Richard R

@chris_b - you could pledge now and try to be good for the rest of the year. 😉

@peterjam - If the Midlands Bash doesn't work for you, then get along to this one. I'm sure it will be nearly as good

I might. Though I'm hardly a musician I do like both those genres.

Hope the old problem clears up quickly...

I would say that's OK - band funds not your personal gear - but as @Mrbigstuff points out, it has always been a T2 fail. @neepheid is in Aberdeen and Hogmannay falls just before a weekend. When the party's over and he's sobered up he can have final say. 😊

I defer to @neepheid as the man now in charge. PA and stage is a grey area, depending on the band etc, but if you're buying lighting then it won't be grey any longer but beautifully lit up, so I would allow it. Repairs are allowed, so nothing to declare.

It's the closing bracket for the phrase "( stop sniggering @Geek99)"

OK Everyone, I'm going to call it! The winners are: @barkin @prowla @paul_5 @NJE @jimmyb625 @Jono Bolton @Downunderwonder @Maude @TimR The first out awards go to @SumOne and @Quatschmacher, both out on 5th Jan. There are too many interesting purchases to award a winner for that so I won't. Special sneaky award to @Mrbigstuff, who changed his name half way through in order to confuse me. It worked! Over to here now:

Handy hint. After each person's name put a colon (stop sniggering @Geek99) @neepheid: @Richard R: and so on. Then be consistent with the dates they go out as well eg @Richard R: T2-29Feb Grand Piano, T1-18 June Overwater 5 string Fretless This will make it a damn sight easier to sort out the results at the end of next year as you can import the list into Excel and use formulae to extract the names and the failure dates. I thought I had been consistent, but seem to have a mix of spaces and tabs (plus people like me have spaces in their names). So trying to produce an ordered list is taking me ages and I'm due to go out in about 10 minutes. I may give up

I'm in. I'm really hoping I have time to make a headless travel bass with an additional Roland Hex pickup system this year. The design has been in my head for ages, so with a bit of luck I'll go out when I buy the headless bits 😁

Do tell. I shall update the scoreboard later, folks.

Dave Pegg plays mid level Ibanez and loves them.

This has been done several years ago (SE Bash I think). It needs a very, very, consistent player and an agreement on tone settings. (There can be more variation from the tone controls of one instrument than between instruments. ) But yes, it's fun to hear just how good a £125 HB can be, and how really good a £3k ACG is 😁. Most interesting at the end of that video was when those listening then played the basses. They all liked the sound of the $50 bass then they heard it blindfold, but didn't like playing it at all. So for them the cheap bass wasn't worth it. But they weren't keen on the $5k one either.

FB now always seems to ask for a login if you're either on a VPN or a cloud hosted virtual PC. Presumably to "confirm you are a real person, enhance your online experience and harvest your kidneys. Sorry should have said data"