Downunderwonder

I accidentally blew up most of the gig as small stage and 410 in a small pub is wont to do. I wandered out front with my long lead and shocked how loud I was in the mix.

Yeah, I just about busted my boiler shifting a 410 from the drummer's car when I depped. Saved by a young passer by who saw my struggles.

A kick drum mic delivering the aggro. Wow.

Would have to be a permanent anorak wearer to spot what neck is on your bass from the front row. Don't expect them to number 1 at at your shows. Play your lines by finger memory and rock out soaking it all in. Good times.

The quintessential modern day Hippie. I'll make my own way, ta.

The shareholders are a good mix though.

That's understandable, but not the three tuning pegs aka shiny things at the end of the long lined thing one of the wriggly things attached to the top of the centre blob thing rests on.

Can you explain how it comes up with so many three banger Fenders?

There is a problem to say "Brexit shagged it" without the detail. That's political. If you say, "since the UK became an independent tax regime there is now a lot more paperwork for me to get a simple job done", that's your truth and nobody is going to have a problem with it.

@Steve Browning might like to enlighten us what bureaucratic hoops a UK shop would need to jump through to do a one off export sale.

If France is like NZ there would be VAT to pay on the shipping fee paid even with it attracting VAT already.

Just a guess, but if they are all so sorted with tracks it may be that they have the facility to record your efforts at your jams. Maybe you compare well and they nix the bass track after you get up to speed. It would have to be very well paid for me to put all the work in and still be expected to mime it.

If VAT is 20% then it is 1/6th of the sake price.

You are saying the exact same thing! The sales tax is collected along the production path but not compounded. Each stage only pays in the tax on the increase in value from when they brought it into their books. That way at the end when it is consumed the purchaser is paying the whole amount of sales tax due to all the added value. The last link in the production pays on his share to add to what the government got from previous links. The sum being what the consumer paid.

"Get on up, get on up, like a...".... or not. Put me in the neurodiverse group.