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No, there wouldn’t!

That B sounds really solid. It goes to show that there’s more to a good B string than just extended scale length.

I Feel Lucky - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Ooh, a zombie thread, love it. 🧟‍♂️ Two bass players on one song? John Mayer’s I Don’t Trust Myself has Pino and Willie Weeks on the album version and there’s Pino and De La on a live version.

Power supply seems to be a commonly reported point of failure, especially if knocked (all PCB mounted IIRC). I had an LM2 paired with a 4ohm Schroeder cab, great sound, really loud. Did it break during my ownership? Yes, but it was under warranty. Was it the power supply? Yes again.

But, it’s the internet and, therefore, I must argue with that. If it wasn’t for, “IS!” “ISN’T!” there’d be no Internet social media and society as we know it would collapse.

Didn’t we also have a version of that here? Pretty sure darts were involved too, but maybe that’s the result of cheese driven slumber.

Something that I found annoying was Graham Norton (who I don’t mind as a presenter of other shows) reading out people’s messages when they were recapping the performances with the voting numbers. I don’t give an aerial copulation about Millie & Jake watching in Cleethorpes wanting to say, “Hi, go, Sam!” (other names and locations are available). All that said, I quite liked last year’s winners’ sub-RHCP offering quite pleasing (why do they bother having amps switched on for an obviously mimed performance?) and nice to see a Dano Longhorn getting some airtime. Although, why cover up the logos on the amps, but not the guitar & bass?

Airport - The Motors

I walked into the room after the last act had finished and the filler section started (when did the great unwashed get voting rights BTW? 15p per vote, kerching!). Man alive, what an awful crock of 💩! I wonder if the rest of Italian TV is like that all the time?

Given that something like a floating trem, Strat has very limited contact with the rest of the of the instrument, that’s a question that needs consideration .

I used to play a GWB35 in a band that covered a lot of genres. That bass was more than up up to the task, so I vote for your Ibanez. It has the extra string and is probably lighter than the Jazz Bass too, so easier to wear for an entire gig.

Crawling From The Wreckage - Dave Edmunds

Knead You Tonight - INXS

Doctor Feelgood - The Crüe

Weather with You - Same Bunch

I could chime in here, as I have in the past, and talk about mechanical to electrical transduction, blah blah blah, but I really can’t bothered again. No one really moves from their entrenched positions. The only thing I will say is that manufacturers and retailers are in the business of making money, so we should certainly regard what they have to say with a modicum of scepticism and trust to our experience. FWIW the video in the OP would certainly persuade me to buy a Seymour Duncan pickup for a cheaper instrument that I was comfortable with (I have in fact done this, just not with an SD).

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks

Back on the Chaingang - The Pretenders

Lavender - Marillion

In Bloom - Nirvana

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations

Yeah, measures the same as my Delano MM.

For The Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica

Hanging on the Telephone - Blondie