Woodinblack

I really like that pickguard!

Not a bad idea!

Me too!

No tattoo emoji 😮 Don't have pictures here. I also forgot my bee, which I shouldn't, as I got an award for that one

Not on a school night, no. Not sure I would have been that tempted on a weekend TBH, I hate faffy gigs, but I would have less of an argument for it (and we don't use deps).

Probably not to someone as clueless as this in the first place

I guess it depends where you work! But if someone had said it to me, I wouldn't have been offended, I would have just wondered what they were talking about!

Maybe explains it then. My wife hadn't heard it either

Dealing with the groupies is the singers job. Dealing with the drunks is the singers job. Hes the front man, we are just the eye candy.

THanks. I think so, esp when it gets the black speaker, tweeter and black grid.

We have that problem, but to be fair, he is the singer, so we just let him get away with it. I often get that -- i have IEMs, I really can't here, and odds on I don't care. And TBH, even without IEMs my hearing isn't great for drunk audience members in the middle of a song. But the worst thing, in this little bar, this woman who had insisted on standing right to the side of me where I had been having to lean backwards to not hit her with the bass (and failed to avoid her a couple of times), she had wandered off, then came back later and yelled something in the middle a song I was both singing and playing bass to, so I ignored her, then she tried again in the instrumental part, so I yelled I couldn't hear her as I had earphones in, so she went behind me and pulled my earphone out of my ear to tell me that the woman the other side of the bar had been nasty to her. I am sure it wasn't anywhere near as nasty as I got at that. I have never heard that expression before in my life, if someone said that to me I would just be looking at them blankly wondering what they meant!

On friday I played at our normal every month end pub. It was blowing a gale and p'ing down, so wasn't expecting many people so was quite surprised that quite a few people were there. My sound sounded great out front but I couldn't get any level in my earphones. Took me 3 songs to work out I had turned the volume down on the bass. Still wasn't a great sound to me, seemed lifeless. Guess I need new strings. Also forgot the intro of one of the songs, but everyone else forgot something too, so not so bad - the guitarist forgot how to play sex on fire (which I would call a good thing). Then just after the half time my bass died completely, After a quite look around seemed like the batteries had gone flat in the smoothhound, the ones I thought before the gig 'oh better change the batteries' and completely forgot. After the gig everyone was saying how great it was. You can really never tell.

Mine is too - its a '78 No headstock repair on mine though. I don't play guitar much these days, but when I was 14/15, I really wanted a les paul 'the paul' that was in telecoms, but my dad wouldn't lend me the money (which annoyed me at the time but he was totally right). Was sitting at a multi band birthday party with the guitarist and the guitarist in the band playing was playing a 'the paul' reissue, and he said 'oh I have one of the originals of those' and I mentioned how I wanted one as a kid, turned out he wanted to sell it, and didn't want much for it. Thats why I have one. Irony being I paid 30 quid more for it than it was priced at in 79/80.

That must itch like a b'start

Hate it when that happens.

True, but you aren't taking your kitchen table to different dodgy pubs!

None of mine are bass related, just farmyard animals. Cow, duck, pig (flying), sheep (howling), goat (spellcasting), pink torpedo x 2, rat - organic and mechanical, badger, buunylope, songbirds, pidgeon, magpie, Grackle, unicorn (beheaded) , cockroach, garlic boy and pirate girl. Ok, I admit the last two aren't so farmyard. -- edit haha - not pink torpedo, male chicken!

Well, got a bit of paint on, first coat, it looks a bit more like a cab now. That Tuff Cab is weird stuff isn't it?! I decided to get some M6 tee nuts and put them on the outside of the cab as there are a few places we play that have old tile or concrete floors that are uneven, and the cabs I have at the moment wobble like mad. If I have them on the outside, I can put a bolt through the foot, a nut on the otherside and screw them into the cab, so I can unscrew them to level it. Anything sound wrong with that as an idea?

Well, the HX effects is different. CC128 has these values: 0-63: Guilt; 64-127: Regret The HX Effects hardware calls your family and informs them of every single poor life decision you've ever made

I am 5'8" but to be fair, I never stand at the back!

Always worry about that, when someone books us for a wedding or a party having seen us in a pub, but so far, they have all gone down really well. I suspect its because our stuff is so varied, if you hate one thing, something else is going to come along completely different in a minute.

Well, I guess it really depends who!

If money was no object, I would have something subtle and understated, like this: https://ritter-instruments.com/item_info.php?i=839 Luckily for the local dog and duck, money is an object so noone is going to see that playing mustang sally any time soon...

I tend to have less interest in haggling these days, probably because I don't need the money. I have an epiphone Thunderbird for sale (the neck through), and no interest in that. I could reduce the price but then every time I think of that I play it and think that I really don't care if it sells or not!

Epiphone make several Thunderbirds, from the bolt on one like you have to the classics and vintages. The bolt on one is the budget version. I don't think the tokai thunderbirds are still made but second hand they go for about the same money as the neck through thunderbirds, which is quite a bit more than the bolt on epiphone. So he is suggesting you have taken a tokai thunderbird and reduced its value by pretending it is an epiphone? That doesn't seem like a thing that anyone would do!