Beedster

Yep, I'm sincerely hoping that my album band is going to do Rattus Norvegicus, and if so, I'm gonna play a Ric Only joking, but what I'd really hope to be able to do is to play the album in a way that the prog-esque technical and structural complexity comes through, as opposed to how I've seen Stranglers songs such as No More Heroes, Peaches etc played by many covers bands which more often than not makes them sound like Sham 69.

My intonation is so poor I'm having a 68" scale built

Yes, the shorter the scale the greater the impact on pitch if the same mms of incorrect finger placement

Looks like a £300 amp to me

This^ Thomann no doubt shift a whole lit more of those than PMT do. The economics of scale dictate price point. Buy it from Thomann

Likewise Sean, I joined Basschat (or whatever it was called then) in around 2005, still can't play the bass but f*** me I've bought some lovely ones here

Should we start the 'I'm Dave Crowley" "No, I'm Dave Crowley" thing

There's an old saying 'No news is good news', although I suspect there are exceptions

Yep

Yep that was a surprising lesson, drummist turns down his electronic kit but it's still just as loud!

That\s business, and in many respects it makes more sense than not supplying and in effect losing more money

None of 'em, every one I sold allowed me to buy, play, and gig something new (or at least, something a bit different). Our guitarist plays different guitars at every rehearsal, I'm sure he can hear the difference......

Oddly having just checked I'm getting emails for some PMs and not for others and it looks systematic, i.e., if I get an email for one message in the thread I seem to get an email for all messages in that thread, but vice versa also

Might be my phone however 👍

The red dot thing I mentioned a while back 👍

I'm often not seeing a red dot with new PMs and realised this morning that unread PMs are no longer highlighted in black in the PM list as I'd missed some, might be something I've done but it seems to be getting worse rather than better?

I've never found hope to be an especially effective strategy

Is there a fix for this PM issue coming any time soon?

I was in a band with a guy like that, middle if gig ‘Slap that bass Mr Bassman’. He got a look of complete indifference as I continued to play pizz as I had the whole gig. I didn’t offer my services again. All joking aside that, you’re not wrong mentioning risk of injury in picking up a new technique, anything from blisters to tendinitis, quite minor unless you’re an upright player 👍

Without wishing to offend anyone, here's my advice re Rockabilly Slap Just don't, or at least, if you do, 20 seconds max per set

Now you've done it @Lozz196, give it a month or so and there'll be hi-mass plectrums on Thomann at £49 each

That is a far more common scenario than most of us would like to admit, and it's not just hi-mass bridges 👍

To return the favour, I enjoyed this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Abba-Real-Story-1970s/dp/0007146396

Thank you Jack, just bought it 🙏