Paul S

If they were interested they would follow up. if they haven't followed up they either have found someone or are Richards but, either way, to me it speaks volumes about how they would be as a band member. I had a similar thing - responded to a 'bass player wanted for blues/rock band' advert - filled in a lot of personal detail, put in links to various decent quality live clips I was able to dig out (they were even of me, too!). Didn't hear a dicky bird back. Not even to say 'sorry, you are not who we are looking for/clearly delusional/we have already found someone' or whatever. Just count it as a lucky escape.

Gosh, this all went rather well, didn't it.

Never heard it phrased like that before, but it is certainly more relevant for bass players than 'wearing left or right' 😂

Good stuff.🤘

If someone had posted just the music and said this was a lost Alice in Chains recording I don't think many people would query it.

Just had a listen to the rest. Very good indeed. Bass isn't quite so penetrating in the others - did you change much for those? I like the singer's approach - he sounds like the bastard child of Ozzy and Blackie Lawless I've only seen one Sabbath tribute - Snowblind - but you totally smash them out of the park. I'd love to come long and see you but for the 4 hr each way journey. And then I carried on - double bass in a country band! Love it.

🤘 Powerful stuff. Singer is too good for Ozzy mind you..

Joe always looks like he is having such a great time, doesn't he.

That's how I look upon it. I don't have many 'friends' - people with whom I would discuss any aspect of my life, turn to in times of need or be there if they needed someone. I guess other people look at their Facebook account and see that they have hundreds.

Reminds me of a glove display cabinet in Field Bros Gentlemen's Outfitters. Sorry!

It had never occurred to me before just now how camp that looks.

Because one of the total number of the band is yourself. Interesting. For me it seems always to be a very dynamic and fluid situation. My little band 4111. Started off 4030, moved swiftly to 4300 until about 18 months ago but we weathered a storm and came out of it slightly differently to how we entered it. Bon Jovi band started maybe 5031 then swiftly moved to 5040 but I believe edging towards 5400. New blues trio - early days so 3020

It is my pleasure to break Ash's radio silence. He bought my JV Precision in the most straightforward of transactions. He is a lovely fella Enjoy the bass, Ash - so glad it has gone to an appreciative new owner!

Absolutely. Not point setting a precedent. 😁

I'm sure if you ring the box office they can tell you.

There was some talk a while back of using backing soda and superglue to fix a broken nut as the two together make an incredibly hard thing. Parsimonious fellow that I am, I used that tip and adapted it to glue together a pair of Mrs S's spectacles where the little thingumeebob that holds the arm into place had snapped, preventing the little screw from biting into anything. Worked a treat - albeit the arm is now fixed and not able to fold in. No point wasting £1 on another pair!

I missed off my smiley. I'll do it now.

No way. I wasn't allowed a bit of gentle bass laundering, so upgrading on that scale is certainly off limits.

🌵 Found it! never knew there was a cactus emoji, so thank you. I may use it from time to time.

If you look for metric screws for Japanese Fender bridges you'll get a choice of lengths depending upon how low you want the action. I don't know how that translates into the thread diameter but this sort of thing would be fine - I've bought several before in order to prevent shredding my hand on the pokey out bit. saddles screws on eBay

Perhaps like some modern art. Look at a painting by, say, Rothko, and it is, say, an orange square. But Mrs S assures me that because there is a back story to the orange square and that it was painted by Rothko it is art and not just an orange square. Having said that I don't understand scales, modes et al any more than I do modern art.

Bought some stings - good price, dispatched promptly, nice padded envelope. Good comms. Top easy deal!

I routinely sit on my Supercompact during tedious rehearsal bits. I weigh 100kg +/- and a lot of that weight is going to be on the cab. I wouldn't hesitate to stick a 25/30kg head on top. The voice would change quite dramatically if you changed the 110 for a second Compact, you would lose the punchiness and upper definition. My Barefaced 'journey' (!) started with a Compact. I added a Midget a shortish while later and when used together that changed the sound quite a bit - added the tightness that the Compact alone missed. If you like the sound of the 15/10, the Supercompact sounds exactly like Compact plus Midget, btw.