Richard R

https://karinepolwart.bandcamp.com/album/karine-polwarts-scottish-songbook Quite an amazing collection of very unusual covers.

Our first cat was tortoiseshell, so was named Pickle as she looked like a jar of Branston. The next was Jet as she was black. This one was named Pandora by the rescue home, shortened to Panda by us. Trevor (as in Horn) sounds like the perfect name for your cat already. Thinks he owns the place and is in charge, everyone eles will think he's wonderful, but you pay the bills!

I was going to invite Bass Bros, as you can't just pop into their showroom as you can with Bass Direct. I have an idea for a speaker too. Actually I have two ideas, quite different. I think one speaker for 20 mins in enough, or would people like two? There is no separate room.

Eight weeks after a hip op. You'll be a lot more mobile than you expect, the hip will be pain free and completely mobile, but you'll still be in some pain from the surgery healing and the nerves reconnecting. Probably OK for driving, but a whole day of standing talking rubbish may be a bit much. See how it goes - if you can get someone to give you a lift it would be great to see you, but look after yourself first. (My mother had hers done last June and stayed with us for a few weeks afterwards. Medically she could have gone home earlier but was enjoying the company too much )

@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"

I think a complete excemption should be made for any instrument purchases for dependant children who are learning to play. Though I'm tempted to exclude descant recorders and half-size violins. Also @neepheid - do yoy fancy running the 2026 challenge? Give you something to do as a displacement activity from buying and selling basses? 😉

At the risk of adding to the "overthinking this" aspect. 😉 "Expensive" is intangible, and so hard to measure. I therefore recommend the following excellent book: https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/how-to-measure-anything-book-douglas-w-hubbard-9780470539392?

My main bass (a Brawley 5 string) was £450 s/h. I can't justify anything more as the bass is much better than I am, or probably will ever be, and I only play at home or in church. However there is an Ovation Magnum 1 on Reverb at around £2,600 that I really would like to own, but don't need. So to me that's an expensive bass. Those who gig regularly will have different criteria, and it's been interesting reading the views here.

No tapping out rhythm on the arms...

I went to update your status and there's a note says that when you joined this competition on 15th Jan you had already gone out with a T2 fail before you joined, but were "hoping to be good from now on". I think that is exactly the spirit of this thread, well done for lasting this long. 👏