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Actually, I was wrong. Jon Shuker used a 5mm truss rod on the bass I've just bought. However, all three of the B2 variants I've had have been 4mm truss rods. That truss rod nut looks a bit mullered. This is what mine looks like: If you slacken off the strings, you could take the string holder off (just those two screws) and have a look at the end of the truss rod - you should be able to see more. Not sure if you can take the nut off, or extract the truss rod.

It's other people's irrational prejudices. Although I've never had a problem taking a headless fretless 5 string to auditions, so maybe there aren't that many irrationally prejudiced people around, we just assume there are.

Also missing All Right Now and Sweet Home Alabama.

I've got a set of those (branded Muslady) and they didn't give any problems with any bass. Is the jack socket recessed far enough to stop the transmitter going all the way in?

I take whatever I fancy taking. If that means an Esh Poseidon at a folk club or a headless Sei anywhere (but most notably at an R&B gig), then that's fine by me. If anyone has a problem with it, it's their problem, not mine.

Nonono, I mean people whose surname is a first name, not people like Sue Ellen Ewing or Lee Bob Jackson.

People who have two first names, eg Benjamin Sebastian. That gets really confusing when you read their names in a surname first list and then ring them up and call them by their surnames.

One of the guitarists goes through the PA sometimes. On one occasion he'd somehow turned up his volume vastly, and the sound from the Altos was both mind-buggeringly loud and very clear. I put a limiter on the mixer after that.

I use Alto TS308s for FOH and TS408s for monitors. I did have them the other way round but the 408s are better shaped for floor monitor use and for some reason it seemed to improve the situation with feedback. When the speaker failed on my bass amp, I put the bass through the PA and it was fine, which was rather impressive - didn't want to make a habit of it though.

Took it back to Fair Deal today and they've booked it in for a repair after taking the side off (with my assistance) and finding that the speaker had disintegrated, as I'd predicted. Just hope that they can source the correct replacement - I did tell them that Polar Audio stock them.

I saw a young guy in St Austell in 2019 - not a local, and he got moved on fairly quickly which was a real shame. He had a bass in conventional position and a guitar on his lap, and he was tapping on the guitar with his right hand and on the bass with his left. I got a few seconds of video of him before he was stopped though.

More exciting than most - jam night with the band I've been most recently recruited to as hosts, as one of the guitarists had a hissy fit and quit. Plus my new second-hand GK combo seems to have expired (I think the speaker has fallen apart). But we had fun.

Well, that was, er, exciting. Jam night with the band I've been most recently recruited to. We've played two jam nights and one rehearsal together. Lineup - guitar/vox, guitar/vox, keyboards/vox, drums, bass (possibly vox). One of the guitarists was perpetually soloing over the top. The other guitarist suggested that he listen to the rest of the band and drop in with us. Perpetual soloist then went on a rant at the other, going on about his ego (rather ironic) and said he was quitting, and packed up his stuff. Then he said "I'm not going, I'm going to stay and enjoy listening to the jam". The keyboard player tried a bit of mediating which didn't bear much fruit, we played a few songs, and then the keyboard player had another attempt at mediation. The two guitarists went into the hallway, with us able to see them through the windows in the doors. After a couple of minutes, perpetual soloist shoved the other guitarist to the floor. Keyboard player and I set off for them but they came back into the room and perpetual soloist grabbed his gear and went, to a certain amount of abuse from the audience. TBH I think it's a relief, I suspect he wouldn't fit in terribly well in any band. The rest of us are continuing. It does mean that one of the two monthly jam nights is now off the calendar, as it was organised by perpetual soloist (we're going to see if we can replace it by another one in the same venue as this one).

Rats. I think it has fallen victim to the dreaded speaker foam brittleness blight. Took it to a jam night tonight and it started getting rattlier and quieter, which is exactly how my previous one went. I shall consult with Fair Deal in the morning.

I have gone over the Cork and Kerry mountains and my family name is the same as a highwayman that was allegedly the subject of the song but I've never robbed Captain Farrell or met Molly, so can I or can I not sing "Whiskey in the jar"?

Quite. If you want somebody to play vegetation, get a bush.

A fretless Alembic with a stainless steel fingerboard? Although it did have flatwounds on and one dull thuddy bass sounds very like another dull thuddy bass.

I had a 200MB for years, the original speaker expired and I put a replacement in that wasn't as good, eventually found I could get a Pyle speaker identical to the original so got that and it was good again. I eventually found I wasn't using it any more and sold it. Now I find that a tiny combo weighing just over my 10kg limit would fill my needs for some things I'm doing, and @Thornybank pointed me at one at Fair Deal Music. Dropped in there today, gave it a quick whirl (I'd forgotten just how loud they go), and took it away with me. Jam night tonight so that'll be its first outing.

The Stinger, the OSH Park circuit, and the Classic Preamp are all the same circuit. I didn't try it with the original pickup but with the Warman MM5 it sounds fine.

It's nice that they modelled basses on Triumph gear selector cams.

It's the new "Buyer Protection Fee" ("Nice item you've got there, wouldn't want anything to happen to it would we?"). More information here.

It'll turn up as soon as the replacement arrives.

I didn't want to do it when it was suggested by one band as it just strikes me as racist.

Done

Well, the fact it was being pulled across by the tuner wouldn't have helped - taking the A string off the tuner so you could get a straighter run would help, or even putting it onto the D tuner to get a true representation. And if you get a B string, by whatever means, before taking it anywhere, you could see if the B fits in the nut as well which would save you 25 euros plus postage.