Baloney Balderdash

Do they just mime to the album versions of the songs though, or have these songs by any chance been pre-re-recorded live specifically for the tour, or at least are special more live like re-mixes of the album versions?

The reverse delay on the Zoom B1on, B1Xon, MS-60B and MS-70CDR is indeed pretty damn amazing. Especially if you throw some subtle spring reverb in front of it, which these units would be capable of as well. And the two latter would tick the box of being compact too.

That's quite the pair of buttocks.

Ha, Ha, conservatoire students! LOL... Wait... What?... Uhm....

Pop music is and has always been more entertainment than an art form. No big surprise, really. To rewrite a common mantra here on Bass Chat slightly: "No one in the audience can tell the difference or care, so why should you?". They are primarily there to be entertained, not to listen to music in specific, or at least that is secondary to them.

Teenage Lightning - Coil

There also seems to be a tweeter horn unit, that will have to be counted into the equation also.

That intonation...

I once said "Hey Lou!" and waved to Lou Barlow outside of the venue where Sebadoh was playing as he was walking by, and he greeted back with a "Hey!", a wave and a smile. I also had a poem of mine printed in an anthology otherwise filled with poems from famous Danish poets. And I featured on a cover of a Mount Eerie (Phil Elverum) song on a record that also featured a Mount Eerie cover of a song I helped compose. I also once had dinner with the sadly deceased famous Norwegian singer-songwriter St. Thomas (Thomas Hansen) and his band. Edit!!!: Oh, and I completely forgot, I once had a song I co-wrote, sang backing vocals, and played lead guitar and bass on, added to the Danish national radio (DR) P3 channel's playlist (and obvious played ever so often for a while).

Squier Sonic what bass? A P? In any case, good luck.

I am sure he still got specific spec preference in instruments, even if it might be true that he is feeling them, rather than knowing specifically what they are, as you wrote yourself: Also there's a reason he fell in love with that bass specifically, which I am quite sure was playability rather than looks and tone, since he had both the looks and the pickups changed on his signature version.

I use the guitar version of this for my short scale bass. Not less than amazing value for the price. 30mm high density industrial padding. And yes, one handle, and comfortable back straps that can be sipped into hiding. Big pockets for storing additional equipment too.

Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground

Tonight, Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins

I need this!

I meant with your fingers, does it buzz even worse when you touch any of the pole pieces with your fingers?

Fair point.

Yes, taking the story presented by OP for face value it does seem like an awfully short notice to both catch up on the set list and travel to the location of the show, and frankly a bit of a shitty move.

Exactly!

Yamaha needs to put a short scale bass into production. And I think it's a bit odd that they haven't got any current production short scale offerings with how popular short scales have become in recent years, nearly every other big guitar manufacture having at least one option for this in their current lineup.

I guess to each their own. I personally couldn't play in such a band.

Why don't you ask whoever is responsible for booking gigs? Don't you communicate internally in the band?

Does the buzz get much worse when touching any of the pole pieces of the split coil pickup (check both sides)?

Old label mates, Monoton, covering a song by other label mates and friends of mine's band The Violet Hour, the latter being a folk rock band:

Source for all these claims? And yes, I have survived from a shock from a wall outlet, 220V here in Denmark, several times, didn't even have to visit the doctor, and it didn't give me burns either, and yes, people have actually survived being struck by lightning. And how would I and they unless the electricity traveled though their body? Also we are still discussing whether putting a 9V battery on your tongue would fry your brain and kill you, which all this were arguments against. No one but you is talking about putting electrodes directly to your heart and shocking it directly with hundreds of Volts. How many Volts again is it those heart starters, defibrillator, put out, by the way (try look it up in Google)?