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Earl’s A Winger - Richard Digance

The onlyother, non nylon coated, flats I’ve used are La Bella DTFs and the Cobalts are much more roundwound sounding to my ears. I initially bought a set for one of fretless basses to preserve the board and sound in the ball park as roundwounds on other basses. I liked them so much that they are now my go to string, whether fretted or fretless. They don’t have that top end zing of new roundwounds, but very much like old ones, with added benefit in that they take years to go off and, even then, they’re still very useable. With regard to feel, they’re smooth enough, but not overly glassy, finger noise won’t be an issue. They sound great with a pick too, nice and snarly with a bit of drive added.

Chalk Dust; The Umpire Strikes Back - The Brat

I went down this rabbit hole some months back and narrowed it down to 3: the Nordstrand NP4; the DiMarzio DP122 and the EMG GZR. I then listened to numerous examples of these 3 and any one of them would have been excellent. However, I did finally rate them in order of my preference: 1 GZR; 2 DiMarzio; 3 Nordy. Really nowt in it, although the full replacement electronics, with no soldering, swung it for EMG. I then did nothing about it, as I was abstaining from gear purchase at the time .

Playing a gig aggravates my tennis elbow. However, having tissue work from an osteopath and wearing KT tape means it’s slowly getting better.

If there are only a few songs in standard tuning, I’d go Eb tuning and just play those few a semitone up. Conversely, you could X-tender crazy and have 4 fitted! Very Michael Manring.

One piece of gaffa, sorted, free mojo included.

Alison - Elvis C

4 or 5.

Mine had a habit of becoming unscrewed until it finally self destructed, whilst plugged in to something. Managed to remove the tip and pin, but it was not for fixing. TBH I didn’t think it was any better than other leads in terms of tone, a little different, but not better. My favourite leads still remain George L’s, although Mojo cables are good too (I have both).

No argument here, but that’s what I remember him being quoted saying.

To allow the ladies an unobstructed view of ‘the goods’ apparently.

The Jolly Farmers was a fairly regular gig for my old band, until there was a disagreement. 🙄

How is it you were just around the corner from me (I lived in Riddlesdown from 2010-2020) and we never knowingly crossed paths?

You’re not the first person to notice that. It was shared kit and backline for the night and our drummer prefers one rack tom. As it already had a mic on it, he swung it out of the way, rather than take it off.

Maruszczyk Jake hiding in the background there.

It was fitted purely for that gig. It's a clear scratchplate, so I can go with all sorts. My fave normally is straight black, but I'm currently really liking the look of this:

If you have a look on the Last Night's Gig thread, you can get a feel for the size of bass that fits. It's this one https://www.public-peace.de/maruszczyk-instruments-gigbag-medium-short.html

Love that song. Moving away from the scatological: Every Day I Write The Book - Elvis C

A couple of live shots from last night, complete with footwear.

Saw a Blockbustarz poster there 👍.

First on in a 5 band line up, for the A92 scooter club March of the Mods, charity gig at Beat Generator, in Dundee (I hadn’t realised how many proper name bands have played there previously, quite the alumni). Played the same event here a couple of years ago and didn’t enjoy it as our hour set was cut to 50mins before going on and turned out to be about 40mins, due to over running/poor organisation, earlier - utter waste of time. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I approached this return with trepidation. However, we were a replacement band, doing a favour, so we angled for going on first to avoid a repeat of the situation. It’s a nice sized stage and was good for throwing a few shapes, especially as the rest of the band are fairly static, when playing. Proper sound check and we kicked off at 5:30. You’d think that would be playing to staff and walls, but no, plenty of folks in (it was sold out) and our set had them dancing from the get go. In short, it was great, despite the drummer messing up Town Called Malice for the last verse. Home by 8:00! Played my custom, Maruszczyk Elwood L, with gig appropriate scratchplate, through my usual MXR M82 comp, Tech21 VTDI (for grind on the appropriate songs), into the provided Peavey backline, which sounded absolutely fine. Footwear was Adidas Samba-alike, skate shoes (no pics ).

My Maruszczyk Elwood L (J type) has a full size body and 33” scale. The body fits absolutely fine, the head is a bit tight, but fits, pretty good for an SS gigbag. So in answer to your question, yeah, I reckon so.