Dankology

We're in Rawtenstall at one of our favourite little venues a week on Saturday - do pop in if you're nearby. https://www.youtube.com/@deadtenant5574 https://deadtenantmusic.bandcamp.com/

Not having any issues today - including on threads that had been basically unreadable. Odd.

Yep, I've noticed it on at least one other forum this week. I've just logged here in using Firefox for the first time and all seems OK. Dreading exporting all my logins/passwords across though.

Massive Beatles fan here - without the slightest interest in seeing a tribute act. But my nine year old daughter has developed a bit of a thing for them and has asked if there is somewhere you can go to see people playing their songs... So I've got to do it. But if I'm going to go to a tribute show I want to be left awed - I know these songs inside out so I want to see the weird Hey Jude chord shapes, I want the dual guitars spot on in And Your Bird, I want every vocal doubletracking error slavishly recreated and I want every last second of Revolution 9 recreated in all its hideous glory. Failing that, something that touches on all eras and is musically competent with a couple of era-specific costume changes will do. So, what's the Basschat real-world experience - who should I book tickets for? Bear in mind that this poor child has only ever seen her dad's bands play so this could be a crucial formative experience...

I'm using Chrome too. I don't really want to change browser just for one site... Apologies for any formatting errors - having to reply essentially blind

Just bumping this as it is still happening and actually seems to be getting worse.

Fishman have just replied, offering to send some of the washers if I cover the postage 😀 I'm hoping they have a European service centre as USA>UK postage costs look insane nowadays... Plan B is the aforementioned O-ring held in place with some sticky stuff provided by my model-railway enthusiast father-in-law.

I recently picked up a Fishman Rare Earth Blend pickup for my acoustic guitar on Ebay at a particularly good price. Of course, it was too good to be true as I quickly found that the mic signal was significantly distorted. The seller immediately agreed a refund (seems to be a non-musical bulk seller and the refund was approved automatically) but I did some further experimenting and found that the issue is due to the mic capsule being loose in its housing. Looking at photos online it seems that a retaining washer is missing (see photo below for an example of how it should look) and the housing itself has internal threads in which said washer should fit. I'm now tempted to hang on to it and try to get it fixed. I'm waiting for a reply from Fishman but I know I can expect anything on the spectrum of no reply all the way through to a free replacement part being sent through the post. Which is not a comment on their customer service btw - I have no experience of them whatsoever. So what does the Basschat hive mind think? I've still got a week or so to return the pickup: wait for a reply? Try and find a suitable replacement at the hardware shop? A blob of superglue and risk ruining it? Or does someone have a knackered one they'd like to part out?

...on my Android device. Just on basschat, just on my phone and not improved by resetting or even giving in to a much delayed Android update. As I scroll through any forum (but not the main pages) the text sort of accumulates rather than scrolling off screen and starts to flicker and flash. Worse if there are photos or videos. It makes the site essentially inaccessible on my phone. Any thoughts?

I'm sort of glad someone else has brought this up as I've been wondering about this for a while and didn't want to be the one that got blamed for revisting an old chestnut... I've got a Boss GT10B (in fact perhaps it is the one previously owned by uk_lefty - I certainly bought it through Basschat) and it is amazing - every effect I could want, configurable in every conceivable way, including what order the effects are run in and what parameters are controlled by the expression pedal. I suspect I haven't, and will never, scratch the surface of what it can actually do. I sometimes listen to our guitarist and his mixture of boutique and mass-produced pedals and wonder if I could get more from individual FX but then I watch him doing the tap dance or hurriedly squatting down during gigs to change settings, sometimes mid-song, and think "no thanks". I get a similar feeling when I look at the huge number of potential points of failure on a pedal board. I tend to use two basses at a gig: either an active Jazz or a 4003s alongside a Squire VI. Using a multiFX unit I can have all my favourite sounds set and ready for whichever guitar I'm using - and after soundcheck dont need to think again about whether a particular pedal's output will need adjusting again. But then I hear a lovely soupy chorus or solid sounding octave effect and start flicking through the for sale listings here. I suspect I'll ultimately end up running a octave pedal alongside the GT10B: a clumsy and decidedly uncool hybrid but possibly the best of both worlds for me.

Trouble Over Bridgewater is a satisfying one. https://www.discogs.com/master/1338900-Half-Man-Half-Biscuit-Trouble-Over-Bridgwater

I know nothing about bikes but if Harleys are expensive, idiosyncratic, problematic and make you look cool as fcuk then I'd say you're probably spot on.

