Richard R

Luke Jackson is supporting Fairport on their current tour (sadly interrupted for a week as they have covid in the tour party). This is the tale of a young Canterbury farmer offering the object of his affection a lift home.

In this case replace the volume knob with an on-off rotary switch though, so it looks the same and is easy to put back. And get an amp that goes up to 1/-.

I'm wondering if we should allow this one. 🤔 It was an altruistic purchase, it's not bass-related and it's not in the signal chain (especially if @lozkerrcan't play it). Do we let him back in?

I thoroughly enjoy this thread. More for the torture of logic and reasoning than anything else 🤣

Welcome aboard! We hope you have a nice time too. 👍

I understand completely what you mean about funerals. I work from home, can flex my time, and live close to the church, so I am first call for sound and livestream duties for mid-week funerals. Too many last year and it does get draining, I certainly couldn't play repeatedly at them. I'm now less burned out than I was. We have stable tech across the board, almost enough trained people to run it, and the band I do FOH sound for wants me to play bass. I can hand FOH duties to the person who first taught me the ropes and actually play regularly. Last week I was actually happy with my playing on 4/5 songs!

Want to confuse your bowels, or possibly sent a cheap guitar through the post? Use these:

Fairport UnPegged were both interesting and superb, as was the support. It would be good to compare notes with @Stub Mandrel who saw the full band last Friday, but I don't want to clutter up this thread. Is there a "concert reviews " thread? If not then I'll start one.

A hat and/or a gilet. I've had cold hands and Reynard's since my teens and get stiff hands or white fingers at the slightest trigger. While gloves and hand warmers work well, I found that by far the best thing is to keep the rest of me warm. If the body is warm then it doesn't pull the circulation from the extremities to try to reduce heat loss.

Good news: Fairport Convention, in about 15 minutes, as I'm in the bar during the interval before their set. BAD NEWS! Before the show the band said that Dave Pegg tested positive for Covid this morning, so is not playing. So they've had to work out a new set of old songs they can play without him.

I see what you mean, it's "nearly but not quite..." Maybe if the body was as-is, but the neck was the colour of the lighter wood on the body and slightly reliced. That would maybe tie it together better?

Following with interest!

Welcome aboard!

Welcome aboard! Pro drummer?

Welcome aboard! Lots of TC users. Rummage around the Amps and Cabs forum and see who you meet.

Welcome aboard! Lots of things you can't learn on TalkBass. Self-deprecating humour and irony being at least two! Cool avatar, do you play from a wheelchair?

Welcome aboard!

Clearly he's too intelligent. As all bassists are 😉

That "rules exist because of breaking them" doesn't actually follow. For example I can build a machine, lets say a spacecraft or submarine, and have a rule that says "Do NOT do X then Y or you will cause an explosion and die horribly ". The rule exists to prevent the behaviour, but was not instituted as a result of someone breaking the rule. It was instituted as a result of a third party understanding the consequences.

Someone traded it for a shinier thread.

Really, really like this! What does it play like?

But is it any good for metal?

Never seen them. I don't consider myself a big folk fan, but I'm looking forward to Tuesday. If only because it's the first live gig in 30 months!