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We found that a good way to deal with this was an Uninterruptible Power Supply.

Suffolk's a big place! Colin Fulton in Little Glemham, north of Ipswich, would be one person to consider.

I have a Dave Hall VT1 Pro which is great.

To drag this back onto topic, interesting though the diversion is : Ask HappyJack if his Matamp is still for sale.

You can learn the chord shapes, and it's fun to attempt the odd tune. There is a load of useful stuff in the Mandolin Cafe forums although it's US-centric and mostly aimed at Bluegrass and Country music https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/

Because you can't undo a flat head screw with a Phillips.

No thread would be complete without a gratuitous mention of Colin Hodgkinson. I've been listening to this man for 45 yeqrs and I still have no real clue how he does it!

It's worked out for Kelly. But this was just to attend the audition. Even if you didn't pass the audition, didn't get near the show, you were still committed to paying Simon his cut. 10% of all those $250 pub gigs adds up.

It's part of the lyrics for the song Angel Delight. Played by Dave Pegg, as with virtually every Fairport recording, on his trusty Fender Precision. The Ibanez is a recent acquisition.

He played his 6-tring Yamaha when we saw him in GAK a couple of years ago. He didn't bring a BBNE2: he thought that GAK would have loads of them hanging on the wall.

Or Messi. Or Ronaldo. Or Neymar. Remind me again, what happened to their teams?

Unfortunately Yes. Back Home, 1970, is still the best.

Check the small print - our singer was considering doing an audition for X-Factor, until it came out that a condition of signing up for the audition was to provide a percentage of all your earnings from music to Simon Cowell.

Louder still would be one of the Tecamp designs that has 2 output channel into 4 Ohms and a bridged mode into 8 ohms. Can't remember what it's called but they pop up second-hand in the forums occasionally. A PA-style power amp will do this too, but these are usually in a 19" rack format which might not meet your requirements for it to be compact.

Also a good move to put the least photogenic member of the band out of camera shot. Give Andy my regards when you see him, we go way back.

Another favourite, which happened again at Ipswich Music Day. We play our first song. Drunk comes up to the stage and shouts 'Play Sally MacLenane'. Singer says 'it's in the set we do it later on'. After the next song 'Play Sally MacLenane' . And after the next. And the next. When we do finally play it, he's nowhere to be seen. And then he comes back at the end. 'Play Sally Maclenane'. Sorry mate, you missed it!

Fair play to Marshall, that's terrific customer support.

Every single one, in the Brass band, Military/Wind band and orchestral world.

Peavey TVX, if you don't mind the weight these are great cabs and can be picked up relatively cheaply.

Monks Eleigh on the other hand is about 40 minutes up the road. I think from memory Peter charged me about 250 quid to glue the back of my bass back on (it was falling off), replace the soundpost, fit and supply a new bridge (not adjustable) which had to be thinned down quite a bit.

Just wondering: if they're Chromes, would they not have multi-coloured ball ends like other D'Addario? This is what my Ernie Ball Flats look like. Not much variation in colour of silks. I wouldn't read too much into that.

Hi Richard, welcome to Basschat. Looks like a very interesting example. You're right about the controls. You're also right about the pickguard and the reversed P pickup not being original. Neither are the dots in the fingerboard. I'd be a bit worried that the pickguard is covering up some routing holes where the original P pickup would have sat. I can't tell whether the pickups have 'SGC' on them, but if not they may also be replacements. The cavities are more or less the same size. Some of the active basses had little channels routed out to take the battery, but the cover plates are all the same size. Not sure whether the Bass Centre had any input to the design or whether it came from Sexton Guitar Company, sorry.

Ah, I see. Yes, that should work. Looking forward to seeing the results in the Build forum!