Woodinblack

We have had that. But luckily they do it at the interval.

Sorry to hear about your loss.

Ooh - Mine has 10 strings too..

Now they have the 5s my interest has gone up, but I have still yet to see one

On mine too..

Speak for yourself

Been there, done that, took the money - did they keep the big lights on??

Still haven't had the chance to try one eta - Gak have the one I want too, the 1505ms Pacific. But Gak is a long way away!

Be interested to hear how it works in action. I must admit the SY1 cures my need for synth backup when playing, but I am no longer chasing the actual synth driver as I have figured the bass is just not a good instrument for it, and I now have a linnstrument which gives a lot more for the same string layout, if you see what I mean

I got one of the same ones, sounded fantastic, but string spacing turned out to be too big for me, so I passed it on. Was a great sounding bass though.

Looks like a thomman https://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_safecase_80_e_bass_bag.htm

I just have some earpiece plugs that have always done me.

Agreed - my band wont do oasis as I refuse to do it (not for political or ethnic reasons). Its not like we haven't been asked at every gig!

I am not sure what you mean, or that aware of any sectarian irish songs (actually any irish songs at all), so I don't think I am in a position to judge.

I applied, filled in the stuff, hit continue, didn't get so much as an email reply. Will wait and see

I don't think anyone was missing your point, I am just disagreeing with it. it is still political. Literally, it is no longer acceptable behaviour to hang and burn people because of their skin colour in the south of the USA any more (ignoring the other places that it is), but the conditions that give rise to that haven't gone anywhere. in fact if anything they are on the rise.

I would say, in a vein similar to WoTs post about political, i don't think colour matters, I don't think it is relevant the colour or race of the group doing the song, wrong is wrong regardless. I just think it is not something that goes in the set of a adult pop pub group

Very. When viewed from an age when whether black people actually had rights, or were indeed 'as human' as white people was incredibly political. It effectively killed Billie Holiday. The fact that it is not as obvious now as it was then, doesn't change that that much.

That is my issue, Which is the polar opposite of that song. Its not cool and it isn't pop. It is jarring, political and depressing.

I would not have any issues with appropriation, I just cant think what sort of gig it would be appropriate to do it at, and my group wouldn't be the right group to do it with.

Well there is this.. no.. no I am not looking any more

Although not quite the situation here, I have been asked back afterwards after I have failed an audition. My group before last I went to an audition, they got back to me with 'you were fine but this other guy was better for what we were looking for', which is obviously fine, that is the point of an audition, so i replied with ok, thanks, hope it all goes well. I even went to see them after that, and he was clearly better than me. A couple of months later they got back in touch to see if I was interested because he had disappeared - like completely disappeared, he didn't turn up for a gig and they never heard from him again, no falling out or disagreements or anything.

I would too. Sadly this group had difficulty using email, let alone anything else. They split up shortly afterwards and I am still with the band I joined the same month. I have seen a few of them in different groups.

Funny, because yesterday this popped up on my youtube, which is obviously before that: Then there is another one at the end of 1974 with Neil Peart, so you can contrast with the same songs Actually it might be the video of the same audio

Well, not much you can do. I would just reply as short as possible and leave it at that. Who knows what might come in the future. But it does suck. Although on the positive side, at least they told you, I was once asked to join and then contacted later to change their mind because they decided I would be too busy (like how do they know?).