Staggering on

Maybe not insane but definitely a bit nutty even in a big place like Canada. Of course you have to be somewhat crazy to play DB and owning two of them and an EUB might be verging on insanity, but it is soooo much fun when things are going right. Certainly agree with your last sentence, it just makes you want to play and play and play....😊

The problem was the sound post, it was way too tight and choking the bass. The bridge also had some problems but he did some creative woodworking on one leg and set it up so the adjusters work properly. I had asked him to check the bridge position and he decided to leave it in the same place. Bass plays a lot better both arco and pizz and is louder with a better sound, strings (Spiros) are roughly 5,6,7,8 mm but I may change that a bit, gotta love adjusters. All in all money well spent but a bit tired today after a 9 hour 800km round trip yesterday into the craziness of Toronto's traffic, happy to get back up north where things are much quieter.

Re NuX I use it on my Shen SB 100, my old Czech ply and my Yamaha SLB 200 and it is great. I have used it for home practice, at band rehearsals (jazz and bluegrass) and at gigs going into an amp, the jazz band's Bose or DI into a house system. You can charge the units from a wall plug or from the sturdy case that they are stored in, a handy feature. I must have had them for at least a year now and have had no problems. I don't know all the technical stuff but you can find that easily enough, I do know that the system is simple and sounds good and that it works for me.

Interested in this because I dropped my bass (Shen SB100 ply) off in Toronto for some bridge work and maybe some fingerboard dressing. The luthier thinks that the dull sound is probably due to several problems but will check the sound post first, he thinks it is too tight and won't allow the top to vibrate properly. He was a Shen dealer and was surprised at the dull sound considering that the bass was strung with 2 year old Spiro mittels, I'll report after I get it back next week.

There are many members in this club, including me.🙄

Aha, another Canadian! I am north of you near North Bay and have been enjoying the wonders of this group since 2015. Welcome, I'm sure you will love it here, great people and lots of interesting topics.

Same rule here at any Royal Canadian Legion club, you will be asked to remove your hat.

No, I hadn't heard of him but did a quick search and found some amazing playing by him and his wife. I will look for some more of his music, he is a part of the ukulele wave from the 70's and 80's started by a music teacher in Nova Scotia not the more recent Covid era uke revival. He uses electronics a bit more than I like but there is no doubt about his talent. Thanks for the suggestion, I will have fun chasing down some more of his music.😊

Two gigs yesterday, a noon hour bluegrass trio gig at a restaurant in North Bay where we have played before and then a set in the evening at a bluegrass festival with the full 5 piece band. Both went well and as a trio we are really getting tight on the vocals with traditional sounding three part harmony on a lot of the songs. Long day but a good one, I left home at 10AM returned at 11PM and drove over 300km. We will be playing two more sets at the festival on the weekend, lots of driving but great fun.😊

Clarification: I was playing the DB while standing on the sidewalk, hard to get a good sound playing the sidewalk and the concrete is hard on the fingers.🤣

Correct, we were outside beside the tables they have on their sidewalk patio, the gig next week will be inside the restaurant.

The "bluegrassy" trio did an outdoor busking gig in front of a restaurant at noon today. First time in many years where I have played on a sidewalk, we went acoustic (mandolin, guitar,DB, vocals) except for me on DB who used my Traynor amp to give just a bit more volume. We will be doing another lunch time gig next week and then have a bluegrass festival with the full 5 piece band the following weekend.

The TV show ran from '58 to '61 and as a young teenager I loved it and as a beginner guitar player I also learned the theme but was disappointed about the way it sounded on my first cheap acoustic guitar, I had no idea how they got the sound. It was a very popular show over here and I suspect that the theme had a lot to do with that, instantly identifiable and an ear worm too. Interesting to see that Blake Edwards came up with the idea for the show and wrote many of the scripts, this helps explain the Edwards/Mancini connection for the theme music, The Pink Panther came out in '63. The graphics are indeed cool and the style looks familiar to those of us who were/are Pink Panther fans.😊

Simply Blu Trio, three members of our 5 piece bluegrass band playing at The Block bistro in North Bay Ontario last night. We have played here before and do a mix of standard bluegrass songs and a few others including some Gordon Lightfoot and keep it light and friendly, it's not a show as such just background music for the diners and it went over well with some nice comments afterwards. We had a request for Ian Tyson's Four Strong Winds from a lady celebrating her birthday and although we had never played it together we picked a key and ended up surprising ourselves with a very nice version of it with three part harmony! Smallish crowd but early gig (6-8:30, two sets) and we will be back next week for something new, a lunch time gig. 😊

Absolutely, people watching a band hear with their ears and their eyes. if you are having a bad night suck it up and look like you are having fun, they are paying you to entertain them. (may vary with certain genres of course😊)