Richard R

That looks the business 👍

You'll have to print your own 😁

Did you get the Beavis and Butthead stickers?

Welcome aboard!

Pop it in the Marketplace section, but say you only want trades?

That could be read that your wife came along with you to carry the bass as it felt peculiar to you. Which would raise a lot of questions...

I'm not a fan of big block MOP inlays, but having those in the same wood as the body looks very smart indeed.

Or maybe a big blanket? Out of interest, who is the insurer?

Welcome aboard! Step away from the marketplace 😅

Welcome aboard!!

Welcome aboard! There is a lot of love for Thumbs here, and as said above, you'll get an idea of value from the marketplace. There are also a lot of old guys who no longer want to play boat anchors and prefer lighter basses. Ask for suggestions in the general thread, and you'll get lots of replies.

Welcome aboard! The other site is very US-centric, which is fair enough as it's a big place. But we're friendlier. 😉

Am I right in thinking "Sweet Home Alabama" was written in response to Neil Young's "Southern Man"?

It was 1974, so of course it looks ridiculous. But it was part of the show and the entertainment, and as long as the audience had a good time that's the main thing. I wouldn't wear it for the worship band on a Sunday mind you! 🤣

Leave the cardboard in the van, then hide it inside the flightcase tomorrow.

This is like Terry and June*, but classier and with PA gear!

Welcome aboard! Nice basses. Stay away from the marketplace, or you'll suddenly have a herd.. 😁

Hope it goes well.

It sounds like you want to grow the scene and are prepared to be more flexible for the long term benefits, whereas the rest of the band all have more of a "this is us" mindset which works in an established scene. Could you maybe thrash out in advance a set of Terms and Conditions that you can all agree to, and then say that if the gig meets these conditions then you will play it?

My kind of congregation!

Here's the story of the last week: We are blessed with a large church which is lively and growing, worship bands who care, and a tech team who know their stuff, test and prepare thoroughly. You know where this is going... 😄 Up on Tuesday to run some tests on livestream & sound, and prep for Maunday Thursday - all good. Maunday Thursday- no sound from the desk main outputs at all, just crackles. 🤔 Fortunately it was a Taize-style service, mainly a capella. 👍 Testing after the service confirmed the final DACs on the desk are dead. (A&H Qu32). ☹️ Up on Good Friday to figure out the work-round. Eveything works! Which means we have an intermittent fault, which is worse.😠 Test everything else in the meantime and thankfully the main DACs fail again! We have a digital stage-box, so we decide to route the LR over the digital link to two outputs there, use the DACs there to covert to analogue then run back to the amps over the old analogue lines. Happy days! 😀 This morning the VDP computer which handles Easy Worship, playing videos and also the baptim- only camera, decides that it will crash as soon as we try to play a video through EW. 🙄 Phone call to another of the team who has EW on his laptop so he brings that over. A few minutes configuring that as a backup, finish just in time for the service and off we go! 20 mins in, first video plays, main PC crashes as expected but flipping to the backup works. Reboot the main PC while that video is on, and we're back in time for the baptisms. 🥳 Today was one of The Best Services Ever! Almost 2 hours, with four baptisms, great testimonies, fantastic singing and superb playing (not me). And no amount of glitches, technical problems, random stuff or gremlins was going to stop it.

I recently read the Sound On Sound review of the Erica Synths Bullfrog. https://bullfrog.ericasynths.lv/ It's a straightforward subtractive synth, but with an educational focus to teach how synthesis work, as well as being capable of some decent sounds. I really want one, but I don't need one. I will go out of next year's challenge - when they start appearing on eBay.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

5/4, with a couple of bars of 3/4! Either way, it's easiest to play if you don't bother counting!