SpondonBassed

What about unseen benefits like more bookings than for the shorter gigs?

Welcome Bob. You will find this useful then. Thank you for reminding me of my two years in boarding school. The place was run by priests and nuns and I could not wait to get away from the place. I hated the day boys because they did not have to live with the religious stuff that we had to endure. Your experience sounds a lot better than mine.

Does it pay?

I think you need more help than Basschat can provide. Heeheehee, if that image was haunting my thoughts I'd apply for a full lobotomy. IT'S FUGLY (I can see it appealing to Jazzers though) Where does Heather leave her smalls for people to look at when she's not in Spain?

The knobs are a success. Elsewhere today, someone said something like; guitars should be fiesta red and basses should be understated. The sentiment still works here. Gold and burl suit this guitar. I'd take it down for a play if it was in a shop. It wouldn't be so attractive on a bass. I wish your client many happy years with this instrument.

All I can say is; holy smoak, what a beaut!

Yes. I remember them for crappy TV adverts mainly. (My one and only senior moment has not actually ended yet.)

There isn't quite enough of that these days I find.

Welcome Alextang.

Welcome Jazzmatazz.

Can't you post that festival clip off of YT? We're all used to amateur movies here. It wasn't great on quality but I enjoyed it anyway. It's a pity that I didn't keep the link. I hope you do get some of your set recorded for promos. If only for posterity, it's worth it.

Four and a half hours? You are a machine. Heeheehee

Hahahaha! That made me smile. My next door neighbours moved to Melbourne. Although I have lived in Derbyshire for a few decades I assumed they meant they'd emigrated to Australia. Not so. They had moved to a small town about twenty miles away! Doh. Melbourne, Derbyshire.

Not many people would realise that the 8 track cartridge uses one only reel to store the tape therein. The tape is spooled out from the centre, around the PB/Rec heads before it returns to the outside of the reel. When new, the tape is loosely wound and it is slippery enough for things to work nicely. Over time and with exposure to hot and cold environments the tape tightens up and playback suffers. I think they're still used by analogue radio stations because they suit short term applications such as jingles and station idents. They've not been seen in car audio systems for a couple of decades The Elcaset was a non-starter even though it was in the high end Hi-Fi outlets that I'd spend a lot of time in during my youth in the seventies; I don't think you will find many TOTP episodes' sound tracks on these. To put this in context; Betamax (a video cassette) lost out to VHS causing lots of folk to regret their investment in the format. Sony later released the mkII of Betamax in a smaller version that rivalled the mini VHS cassettes that became popular in camcorders. Years before, the Elcaset was launched to address shortcomings in the four track Compact Cassette. It was said that the larger Elcaset would give users of reel to reel tape machines an experience closer to what they got from full width tape reels. It bombed Worse than Betamax. Then Compact Discs pulled the rug out from both formats... Now we're talking realistically about using DNA strings for data storage. It's amazing to witness all of that development in my own lifetime. Wow. Just Wow - no flutter.

Good one.

It looks lovely in the photos. I see design nods towards Ibanez, Yamaha and Musicman.

HTH I hear more good things about these guitars than bad things.

You are welcome. Thank you for dropping your images here. It all makes sense now. Excellent project.

If you allow scripts from Akamai Technologies it might. I don't trust third party scripts however. Nowadays, less than ever before. Are you aware that Basschat has a substantial amount (500MB) of storage for member's files now?

Hooray! Sorry Josie, this has become a derailment from your OP. I am happy that Dave has mentioned this however as it has been knocking around the forum for a good while. I take it that you'd settle for any length of gig at this point...?

While we're talking about them, how do Americans eat their scones? Does the cream go on first or the jam jelly? Although this is a link from 2014, the debate goes much further back than that.

Welcome Michael.

If there is a significant market for that length of pub gig in this country, I'd be surprised. I would certainly not rule myself out for a go at it despite that. It's a worthy goal of achievement. Being a hobby bassist is disadvantage enough. My only two gigs were 35 years ago just before I quit to put in some serious effort with my apprenticeship. I returned to bass much later as an alternative to taking up smoking again. My age and general state of decay is a disadvantage to getting match fit without a good six months of graft to make it happen. To put in the effort, I'd need a carrot dangling in front of me. In other words, something guaranteed to make it worth the effort at the end of my fitness training. I don't see a carrot and I am not the beast of burden that some bands require their bassist to be. My hobby will never develop into a job, full stop. I think that there are a few clubs that put on extended live musical presentations but even those don't run four hour sets by one band. I believe it still goes that events of this sort are broken up between several acts. If anyone knows of a British pub or club that does feature a band playing for three hours or more regularly please correct me.

Then there is no chance of you getting your moob out, accidentally like, on national TV. We're spared, thank providence.