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interesting, I was only thinking today that to break the boredom maybe I should suggest a practice, we have access to a large practice room where we can easily keep 2 metres apart, take our own mics, surely the risk is minimal?

an interesting one that, and one I can live with, the stereo version anyway, the mono version sounds like it's been speeded up, Ringo almost sounds like a Chipmonk 😁 I can see a new thread, name your favourite and least favourite Beatles track and you're only allowed one of each, is that a goer?

but that would leave Eleanor Rigby on my phone 😀

yes I'm with you on Rubber Soul and Revolver is probably my favourite album apart from the single released from it, but as I've said it's probably because I've got fed up with hearing them for that reason And Your Bird Can Sing is my favourite Beatles track

funnily enough I just ordered a bigger memory card, 😊

well I did advise you to look away now 😀

yeah, I like the rocky stuff mainly and I don't think any of the others play on it, could be wrong, some I've just got fed up with hearing them, that's one of them

that's fair enough, I'm not suggesting everybody should agree with me, just interested in other people's opinions on Beatle songs

lol, yes, not one of my favourites but scraped in, it's worth it because Macca messes up the lyric at the end 😁

yes, because I don't like them, now it's been pointed out to me I should have been clearer

whether they too don't like all or some of these tracks, or which other ones, if any, they don't like

I've just been loading the entire Beatles catalogue onto my phone, trouble is I was running out of space so I deleted the songs I don't like, got me thinking, seeing as we're stuck at home maybe fellow basschaters would like to say whether they agree or not. These are the ones I deleted. Till There Was You Yesterday Eleanor Rigby Yellow Submarine Within You Without You When I'm 64 Wild Honey Pie Martha My Dear Piggies Rocky Raccoon Why Don't We Do It In The Road I Will Julie Mother Nature's Son Honey Pie Revolution 9 Maxwell's Silver Hammer The Fool On The Hill Flying Blue Jay Way Your Mother Should know All You Need Is Love You may have noticed a lot off the White Album, I'm with George Martin on this one, it would have made a great single album, not a fan of Macca's tweeness either, I also cut Hey Jude down to 3.45, that ending is way too long

a ex servicemens club near me is actually advertising in FB that the entertainment will carry on as usually this weekend and advertising the acts 😲

we cancelled ours ourselves for this reason, tbh the pubs seemed grateful we'd taken the decision for them, one way to get the pubs shut down by the Government is for them to try and attract punters, I'd imagine keeping a low profile is a better plan.

I'm not signing, it's by no means certain that insurers will pay out even if the Government orders closure, even if the businesses have this type of insurance, if pubs stay open and a few people go for a drink it might just be enough to keep them from going bust and keep a few folk in jobs, if it's ok for kids to go to school it's ok adults to go for a quiet pint, I'm not talking about manic Saturday nights in big cities here but the local, centre of the community, boozer that might never reopen.

We've cancelled all our gigs for the next 2 months, I can't see any sensible pub carrying on with any sort of people attracting entertainment whether it be live music or a pub quiz, if they do the Government will force them to shut like in Ireland. Anyway there won't be many folk out and about anyway

you do have to be careful about that sort of thing, especially if it's close, datewise, and if the venues are in direct competition with each other.

we play the pub with the jar regularly, it's not that bad an idea, one of the moans on here is about 'free' music, and that gets round the problem of charging an admission, it gives the pub a buffer of having to pay out the full fee on bad nights and if it keeps music pubs going (and this pub is a long established one) it has its merits btw, the Landlady is very nice and an in house PA is definitely a bonus

this is true, I love Trace heads but the cabs, as good as they sound are just too bloody heavy in fact @kev b gave me 4 x 10 cab because he didn't want to cart it around and when I got it I knew why, I sold it for £40 and split the money with him, felt a bit of a wimp when the guy who bought it carried it out the front door with one hand 😂

@stewblack,thought they must with those EQ settings, makes sense, you're sort of making them less severe

any preshapes involved?

yes, I was very surprised as well

can't speak for combo's but I tried an Ashdown ABM 500 EVOIII head as back up for my Trace GP12 200 watt head and the Ashdown wasn't a patch on the Trace power wise (and they both weighed the same) and I prefered the Trace sound but that's personnel preference, I will say though, IMO, don't use the preshapes (on either), sucks all the mids out, sounds good on it's own but just doesn't cut through in a band situation

I find Bass on it's own is fairly boring, great in a band, but I play acoustic guitar when I want to just play and sing on my own

may be talking out of my backside but judging by the string and fret wear there must be a fair degree of string/fret interaction which surely must affect the tone.