Woodinblack

I found communication with him was fairly difficult

Yes, but I see you have seen it is the same up there. TBF, that is the sort of prices things go for now, which is why I doubt I will be seeing anything at the o2 again. and honestly I am ok with that. I saw NiN twice in the same year, once at the O2 and once at Scala, where I was at the front. O2 was twice the price of Scala, Scala was 5 times the enjoyment of the O2. I think any gigs for me now have to be within the range of being able to see them well, and I have poor eyesight. Not that strange, it is the same with me. The best thing that happened to both Peter Gabriel and Genesis was when he went solo, they both got better because of it.

Ooh look at that, you can get tickets where you only need binoculars from only £70, or £187 if you want to be able to see them. I think I will catch it on youtube, the view is better!

I have seen that. I dont' think I would ever stop playing 'something', I would certainly stop performing for other people, but then tbh, that was never really the big drive anyway.

Watching that video sort of says enough for me. Unlike what was trendy, I never disliked Phil Collins, he was an excellent drummer and sang on what are some of my favourite songs. But that was a long time ago. As the gigs are bound to be stupidly expensive, I wouldn't have been going anyway but even if they hadn't been, him being like that would be a waste of time and money. Good luck to him and all, hope they get his issues solved

Indeed. As previously mentioned there is the cost of testing if you don't have health insurance (figures vary), which means large amounts of the population will not be tested when they have it, and also the 'self isolate for 14 days'. There are a very large amount of people in the USA (as here but more so) for whom self isolating isn't an option. People working in catering, care homes, schools, public bodies - any of the 'unvalued' occupations. These people can not afford to be off work due to being ill so they will go in. At least we have a bit of a safety net for a few more here, however much they are trying to strip it down. Still, the work heroes will help spread it.

Mine too and it almost certainly will unless someone else decides it won't, or something materially changes. We haven't missed a gig due to illness (apart from my knee replacement, and then only one) in 3 years, I don't think we will be missing it due to an illness that none of us have. Until something materially changes, I don't really see there is a need for anything to change. TBH - the current advice of stay in, avoid crowds seems like my idea of heaven anyway.

Thats a lot through one speaker, Maybe if you all clubbed together you could get another one too!

To be fair, the spanish flu of 1918 had additional complications, a completely unsanitary breeding ground of the trenches and boats going to it, people travelling everywhere because of the war, more pre-existing conditions in both an unhealthy, not well nourished and slightly blown up population, a complete lack of anti-bacterials to counter the secondary infections, a lack of knowledge of how the disease was spreading for the first half of it, conditions made worse by the beliefs of the day. If it had come a year later, it would have been much less damaging as people wouldn't have been travelling in the same way. Whatever comes of this, you can't really compare it to that one

Agreed, I have two SRs (well, two of my SRs), the 1605 is 8lb, the 5005 is 10lb. They don't feel even slightly similar, even though they are physically the same shape. I don't notice wearing the 1605, the 5005 I am constantly fiddling with to adjust the strap

Luckily I never heard of them to be disappointed but that is really awful. We play does your mother know, but I suspect you don't want to play it like us. I use the Obsydian drive on the helix, with a little bypass on a second channel to retain bass.

Well, that is authentic then!

I liked Steve Hillage back in the day when I was a hippy, but that was a long time ago. But my sister gave me a copy of Trick of the Tail* in 1977, when I was 12, and it literally changed my musical direction from then. * because it was scratched so she bought a new one, and I still sing the jump.

Harmonics will always be correct if the fundamental is correct, their only use in tuning is to compare to the 12th (or 17th) fret. Changing the truss rod will never make (any appreciable) difference to intonation, although if you are going to do it, do it first. It is all about the bridge. Play a harmonic at the 19th fret, then play the note at the 19th fret. if the note is sharper than the harmonic, ie, the note is higher, it means that the string is shorter than it needs to be, so move the bridge end back away from the neck. if it is lower, then the string is longer than it needs to be, so move the bridge end forwards (towards the neck). I don't know how the hofner does it but if it is a floating bridge then you just have to come up with a best compromise.

Our singer is already ready

Balsa? Well, that puts its value up a bit!

I use the 12 step but i just do backing chords rather than low notes.

I think so! To be honest, I needed something I could access the batteries better anyway

Slippery slope...

Yeh, I would have thought that.

Well, looks like I am looking for something new today. The hinge on this had always been a bit loose, which is why it was in a harness thing with a reversed jack to jack, but didn't stop it falling apart mid gig (but luckily, at the end of a song)

After all that though, its still not very... thunderbirdy.. though is it?

Very rare to get active pickups. Most active basses are just passive pickups with a preamp. So all the preamp does is buffer the signal from the passive pickups so it can drive it down the wire. Except once you have a passive preamp, you might as well put tone controls on it as you have the ability to do it, but not essential.

Well, they are marked as 'emg designed passive pickups', so there should be no problem just pulling the preamp out and just wiring it like a gibson.

Maybe your pedal is not the right type? i tried to use my zoom pedal but it didn't work, I assumed it was the wrong sort of pedal