skankdelvar

Quite so. Are the worlds of PR and Meeja any more productive, efficient or 'ground-breaking' since a bunch of po-faced puritans took over, insisting that they are 'passionate' about doing things even though 'passion' is about the last thing you'd associate with these bloodless, rule-making bean-counters? No, they are not. My poor niece works for a global PR behemoth and her life (and that of her colleagues) is pretty much as I describe above. When I outlined the 'spare jacket on the back of the chair' ruse to her she reacted as if I'd suggested robbing the poor box, so inculcated is she with the corporate BS. I hold out little hope of bringing her over to the Dark Side just yet. For all their so-called freedom and open-mindedness many young people today are little more than bowing, scraping sararimen which is why I am launching an outreach mentoring project where old industry hands such as myself and @FinnDave teach our shining-faced youth such valuable lessons as how to successfully function in the workplace after a lunch comprising four pints, two bottles of wine, a large brandy and a pork pie.

My dear old love, PR people - like the rest of the meeja - don't go to wine bars these days, even if wine bars existed. Christ, they don't even do Charlie anymore and that used to be a sine qua non, believe me. No, they're all 23 year-olds stuck at their desks from six in the morning till eleven at night, frantically tweeting corporate bollocks in between messaging their little friends and whimpering 'Oh, I'm so depressed, I'm working all the hours that God sends and I haven't got a life and I'll never be able to afford a place of my own because fascist baby-boomers, obvs, do you think Zoe likes me?'. Then they go home and lie awake all night sobbing into their Greta Thunberg pillowcases and cursing mankind for burning the planet. They're all stressed out of their tiny minds so no wonder they're doing weird shít like mocking up fake synths and pedals to annoy some dweeb 'journalist' who shouldn't even be on their radar and even if he was, just pay a couple of guys to break his fingers. If only they'd just relax and go down the pub at lunchtime and slope off early at half-four and throw sickies so they can spend the day in bed with an extensively tattooed hooker they'd be far happier and probably much more efficient.

AFAICS the real mistake Behringer made was leaving themselves open to (wildly overplayed) allegations of anti-semitism. Other than that, I thought it was quite funny. Sure, it's not a good look to have so many pops at the same journo over a short space of time but sometimes people get under other peoples' skin to such an extent that they just lose it. Over time Kirn seems to have said some fairly unpleasant things about Behringer so a degree of pushback was probably inevitable - but Behringer overdid it in some peoples' eyes. Silly spat between an Internet 'influencer' and a gear cloner: who really gives a rat's anyway?

No one ever got rich by being a tree-hugger. Any rich tree-huggers you encounter will have been rich long before they ever started hugging trees. I was explaining this to young Greta the other day. 'There's no money in what you're doing, my little chickadee' I said. 'You need to start out by selling semi-autos to LA gang-bangers and work up to warhead deals with Kazhakstani middle-men. Then you can buy your own ocean-going yacht rather than have to borrow one from salivating libertines like Prince Pierre of Monaco'. Did I detect a momentary flicker of interest in that tiny, grave face? Perhaps she was just thinking about saving the planet from mankind but I'd swear I could see the wheels turning.

And me. Don't forget me. Every night on the Springsteen 1999-2000 tour I unloaded between 40 - 50 tiny glass vials each purportedly containing a dab of Mr Nils Lofgren's ejaculate to excited fans happy to pay me $100 a time for an engaging souvenir / conversation piece. Allowing for expenses, bribes, etc., I was clearing around $3,500 a night which might not sound a lot but netted me nearly half a million dollars over the tour, a handsome sum which grub-staked my first proper weapons deal.

I understand and - in a very personal sense - I value the entirely laudable sentiment which underpins your position. It has nevertheless always been my unbending principle to embrace the philosophy expounded by the late Mr WC Fields: "Never give a sucker an even break".

COMING SOON TOIce Road Truckers: Wales

Same as the distance between his ears. So using the photograph and comparing the distance between Mr Curleigh's ears with the the known dimensions of the J45 he's holding it should be possible to establish the distance between his nipples. No need to thank me.

to you Jeff. Enjoy BC and feel entirely free to tap the membership up about London / UK stuff un-related to bass. It's that sort of a forum

Thank you. It took me ages to colour in.

