FinnDave

I bought a new EB4 in 2017, it was great once set up properly. Still is, but I am selling it as I am concentrating on six strings at the moment. It is very light for a 34" scale, twin hum bucker with a set neck, and capable of a surprising range of tones, as both pick ups have coil taps as standard.

I've sold two basses, and bought nothing so far this year.

My first decent bass was a Framus Jazz bass copy, I still miss it!

That's the best bit - I play in a Grateful Dead tribute, so we are not making piles of money, or playing every weekend, but have a very enthusiastic and knowledgeable audience when we do. It's a great feeling when the audience cheers at the first three notes of a song because they know and love it as much as we do. I made more money playing in pubs every weekend, but playing to indifferent audiences drains the enthusiasm out of you after a while.

As I get my prescriptions free of charge, I'll offer him the asking price and forward the bill to the NHS.

I do hope you're not all going to keep carping on about this.

Just make sure that the case you buy is specified for use by bass fishermen.

Listening to (and playing along with) Cornell 8th May '77, a classic Grateful Dead live recording.

I was half a mile from Minster Lovell yesterday, would have dropped in had I known. I'll get in touch with Andreas, he's a good chap, ought to see him before he moves.

Yeah, I've played with Andreas a few times, we were rehearsing a band together a couple of years ago, but the promised monthly gig vanished when the venue's manager changed and the band lost impetus. Does he still have that Soundcraft mixer? He bought that off me. Where is the jam now? I think we met at one of them at Coleshill, Rob Beckinsale was there as well. I had an acoustic bass (guitar) that I had just bought, that was the one and only time I played it!

Is that Andreas' jam at Coleshill?

john hornby skewes? Does the deal include free train sets?

I've aways loved F# as well, must trigger some sympathetic vibration in the brain.

I've got Ibby SR 506, 1206 and 1006 (though the 1006 is now sold awaiting collection). The 506 is good value, after a lifetime of Fenders, but the 1206 (current model is 1306) is definitely better, much punchier pick ups. This year the 1206 will be my main bass, with the 506 as back up. I don't use the C string for chords, but to save dashing up the dusty end to reach high A, etc, which the C string brings down to the 'safe' area below the twelfth fret I find I am playing across the board much more than I used to, and playing up and down it much less, which in my view helps with accuracy when playing on stage as everything you need is likely to fall under the fingers without having to move more than a fret or two up or down the neck. I'm just getting lazy!

A dose of real clap is ban enough, why on earth would anyone want to synthesise it?

I agree completely, mine came with a decent padded gig bag, but a hard case would have been better. But then it sold have been another £100 dearer and I probably wouldn't have bothered. My EB4 is now in the for sale section as I am playing six string bass exclusively at the moment.

To be honest, the topic was the misrepresentation of academic theses by the popular press, but some fun was had anyway! The follow up was the article under the headline of 'flooding caused by increased rainfall', which while almost true, failed (in the headline, at least) to mention that it was more run that was the problem, but a change in the density of rain. Anyway, carry on with the topic!

I remember a newspaper headline I used as a discussion topic with my students in Finland once - it read 'Global warming caused by sun, climate scientists claim'. So I suspect the sun probably is warm.

My god that sounds painful - but what a great argument for automatic transmission!

I have both Super Twin & Super Compact, and have been using the SC for smaller gigs. I am no longer in a pub band, so am selling the SC, but the ST stays for the one band I am in now. They sound very similar, to my ears. Same speakers, just one in the SC and two in the ST.

A friend of mine opened an independent music retail shop in Gloucester last year and seems to be doing OK so far. I hope that anyone within reach of Gloucester is familiar with the new and re-vitalised Soundhouse there, and if not, will take a look soon.

I was advised to wear crocs by my podiatrist. I bought several pairs so I can always have a different colour on each foot. Some people react very strangely to that!

Makes me wonder whether I'm only hearing the top speaker on my Super Twin!

I've played quite a few loud pub gigs with either an Ashdown ABM 600 or Rootmaster 800 into a Super Compact and have never needed to use more than 1/3rd volume. Being a small cab, it can sound quieter on stage than a Super Twin, but is more than enough out front.

To be honest, I do often find my Supertwin lacking. It lacks the back-breaking weight that the cabinet I had before it (non-Barefaced).