TimR

This isn't because people are looking for a bike or a fridge, it's because they think they can sell it for that price. That's how ebay generally works. With Basschat you're trying to match what you have for sale with someone looking for it. You're relying on someone looking to buy something. It's not a buoyant free market with loads of people buying and selling the same thing. It's a tight market where the price is less significant than what's on sale and who exactly wants to buy it. If something has been on sale for 2 years it means the seller isn't that bothered about selling it and/or they have an unrealistic view of what it's worth and/or no one wants to buy it.

It'll look good once you're finished with the filler and a coat of paint.

I think the headliners have to be fairly mass appeal now.

That's eclectic!

Elton John's going down a storm. I'm not keen on EJ songs as I've had to play them in shows and there's far too many chords for my linking. So luckily it's his last gig so he's off my list by default.

So you've been put in charge of booking the next Glastonbury acts. Who would you pick? Not just acts you like, they have to have wide appeal, but obviously you get to pick so will be heavily influenced by your tastes.

We notice the weather changes in our practice room. Always set up the same way. But the biggest factor is soft furnishings. The other week the drummer bought his cases into the room and that massively altered the acoustics. Maybe in hot and humid weather people are wearing less clothes.

I'm not sure. There's two or maybe three sides to the coin. Not a lot of people have spare money, some people have quite a lot of spare money, some people have gear to sell that they think is worth more because new versions are costing more to purchase, others have gear they need to get rid of quick because they have no cash. There's a very complicated supply/demand curve going on. Tag into that, I think there may be a wariness for scammers. I contacted a seller a couple of months ago over an item they've had up for sale for nearly 3 years. It's still for sale, I gave a reasonable offer, no reply, not even - no offers! The latest version isn't a lot more expensive so don't understand. Someone is sitting on an unused bit of gear that's only going to go down in value.

Take one on stage. The other stays in its case.

Always follow the singer. Caveat: if the guitarist starts the wrong song, the rest of the band should immediately recognise which song he has picked from the setlist and go for it. Or at least find the right sheet of music before the singer comes in.

I've also had the support bassist get his lead trapped under the dressing room door and instead of going back and seeing what it was caught on, he just grabbed it with both hands and yanked it. Which freed the cable alright, but left the jack plug in the dressing room. 😆 I begrudgingly lent him one of my spares.

This has happened to me twice. First time it was the E string and I had to restring my bass EAD on the ADG heads during the first verse of the first song. Second time was during a set and I had a spare bass in the pile of cases and boxes.

Yes. Probably badly worded. I mean I don't take her to gigs that she doesn't want to go to. We've been to plenty of gigs together. The other members of the bands I play in bring their other halves to some gigs, but they sit at the back and look bored. I've been playing in bands for 40 years now and she's seen me play enough times now.

I don't get this. I don't take my wife to gigs and she doesn't take me. She doesn't even come to see me play. It's healthy to have different interests.

Very good point. It's a completely different story to thousands of fans not watching Royal Blood.

Yes. Doesn't everyone know that Twitter is just a massive collection of batshit crazy people. In the old days every village had an idiot. Now we have a whole village full of idiots. We call it Twitter.

"Play something we know" 😆

In this era where everyone appears to be suffering with undiagnosed neurodivergence of some nature; I liken these people who appear to be on another planet as the trainspotters version of music spotters. I have a friend who goes to gigs, knows a lot of the artists and musicians names, knows what bands and other artists they've played. Knows what instruments they play and on what tracks on what albums they've played them. Is front row at gigs, often getting priority tickets. He doesn't dance, and doesn't appreciate even people talking around him. I quite like the wedding gigs comment above, a few of them and you soon realise playing for 3 hours to a crowd who have no interest in dancing and are only there to catch up on family gossip reminds you that quite often, you're just providing background music. If one gig in 5 is a massive dance fest, then I'm happy, the problem is if you're only doing one gig a month you'll only get 2 gigs a year like that. 😆 Try playing in a jazz trio in a beer tent at a fete. No one is there because they enjoy jazz, not even the bass player... but at least you get polite clapping between piano solos.

Don't banks offer fraud protection? Mine has signed up to voluntary protection so paying via transfer should be fine. All you do is get their AC details or send them yours. There's not a lot they can do with an AC number and Sort code but if its protected against fraud again you should be fine. If you do a lot of trading it's wise to have a separate bank account to your working bank account to protect your payments for mortgage etc. I thought I also saw a way to pay via credit card that attracts a cash payment charge, not sure if that's protected. Check your CC provider. Ultimately if the banks want you to be using transfer, they need to make it much less risky.

PasswordPassword1! Would take 26tn years to crack according to the list posted previously...

Password1! if you want to make it really strong.

The hacking isn't done by some character in his bedroom. It's done by organisations with server farms, and whole call centres full of staff dedicated to making scam calls and setting up fake Facebook profiles and pages. It's not one man with one computer trying one password after the other to see which one it is.

My friend's daughter can unlock her mum's phone via facial recognition.

Least embarrassing option. Silent tuner pedal. It'll be bad enough with guitars widling endlessly.

Makes sense. Would be good if the account automatically locks you out after 5 wrong attempts either permanently or temporarily. Stops the brute force attempts. Maybe it does...