Ah, but you see, the OP referred in his opening post not to plasterboard but to drywall, a term perhaps uncommon in Hackney but frequently deployed in our former transatlantic colonies including but not limited to the United States of America and possibly Canada. Ergo, one may deduce with a degree of certainty (if not complete certitude) that the OP may not be 'local' and may live in - say - California, where earthquakes are - if not common - of sufficient consequence as to lead one to question the advisability of wall hangers. I present below a map of those places where wall hangers may or may not be deployed with confidence. Tip: Not in the red bits. I'm glad you asked. IMO, command strips would merit consideration whether in areas of seismic hazard or not. Moreover command strips on the rear of the body would obviate the necessity of posting the next question people tend to ask which is 'Will it affect the neck / neck relief if I hang my bass from these hangers I've just put up?'

The other thing to watch out for is earthquakes. If one lives in an area prone to earthquakes one is advised to eschew wall-hangers and keep one's instruments in their cases. Just saying.

Getting the screws in must have hurt. Anyway, when you shower or bathe, do you wrap the Hofner in a plastic bag? Or just give it a good shake afterwards and go stand in the airing cupboard?

Meet Your Maker: #43 - Gibson's James Curleigh Gibson CEO James 'JC' Curleigh: Not even remotely a smarmy gobbin James Curleigh reclines in his very expensive black leather swivel chair. "It's made of the same leather that went into my jacket," grins Curleigh. "It's actually from the very same cow. I've got a certificate to prove it". Curleigh leans forward intently, his flowing, if slightly greasy, locks swinging like a pendulum; the same pendulum, perhaps, that has swung in Gibson's favor after the dark Henry Juskiewicz years when Gibson became a reviled name among guitarists. "It was the cow certificate thing that got me thinking. And then I had one of those ideas for which I'm justifiably famous. Why not identify every tree that arrives at the Gibson plant and note down which guitars it goes into? Then when someone buys a Gibson they can go online and type in the serial number and see which other guitars came from the same tree and who owns them". Curleigh arches an eyebrow: "And here's the killer. Those people with guitars made from the same tree can join together and form discrete, semi-autonomous online communities where they can talk about how amazing their Gibsons are and how it's great that Gibson are protecting their brand's authenticity by hunting down small-scale luthiers and threatening to kill their families unless they sign up to our 'Gibson Friends' deal where they have to make only Gibson copies and we take all their money". But what about the blowback from the 'Play Authentic' video? Curleigh chuckles. "I guess I feel kinda sorry for Mark Agnesi. He took all the heat for that video when it came out but then his boss Cesar (Guelkian) just revealed last month that Mark only made the video because Cesar told him to. So now Mark looks like a stooge and a püssy but, hey, them's the breaks when you work for a prestigious brand like Gibson. Anyhow, who cares? It's just business".

Rick Beato. Not actually bass but still excellent musically-related value. His song breakdowns are fantastic.

It's £244 to work in the UK for a year. No one seems to know how much the EU might charge but it would probably be the same as applies to US and other 'third country' artists. Of course, it's possible that something like this might be sorted out in discussions over the next year or so.

A band coming here for 2 weeks would presumably apply for the shorter, three month Tier 5 (Temporary Worker - Creative and Sporting) Concession I detailed in the post you quoted. But of course, yes, a 10-15 person touring party expecting to make a whacking margin of a whole £200 a gig which applied for a year's visa for the purposes of doing 5 dates over 2 weeks would be out of pocket by a fair bit and serve them right for not doing their homework. Of course, the WAG's you mention wouldn't have to pay for a temporary worker's visa so that would save a few bob.

The cost of £244 per head relates specifically to the 12 month visa. A fiver a week doesn't sound unreasonable to me. However, there's another way round this for the gigging EU musician. For stays of less than three months there's the Tier 5 (Temporary Worker - Creative and Sporting) concession the conditions of which are:

Everybody should get the chance to play through a Marshall full stack at least once in their life. I once lent my (merely) 50w Mk2 and a 2x12 to a friend for him to play around with at home. I set it up for him in his home office, jumpered the channels, turned it up and then he hit a chord. He said 'Woah!' three times then couldn't stop laughing for the sheer pleasure of it.

I recall you had an SG when you were in Kismetik (?) and then flogged it about 12 years ago. I thought it was white but I've probably mis-remembered Anyhow, enjoy the new arrival. It looks lush.

That's nice. You had a white SG at one time, didn't you?

You've just been gifted a 70kg 8x10?

Bthebassman

Agreed. I'm no particular fan of this type of bass but on balance I think it looks quite good.

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