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It would be useful to know if it's somewhere round Coalville as Mrs Zero is thinking of doing an open mic or two with the other half of the duo she's in, and he lives in Coalville.

I think Nilo had a hand in the lyrics.

I'm a great fan of natural basses (the paint doesn't get chipped) but that Thumb in the middle looks lovely. I think the pickups being set so close to the bridge, unlike the 4-strings, gives a big expanse of colour which really works well.

Roland VB-99 and very tatty GK-3B pickup. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225738372814 Probably £1100-£1200 overpriced.

Latex gloves are essential when murdering the guitarist, to avoid leaving fingerprints. Depending on the method of dispatch, a full biohazard suit may be preferable for bludgeoning and stabbing, whereas simple strangulation whether manual or by ligature should only need the gloves.

So yellow goes to red on the tweeter then.

I've made a couple of posts in the Ibanez owner's club, but when looking at the subforum listing, there's no star by that topic. I think every other topic that I've contributed to has a star by it. It's sort of the reverse of what @BigRedX was talking about in the disappearing threads question.

I've worn band T-shirts with several bands. Come to that, I wore a SMIDSY T-shirt when I was on the SMIDSY Robot Wars team. I don't see an issue with someone in the band wearing the band's T-shirt, but everybody wearing the band's T-shirt may or may not work, depending on the nature of the band. So it's not so much about what's on the T-shirt as whether it's a uniform or not.

I recently bought an active bass which was working fine. I checked the battery and it was dated 2016 (I thought I might as well replace it). Batteries in my various active basses live at least 5 years so I just carry on using alkalis.

Presumably that's the punishment for playing Dancing Queen, although I would have thought that having to listen to it would be punishment enough. And if the image of Theresa May doing her moves should come into one's head unbidden, so much the worse. Pass the mind bleach.

Would the crossover have common grounds for the main driver and the tweeter, or would they be completely isolated?

If you've got a grinder of some sort, you could try grinding the points off the appropriate box spanner so all that's left is the flats, as there's more clearance between the flat and the front panel than the angle and the front panel.

I think (and someone will be along to correct me if I'm wrong) that either a 2-pole or a 4-pole will do as the speaker will be connected to 1+ and 1-, and a jack to speakon lead would also connect to 1+ and 1-. Do get genuine Neutrik plugs though, pattern parts can have incompatibilities that make them difficult to get out of the socket (I haven't had any problems myself but others have).

I'm very tempted to attend, depending on circumstance, and if I do I shall bring the basses that @TheGreek has forced me to buy plus some others.

I find it gets tiring on the fretting hand as you're holding down root, 5th and octave (basically a power chord) for almost the entire song - the outro is the worst part for that. 500 miles - I hate the bloody song so it just gets root notes from me, haven't found any problem with it except for hating it. Walk like an Egyptian - I found it could catch me out now and again. None of us could whistle so I did the whistle solo on kazoo. Have I mentioned that I hate 500 miles?

It's not going to be a huge investment in time or materials, why not give it a whirl and see what comes out? I imagine it would be solid rather than a dense honeycomb as you want it as close to a bone or plastic nut as possible.

Because I find it easier to play the notes that are written than to transcribe on the fly. I'd already learnt it in the original key so writing it in the new key reinforced the fact that it was in the new key and hopefully stopped me straying back to the original key.

Put a capo on the first fret? We're playing Whole Lotta Rosie in the original key which I find quite tricky to get my fingers to work for, so just put a capo on the 4th fret (5-string) and play a string up which makes the fingering just like the original.

That's the mark 1a, the DeArmond/Fender one, as opposed to the mark 1 Guild which had awful banjo tuners.

There's nothing like basing your entire assessment of a manufacturer on a sample of one.

The dogbone Mk 1 (or Mk 1a with proper tuners) or the original Bass Centre reworking?

It would be a bit silly to try to learn a song from the wrong notes. It was so I could have a record of what the right notes were for future reference.

I use the same method as you. There are a couple of threads that I've contributed to that I either don't want to look at again or might want to look at occasionally (eg I've had a couple of glances at the football thread in the last week) and I recognise the thread title and ignore them or look at them. There are plenty I ignore and have never contributed to (eg Wordle). I don't have a problem with doing that - an ignore thread facility would be useful but it's something I can live without.

The Bass Centre have now got their Ashbory bass out - I suppose it would be approximately the Mk 3. https://www.basscentre.com/bass-centre-ashbory-bass/bass-centre-ashbory-bass-natural.html