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I've attended far more gigs than I've played, but I've always hated waiting while a band takes ages changing settings. I'm trying to get into the habit of changing anything as quickly as I can and doing it straight after the previous song's finished. I write the settings on the set list as a reminder.

I'll go for Morrissey (with the dogs, if I've got them with me when we meet). We have a few of his songs on the go and listening to them is about as enjoyable as root canal work sans anaesthetic. But they're great fun to play.

At the moment I've got Ellen Foley's new album Fighting Words on repeat. Although her voice isn't as powerful as it was in the Meat Loaf years, the musicality and emotion is as strong as it ever was.

Can I score an eighth of what you're smoking? 😉

I've just started on Thin Lizzy's The Boys Are Back In Town. Singing and playing... this could take some time...

I've just bought his Eden amp and cab. Lovely chap to deal with and the rig was exactly as described and in great nick. Top bloke.

I've just come across a bug in editing posts in Marketplace - when editing a reply, both the original and edited replies appear, with the edit appearing as a reply to the original post. Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to Marketplace and select a thread that was started before the upgrade took place. 2. Reply to the post and save. 3. Edit the post and add text. 4. Save the changes. Expected result: edited post appears at the bottom of the post with the 'edited by' field and reason for editing shown in medium grey. Actual result: the original post stays where it is and the edited post appears as a reply to the original one.

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An apt name, if Wikipedia is anything to go by, and I'm wondering if I've encountered that. My main band has had three rehearsals since things started to ease. We normally use a studio, but these have all been in an auditorium so we can maintain social distancing. Every one of them has been followed by me having a massive attack of the squits. They've been seriously bad - not far short of the time when I had to take three days off work to recover from Colonel Sanders' food poisoning. But the attacks haven't lasted - they've cleared up within a few minutes and I've been absolutely fine within about half an hour. So yes, I can well believe LF sound might have been the cause.

This is mine. It's been tricky squeezing everything into a small flat, which is why the amp is on its side. I suppose I could simplify it a bit, but with the mic into one channel of the JS10 and audio out from the laptop into the other leaves nowhere to plug in the bass. Being able to record straight off Spotify or YouTube and use the speed control and looper is a big help.

Not 100% sure about that - I've been to two Last Nights. The first half has a few popular classics and usually a new work. The silliness is confined to the second half.

Or it might be something to do with redirection. You should end up here: https://en.savefrom.net/20/

That's very strange. All I can think of is that for some reason, the site thinks you're in the US.

Are you using a US-based proxy? I've just grabbed a video off YouTube using it and it worked just fine.

Have you tried downloading the videos and playing them back at a slower speed on your own machine so it's easier to follow the tab? savefrom.net is one site I find very handy for that. Some videos can't be downloaded, but I've found that things like bass covers and isolated tracks usually can.

First thing I do with a tab is write out a stave in Musescore and work from that. Makes it much easier to work out and simplify movements over the neck.

Got two on the go at the moment - The Boys Are Back in Town and Atomic. The octave jumps in Atomic aren't that hard, but the bass solo has rather a lot of dots in a very small space. Going to take a wee while to master that bit, I think.

That's quite true, and certainly in my case there are plenty of other Oasis songs I really like - Roll With It, Don't Look Back In Anger, Shakermaker, Songbird, Little By Little, Cigarettes and Alcohol, Champagne Supernova... it's just Wonderwall that sets my teeth on edge.

God, I hate Caterwaul with a passion. We've thought about adding one or two Oasis songs and I've already made it clear that that horrible noise is off-limits as far as I'm concerned. It's one of only two songs out of the whole spectrum of recorded music that I absolutely loathe and will refuse to play.

Tell Laura I Love Her - Sha Na Na's version. Still like that one much better than the Ray Peterson original and Ricky Valance covers.

This might explain the difficulty I had in getting a WTP600 last year. Ordered it in March, then came lockdown and a year of chivvying by the local dealer who got nowhere with them. Managed to find one on Bass Direct in the end. It's a crying shame. I love the Eden sound.

Similar thing happened to me with Teenage Kicks a while back, fortunately during a rehearsal - my mind went completely blank and I just stood there staring at my bass wondering where to put my fingers. Awkward 😧