Happy Jack

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62140092

Pah! Might as well buy a cello! 😉

I sold my old T'n'B to a guy in Croatia. I took out all the valves and wrapped them individually in (newly-washed) old socks before packing the thing up. I'm glad I did. On arrival in Croatia the local Customs guys completely dismantled the whole thing looking for drugs. The buyer wasn't even slightly concerned; he'd been expecting that to happen. He re-assembled the amp, fired it up, and away he went.

What's sad is that The Great Barn is such a gorgeous building. I'd love to play a gig there one day.

The more you gig, the more likely it is that you'll experience cancellations. My main band (Damo & The Dynamites) is playing something like 60 gigs in 2022. So far, we've been cancelled because Poor ticket sales (we were the support) Power cut wiping out Watford and NW London Injury in a motorbike accident Car breakdown Freak heatwave Currenty waiting for a plague of locusts ...

Would that have been enough to have the venue refuse to let him play? 😉

Yes yes yes, but apart from that ...

Bullet dodged. I wonder how many honest musicians he has conned over the years (trans. stolen money from).

@Silvia Bluejay and I have just been talking about this ... were you using speakers on tripods or speakers on sub-woofers (i.e. boxes)? Even in a newly-ploughed field a decent tripod is a very stable thing.

This is indubitably the case. 😉

My preferred solution would be to avoid gigs like that! 😂

In all fairness, Clarky, a Marshall amp is a really vicious, aggressive piece of kit. Now if Wily had taken one of those cute, cuddly little Matamps he'd have been welcomed with open arms. 😂

Very useable video, and sound is way better than the cheap Go-Pro copies, but not nearly as clear as that from a Zoom H4n. Obviously it's an outdoor gig so different rules apply to the sound anyway. I'd post links to some of our recent videos, but (especially for outdoors & festival-style gigs) we've used such a variety of recording equipment that I don't think you'd get much from it. 🙄

That is one handsome instrument, but it does look as if it should be filled with single-malt ...

Incidentally, headstock footage is typically rather seasick-inducing. Assuming you don't stand like a statue while you play, you'll most likely be searching for a few 3-sec and 5-sec shots where the headstock was at least relatively still so the clips can be slotted into fixed-camera footage. That being the case, you do have the option to strap a Q2n to your headstock at sound check or a few minutes before the gig starts, grab 30 seconds of decent footage (while you mime playing) and then remove all the gubbins for the actual gig. Just saying ...

You were robbed ... those knobs aren't original.

I've had two Lulls that were fitted with twin Thunderbird pickups, and they sound absolutely lush. When playing in a 4-piece or larger, my Lull T5 remains my go-to bass. Strung with flats, the bottom end is just enormously rich and room-filling, with no harshness.

Just to cheer you up, here's the rig I use at every rehearsal ...

☹️ Really sorry about that, mate. I feel as deflated as you must. FWIW incidentally, that Citronic unit is another Chinese clone of a type I tried a few years back. It blew up. 😱

What I was looking for was a Chowersoft, i.e. a Chinese clone of the Powersoft Digam. If you can swallow the price, these units are the only more-or-less guaranteed solution to the problem you describe. https://www.powersoft.com/en/products/touring-amps/m-series/m14d https://www.powersoft.com/en/products/touring-amps/m-series/m30d https://www.powersoft.com/en/products/touring-amps/m-series/m50q Powersoft units (and occasionally their clones by Martin Audio) come up quite frequently on eBay.

OK, that's disappointing. After a couple of blow-ups with cheap-as-chips Chinese power amps, I finally found one that seems to work really well - so much so that I've recommended it to others. Guess which one it was? 🙄 Beginning to think it's sheer luck of the draw, depending on which oppressed-minority orphan working for slave wages actually assembled the unit that gets delivered to you.

Which 4-channel Chinese power amp did you buy? Link?