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I’m just annoyed by Facebook in general. If there was another way of loosely keeping in touch with the dozen or so people I feel I need to stay on it for, I’d ditch it like a shot.

Overrated: Low B strings Underrated: High C strings

Ha ha, great thread topic - I’ve thought of starting it but might have known someone else would have already. Although not all of them have aged well… Anyway, seeing Mel Blatt on that Celebrity Race Across The World reminds me that as a student I was in a jazz band with a sax player who mentioned that he’d been getting some part time work in a recording studio not far from Maida Vale where I was living at the time, on All Saints Road in fact. ‘Oh’ I said, ‘didn’t that band All Saints name themselves after the road where their first recording studio was?’ ‘I recorded their demo’ he replied.

This thread needs some chromatic harpsichord

I also feel your pain (in my case the proverb being measure twice, order once, cut not at all). I used the metal cutting disc on the Dremel, which was easier than I expected. And don’t ignore Stevie about the eye protection.

I think those websites are out of date.

New Corinne Baile… no honestly, come back: New Corinne Bailey Rae. Try 'Erasure' (track 3) for example. It's not what you were expecting!

dB for a 1 watt input measured at a distance of 1 metre, relative to a level that’s agreed to be the threshold of normal hearing. (dBm is used in measuring low-level electrical signals and is relative to a signal that produces 1 milliwatt into 600 ohms.) Don’t worry, I had to look that up, I didn’t know it all by heart.

First gig with the blues/soul band last night, also my first real gig in about twenty years barring the occasional school fête appearance. Beer garden of a pub as part of Stalybridge’s ‘Bridgefest’. Far from perfect, but we were pretty happy with it for a début! There was a guy sitting at the front during the previous band’s (very competent local music school kids under the name of The Fixations) set who I reckoned was a dead ringer for Marc Riley, but he’d left by the time we played. Probably for the best if it really was him. Also first gig for the homebuilt 1x12, which acquitted itself very well.

Thanks for posting that, it’s a thought-provoking perspective.

The Range have a surprising, er, range of stuff. I guess the clue is in the name. It’s well worth checking out, if you’re in range of one.

I could get there, depending on dates and commitments of course…

Aaaand The Bug Club headlining the tiny but perfectly formed Seek Out festival in Gisburn Forest in Lancashire, successor event to the much loved Cloudspotting. Great fun and Tilly Harris absolutely bosses it on bass. Also good were Mock Tudors (noisy), Bright Light Rooney (sardonic) and Neutrino and Goddess Collective (funky/jazzy). Blimey was it wet packing up this morning though.

Mark Guiliana at Band on the Wall on Tuesday, with Orlando Le Fleming on bass. A superb quartet, everyone filling their role without showboating which is never guaranteed when it’s the drummer’s band. Recommended, if they’re coming your way.

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/480642-unexpected-bassists/

Thanks so much for digging this out! I’d been contemplating building the 6 inch micro cab as a take-on-the-bus-able counterpart to my 1x12, but this looks to hit the sweet spot of oomph versus transportability. I can’t promise when I’ll get to building one but I think I have enough board lying around for it, so it’s only making the time to get started. That and buying a few clamps…

This 8 inch design… would there be any chance at all of sharing it here, do you think? Even if not fully written up with woodwork drawings and all that. (flutters eyelashes)

That's very nice.

Sometimes what happens in Palmers Green should have stayed in Palmers Green.

This may be old news to some, but in a rare departure from its usual parade of the annoying and irrelevant, Facebook's suggestion algorithm popped this on to my feed: Jona Lewie doing You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties on TV in 1980 featuring a very fresh-faced Kirsty MacColl on Precision and BV's. For some reason the fact she's using the came-in-the-box Fender strap is especially charming 😊 (Note for younger or overseas listeners: Jona Lewie is known for releasing two songs 43 years ago, one was quite good, this is the other one.)

Is it the amp or the speaker that’s packed up? If nothing else, it should be possible to do something with whichever bit still works - for example take out a dead amp unit and use the speaker with another amp head.

Can I be first in with the ‘I have a digital bass… I play it with my fingers’ gag? But yes, I remember seeing someone with a MIDI-capable bass thirty years ago. Can’t remember what make it was but I think it was an early model this guy was helping the manufacturer to develop. It had each fret split into a different section for each string in order to detect by electrical contact which notes were being fretted.

I think that head has been in the classifieds for as long as I have been on this site, delighted to see it’s finally found its home!

I can’t slap for toffee, but Scott’s Bass Lessons are offering a ‘Slap Bass Accelerator’ course at the moment with a 30-day money back offer if you don’t like it, in case that’s of interest.