Owen

I went to look at your blog and enjoyed your nod towards Pete Hurley. I used to love watching him and his Wal on the Welsh language scene a long time ago.

I also love the shape

Shuker Uberhorn.

I just wanted to post so that every time someone answers I can come back and look at the shiny goodness! I have no experience of the East MM pre but extensive experience of other East preamps and they do everything I want them to do.

I am late to the party on this thread, but I used to think that I needeed one bass to rule them all. I had custom soapbar pickups wound each containing 1 J coil and half a P coil. They are placed very close together so eveything is kind of where it should be. I also got John East to do a tweaked version of a Uni Pre to make the magic possible. I then learnt two things. 1. I like the sound two J pickups on full make more than a P pickup. 2. Live with a drummer and a noisy guitarist the difference is negligable. YMMV

I need a recomend for a luthier who is competent to sort out a dodgy piezo bridge on a bass Uke. It also needs earthing. I am happy to put it in a flight case and courier it to wherever. I just want it done right once and for all. Can someone point me in the right direction? I am tired of paying for work which is not right.

Tune everything down a semitone. No worries.

Nice honest piece of wood.

I have a 66J which is very mature. I had a Bravewood P. If I could get on with a P nut I would still own it. It ticked all the same boxes as my J does. All of them.

That cannot have been a great day

For the record I will have "A remark you made" off Heavy Weather, the Hymn "I cannot tell", the Hymn "Mi glywaf dyner lais" (Welsh) and my mate John pumping out "What a friend we have in Jesus" on a steaming Hammond as the outro.

Fair enough I like both, but it would be boring if we all liked the same thing.

Tune! Have you heard the Lisa Fischer version of it?

Thanks That was the info I needed. Like the rest of my cunning GAS plans, it was exciting while it lasted.

I have always fancied messing with the Variax thing. I believe that in theory I could get a Variax guitar and tune the software so that the strings sound like a 5 string bass (or even add a bottom F# for extra juice). If I get hefty low frequency action I could happily live with playing a ........ guitar (snigger). Has anyone actually done this? My GAS life is littered with great ideas which turned out not to work.

When you know, you know. Boss GT10B

Paul responds to me (and I am 5 resprays in to this relationship) in what the vast majority of us would consider "work" hours.

He was playing a fretted Jazz. Nice player.

I saw Nim Sadot play in London with a Boss GT 10B. I am old and opinionated and think I know everything about everything. I had to actually ask him what was going on. It had a really good fretless sound.

Looks like they did! Speaking of Black Sabbath, I’ve always been fascinated by the Born Again tour of 1983, where you played drums. It’s always been described as this psychotically dysfunctional thing where everything just went wrong. Has it all been exaggerated? 
I’m pretty sure it inspired the Spinal Tap thing with Stonehenge. We rehearsed with this Stonehenge and they got all the dimensions wrong. It was the opposite [of Spinal Tap] where instead of being tiny, it was so big it wouldn’t fit on the stage. The first gig we did was, I think, Toronto. It was this massive arena, but we couldn’t fit it in. We had to dump half of it. But I had a lovely time on the tour, and Ian Gillan had a good time. It was the only Black Sabbath either of us ever did, but we still had a ball. We loved it. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/elos-bev-bevan-talks-rock-hall-induction-jeff-lynne-rift-121884/