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It's the one that nicks the chord sequence from the end of the chorus lines in "All the young dudes".

Useful if you're not going to be changing instruments, but not so good doing changes as you either have to take the strap off and put it on the other bass or take the bug out of one pouch and put it in the other. Another alternative would be a short extension lead and stick the bug in your pocket.

BTW, mine demonstrates exactly how to make a round grille look like an afterthought.

I can see your logic. After all, Jeff Bezos is one of the richest men on Earth so Amazon staff get paid a fortune.

I'm not saying that they shouldn't charge for their services. What I'm saying is that they are in a monopoly position and ratcheting up ticket prices to vast multiples of face value is an abuse of that position.

Because even people who are totally devoid of taste don't always deserve to be ripped off.

Surely in the case of Ticketmaster it's a monopoly, so there's no competition. Maybe it should be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.

Snobbery?

It was you who said that the website was fairly accurate. Still, coitum volante non dono.

Back when I was a student in London (so 50 years ago), one of my fellow students went to a Stones concert. There were touts outside who couldn't even sell tickets at a loss. I somehow doubt that the same will apply to Oasis though (this was before the Stones had even considered doing their first farewell tour, let alone have a reunion).

Before our gig last night, the guitarist had either a website or an app up on his phone which was showing current ticket prices (I assume from touts), and they were up to £4800 - that's £4.8k, not a mistype.

There's always Metal Post.

On the copyright front, if you create an original work then you automatically have copyright. The issue is proving that you created it first - traditionally you would record the song and put the cassette/CD into an envelope which you would seal and send to yourself through the post which would result in a postmark with the date on it finishing up on the envelope. I suppose nowadays you'd just video yourself doing it and put it on Youtube.

https://mapofmetal.com/ says "Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music".

At least now I know who has me on their ignore list, as I linked to the very self-same thing in the seventh post on the thread. 😁 I can recommend a Tecamp Puma 900 as an amp for this, and for many other applications. Might be overkill though, the Hotone Thunder will also do the job, and there's probably a Harley Benton amp or two which would suit.

I've used mine at a couple of open mic nights with a 5-string bass, a Tecamp Puma 900, and a degree of caution. Happily kept up with a small PA and sounded good.

Wish I'd spotted that. I think Focus III was the first "real" album I bought (as opposed to those Top of the Pops records).

Hohner B2AV - absolutely no neck dive with strap buttons in original position. The only issue I have with the neck strap button position is that the bass leans away from the player rather than hanging vertically, and I've seen one modification where the strap button was moved to the side of the body facing up the neck to counter that (something that the strap extender hooks don't address).

You don't want to just hack away chunks of the original body then? I know you said you were building from scratch but butchering the original body means no need to worry about the neck pocket, or (if the current electronics are satisfactory) cutting holes for the pickups. I've got a Hohner B2AV, and the body is quite weighty compared to the neck - if you try pivoting it at the neck/body join, the body considerably outweighs the neck. The whole lot weighs about 3.5kg, maybe less.

A long, long time ago, I bought several Antoniotsai basses. The first was my first really playable 5-string, and that was my main bass for quite a few years (and still gets outings). The second 5-string had through-body stringing and a not terribly good bridge, and a rubbish preamp, so I decided to replace that. I took the bridge off, unscrewed the pickups, took the rear cover off, made a terrible job of filling the through-body holes, and then put it on one side for rather a long time (since 2012, to be exact). A few weeks ago, I finally decided to do something about it. I'd bought a Schaller bridge a while ago in anticipation of overcoming my executive dysfunction, and back in the mists of time I'd picked up a Warwick Just-A-Nut I off Ebay which I'd put on. However, mislaid at some point were the assorted screws and the back cover. The original preamp was a five-pot job with a front jack socket and a further hole that I can't remember the purpose of. I decided that I'd replace the electronics with an Artec SE3 (which has the requisite number of pots) pending any decision about the future, and I would keep the original pickups. From 2012 - first, foiling the control cavity (at this point I left the preamp in situ). The atrocious filling of the through-body holes can be seen. This got the cat seal of approval Sadly, the cat didn't last to see the bass finished. So, fast forward twelve years, and I finally lined the Schaller bridge up and screwed it into place: The rear cover is somewhere in the house - I have no idea where, so I bought some 2mm ABS sheet and cut the cover roughly to shape, then sanded to a pretty good fit. Holes drilled in almost the right places, then I managed to drill straight through with a countersink. Sod it, it's on the back and ICBA to do it all over again. Note careful placement of cover to conceal the atrocious filling in of the through-body holes. The front of the body is spalted, and a chunk had fallen out right by one of the control holes (the one closest to the top in the below photo). I used some hard wax filler to fill the divot. Next step - use some heatshrink to tidy the battery wires, and put the preamp in place. Next - the gut shot prior to the pickups being wired in (the unconnected plug is the one from the blend pot). Finally, everything in place and the bass strung up. I'd bought a string winder bit for the electric drill and put it somewhere safe, so of course I couldn't find it, so it was strung up with my own fair hands. I put a DFA switch in because there was a hole - I would have put an active/passive switch in but doing this is rather complicated with the SE3. If I upgrade the electronics, it will become an active/passive switch. Still to do - tidying up the filled holes, fret levelling.

Taking the headstock off, along with all that metal stuff attached to it, is going to eliminate the neck dive. Try destringing it and removing the tuners machine heads and see how that alters the balance (and that's without decapitation). Basically, if you haven't got a massive weight at the end of a long lever acting on the bass, the body will hang on you where you put it.

Dirty Roses are at the Journey's End in Yardley tomorrow (Saturday 31st August).

Have you got to your overall limit for uploaded files?

Not sure I'd use the term "supergroup". "Special group", perhaps.