pete.young

Nice to see a Duesenberg Star bass getting a rare outing too.

Ironic, given he only seemed to be playing 4 notes. Dullest act by miles, landfill indie personified.

Thanks for that Phil, it looks really useful. I've not had any problems with BandMule crashing, ether on my current Pixel 6a or the Redmi Note 9 that preceded it.

Dont try this at home kids

i have a load of HOAL5 and HOAL7 pond cable somewhere, it never occurred to me to make speaker cables out of it until now. It's very flexible, and also totally waterproof so handy for those swimming pool photoshoots. I used it to repair umbelical dive lights which were a big deal before the invention of the LED.

I have been told that it is due to the orientation of the High-Mid driver. @stevie if you are going to write an explanation for @Sean it might be worth putting it on the web site. It made me think I was too loud because I could actually hear everything, instead of the sound blasting past me at knee level, and the band told me to turn it up.

That might work for people who can only play one instrument.

Yes, I've used it. It's OK but not brilliant. Wheres The Gig was much easier to use but they started charging silly money for it. It does some things that Google Calendar does not. The Availability screen shows at a glance when people are available or not for a gig, provided that people fill it in and stand by it. It does set list management and you can build up a library of songs that you can then drag into set lists. It has limited multi-band support but this may have improved since I last used it. If someone suggests BAND, run away. We 'use' it in the blues band, and it's worse than useless.

I have a Monza, which is the 10" version, it copes perfectly well with my 5 string basses and so did the Goodwood pre-production cab that I had on trial for a short while, so I'm sure the bigger driver in the Monaco will be absolutely fine. it replaced an EBS2x12, which wasn't being worked particularly hard, but the Monza copes with a relatively loud blues band. Not tried it outdoors yet.

I can't take any credit for that - I'm standing on the shoulders of the giants who also post in this forum! I can't remember who suggested it or I'd credit them.

One option might be to increase the height under the board by putting some bigger feet on it: like this maybe https://www.diy.com/departments/diall-black-thermoplastic-vulcanizates-tpv-leg-tip-dia-32mm-pack-of-2/1725483_BQ.prd

Art of the Mountain Banjo was by Art Rosenbaum, I think I have a copy somewhere. The first time I heard the term 'clawhammer' was when Ken Perlman's book came out in the '70s. I learned to play about the same time as you: I learnt from listening to Guy Tucker, who lived in Manchester in the late 70s, and from books by John Burke and Miles Krassen. There are lots of terms for the style, and various attempts to bold on esoteric definitions after the fact, but I think it boils down to a matter of opinion.

The picking style that Rhiannon is using in the clip is not clawhammer. It is an old-time 3-finger picking style, which pre-dates the modern Scruggs-style bluegrass roll which is normal nowadays. This banjo is also unusual in that it is tuned a 5th lower than normal 5-string G tuning, and I think the strings are probably nylon.