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[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1482915785' post='3203438'] What? "Creosoting a rhinoceros"? I'd dearly love to know what it puts you in mind of. [/quote] Well, there's spanking the monkey and bashing the bishop, so I thought creosoting the rhinoceros might be another one of that ilk. Of course, there's always the chance it will become one, and in the future we'll hear sentences like "That Zander Starr, what a rhinoceros creosoter he was".

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1482875315' post='3203312'] Sorry I can't right now as I'm creosoting a rhinoceros... [/quote] Is that some new euphemism?

[quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1482670469' post='3202162'] Thanks all, I've been reading over and checking the options.Some extra but relevant info is that his Girl is a singer/key player so it would be cool if he could play along if need be. [/quote] Roland Bass Cube for an amp if he'll need to be audible to her. Or a GK MB150 if one turns up dirt cheap. Peavey Grind 5 (cheap) or Hohner B2V or B2AV (more expensive but takes up the least room).

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1482669189' post='3202157'] The Hootenanny show should be fine. A lot of quality and talented people have died this year. [/quote] It's not unusual for quality and talented people to be in the audience or even interviewed on the Hootenanny show. Now they've got the check for George Michael too.

One of the reasons I wanted to be up on a stage playing a guitar.

Will the production team have been combing through the recording, checking whether anybody is visible who's died since it was recorded? At the rate they've been dropping off the twig, there's plenty of potential for embarrassment.

I have one of the Wilkinson 4+1 bridges, currently fitted to a bass which I literally never use so could easily be tempted to part with it (the bridge and nut and anchor piece that is, might as well keep the bass).

Also Sennheiser HD419s, £23 from Maplin. I find them a bit more comfortable than the HD201s.

2000 Miles by The Pretenders. Written for James[color=#252525][font=sans-serif] Honeyman-Scott, who died the year before it was released.[/font][/color]

You can't afford to lose momentum.

I'm pretty sure the Delano Sonar 2 has that - never take mine out of active though.

The Who - You Better, You Bet has the line "[color=#252525][font=sans-serif]I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T. Rex".[/font][/color]

You can try getting the police involved. They'll almost certainly ignore you and tell you it's a civil matter.

The Persuaders

Years ago, the speaker in my Gallien Krueger 200MB (the little 1x12 combo) fell apart - the cone just parted company with the surround, having hardened and crumbled away.

I bought a second Trace Elliot because I'd forgotten why I'd sold the first one. I have now learnt my lesson, so won't be getting a third one until I've bought another Precision, somewhere round when hell freezes over.

[quote name='DrBike' timestamp='1481896511' post='3196082'] Not sure why but this was the first one that sprang to my mind too! [/quote] And me.

Covers band: Bassist, odd backing vocals and very odd occasional lead vocals, bringer of active PA speakers and a light bar. Website and posters. Most of the gig bookings. Husband of singer. Load in and out and setting up are shared tasks. Guitarist does the front end of the PA and the lighting. Acoustic duo: Guitarist, backing and some lead vocals, PA. Husband of singer.

We do "Go your own way" and the guitarist nicked part of the solo from "Sultans of swing" - the part that goes over the intro riff, not the part over the verse. So I now play the bassline to that when he goes into it. I have no idea whether anybody notices. Mrs Zero and I occasionally play in a ceilidh band at barn dances (she does the calling). Whenever she introduces a move called the chain, I think it's fairly obvious what I start playing.

Ask him what date he'd like the Valentine's show to be. And get the guitarist to turn down.

So what will you be performing for us on tonight's X-Factor?

Most of my basses are neck-through, one is notlob. They sound very different, but that may be because the notlob is a 10-string.

The output from an active bass is similar to that of a passive bass, somewhere around 150mV P-P.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1480886469' post='3187895'] It's disappointing this error could take out a monitor. A signal from an active bass should just clip, not cause damage. [/quote] I thought active monitors would take line level input, which means that a signal from a bass (active or passive) shouldn't even touch the sides, let alone clip.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1480585761' post='3185570'] I tend to sway about like a sapling in a breeze Anything more ambitious and I either fall off the stage or whack the guitarist round the head with my bass. [/quote] This, of course, is why everybody [1] should play headless basses. THat way, you never smack another band member round the head with it unless you actually want to. This may not, of course, reduce the number of times that said band member is hit significantly. [1] where "everybody" refers to the subset of "everybody" that plays bass on stage