tauzero

A few decades ago, a friend started an open mic night in Tamworth, and a relatively old chap called Duke I knew from drinking together in another pub came along with his guitar. I finished up playing bass with him, and learnt that he had been the vocalist and guitarist with the Vikings, the band that morphed into The Move, but had to leave to do national service. http://www.brumbeat.net/vikings.htm - he's at bottom right of the photo labelled "The Vikings in 1959".

I'll never unsee those legs.

I feel that Mr Phillips' magnum opus, A Night in Langney, could benefit from a remix.

We were playing originals songs in pubs. It does happen, you know, whatever you on your lofty cloud may think.

You keep on coming out with this. I was in an originals band up till about two years ago. Of the dozen or so venues we played, one had PA. So your originals experience doesn't extrapolate to everybody else's.

For nearly 20 years it was a Warwick JD Thumb, then when I went to 5-strings it was an Antoniotsai for five years, then a fretless Sei Original from 2012, and now it's either a fretted Sei Flamboyant or an Ibanez EHB1265MS. I still have the others, plus a few lot more that I've picked up along the way. But I have sold some...

Whalesong had nothing on that.

Bandwerkz (bandwerkz.com) is pretty broad ranging but I've never managed to get 100% of a band to use it. It also allows integration of the Bandwerkz calendar with Google calendar and iCalendar.

I thought the necks were similar profile (though I hadn't played my EHB for a few days so I was relying on memory). I was hoping for a shallow C, like the Cort GB4 I had a while ago, but it's a D like the EHB. As for strings - I didn't notice anything untoward, but then again Cort are using D'Addario EXL170-5SL just like Ibanez put on the EHB multiscaless so that's not surprising. Perhaps you played one that had previously been played by someone with mucky hands.

But Jaco only needed four strings to play a random series of notes, Nilo has a 6-string.

You shouldn't have ridden there on the unicorn. They were bound to look for an excuse after that.

I'm curious about 3M Dual Lock [TM] - is it reasonably easy to separate after sticking it together?

Very nearly done now - would have been there but for my cordless drill running out of amp-hours and no charger or spare battery to be found. I only got four cab corners on and one screw in the connector panel (it's the wrong screw but I've found the right ones, so they'll be going in shortly), and I need to get a handle and some cab feet (they're on the way). The grille may be of interest - it came from https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362491694497. Slightly untidy but hopefully functional - I want to leave testing until I've got the connector panel properly screwed on.

Working again now, with the minor drawback that it could prove hazardous to the gear abstinence challenge.

Are you sure you haven't restrung it as E-C and forgotten you'd done it?

Inauspicious start to last night's gig when we arrived to find the thugball was on the telly and there were a dozen or more Villa fans in our bit of room. It finally finished and we started loading in, trying to move through the thick as pigshit thugball fans who stood in our way with glazed expressions, completely unresponsive to being asked to move. Then Mrs Zero and the drummer's wife wanted to sit at a table close to us but a miserable old git repelled them. Still, eventually we managed to get set up and the gig itself went well, with just the one car crash when everything went wrong in "Place your hands" (we did manage to get to the end). I think our second 45 minute set finished up at 75 minutes. The gaffer loved us and wants to get us back - just hope the agency sorts us out some more gigs there outside the football season.

Nowadays I operate on the "run what you brung" basis, with a spare T-shirt that if I need to change into I'm too knackered to bother.

I've dropped them an email. I'm sure the number of strings filter was working only a week or two ago.

O'Neills in Birmingham - managed to park to load in just outside, then had to find a parking space. Then at the end of the evening had to drive the quarter of a mile or so from the parking space to outside the place (half an hour or so), load out through hordes of Brummie morons, and finally get out of the city centre - so desperate to get away that I finished up with a speeding ticket for 40 in a 30 on the ring road. Vocalist got a parking ticket. And now it's in the CAZ, and I'm not sure that any of us in the current band has a compliant vehicle - not that I'd ever want to play there again.

I saw the pickup switch and immediately thought "spark plug tip". But who'd have known it was from a Ford Mustang, with the vastly increased performance from a Ford Focus spark plug tip, despite being absolutely identical? You must admire his pride in the sanding burns on the truncated headstock, and leaving half an original logo on the headstock. His supply of enormous white felt washers is evidently inexhaustible and a source of great pride to him. Not sure how well a 7-string pickup with pole pieces will handle 6 strings, or how the butchered neck pickup will cope with life when it looks most likely to start self-harming.

Has anyone else found that the Bassbros website has an issue with search filters? Looking specifically for 5-string basses, I get this result on both Chrome and Firefox: Not sure whether it's at Bassbros's end or whether it's one of my multiple anti-advert filters.

I was in one band with a talented but somewhat strange guitarist (I knew him from various musical events). I'm pretty sure it was our first gig, and he hadn't turned up. Then we got the news he'd jumped in the canal and was now in hospital. We were doing the gig with another band, who we shared a drummer with, so we also borrowed their guitarists - our set was very much standards-based so they didn't have any problems. I think we discussed another guitarist but it never happened, then some time later the singer got hit and killed by a car.

I can see how that could be a problem. Especially if the person you were arguing with was the cornet player.