Jean-Luc Pickguard

Here's my new (almost) All Boss board I have replaced my Pedaltrain nano plus with a Harley Benton Spaceship Power 50C. This has the PSU with isolated 9v outputs built into the board and it connects to the mains via a kettle lead. Some of the outputs can be switched to 12 or 18V, and it has USB-A & USB-C outputs on the back for charging your phone etc. The bag it comes with is absolutely perfect and it also comes with every power adaptor cable you could imagine. I fitted a Harley Benton SpaceShip Pedalboard Blue LED strip to the bottom front of the board as I think it looks rather good. My boss pedals are TU-3 tuner SY-1 Synth - for doubling bass with cool 60s organ LMB-3 Bass Limiter Enhancer - always on ODB-3 Bass Overdrive with Monte Allums mod - for when I want to add a bit more dirt to what I already get from my Ashdown ABM600 Evo iv CEB-3 Bass Chorus - arrived today, I'm sure I'll find a job for it in the setlist Then half on/half falling off the end the board is my trusty thumpinator. Not sure whether I still need this with the ABM600 though.

I have just added a CEB-3 to my (almost) all-Boss pedal board and the first thing I had to do after taking it out of the box was to remove the bottom plate and heat up the rubber foot with the wife's hairdryer so I can peel it off and replace it with velcro. I think boss could make it easier for people to fix their pedals to a pedalboard. Self-adhesive velcro doesn't stick well to the rubber foot of Boss pedals. If they wanted to make me happy, they could either supply a second plain bottom plate or supply the self-adhesive rubber foot unattached, along with a similarly shaped piece of self-adhesive velcro so you have the choice of which to fit.

Shame we didn't get to see Darryl in the video — I think next year he'll have been in the band for as long as Bill was.

My Wife — The Who

Big Jesus Trash Can — The Birthday Party

You Can't Buy My Love — Robert Plant

Money In My Pocket — Dennis Brown

Lily The Pink — The Scaffold

We're A Happy Family — The Ramones

Always Crashing In The Same Car — David Bowie

Cold Revolver Click — Obviously 5 Believers 01 Cold Revolver Click.mp3

No No No — Deep Purple

The sets I 've bought most recently are D'addario Chromes ECB81M for the mustangs and the Starfire, Ernie Ball Cobalt flats on the thunderbirds. I paid around £50 a set for the chromes & around £40 for the cobalts. My precisions and other basses are okay with what they already have - mostly 10 year old thomastic JF344s

I once had a delivery of books delivered into the wheely bin on bin day. By the time I saw the card they were long gone.

Lovely looking thing; I had been admiring it on the gallery website.

- Beedster got there first with the stingray comment

Aces Hyatt —Iron Maiden

Holiday Inn Cambonia — Dead Kennedys

The buyer has now confirmed that the guitar has arrived in one piece. Phew! I've been sending other items using royal mail, or parcelforce for larger items. However parcelforce don't cover guitars/basses. Does anyone have a preferred courier for basses or guitars?

Well, it has arrived with the buyer and I have asked him to open it up to check it is okay — the box appears to be intact on the delivery photo, and I packed it well, but the tracking message yesterday saying "shipment damaged/destroyed" triggered my anxiety big-time.

The telephone number is useless; it is a robot that just tells you what you already know from the tracking with no chance of speaking to a person. The webchat is also a robot but if you're lucky you get an opportunity to escalate it. I did that yesterday and have just got a reply from evri support saying the guitar should be delivered today, so I'm hoping it will arrive with its new owner in one piece. The email I received was from the address [email protected] — that might come in useful in the future, but until I try emailing it I wouldn't bet against it being set to bounce incoming emails.

Dude Looks Like A Lady — Aerosmith

I'm Paignton the Town Red — Billie Holiday

The size was 108cm x 53cm x 12cm and I paid the price packlink quoted plus about twenty quid for insurance against evri being careless tw@ts. I've just looked up evri's maximum size contraints and found this: according to my calculation this is: 2 x (53 + 12) + 108 = 238 So the size shouldn't be a problem even without having to argue that the box tapers so the volume would actually be less than if the sides were parallel. The tracking on Packlink is now showing three new updates timestamped this morning each saying "It is in the carrier’s network, on its way from its origin to its destination." No indication of where in the world it is though, and I've not had the promised update. Oh well tomorrow's another day.

I sold a guitar on Reverb. Booked the evri via Packlink on Wednesday on a 24 hour service as I didn't want it sitting in a depot over the weekend. It was picked up Thursday so should have been delivered on Friday, but wasn't. I have been trying to find out what's happening and this is the tracking info on evri's site: I'm not sure why they are saying it is bigger than expected — I entered the correct weight and dimensions when booking the delivery. Trying to find more info I discovered different tracking information on the Packlink site: Evri's automated phone system seems to be designed to infuriate and after going through various options which offer no new information, it hangs up with no chance to speak to a sentient being. I'm now waiting for someone at evri, and someone at packlink to get back to me with an update.