unmiced drummer (maybe I could put a bit of kick in the mix), and keys would also go through the PA. Am I being over-optimistic in thinking of doing this?

If it's not in tune, that's a deal breaker for me. I'm not that technically minded.