pete.young

Oh yeah, forgot about the revolving door in the Kings Hall, Herne Bay. I went round with my upright bass 3 times and ended up on my back on the floor of the lobby with the bass on top of me. Much to the amusement of the door staff.

The Royal Horseguards Hotel, near Northumberland Avenue. Nowhere to legallly park, load in down a narrow set of concrete stairs into the basement, through the kitchen (whilst they were doing a live table service) dodging portuguese waiters, up 2 floors in a cranky goods lift with those slide-across doors (also being used for the food service) and into the venue. Load out much easier, the Liberal Club which also forms part of the building had closed so we were allowed to load out down the huge front staircase.

What you actually want is the speaking length. This will be the same for a fixed BBOT bridge but will be longer than the scale length if you have through-body stringing or a tailpiece. For example my Duesenberg is a short-scale bass which uses medium-scale strings.

Mine is 3.8 Kg or a shade under 8.5 lb.

Wrong. It's a humbucker-humbucker config, those are not single coil Jazz pickups.

I really like DR Sunbeams on my Precision.

BBNE2 copes with it no problem.

This is great advice. Rhythm Stick on a 5er can be played in more or less the same position all the way through, except the little run up and down in octaves at the start of the chorus. Across not down!

Mine arrived this morning. What a bargain. Too good for the guitar, think I'll use it to live in instead!

You all need to man up. I used to have a tenor banjo that weighed 12.5 Kg.

The fix for this is not to bother attaching the straplock to the strap. Just put the strap on the pin as normal, and then fit the straplock over the top. Grolsch has been withdrawn in the UK and many supermarkets have already run out of stock, so they're becoming harder to obtain. I guess a trip to Bulgaria to stock up might be an option.

My SGC Nanyo 5-string weighs 8.4 lbs, and that includes an ebony fingerboard. They do come up second hand occasionally. The 4-strings are around 7.5 bs.

Pub near us has just re-opened and re-branded itself 'Dukes Ipswich'. Formerly the Grand Old Duke Of York. Could be co-incidence ...

I suspect that whatever it is, the Bartolinis are not original. The lack of control plate is interesting. The body, particularly the arrangement of the controls and the cover plate on the back reminds me very much of a Jim Reed Jazz that I used to own, but the neck's clearly wrong. Could it have been a neck swap? Doesn't look like one, it was a good job if so.

The seller has 7,500 positive feedbacks at 100%. That link is now coming up as sold and there don't seem to be any more available, so unless you bought that one you might be out of luck. Thanks for the heads-up though - due to your message I managed to order an Archtop case which will be perfect for my new Epiphone Zenith.

The mobile phone pockets that used to be attached to laptop backpacks are pretty good for this also. I have one which is a perfect fit for my SmoothHound transmitter.

2 x 8 Ohm cabs, one off each output, will give you a total of 4 Ohms. So will daisy-chaining 2 x 8 Ohm cabs. 2 x 4 Ohm cabs will give you a total load of 2 Ohms, which probably isn't such a good idea.

Look for a used Dave Hall Amps VT1 or VT1 Pro.

That's 20 minutes away from me. I'm sure we could work something out.

Was that really the smallest car they could find? I used to fit mine into an Austin A.30 once upon a time.

If you're in a Pogues covers band, it's Xmas every gig. Since we don't have a female singer in the band we have to recruit a 'Kirsty' from the audience, which can be hit or miss. Usually when this comes up, I like to talk about the excellent Showcase Showdown, but this year as a tribute to Sharon Jones I'm going to rave about 'Aint no chimneys' instead. Bonus point to anyone who can identify the bass:

I'll always associate that black Celinder Jazz, that used to be the picture on the old site, with (Crazy) Kiwi. And how could I forget @Shockwave and his all-lime-green Pedulla, even down to the strings.

@JD1 I think it works like this. The 'mid' switch, the middle one in the row of 3 switches on the front of the guitar, has 3 positions: Off, EQ1 and EQ2 . I don't know if the 'Off' position is clockwise or anti clockwise - I suspect the latter. One of the little white trim pots selects the central frequency for EQ1. The other trim pot selects the central frequency for EQ2. The third pot controls the amount of cut or boost for EQ2. I think the cut/boost only works on EQ2 setting and I can't tell from the picture which white trim wheel is which. If it sounds great where it is, probably best left alone 🙂

Coal Not Dole , original and best by Oysterband.