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......or the player P Bass in buttercream

Bought a Roqsolid cover from Martyn. Great comms and no issues whatsoever. Buy/sell with confidence. Thanks again.

Anyone else know of a 1 stop shop?

Right, here's my issue. For our Open Mic Night, as well as backing other artists who are pre-invited (so we know what tunes they will be doing), the Houseband do our own performance also. In order to make things more exciting ( not my words) the band leader has been seduced by You Tube versions of well-known songs done in a different way by people like Post Modern Jukebox and Scary Pockets. Add to that we usually do them in a different key which means even if I sit down and chart them out and then transpose them, I am unable to practice playing along with them, unless I sit in the YT key. We only get one stab at rehearsal which is usually spent with the vox working on their arrangements too...😉 So I'm looking for software that will enable me to download a YT song into and then transpose it so I can learn and play along with it. I have an iMac. Any recommendations please?

Isn't acid good for relicing metal parts?

Don't you mean Howard?

I stopped having Alpenhorn for breakfast and went back to Cheerios...have to say the Tesco home delivery guy was pretty relieved!

'Exellent' sort of sums it up?

I'd agree, once you walk out of the shop, irrespective of use, they lose value. CMD 121P's ( of any origin) tend to go s/h for around £400 and the NYC cabs around £250. Don't know if the 15" equivalants are worth more but £600- £650 seems a fair price.

I'd check my jack socket for loose wires or touching wires, then work through to the pots and wiggle the wiring on them. Probably the best thing is to loosen off the jack socket (not sure if it is on a scratchplate) so you can get at the wires, then plug it all in and have a wiggle! Could just be a dry solder joint too...

Ash bought a Ninja combo from me, great comms., a straight-forward transaction and instant payment. Thanks for your custom and deal with him with confidence.

Here you are, a one stop solution: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DV-Mark-AC-101-Acoustic-Instrument-Guitar-Bass-Violin-etc-Combo-Amplifier/173793923665?hash=item2876ecd251:g:LV8AAOSw~7JcZXxL

Well, we've plenty of tractors and other farm machinery like Combine Harvesters on our roads...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb63PdPweDc

Never thought of Wirral Park Road, but was 6 hours at Townsend Shopping Park: just think we were that close to meeting up😂. Still if you spent £60 on groceries you got 10p a litre off fuel so it was worth the journey....!

Nice work but may be seen by more in the Bass Guitars and/or Build Dairies lounges? Oh, and is it good for Metal?

Just back from Tesco and no-one approached me for a signing. Might need to grow a beard...?

Liam Gallagher offered retired soccer star pal Peter Crouch the chance to be his bass player. The 38-year-old former England striker has revealed the ex-Oasis singer bizarrely asked if he'd like to join his band, even though he doesn't know how to play the stringed instrument. In an interview with Radio Times magazine, Peter said: “Music is a passion of mine. I’d like to get into promoting new bands. Liam offered me a job as a musician the other day. “He was like: ‘When we do a big gig, just learn the bass to one tune and you can come up and play with us’. "I said: ‘I’d love to do that but I don’t have any musical talent’.” Liam's current bassist is Drew McConnell - who he swiped from rival Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles. The 'Wall of Glass' hitmaker - who recently performed at Peter's Crouchfest in London - previously explained he recruited Drew because he's "f***ing talented". Liam knew the 40-year-old musician would be a perfect fit for his band because he has to have been "pretty headstrong" to be The Libertines frontman's bandmates He gushed: "I'd never met Drew before and you know - he's f***ing talented. He's played with The La's, Drew, so he's obviously talented. To keep the f***ing Babyshambles thing going he's gotta be pretty headstrong, you know what I mean." The pair hit it off as they are both "laid back". On how he met Drew, he recalled: "I met him and he seemed cool. He's been very f***ing laid back. There's been no like 'look, you's lot - do ya f***ing thing, here's your numbers, go and f***ing do it'." Pete was the one who confirmed the 46-year-old rocker had stolen Drew from him. He said: "Stressification on the band front, Drew playing bass guitar for Liam Gallagher's new tour." Liam and Pete have been at loggerheads for years and the 'Shockwave' hitmaker says he doesn't communicate with him. He said: "No, I've only met him once, but that was years ago at the Forum when he was with ... what are they called.. flipping, Libertines. It was just 'hello, you're really tall and that'. He looked like my mic stand." The pair have another mutual person in common as they both have children by 90s indie rocker Lisa Moorish. The 'Live Forever' hitmaker has 21-year-old daughter Molly with the former Kill City singer and Pete has 16-year-old son Astile. They have feuded several times over the years, one of the most notable though was At V Festival in 2005. Liam labelled the Babyshambles star "one big c***" on stage after he didn't turn up for his support slot with Oasis at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, South West England. He said on stage at the event held in Chelmsford, Essex: "It's good to see Pete Doherty turned up. One big ****."

Unlikely, but (small world) the cajon player in our Open Mic band is a road manager for Phil Collins on tour and therefore knows Lee very well.....

Can I just put it out there, I'll be in Tesco at Shepton Mallet around about 3.00 pm tomorrow complete with handwritten shopping list.... if anyone wants a photo opportunity with me?

Yes, he did a seminar at the LBS some years ago and played excerpts (on his laptop) of stuff he played on: he talked about playing with Billy Cobham. I had Spectrum on vinyl years ago, as I was a Mahavishnu fan and saw them a Newcastle City hall as a callow youth!

James Taylor or Jackson Brown if you're into West Coast stuff, Billy Cobham Spectrum if into funky Jazz, Phil Collins , Dolly Parton etc etc. You could listen to 10 albums a day and still be hearing his stuff 3 months later

I like the way Bass demi-god Lee Sklaar has a shopping list! He's lovely fellow, met him a couple of times and is always willing to talk Bass. This is the guy who's bass-playing was the soundtrack to my teenage years.

I shall have nightmares for weeks after seeing that, the more you look the worse it gets. Forget leaving the EU without a deal, the date 24/06/19 is when the whole world went crazy. 'but each time I look at that glue stain where the makers name was on the head I can nearly remember the shape of the word... any ideas anyone? 'Firewood'? 'Waste of money' ? 'Snakeoil' ? 'Charlatan'? 'Abomination' 'Botched?' 'Texas Chainsaw massacre'?

Nowt wrong with that, just a Luthier signing his bespoke instrument......