Woodinblack

I started watching his indian course, was interesting, haven't got far yet.

We always do stop the cavalry the few gigs near christmas. It sound bad, it has never gone down that well. I have no idea why we do it - well, technically I do, because the singer and guitarist say that everyone loves christmas songs, something I have yet to see proven.

Love the finish on that 805 - better than the flat finishes they used to have. I wish they would do a premium / prestige fan fret.

No, there is no way I would do it. Seems odd they kick you out with no backup before an important gig, sounds like they might be imploding. however, I would really like to go for all of Franks ideas!

Nesh? As in 'unusually susceptible to cold weather?' Not specifically, it wasn't that chilly!

Did that a few weeks ago, due to a lovely Fender Aerodyne. Everyone said it looked great (and it does), but I did mess up a few songs that I hadn't remembered were harder to play.

I find it refreshing. I personally would love to do prog, but never had a chance on that one, so I have played rock and general pop with Ska and a bit of funk most of the time, in my youth I did folk and stuff that was a bit dangerously close to jazz. But I was asked to join a motown / soul sort of group and thought I would as it was something I knew nothing about. It is my second group so not that busy, but it has been hugely entertaining playing along to things I have never really listened to (even though I have been aware of it), and there is a lot in there I would have never noticed before.

I think play it, if you don't love it after a while, sell it.

Technically I didn't fail, I just didn't take part, so: 2 basses, 2 amps (one now sold), 1 cab (but I built that one), 1 Chapman stick, 1 Linnstrument, 1 yamaha reface keyboard, 1 effects pedal, 2 multi-fx, 2 wireless thingies (1 pair), a load of strings, a load of cables. I sold stuff too, but you can see why I didn't take part! I do intend to end up with less stuff at the end of 2020 than the end of 2019, that is my next year goal. Not that I don't intend to get stuff, just not as much and to sell more. And be more decided on what I was getting.

Maybe post your own thread with the model in the title and with the problem described and what you have done so far would give you more responses.

I downloaded them a few times on several different machines, depending on where I was.

Then I buy it. I play it, then it sits in the rack in my music room until I decide to sell it because it is not getting used. Fair enough, we are all different, I feel the OP is closer to what I do though. I can gig a 4 and occasionally do. It just requires a bit more though to rearrange stuff. But then it ends up, I can take a 5 and not think about it, or I can take a 4 and put the effort in. Eventually the 5 wins every time.

Thats a thing for me -I recently bought a fender aerodyne as I always loved that finish. It hangs in my music room and I pick it up to play and I also played it live once, for half a set, but ultimately I know I will never gig it regularly, so it is just home thing, so somehow lesser.

I am the opposite, Although I drift along to 4 strings occasionally I always find myself back on a 5. As you say, it is not really an issue, how many people use all the strings of the bass for every song? So I play a 4 for a while and then I find myself having to travel up and down the neck a lot and wish I had the 5th string. So ultimately, that is where I end up. Not for me because a good bassist can make magic happen on any combination of anything, it really doesn't matter what colour a bass is, weight is flexible, basically any electronics can work. For me, number of strings and spacing (and size of the neck) are the only things that really should matter, I mean even a sunburst bass with a tort pick guard is technically useable. But sadly I am shallow, so that also does really matter to me!

Every so often I see some really nice 4, and I eventually get one as 'I am sure I will play it'. I do for a while, but then ultimately I don't gig it, which means I end up not playing it, and then eventually I get rid of it.

We have no NYE gig this year, as the singer has alternate years off. However, we have had many people ask us, including the place who we did last NYE who tried to book us last december.

Have you checked using someone elses browser that this isn't just actually directed at you personally? <checks> hmm.. 10 in stock unless you know fretmeister. how strange?

Local big company christmas party, mostly call and counter staff (warehousing). Had to set up at 3 and then start at 8:30. Got there, found the place (which wasn't that hard it being haynes motor museum), stage was huge. The organisers could have been more helpful. Easy load in, easy setup. Sound check and everything sounds the clearest we have sounded in ages. Come back at 8, there are a lot of people there, and a lot of young women. Its safe to say it made me feel old enough to know that I would have never let my daughter out dressed like that Anyway, they also have a DJ. Do the first set, a bit of dancing, mostly the older ones, sort of went ok, not the most involved. Maybe need more drinks. Went for a break, came back, the dance floor is heaving to the sounds of loads of homogonised hits of the 70s-00s all with a constant thumping drum track. Almost felt guilty ruining their fun by coming back on, but decide to come back on to abba, as that is one of the bass drum overlaid songs they were listening to. Actually managed to keep the dance floor going with the more modern, dancey stuff, love machine, poker face, funky music, etc, all the way up to nearly the end when we did stop the cavalry which our guitarist and singer have been insisting on (they love christmas songs). Cleared the dance floor. So the last few songs were a bit quiet, then back to the DJ, and back to lines of barely dressed young women dancing to the macarana and such like on the stage while trying to set up. Normally I don't like breaking down while people are in the way, so that, but also, this was actually very distracting!

No fretwork issues here, it I replaced the switch.

Your lucky, my serial number only has 1 digit

Schism. Or Fourty Six and Two

<shudder>

I have used it for over 3 hours, and it was still going, but I tend to just charge it before every practice, and it hasn't failed at any yet

Do you put the VB99 in your pants just to stop it getting scratched?? 😮