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First rehearsal using it with the band last night. Got some comments when the band mates noticed it wasn't a bass guitar, which took longer than you might have thought 😆 So looks wise it got the thumbs up. I had it on its db setting, the BL said the sound fitted the band really well (Americana). I must be doing something right because my fingers feel fine today - both hands. I'm using predominantly db picking with occasional variations. Because of the 34" scale, it's my usual 1 finger per fret technique. Still loving playing it 🤩

Initially beset by transport issues. Severe delays on the tube, and a traffic accident causing tailbacks meant we lost an hour of rehearsal time. However it was my first rehearsal with my Ibanez UB804, and it was glorious 😁

Boss PW-10. Basically a multi FX in a wah pedal. I'd wanted one since they came out 20 years ago. It's still an amazing piece of kit. But I have no practical use for it whatsoever 😆

Hi all, I'm in your gang now! 😁 I just need a jack to speakon. Any recommendations?

As you say, worst is relative. I bought an FX pedal I have absolutely no practical use for, purely because I really wanted one when they came out 20 years ago. Best. Ibanez UB804, an EUB. My first upright. Loving it! 😍

I do like a sparkly bass 🤩

Find out what happens after the course as well as during it. I don't know what the figures are now, but a couple of years before lockdown some of these music colleges had really low graduate employment rates.

I've recently got an EUB. Fretless, but with fret markers where the fret would be. I feel your pain .

Here you go... https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/drums/jalapeno-pack-away-series-150363

5 minutes‽ Whenever I've played it, it's never lasted less than 10 minutes! 😆

It's not inclusive.

Inclusion. It's a whole new world.

FWB Friends with benefits. CNM Consensual non monogamy. ENM Ethical non monogamy.

Did you just read what I posted, in which case it might seem out of context, or did you also read what I replied to?

Well if that's the name of the game, there's nothing stopping bassists being monogamish, polyamorous, part of a throuple or poly-fidelity, FWBs, or having CNM or ENM, or relationship anarchy, or being Queer Platonic, co-parenting, or chosen family.

I don't listen to disco, but I like playing Bernard's bass lines.

Has the bassist changed? He's a member here.

... because if you are short of material, you can easily make it last 20 minutes with a sing-a-long.

Tell that to Skid Row.

All the other bands sounded fine, it must have been because The Exploited were headlining they were turned up. As it happens, far too much! Ask him about it, I'd be interested if he remembers! 😆

Deep Purple 2006 Milton Keynes Bowl. Ian Gillan was so obviously just going through the motions. The Exploited 1994 F**k Reading Festival, Brixton Academy. Worst sound I've ever heard at a gig. Far too loud, everything just sounded like an horrendously loud thud. Not sure what they were hearing on stage. Lots of jazz gigs when I was at college, where every single song (all instrumental) had the same format, song tune/solo/song tune/solo etc until everyone in the group had a solo 😖

Isn't there a song by Gerry and the Pacemakers that lot seem to like? 😉

In a previous band we used to play a pub which had a private car park which was locked after we loaded in, and was always packed for the band. But there were always fights (which were not limited to the men) and we always had to load out walking over broken glass. We stopped playing there.