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Things like that mean a lot to Scott. He's a very emotional sort of chap. I'm sure he would apprecaite your message. Rob

I'm sorry, I don't know about the body thickness. I don't actually know if he still has the original one.

Not the weekend, but my rig of choice on Thursday night this week. A very simple setup, GK 400RB MKI, BF 3x10, DI to FOH in front of amp, and a brace of '73 Fenders. I love this rig. Rob

Cool! I’ve known Scott for over 30 years now, we’ve done probably more than 100 gigs together. In fact we met on a gig where we were both brought in as deps for the same band, it was Christmas Eve sometime in the early 90’s. I remember him designing that bass and having the first one hand built by Brian Eastwood. It was quite special that first one. Rob

I used my '73 P bass last night, which has black side dots. I've never had problems with that bass before, but last night under the lights at the venue, whenever I stepped up to my mic I couldn't see ANYTHING down the side of the board. My note choice was rather fruity as a result ! I may have to stick some white dots on that one now. Edit: Just ordered some of these, thanks for the heads up. I'll let you know how they compare with the more expensive imported Rosette dots. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285966903916 Rob

The venue manager loved it, and has promised us some more dates, so we will be back. I think we'll be doing a Friday or Saturday next time though, so there will be a cover charge I think. Rob

Ok, thanks for all the input chaps. Post match analysis 🤣 Lovely venue. I've been before before, but it must be at least 20 years ago, and it's the first time I've actually played it. Showtime is 8pm, but the engineer only gets started at 7pm, so it seemed very last minute, and sound/line check was completed 5 minutes before showtime. The engineer opted for my Orchid Classic DI which he phantom powered from the desk, he said it was better than theirs, so I got to use my old trusty GK 400RB. Everything was mic'ed or DI'd and stage was indeed was a comfortable but enjoyable level onstage. We're all gentlemen of a certain age (60's) and we're just not down with the IEMs I'm afraid, give me an amp and an old school wedge monitor anytime. FOH did do quite a bit of the lifting I think, the room is much longer than I remember. Surprisingly for a Thursday night in January every table except 5 at the back were reserved, so we had a really healthy crowd who were very generous in their appreciation. This is quite a new band (less than a year since we started) and we made countless mistakes and cock-ups, but it's experience and we'll fix them as we go on. Thanks chaps. Rob

1st version, still going strong! I think it's late 80's.

I'm going to bite the bullet and get my '73 Jazz refretted. This used to belong to Nick @Old Horse Murphy RIP, and after I bought we discussed how he'd also thought many times about having it refretted too. I have talked to Dave Shuker who could do it, given a window of opportunity, but he's about a 5 hour round trip away. So, I'm looking for recommendations in the North West for someone who you would trust to do a great refret on a '73 Jazz with binding etc. Fire away, Cheers, Rob

Ok, this is from the service manual. Not sure what this means.

I usually carry an Elf in the gig bag as backup. In case of the second scenario I could use that, it does actually sound great.

The opportunity is there the take the stems from the recording yes. We may or may not do that. We've been in the studio twice recently recording tracks properly, and they are forming the basis of our recorded output. Any video we get out of this will just serve as "live video" for promo purposes. We're taking away whatever video/mix they put out on the internet though I wish I could tell you more, but I don't have specific links. The best I can do is point you here: https://www.facebook.com/MattAndPhreds I believe the first set will be livestreamed from 8pm, after that I think it's just being recorded..