Downunderwonder

Privacy laws protect randoms from being snooped on without justification, unless UK is behind the times wrt to digital privacy.

Muscle memory plus ears.

They would only be allowed to give the footage to the cops. Hopefully a vanload of gear passes the threshold of giving a damn to investigate.

I think your Dad never played a note or he would know there's a helluva lot going on with the plucking and muting. Same with bowing strings.

Ime Post was responsible for holding stuff until you paid and they were the ones sending the letter of demand. ''We got your stuff, pay up''. Then when Customs got theirs they would let Post know to let it go. No doubt a carryover from days of yore with stuff being thrown off ships onto docks and nobody can take it away until the duty is paid.

What are the proportions of leftys playing on musical instruments that are 'handed' vs 'one size fits all'? Afaik only guitars and electric bass come lefty. Wind and classical string instruments all come one size fits all. If you are lefty and have your heart set on violin you play it righty. My bro is lefty and jumped into clarinet after a govt sponsord touring demo group visited our primary school. I don't think he had even started recorder at that stage so handedness probably wasn't on his mind, rather the haunting tones of the lady on clarinet. But I wonder if leftys generally gravitate to wind and keys if they don't fancy twang town?

Reading the lower than E notes would stuff me but I could get it out if it wasn't too fast. Moderately fast with fire, maybe not.

Best have all the totally correct visa stamps in the passports then. Back in the day I toured Europe by train. I got a bunch of visas in Greece to get me round the ex communist countries. Half the time I never got a stamp. I forget which train ride it was but one time the guy was intently studying my passport for a disconcerting amount of time before half grunting half exclaiming a one word announcement and handing it back. The passenger opposite translated after he left. ''Perfect''. I think he was sure the hippy looking character was going to be a catch and disappointed to find I was all legal.

That's 6 years and 600 posts to do 1 gig? Must be some sort of record. Better late than never! Often you can get clues from what the guitarist is doing with his chording hand. Some guitarist are really adept at 'walking' into the next chord, from playing without a bassist. If you catch on you can come over as a savant for hitting the next 1 bang on. Often they don't even know they are doing it and will tell you you''re the greatest.

One would think if the festival makes the arrangements and pays the bills you could rightfully go on holiday on their dime. The tricky bit would be going with your instruments. I would think you could use loaners and answer the border agent question of the purpose of visit honestly as ''going to the music festival''.

Turn it all down.

The Bamboo ply material has a high Young's Modulus. That is the resistance to bending relative to the cross section. It gets that from having very densely packed fibres like a hardwood. Intuitively a bamboo cabinet of a given size won't be any lighter than other ply unless it employs superior internal bracing, but it will be harder on the surface.

I got a bass from the US which needed tax paid. NZ Post stuffed up the addressing of the letter of demand so the letter got returned to sender. Much consternation as tracking had stopped at arrival. I'd say since you have tax due for sure there's every likelihood you'll be getting a letter of demand from someone once it hits your shores.

That was my first band in high school. My parents were the convenors. Dad was non musical but the prime mover and had some 'juice' within the school. Mum played piano but not much confidence in Musical Direction. Brass Banding was the big thing in town and they managed to get the school Band Director to come along and give us some directing. She took one look at us and said 'my, that's a motley lot'. Thus was christened 'Motley' thanks to Dad's wicked sense of humour. The BBMD never showed again but we got my bro's teacher's husband, who was another brass band guy, to give us some pointers in the following year. Somehow we made the finals of the national school chamber music comp playing jazz and got to play the big house in Wellington all expenses paid. Still my biggest ever indoor gig! Cheers Westpac Banking Corporation.

Ok. I remember seeing one in store when we were on a road trip with the first band to give the Trace rig a proper workout. NZ must have got them toot sweet.

Which ''they'' do you mean? I got my NOS Kaman issued Trace SMX late in 1995. Ashdown was around then I am pretty sure.

I have been known to pinch a couple of chairs from the room if needs be. For stage monitoring my Acme foldaway cardboard creation can't be beaten:

My Ashdown experiences have been all over the place for satisfaction. 1st was a then brand new full stack of those blue speakered cabs. I was in the audience expecting bass thunder. All I got was a muffled mess that sounded like it had a bunch of duvets over it. I got to play on a sound co provided 15'' combo from early 90's. That was the real deal! The rehearsal space more modern combo had the 'subharmonic boost' button left on when I came to it one night. I thought it had been broken until I noticed it was engaged. Quite serviceable. Had a miserable gig with a backline stack that had no oomph. Every other bass amp I had plugged in my Ubass had been fine. I am picking it couldn't handle the piezo direct. Definitely variable qualities in the range. I wish they weren't all ''ABM + etc''.

When I added a 2nd cab to my 250w Trace the master never went above 2. Before that I sometimes had to max it out at 4.

Outdoors the combing you get from insufficiently spread out subs is very noticeable. Some notes are strong and others are weak unless you are in the middle ie equidistant from both.

Studying violin all through highschool stood ne in good stead for taking up playing double bass a quarter century later in a jazz band. I only got in by semi capably 'reading' the score when there where two other bass players there who could not read anything at all and needn't have bothered showing up. Half the time I had no idea what notes I was using but being familiar with the fly excrement conventions meant I could follow along.with something approximating the actual lines.

He said his came away easily with the dried up adhesive not, causing any difficulty. I said ''that's amazeballs" because everyone else has a sticky mess of fur and adhesive to clean off after any and all attacks by physical (grinding, sanding, peeling atttempts), or chemical means.

''Hard'', no. Try ''impossible to wrap head around''. For me, very much worse than trying to hit a golf ball lefty, but that's all I got for an analogue.

I think I would adapt to no pinky in about 5 minutes. I guess it would depend on how ambidextrous you are swinging a bat. If you feel like you would take to it there wouldn't be any harm in trying lefty first. Certainly would be advantageous if it worked out.