pete.young

I hear that the Medium was cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. Unfortunately, or not depending on your perspective, this is what puts paying bums on seats in Felixstowe, and similar sized venues in similar places such as Clacton West Cliff Theatre. The Spa Pavilion tried the alternative, went bust and on balance I'd rather have the venue survive on a diet of mostly tribute bands, panto and the occasional more interesting event than see it going back to being closed altogether. This is an 800 seat venue. To sell that out for a jazz gig you'd need to be offering something very spectacular, especially in Felixstowe which is not exactly the easiest place on the planet to get to.. What we really need in this region is a venue like the awesome Apex Theatre in Bury St Edmunds, which is exactly the right size and vibe to attract all kinds of brilliant events, but we're struggling with the local alternatives.

Plugging a decent quality cassette deck into a Zoom H4 worked for me.

Yes, saw the snapped tailgut thing happen to some Rockabilly types a few weeks ago. All 4 strings gone, bits of adjustable bridge all over the floor, game over. I went through a spell of using lamp flex instead, so you could afford to lose a few strands and replace it before a total failure. My best one was with the tuba. I took all the valves out to clean them before a concert, was distracted, and the kids swapped them round. I didn't realise until about 2 minutes before the curtain went up that there was no sound coming out. Learning point!

Thomann have them, apparently.

If it's your right shoulder and the bass hangs on the left, it shouldn't be due to the bass. An alternative suggestion might be to go and get some physio and sort out the rotator cuff issue and then go from there, if you haven't already done so.

Maybe the Roland has a chance after all at a mere 10Kgs. It just feels heavier if you carry it on a shoulder strap! I've A-B'd one against an AER Compact 60 (we had one of each in the band) and the AC-60 seems to have more power and more usable features for half the price.

I have a Roland AC-60. Really good quality amp, lots of useful functions but I think it might fail the 'fairly light' test.

Excellent work, many thanks, and sorry for being a bit rude!

The site appears to be http only, with no consideration given to https. I get the padlock icon with a red line through it on Firefox telling me that passwords could be compromised, and similar warnings from Chrome and Vivaldi. I don't recall seeing this on the old site. Bearing in mind that you are asking for not only passwords, but credit card details and paypal details in the shop section, https needs to be implemented immediately. I'd also recommend that you implement hsts and turn off http altogether, this is 2017 and there's really no reason to do it any other way.

They were using the workshops in the basement of the shop on the corner of Denmark St. - used to be Chris Bryants? Somewhere on this forum is a posting by Happyjack about a visit to them.

Whatever you think of Jools, surely you have to admit that 'Sounds Like Friday Night' has redefined the concept of crap music tv shows.

Slightly better bargain than this - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WEM-Watkins-original-Starfinder-4-x-12-Guitar-Cabinet-empty-like-Pink-Floyd/263288161825?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D49131%26meid%3D983b6f4e60844d5dba9b398b4f9bf886%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D362125211624&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 - bloody hell, 1600 quid for an empty WEM cabinet, what is he smoking?

I'd recommend you take a good look at this: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/314131-ibanez-srf700-portamento/

The main advantage of using more speakers is that you move more air. I'd be looking for a second hand Markbass LM2 or LM3 in the classifieds and run it with both cabs.

[quote name='bumnote' timestamp='1509643684' post='3400576'] why dont you contact ashdown and ask for the price of a new speaker? Their customer service is great. [/quote] This.

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1509630355' post='3400430'] I don't pretend to know the figures, but with those 3 brands they've probably got over 50% of the market covered (though suprised no yamaha in there). [/quote] Very few of the London stores have any stocks of Yamaha - it's much easier to go to Yamaha Music London in Wardour St, they have virtually everything in stock there, even a BBNE2.

I had one of these for a while - bought for my son when he was much smaller. They are very playable and sound surprising good. 45 quid is a bargain.

I agree with Yorks5stringer, there's so much casual sexism on this forum and people refusing to believe they're being offensive even when told to their faces. You'll be telling us that the prisoners have taken over the jail next.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1508855826' post='3394895'] +1 22nd would be a nightmare for Happy Jack, Bluejay, MacDaddy and Paul the Drums ... we're gigging that night in Leighton Buzzard! [/quote] That might still turn out to be a nightmare even without a bassbash.

Have you also changed routers? If so you might need to open up some more ports on the firewall to enable the connection. Try copying the exact error message and pasting it into google.

What a bunch of lightweights. My tenor banjo is 12 Kg. The heaviest bass guitar that I've seen was one with a marble body, made by a student at Newark as an experiment. I'd guess that was a failed experiment, judging by the number of marble-bodied basses you see these days.

Marvellous news, well done everyone especially Hamster, Nik and all the other people involved in setting this up. Looking forward to seeing you all again next year.