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Could be an interesting exercise in using Eurovision to raise an interesting artist's profile, rather than actually trying to win the thing. Hope the guy does well off the back of it.

Honestly I don't know. But I just had a look a page turner pedal on Amazon and the the description says that 'swipe' is one of the functions, so it looks promising. Perhaps someone who owns one could confirm?

The simplest way would probably be to take pics of the notes with the tablet. They should automatically be put into the tablet's gallery, where you can just swipe through them. If you wanted to store other pics on the tablet you could move the music notes into their own album.

Best gig I ever went to was The Ramones at the Humming Bird Birmingham in around 1993. My one slight regret is that by the time was old enough to see them Dee Dee had left the band. Still both he and the rest of the band were a huge influence on me from the first time I heard them in my early teens & I'm glad I got to see them a couple of years before they finally stopped touring.

I always asummed that that Fodera type single cuts must be all about the ergonomics given that the aesthetics are so divisive.

When Scotts Bas Lesons posted a clip of this on Instagram they got a reply from Dave Hillis, who was apprently one of the sound engineers on the original track, saying there's no acoustic bass on there. I can't 100% vouch that the guy posting as Dave Hillis is who he says he is but he seems to check out.

Regardless of the other equipment used I'd say a big part of the tone on that song and a big chunk of his other work with Alice in Chains comes from brand new, fresh out the packet round wounds recorded before any of the 'zing' wears off.

I gues the people that buy them want a vintage looking Fender but either can't afford one or can't find one in the colour they want. You could probably spend years looking for a genuine pre CBS Precision in Ice Blue for example and never find one for sale and even if you did a really rare custom colour vintage instrument would likely cost well into 5 figures. It's a lot quicker and cheaper to order a replica Having a different logo on the headstock would break the illusion. Wouldn't bother me at all but then I've never really gassed after vintage instruments.

Also Limelight have been doing the Fender decal thing for years, long enough that Fender must be aware of it by now. If it was Gibson I'm sure there would have been a 'cease and desist' years ago but for whatever reason Fender must be OK with it.

Now showing as 'withdrawn'. Good work @Chris26 and those who contacted the auctioneers.

I wonder if it's one of those Limelights with a Fender logo? I can just about imagine a situation where, for whatever reason, the shipping information goes awol and ,after checking the headstock, the undeliverable bass is recorded as a Fender on whatever database they use for such things. When the Limelight is reported missing they check the database and come back saying the only undelivered bass we have is a Fender, Then because no one has reported a Fender bass missing they have no idea where the one they have came from and it ends up at the auction Just a thought. Edit. The final step would be the auction house correctly identifying it but not telling the courrier company, and so the circle of f-ups is complete.

I don't know how these things normally work but , if I've understood the timeline correctly, 30 days from initial postage to turning up in an auction for unclaimed goods seems like a ridiculously short period for a fairly valuable item, especially one that is so unique and easy to identify after it went 'missing' in the first place. I agree it's far more likely to be error that criminal intent, but something has clearly gone very wrong here.

So far Deezer is the only one I'm aware of that's trying it. Nothing I've read over the years about Spotify or it's owner makes me think he cares about much about the content on his platform other than funneling as much money as possible from the music industry into his own pockets. Unless his revenues start dropping off because people are boycotting Spotify in protest over unlabelled AI I can't see them taking any action.

I think you can get too hung up on this sort of thing. If you put stuff up on social media you are going to encounter people who get their kicks from trolling. I see it all the time on the most innocuous clips on Instagram, people obviously just trying to upset other people for the hell of it. What they are after is attention either from the original poster or other commenters, the more negative the better, as far as they are concerned being noticed is a win for them. The best way to deal with it is just to ignore them. Don't give them any indication that you've even seen it. Deny them the attention they are seeking and leave them thinking that they're wasting their time trying to engage with you and they'll move on.

Interesting article on Sky News "Robots listening to robots': How AI music fraudsters are spamming sites and taking cash from real musicians" https://share.google/1KocfxqaVx7QUGx7N Other concerns aside I knew these platforms were being flooded with AI content but the sheer scale of it, apparently 60,000 tracks a day just on Deezer and rapidly snowballing, is an eye opener.