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'og', surely? There's no L.

I like the original but SAHB's cover delights me.

How did we agree this one was going to end? (approximately 25 times per gig) Is Mrs Zero going to drive me home so I can have another pint? How mnya pnints is thatso faar?

I think it's stupid anointing people with titles like this. It's somewhat self-aggrandising of whoever does the anointing. Who appointed Pervis Spann (who?) as the arbiter of who was or wasn't soul royalty? Personally, I think she had a jolly good voice. I think it would be idiotic to have a title that was bestowed on her by some long-forgotten DJ get in the way of that.

Have you any datums to support that assertion? Coitum volantum non dono.

I feel sad for you, not being able to get any sort of thrill from playing covers. Originals and covers are rewarding in different ways. The originals band I'm in plays a few covers as well as originals (not that 99% of people would have heard of the bands we play covers of). The covers band I was in played several original numbers (until guitarist left and was replaced by another guitarist who was better but didn't want to play originals). I'm perfectly happy with a foot in both camps and can't see any point in slagging off either camp.

Somewhere less than 20 and more than 15. Three Seis, five Antoniotsais, two Warwicks, an Esh, a Peavey, a Dean, a Hohner, two Ashborys, an NS WAV-4, and a brace of acoustic basses. Half a dozen guitars - two Variaxes, a Squier, an Eko, a Tanglewood, and a Yamaha 12-string. Not quite sure where the Megatar goes (Chapman Stick derivative).

If only it was right-handed and a five-string... There's a similar one I've seen (Polish luthier IIRC) which solved the bottom contour problem by having a length of brass bar bent into a curve where the upper bout would be. Damned if I can find a picture though.

My Thumb wouldn't be anywhere near the tent pegs though, it's used solely for musical purposes.

A four-string P bass can also be used to hammer in tent pegs. There's versatile.

I don't know if I'm missing something obvious (it has been known), but when I do a search using the mobile interface, there doesn't appear to be a way to further filter by forum, so I can't, for example, look for specific basses only in "Basses for sale". This may please Mrs Zero but I find it inconvenient. Is there an option I've missed, or a route to the advanced search?

But for the price of this bass you should be able to get a very usable bass. £90 is far too much.

Assuming you've also eliminated the amp, could be the contacts inside the jack socket, the solder joints to the socket, or the solder joints at the other end of the wires running to the socket. Or, come to think of it, internal breaks in those wires, if they weren't replaced when the socket was replaced. Consider replacing the socket and the short run of coax cable from the master tone control to the socket. And always loop your lead through your strap.

Have you tried different leads?

Yes, the Reynolds Girls' career certainly demonstrated how unpopular Fleetwood Mac were.

Plenty of non-Bluetooth wireless headphones. The ones I have are analogue, there's also digital ones (eg Sennheiser RS160) but the latency could well be an issue. The sound isn't being companded, it's just being comped and the panded bit is left out. The disadvantage of wired (other than the wires, which I can live with) is that the Tascam GB10 doesn't drive the headphones I've got quite loud enough. I'm not after hearing-damaging teenager levels of volume. May just need to find more sensitive headphones.

Dammit, I shall be in Ireland topping up my suntan. Ah well, there's always another year for cake.

Same here, wireless at almost all gigs so there's no lead tangling round my leg and all the leads I plug into my bass for rehearsals and for the occasional ultra-simple gig (bass straight to amp) have Van Damme cables and silent jacks at the bass end. Although I could do with knocking up a silent jack lead to run to the Smoothhound.

I'd quite like to use wireless headphones at home to practice with, to save me getting tangled up with the lead, and also because my Tascam GB10 doesn't seem to have quite enough oomph to power my wired Sennheiser phones (can't remember which model offhand). I do have a Sennheiser RS120 but that compresses hugely, so if I start playing a little way into a track, the volume drops away quite spectacularly. I can overcome the volume situation with the wired phones by sending the signal through the hi-fi amp I have nearby, but that rather fixes me in place and removes one of the advantages of the GB10 over just playing a track on the PC and running the audio plus the bass through a mixer. So, does anyone know of any wireless phones that don't compress, aren't Bluetooth, and sound reasonable? I was wondering about Sennheisers that use Kleer digital technology, that Sennheiser boast is compression-free, but I don't know if that's entirely true. There are various phones from £35 or so upwards - has here anyone used any of these cheaper ones, and are they any good?

I use this for live work (though it's about to be replaced by an X Air 12): https://radioactive.org.uk/product/behringer-xenyx-1002b-mixer/ Handy if you want more than two inputs, and I also like it for having sliders but still having a very small footprint because of the neat arrangement. Probably overkill if you're just mixing two sources together though.

Since the drummer of the originals band stormed out of rehearsal and the slide guitarist took over the drum stool, there's been no noodling between songs at rehearsal (which used to annoy me as the guitarist and I were quite frequently trying to sort something out). The club band I played in a few years ago had the same set in the same order for ever, but that didn't stop the singer and guitarist having their books (roughly the size of chained bibles) on stage. And even then, the alcoholic singer would rearrange songs at random, suddenly going into a verse or chorus that no-one was expecting, or deciding that seven bars of a 12-bar guitar solo was quite enough. His most criminal act, though, was when he introduced us as "my band". And of course there's the times when I'm feeling grumpy, and everything annoys me.

Looks like they've recruited a sax player

Indeed, you don't want to burn down a disused building without permission.

97% of Wolverhampton corresponds to your needs, and with Carillion closing, that'll be up to 98%.

F**k yeah. Absof**kinglutely.