Woodinblack

These hangers were put up (well, 4 of them were) in 2008. The walls here are like powder. I was initially concerned about the middle ones as they are quite long (and the brown bass is heavy, but it has only been there since 2018) but never had any trouble with it. I check every year to see if they have moved at all, they never have. I have another 4 upstairs. One came out when I first put it there as I used the original screws that came with it that were about an inch long and tiny, I put it back with proper screws and all is good.

Mine have to be either on the wall or in stands, and I only have the space for a stand. If a bass (or anything else) is in a case, it will never get taken out. If it isn't going to get taken out of its case, I might as well sell it. Never had a problem with setups, but then I don't really have any 'sensitive' instruments. Obviously it is different if your house isn't safe for instruments due to children or animals!

what's the difference? If you live there you will find out they are much closer to our idea of countries. The GDP of California is ahead of the UK for instance, let alone our individual countries. no, but unlike the US, we have lost a state, they haven't They do, probably like the EU with us in it, a bit more comparable than us alone

Need a 6 x 10 on that 😀

I know a couple of artists that tour Europe, but they are not big name acts and tend to play small venues around (often staying at peoples houses over there). I am pretty sure that neither of them do it for the money.

I assume by most successful union of nations you mean the US? And the Spanish have already said they would welcome Scotland in, as long as there is a valid referendum result permitted under UK law, which meant everything was legit (unlike Catalonia).

I know who my local MP is, he is a parachuted in Tory who has no interest in anything other than brexit. We have conversed with him several times, and have come to realise that he is not one of the bright crayons in the packet* and that what you want doesn't entirely align with his views, he has no interest in helping you or assisting in any way. And in the latest election his majority increased. To be fair, I think he put a lot of effort in. I think he even visited the area once or twice for a photo op. * My wife runs and online shop, she wrote to him because as a direct result (ie, you can measure it) of brexit her shop is doing badly compared to 2016, and asking about aditional help the government can provide to small businesses. He wrote and said the problem she was facing was due to the increase of internet shopping. Well, thanks for reading Marcus.

I was always one for ii, but there are only so many years you can fight for your cause before you realise that it is a complete waste of energy. Madness is trying the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome. Brexit has proved to me that the countries priorities are so far removed from mine, although i) seems negative, it is exactly the same outcome with less effort. I am not too old to make a life anywhere else, so as I can't actually choose my neighbours, the best option is just to fraction further and just have as little to do with them as possible.

Forgot to plug the SY1 into power yesterday, thought it wouldn't be an issue as it had a reasonably new battery in it (like just over a practice). Died on me half way through the last song of the first set 😫 The bass was fading in and out, didn't know what it was. Second half it was plugged in, won't make that mistake again!

Not a fan of steely dan at all, in that some of it I cant stand and the rest leaves me cold but my wife is a big fan of it so I have heard a lot. Its good to play along with some of it, there is good stuff in there to play, even if not to listen to, but then I find quite a bit of music is like that, you can appreciate the brush strokes without actually liking the painting. Had to learn Pretzel Logic for a gig that never happened, and as such I got used to, so I don't mind it. I think that music is better that they did exist as loads of musicians I do like have quoted them as an inspiration.

I would agree entirely on that. I have done a few petitions and all of them have come back with 'thanks for signing the petition, the government have considered it and decided that we are going to do what we want anyway'. Now the government have a huge majority I don't think they even have to pretend that they care about anything outside their agenda any more. I am utterly voiceless too, never more so, and it seems so far non aligned with peoples wishes (in that I don't even understand them), that it seems for the first time in my life, there actually is no point in trying to get involved in anything.

That's one of the iconic ones for me, but like what I meant, there are some iconic parts to it, I wouldn't expect a note for note performance on it, it was always different when played (and Neil Murray said as much on here), but I am always a little disappointed if it doesn't have that two descending scale run under the "fool for your loving" part of the chorus.

Just got back from a gig - first half didn't got that well, so many little issues, culminating in the fact I didn't plug in my SY1, and the battery died and took the bass out with it. On the other hand, the second half was like a completely different gig, it worked really well, and our new song, 'in the end' went down a storm. So came home happy!

We haven't got the right to say who our neighbours are. I wouldn't ahve picked any of my neighbours. where are those figures from?? Exports to the EU are over 40% of our total exports, and when you could countries we have a free trade deal with through the eu it is way over 50%. we do, but that isn't down to one country. There is no individual country we have a trade deficit with. Our EU neighbours get most of our fish, because we sell it to them because we don't eat it. Yay, so everything is more expensive but noone has an advantage. What a bonus. Shame they are the people that we trade with the most. No we aren't. We have already lost more money than we ever paid the EU. I really don't understand peoples ideas of markets. Are we really such a stupid country that we were paying billions in to a market that we weren't getting more out. I am surprised anyone runs a shop here. Because it costs money to rent a shop, and that seems to be the only financial agreement that people understand. I gather you are fantasy land sort of guy!

Yeh - would like to see the hamer. And yes, I have a hammertime tattoo - it is a pigeon.

Of all the things you could be missing, that isn't one of them.

Rush - Power windows. Now probably my favourite rush album, but it was very different when I bought it.

It's hard to sensibly criticise music when you don't like it. There is no way I would listen to 30 seconds of Oasis, so it would be impossible for me to critisise it beyond it being a whiney dirge. If you really don't like something it is hard to say why.

Not necessarily, there is some rap I absolutely love, and some I really can't stand, it is a very wide field

Wow, that was good. Even if you didn't like rap and didn't like his message, how many people do you know who could remember all that? I have trouble with a 3 minute pop song.

We don't have a female singer, but we still do P!nk.

I would agree with that. If you want a fender, buy a fender. If you want a better fender go to a custom fender builder. If you are another company go for something else.

Well, that is good. Good in that I don't necessarily want that, but I would fender kept a range of 'interesting' shapes or ideas going.

Apart from the last one which just meant you didn't do what you set out to do what you wanted to do, I am talking of fret dressing, not refretting a whole neck. Certainly if you want to make the job so complicated you can't possibly do it, there are ways. Clearly I have, i was taught by one as I said right at the top of the thread. I am not sure what job you were discussing, but no, you don't need a bench jig to dress frets or change your string tension. And you end up with a perfectly playable instrument. Well, obviously if you do it a lot you can do it a lot faster, but that still doesn't make it hugely hard if you are going to take your time and be careful. Yep - A gibson dark fire, it was distinctly average. So much so I had to look up to see if a plek machine did what I thought it did. Turns out it did and put in the 'don't pay extra for something that has Plek as a selling point'! And yes, I ended up the first time I did it with a harley benton with amazingly low action. In fact the best frets on any instrument I had. But it still weighed a ton, wish I had taken one of the expensive ones! Well, I have done it many times, and I have no real skill. As I said it takes me a lot longer than half an hour because I have to be careful and check and recheck that I am going to do it well and obviously like pretty well everything in life if you don't take care you can mess it up badly but my success in doing it with my combined lack of skill tells me it really isn't that hard.

We did some spice girls, but it never went down well. We do a fair amount of cheese