Apologies for the needlessly positive post - I know I certainly get more enjoyment from the more negative ones. Last night was our third rehearsal after an unusally long Christmas break. I'd sent on two or three demos over recent weeks but we'd never actually got round to trying them out together. I gently pushed them forward after we'd warmed up a little and... my God: my cheesy, chintzy instrumental demos were swiftly transformed into *songs*. I don't know how they do it but our singer/drummer and guitarist just jumped in and there were instantly lyrics, melodies and structure - and it was good Interestingly the structure of one of them immediately changed with what I'd intended as a short outro becoming the verse, the verse the chorus and the middle 8 summarily dismissed. Listening back to the recording now I can't understand what's happening - how we're anticipating each other's moves and I definitely don't know what the bass player is channeling because I'm not sure I can play like that in real life. And after that we jammed our way into what sounds like it could turn into another song. Then we tried an old one and made a complete pig's ear of it. An utterly joyous, affirming and revitalising experience. And before anyone thinks I'm turning into some sort of hippy, I fully realise that whatever was conjured last night was the result of three people who have spent their whole lives playing and listening to music, spent years playing with each other (and listening to each other) and, crucially, being daft enough to just try stuff and not be worried about falling flat on our faces. I thoroughly recommend it. But I really need some tales of unreasonable singers/guitarists/punters to bring me back down to earth now.

I'm now thinking it looks more like Noel Redding - but he presumably did play in Reading at some point and wasn't part of Hendrix's IoW band 😐

Yup, MAH is the one presenter I deliberately avoid - between the music she plays and her odd breathy delivery, there isn't much to love. @Nail Soup - who is it on your shirt? I'd initally assumed it was John Lennon (specs, big nose, surrounded by clouds) but now I'm not so sure. Maybe feed us the original clues...

Aw, it's not so interesting - the whole sorry tale is already recounted here somewhere. Suffice to say: singer, delusions of grandeur, writer's block, entire band sacked 🤪 The joy of unexpectedly being played will never leave me though. I can't complain - the rest of us stuck together and are playing better than ever plus I ended up joining one of my all time favourite bands - sometimes it all works out!

Cool! I won the Iggy Pop one many years ago. My last band was unexpectedly played on Tom Robinson's show - something that led fairly directly to that band imploding. Egos are terrible things.

One of the great joys of my life was finally getting a car with DAB radio and being able to listen to 6 Music while driving. Tempered somewhat by this also introducing the Fun Kids station which inevitably wins out on long journeys. I know things have shifted a little latterly but its initial MO of new stuff, old stuff you might have missed and endless trawling of BBC session/live archives made it my dream station.

I have had a happily small number of bad gigs. Plan B at Manchester Academy 3 - went due to an amazing acoustic rap style thing on a magazine cover CD but the gig sounded very much like a US boyband and the clientele were edgy to say the least. Plus it was the height of summer and the sweat was dripping from the ceiling. The only gig I've ever walked out of. I must have caught him in some weird in-between stage before the fantastic Strickland Banks album (which features some very satisftying bass playing). Dylan at Manchester Arena in about 2003 - seats right at the back, got there late (ie normal gig time), no big screens in use so the band were just tiny dots a quarter of a mile away and the sound was incredibly poor with the snare drum reverberating of the back wall so loudly I initially assumed someone was banging their own drum up there. I later picked up a bootleg recording and the performance itself was magnificent. Evan Dando at the Manchester Ritz a few weeks back - hideously oversold to the point that many people, including us, had no view of the stage whatsoever. Really meant to complain to the venue/promoter about this one - as well as being a crappy experience it was palpably unsafe. I've saw a fair few underwhelming Fall gigs over the years too but they usually ended up entertaining for non-musical reasons.

I truly feel your pain. I don't mind other people paying a "stupid tax" because they haven't done their homework but it does sting when they cost me a bargain. Similar but different: years ago I was bidding on a soundcard - in the final day of the auction a new bidder bid me up to my maximum then spotted that the seller had an identical item for sale and nabbed it for the opening price. This was long enough ago that you saw the full ID of every bidder and winner so I don't think I was shilled. I take an almost forensic approach to buying higher value items on Ebay and it narks me to an unreasonable degree when someone blunders in and skews the whole thing. I do miss the days when Ebay searches didn't account for misspellings too.

The headline set from Glastonbury a couple of years ago is not a bad overview. The radio broadcast was all over the Internet at the time. Happy to upload it somewhere if anyone needs it.

Will I then face the same problem when wanting to use it with a PC though?

The HD is now being recognized after a restart... Although from what I've read, I won't be able to *write* to it (as is NFTS formatted) - although I'm sure I can work around that. The monitor is a Grundig which I've connected to via its HDMI port. I've found that I can get a fullscreen view by plugging into the living room TV - not ideal but might see me through until I can find a proper monitor (which itself seems like a potential minefield in terms of compatibility). 2007, actually 😎 But it's rock solid and in several ways still outperforms the ubiquitous Focusrite desktop interfaces. I guess it'll just have to be for the PC now. Not sure what to buy now though - much Ebaying to come, no doubt.