tauzero

Maybe Phil Lynott - after all, he's got a statue to him an' all. As have McCartney and Lemmy.

Bartolini do 5-string pickups as short or long, and it sounds like the long would just fit (maybe with a little judicious filing). https://bartolini.net/application/j45/

Which is why I have to plug all of my active basses (which is IIRC all but one of my basses) into the passive input. They all have outputs at comparable levels to passive basses.

When Mrs Zero became the singist, I got a PA, which I have upgraded and downweighted subsequently even after she gave up, so I supplied the PA to three other bands. I also store it - as it's 4 8" active speakers, two stands, a Behringer XR18 and BCF2000, and a suitcase of leads, it doesn't take up much space and it fits in a corner of the garage.

You were just as tedious the last time you started this off.

Bartolini soapbar upgrade with the aid of a rusty chisel.

I prefer him dressed in the anorak to him in a short skirt, low-cut top and calf boots.

Mornington Crescent.

Laptop. Not quite so bad through the hi-fi.

Pretty wide for a 4-string pickup. With a little more enlargement in both directions you could go for an EMG 45 series, or in one direction and with a couple of slivers of wood each side an EMG 40 series. I've got a pair of MK5CBC in a Cort Space which are fine, well-balanced pickups (TBH the original MK1s seem OK to me too, there was a strange manufacturing fault that I didn't notice when I got the bass).

I noticed when looking at an old thread that somebody on my ignore list with their new username had their old username showing in the thread (in replies to their posts) but when a post by them was ignored, it showed their new username in the "Post by <newusername> has been ignored" message.

You could get this 12-string guitar and then every string would have a spare: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166985526466 Octaves are for wimps!

I have the perfect solution.

Mrs Zero was 50% of a duo with the guitarist from a former band a few years ago. She hung the words off her mic stand, and insisted it wouldn't affect her eye contact with the audience. She did backing vocals on "Oh pretty woman" and actually looked at the words for the "ooh ooh" bits.

Nine pages in and nobody has commented on the horrible middy tone of her bass in the initial video.

Try using Freetube.

It's a winding up resolution which would mean the company assets being liquidated.

The rest of Dad's band:

Aha, I never realised that Disco Wave used to be Greaves Bass. That explains so much.

All three of my grandmothers used their middle names rather than their first names.

I don't see the problem. Fender have finally copied the obsolete Cort GB4 Custom, painted it blue, and got an attractive and very capable female to consent to having her name on it. It's not a democracy so opinions on here are really irrelevant.

That's why I have a Hohner B2AV (although they're a tad more expensive than full-on cheap).

I've now also settled on the policy of taking two basses and doing one half with each. One fretted, one fretless, one headed, one headless (as I have basses in all four combinations, that's quite easy).

I'm currently at a friend's wedding reception and the happy couple were outside being photographed when the heavens opened. On the grounds that I'd not long ago said that it raining on your wedding day wasn't ironic, I think rain on their wedding day was probably ironic.

The first would have been my first bass, a Hayman 40/40 that I put together from parts. The next was a somewhat tatty Fender Precision - the cheapest one in Musical Exchange but also the best feeling neck. It was a milestone because it was a Fender and that's what you aspired to. The next was a Warwick JD Thumb - absolutely wonderful neck, I had to have it despite the astronomical cost. There was then a hiatus of about 20 years, and I fancied a 5 string. Tried various ones without finding one that was the equivalent of the Thumb in playability, until I happened across an eBay auction for an Antoniotsai (there were always a few back then) and thought I'd chance it, and it really was a lovely bass to play. The one subsequent milestone was my first Sei, a headless fretless 5. Since then, other basses have matched what came before but nothing has been a real milestone, and I'm not sure that there could be another one.