Woodinblack

Hmm...

Clearly it wasn't or Moldova would have won

The BBC is a member of the European Broadcasting Union, so it has to be them.

That is down to you not checking, they have actually done really well, have a new album, single and tour out. Personally I am looking forward to next years Eurovision final in Kyiv

Indeed - I did a picture posts on how to do it on one of the EHB thread. I love side leds. Not a fan of blue but other colours. AFAIK though, I don't think there are any that you can't turn off. Same here. OK, as I use wireless all the time it isn't so bad, but I find it cures a problem I have never had by risking several problems that I could have. I thought that they were there just for decoration, same as other things. And as such they are fine, although prefer it without them.

Yes, they are fine on the 1505 as the neck is dark. I had that problem before when I had luminays on a mid brown neck, you can't see the luminays at all when they aren't lit (which is most of the time), unless they have a collar (my shuker has that coloured fingerboard, but the luminays are in a brass ring which shows well in any light). Yes, taking the bass off, sitting down, putting it across your lap and pressing down really hard until your finger hurts to undo the clamp. I don't tthink I ever managed to do it when I was wearing the bass.

A few people have here, I have the normal scale one. With the nords. In which case that is the only down side, so you are good. Note the Nords you can take off the top end warm them up just fine with the EQ, the barts aren't well liked as they lack definition, as well as just being wooly. But if you like the sound then you are good. The pickups are the reason I don't have one and that when one came up on here with replaced pickups i had already bought something else! They feel well made, but light. The B string sounds fine but the ergonomics are down to you - the neck is smaller than the SRMS805 but similar in its still an ibanez.

Was a bit confusing, yes! I would just pick whatever bass you want to play, they will all sound the same to the audience so play the one you like.

For me that always works against an instrument - some famous artist who can afford whatever they want had a choice of keeping this bass, but they decided to get rid of it as it wasn't as good as the other ones they had.

Private party for a 40th. I don't think necessarily they really needed a band but we got them dancing once they had drunk enough so it went down ok, and paid well as it was a party. Down these ways, since the pandemic, we have had more people at our gigs, and they have been paying better for the first time in a decade

North of bristol works for me. I did a search for something the other day on eBay, had a whole load of results, all the same basically, and one of them said RARE! which looked even funnier in a list of identical things

If Ukraine do win, it is going to make next years Eurovision a bit more interesting!

I think it is probably because there isn't really a 'standard' as such so it is to check the fit.

It was heavy, harder to move and 'only' 100 watts, and I know is heresy around these parts to try and infer that a valve watt isn't worth at least 50 transistor watts, but if you want loud, the CTM does it. If you want clean and loud, the ABM does it better, and if you want any kind of control over your tone from the amplifier, the ABM does it a hell of a lot better - the CTM tone control is more like a set of hints to the amplifier than control as such. In fact, the knobs really don't do much, the buttons are the real tone control. Oh and if you play in cramped venues with a single coil pickup, don't stand close to a CTM - it has a lot of transformers

I went the other way from the CTM to the ABM!

Indeed, but it isn't funny

Cuz the mail hasn't yet realised we are still in the European Broadcasting Union!

You mean there isn't a SaxChat? Oh I guess not, it might get mistaken for a tractor site

I think there is probably a bit of fear of winning it (not by the artists obviously) just because it has got so grand and presumably expensive these days, its moved on from a hall in morcome with a cardboard scoreboard to something that I think is probably watched more by lighting and set designers than anyone else!

Eurovision never had anything to do with the European continent, it is everything to do with the european broadcasting union, who right from the word go included north africa and parts of Asia (in fact included morocco and tunisia before it included germany).

Hmm.. seems this one has been dormant for a while Anyway, Saw tool at the O2. First gig I had been out to for a while (first big gig since the pandemic). Not generally a fan of stadium type places as the sound is often bad and there are too many people. Anyway, tool aren't going to be playing much longer so decided to go down there to London, stay overnight etc. BIt of a crazy journey, left, decided I should take a credit card in case things didn't all take apple pay, got back - keys still hanging out of the door.. oops. Got on the train, wife lost her ticket betweeen the gate and the train. Got to london, went to book into the hotel, seems the booking didn't complete! Anyway, the gig, Sat on the ground part (on the ice as my wife calls it, can tell where she is from!), thought it would be nice as I don't really like standing much at gigs these days, then they came on and everyone stood. Previous band were brass against, only saw the ending of their set but sounded very good. Take back what I said about the sound, it was as near perfect as you can expect it to be in a big place, really clear and not mushy at all, could hear individual strings of the guitar and bass, only really got messy during big heavy double bass drum parts - maybe due to the fact we were parallel with the sound desk! Anyway, great gig, sound and visuals, and even better as it had a well enforced 'no phones or cameras' rule, so even though everyone was standing so visibility was poor, at least you didn't have to contend with a wall of cameras, which is one of the things I really don't like about modern gigs (or frankly, understand), apart from the last song, when the phone rule was removed and million phones went up. I don't think you realise fully how annoying the phone thing is until it isn't there and then finally is on the last song.

I have seen the mission many times and they have always been good, apart from the last time, the mission and fields of the nephilim, and the mission were absolutely terrible, probably because they didn't even look like they were trying. Still, the Nephilim were much better than usual so I guess swings and roundabouts.

I see it, works fine, looks like a good crowd and thus a good night!

No, I think that is the majority.

I don't love the look of the Big Al, but I don't hate it either. It does bug me that the headstock is a stingray headstock rather than one designed to fit with the body (thinking more like the fender performer). The angular body with a roundy headstock just looks like an afterthought. But that sunburst - awful.