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They publicise it so they must think it’s worth doing.

If they do take them in to the US for QC declared as temporary import for export only, as long as no work is done which would increase value, then there should be no US applied import taxes. That’s how it works in the UK anyway, I don’t imagine it would be any different over there as it would just be a waste of money.

Back in the dark ages we had to continually stop and start records in order to get lyrics. I had a singer who would just listen once or twice and then sing what he thought he heard and swear blind it was correct. His versions of Me and Bobby McGee and Gentle on My Mind, which I have recordings of, are a wonderful comedy of errors.

Purchased an HX Stomp from maidens97 and I’m very happy with it. Excellent communication and swift despatch.

They’ve given themselves the best part of a year to practice.

Pub gigs in the 90’s and setting up was always accompanied by Oasis whining away on the jukebox. Some of their tunes are quite nice, performed by other people.

Ah monthly limit, yes, I had forgotten about that. To be honest it will be very difficult to to do any kind of bulk email from a personal ISP account. I regularly had clients who used BT Internet complain about their email accounts not working when BT’s IP addresses were all over the black lists because of spammers using their systems.

Many if not all ISP’s will restrict the number of emails that can be sent from a single account in one sending. Often none of the emails will be sent if you go over the limit. For obvious anti spammer reasons. And that will also apply to whoever you use for emails from a hosted domain name. To get around that some of my clients used Mailchimp in the past, but that is not cheap. And most of the options I see these days are similarly priced. The way round this is find out what the maximum is for your ISP and split the sendings to just under that number over several days. Not ideal but free. I’m not in the industry any more and some things and options may have changed.

BBC4 tonight. Possibly a repeat but a profile of Mayall entitled 40 years of the blues. edit. 21.50 tonight

Probably because I have nothing else to do at the moment, this made me look up The Sir Douglas Quintet wiki page which contains a link to The Oh So Good Band. US based and possibly defunct anyway but a pretty good band name.

Very soon after I started playing bass, still in school, I joined a rock ‘n roll band called Porridge and the Hubcaps. Well why not? We got a good few gigs before we lost one of the hubcaps.

I’ll ask the wife if she can hear it, she has bat ears.

Having seen this thread brought back from slumber I brought mine out of the cupboard and put it through it’s paces. The enhance knob does make a difference but I keep it off. I had forgotten how good this pedal is, and it’s very quiet, no hiss. I never used it with a Stingray before but it sounds pretty good. I’ll keep it on the board in place of the Ampeg OptoComp, which I really like, for the next gig and see how it goes.

GAK in Brighton https://www.gak.co.uk/en/sell-your-gear. Great shop with friendly helpful staff.

All the bands I’ve ever been in, no one person actually owned it or the name. I owned the domain names of one of the more recent bands. When I left I kept renewing them until fairly recently. The band carried on until it naturally dissolved. The website had long gone by then.

I came here to suggest The New Funky Slightly Jazzy Blues Band, but I like yours better 🙂

Reading this thread makes me ask, is it even worth the effort putting stuff on a streaming platform? And how do the returns compare to selling cd’s at gigs? The last time I was involved in that we made a significant profit off 2 albums and generated a lot of gigs.

Bloody hell that’s quite frightening. Is there someone out of camera sacrificing a goat or two?

Excellent show and a full house to boot.

I shall be in Bexhill on Sea this evening watching Curtis Stigers at the Del La Warr Pavilion. Part of the Rye Jazz and Blues Festival.

I bought a set of LaBella DTB 760FS a short while ago, not from Amazon but a well known music retailer, because I admit they were the cheapest I could find, and put them on my Stingray. I wasn’t really happy from the start but I carried, on thinking they would bed in. But D and G strings just sounded thin and the overall feel of the strings wasn’t what I’m familiar with as a long term user. The packing looked kosher to me. But today I took them off and put on a used set of TI Jazz flats that were on the bass before. Instantly better. So not just Amazon methinks.

Ah I’ve seen this before. I had no idea it was you, but why should I 🙂

You are correct, it is not something I was aware of. I am always happy to be corrected.

It is very difficult to accurately date any Fender instrument from the early CBS years. They bought up large quantities of components to save money and dumped them in the parts bins for the assemblers to pick from. So it’s quite possible to get a guitar that has apparently been made in two different years if you go by the numbers on neck plates and pots. The only reliable dateable bits if they are stamped at all are the wooden bits manufactured in the factory. Some things on those parts that changed the appearance of the instruments are often a better way, like the position of the tug bar, where that transition is known from Fender catalogues.

Very interesting thread and I’m not sure what anyone would make of mine. You can see the neck stamp isn’t very helpful. Maple neck with black binding and block markers. Two holes for the tug bar under the G string, four bolt neck. The pickups, pots and wiring all went in the bin at various times years ago when they stopped functioning or got noisy. Back then collectable 70’s guitars were not a thing and gigging 5 or 6 days a week I needed a working bass. It still plays nicely but doesn't get much use these days.