tauzero

Just ordered one of these from AliDistress: to give it a whirl with Fender Studio and anything else that takes my fancy. £14 (prices may go up as well as down).

Most of our gigs are play now, pay later - the drummer and I both act as "treasurers" in that some of the gigs he does the online thing and others I do invoices for and collect the money, then we just redistribute it as a straight 4-way split. Generally works OK although occasionally we have to chase up payments.

Too many "s"s in the website name - https://www.basstradersweden.com/ is the link.

My first bass, a Rosetti Bass 7. Hollow-bodied double-cut bass in hideous greenburst with a plastic assembly holding the pickups. Awful neck, and the body seemed to be made of papier-mache. Bought for £2, can't remember what I sold it for - this would have been about 1971. Didn't touch a bass again for three or four years. I don't have a photo, which is just as well because it would probably trigger me.

My Batking acoustic U-bass is 1.15kg, my Kala SUB 5-string solid U-bass is 1.75kg. A bag of sugar is 1kg.

Alan Cringean uses his preamps - @skelf, do you happen to know if John East is OK?

C:Ream Bream Pric Clapton

Killing Jake

Or the Dean Michael Schtinker.

You could always use flatwounds instead.

Why do you want to change them?

Temperature always in celsius for me. I can't grasp fahrenheit at all plus it has no logic to it.

Me too. The UK has been officially metric for over 60 years, it's about time people started moving out of the 19th century.

I've just had an email from Strings Direct telling me that tomorrow is World Strings Change Day. At about £30 a bass plus a tenner per guitar, that's about a thousand quid I've got to find, not to mention two days of work. I think I will ignore it and hope it goes away.

I was the giant in one previous band of hobbits, towering above them all in my 175cm majesty (0.0086992 furlongs, or in more modern units, 5.671323e-17 parsecs).

Pink Lloyd, the well-known Welsh prog band.

Somewhat busy for a part of the evening - about two minutes before getting up to accompany one guy, someone else (sax player) decides he wants to do Baker Street when it's his turn, so I'm just starting to jot the chords down when I'm on, then it's me and Mrs Zero, then I'm accompanying a harmonica player with two guitarists and two never-ending 12-bars (12-bores, I accidentally christened them), then it's the sax player plus Mrs Zero on vocals and female guitarist on, er, guitar after I scribble down the last four chords (sax player was playing the right notes in the right order but completely the wrong length), then I accompany the lady guitarist for her set, then a former bandmate who has just come back from a holiday in Japan did a slot so I accompany him too. Evening gets finished off by the perpetrators of the 12-bores, with the guitarist that I first accompanied taking on bass. Just for a change I didn't accompany Young Blind George as he was doing Midnight Rambler - I don't know it and unlike everything else he does, it's not easily busked to.

Steppenrolf Frank Rappa

Despite him just getting his name as the title of a thread on BC, he's not dead yet.

The enormous wealth generated will be shared out among the population so everybody will benefit. Well, a few billionaires will become trillionaires, and everybody else will starve except the medical staff they will need to keep them alive for hundreds of years.

They could become ambulance drivers picking up all the people knocked down by driverless trucks.

It would be a bit impractical to have effects pedals powered by IEC connectors. Wall warts should be reliable as long as they're looked after - wrapping the lead round the plug is a good way to damage the lead.

I'm another one who still has the Puma 900 - I moved to a combo for a while but kept the Puma in case I needed it again, then moved back to separates so it is now paired with a GR Bass AT212.

I've got short fingers and if I'm playing a walking bass line, I use one finger per fret wherever I'm playing. I think that's the only time though, mostly I use 1, 2, 3 or 1, 2, 4 over three frets.

Sorry, it's the SUB 5. So many different SBMM/EBMM basses, it's like they were Precisions...