BassTractor

Aye, and even called that: "Made in Finland", though not officially. 🙂

Thought some of you might enjoy Swedish prog/fusion/folk band Made in Sweden playing live. Pekka on bass, but I think they were all good musicians. From a 1976 festival in Ålesund in Norway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63f2Wl5UIGQ

Evil 9 Sorry, couldn't resist. Coat is on. Door is open; will close it behind me.

Yup. That's why I kept silent (unbelievable that I even managed, I know 😀). I think it's a good idea to put many copies of the document in that envelope, as some offices will need a copy for their bookkeeping. I've been advised that six copies is good, and that number does indeed follow the logic of the exporting and importing process, but I often find many copies still in the envelope. All of that said, @owen, the most stupid thing you can do is to send a bass to Norway. The smart thing to do is travel to Norway and take the bass with you. That way you get to visit Norway - an awesome country. I visited Norway once. As a result, people at my workplace in Holland are wondering each and every day whether I will turn up.... ...and have done so for nearly 36 years.

Good if it doesn't happen in the UK. Just for clarity's sake: in Norway, if the number then is suppressed in the app, the bank can't reach others who have installed the app; those others can still reach the bank. Then somebody needs to notice this, and contact the app developer to get that number off the kill list. This thing of course is not only an annoyance; it can also have important negative consequences. In the case of my colleague for example, he bought my last stock cheaply off his last money, but never received the goods. Him not being able to reach me may have contributed to his going bust some months later.

I'm a simple guy. I just want more of your posts . . . . and your wallet.

That part is slightly worrying to me. In Norway, and I guess in other countries too, people report scam call's spoofed phone number, and that number consequently is suppressed in the anti-scam app. Result: innocent rightful number owners then can't call to people with the app. I had a colleague who was the victim of that. He tried to call me for months, and both of us were unaware his number was in the kill list.

Ah, but then again, you's brilliant despite the picture. 😄

Aye. The keys/synth fruitcake, like every keys/synth fruitcake, is brilliant, as of course is SpondonBassed. 🙂

Ha. Then imagine the look on the face of this very young female attendant in the record shop back in '69 or thereabouts, when this nerdy looking 12-year-old me, after having listened to one side of Yes' eponymous album answered her question: "Did you like that record?" with a disappointed: "Nah. They sing too much..."

Officially licensed lyrics-deaf, me. Just telling in case @PaulWarning wants to tally all of this.

Look at the picture, fer cryin' our loud! He's a wing/enginecompartment-holdtogetherer! ...and of course he dresses differently during winter flights.

You're gonna reel in a line with an empty hook. @dave_bass5 has no time to argue; he's out leisure-driving the band van today.

Ah! Mike Keneally, a great musician, and has some luvverly albums too. Also one of the loveliest blokes known to mankind. Acts like a normal human. Thanks for posting this link, steve-bbb!

You could just cover your whole body (or rather, roughly 50% of it) with wide black stripes - for example at an angle of roughly 45 degrees. Huh? Not bass related enough? Hammond-Hammond might disagree...

Love the roadworn look, me. Actually, as I'm an organ player by education, I tried to find me a nice 3-manual, 65-stop, road worn pipe organ, but sadly couldn't find one. To this day I can't understand the weird, prejudiced looks I got in every pipe organ builder's office. Sigh...

Don't know the theory about this, but did read that the 1.2V was specifically chosen so as to compensate for the rechargeable batteries' ability to produce a high Amperage. This is done so the Wattage remains roughly the same. I'm sure I'm using the terms amateuristically here, and likely wrong, but also guess that one gets the idea. From what I read, you then wouldn't need 7.5 batteries normally speaking. Though: some gear indeed specifically demands one type, and the manual then warns against using the other.

😄 Perfec!

I've solved that with my BT SmartSwitch(TM). The BT SmartSwitch(TM) is built inside the jack. Just unplug your bass after rehearsal, and the BT SmartSwitch(TM) will automatically disengage the electrickery and, importantly, the battery! Yes, I'm a genius. Ad in Marketplace to follow.

Well, on the other side of the spectrum, the old Korg OASYS cost like £8,000 when it was released, so what are you really comparing to? Me, I'd need quite some convincing before buying a Kurzweil after their history with crappy keybeds and impenetrable user interfaces. Not saying I can't be convinced - just that I need to be convinced. OTOH I'd have bought an original OASYS on the spot if I'd had the money at the time. Of course, these days one can buy a Fantom, Kronos or Motif for considerably less, but still. Is it worth £3,000? Probably. But as the market segment is tiny, it's bound to be somewhat overpriced, but not by that much. A Waldorf Quantum is more expensive than that. Haven't looked up its direct competitors, but feel secure they're not that far apart. To me personally, saying yay or nay would depend largely on the quality of the offered keybed, as the last time I bought a really good MIDI set, I paid £2,500 for the keyboard alone and £2,000 for the 19" synth module. That's £4,500 with only one synth engine and no workstation functionality. Totally worth it. IOW, I think it's all about reference frame.

From what I understand - which is little - it's an artificial means of making it look nice. A nice bonus is it's partially seasoning the wood, making it stronger, harder and more stable too. 😉

The Kinks: "Rats" The Beatles: "Blackbird" Ketil Bjørnstad: "Sommernatt ved fjorden" (not well-known, but still radio-friendly enough in the right version)

OMG! 😱 George, Ringo and John is dead?

Needs to be mentioned every so often. Luvverly stuff. I like Moonmadness and even Breathless a lot more than the one I'm commanded by other progsters to love: The Snow Goose.

Yes, luvverly, and cheap as well, but it must be mentioned that its most important capacity always has been that you could ask people if they liked Telemann's "Water Music", and most of them would then try and correct you, saying. "Händel!", uponwhich you could retort, with formal logic: - "You do not really have a telemann on classical music, do you?" Great times! 😉