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Hello Nick! No problem - ask away 🙂 Short answer to question #1 - I haven't used one for four years, and basically my mind was in R-400 mode. I'd completely forgotten about running the output wide-open until now. Here's a clip of the gig. You can't see the room, but it's a fairly large concert room in a club, with about 200 people in it. I had PA support. Volume-wise, certainly no challenge for the WB-100. It probably didn't even notice.

TBH this raises more questions than it answers 😄

Got to use this last night thanks to @warwickhunt. It's been a few years since I used to gig one regularly, and I've remembered how special these things are. The authority in the lows and detail in the mids and highs is absolutely beautiful.

A reunion gig with my lovely pals in the Peter Donegan Band last night. One or two of you might have seen him on The Voice a few years back singing with Tom Jones. We haven't been in the same room for four years, but it was (mostly) like riding a bike. Full house, loads of fun. I even used a HandBox WB-100 that I managed to borrow for the night from Warwickhunt, too. Win after win after win.

Hi all. Shutting this one down as it's a discussion we've had many times before, and it never goes anywhere other than south (with apologies to Southerners).

We've progressed from criticism of a dated gag about a dustpan and brush to the Holocaust in less than two pages. None's the wonder the world's on a knife-edge.

If you're offended, hit the report button.

No - I was there, buying them. Early 70s Fenders have never been universally reviled. Later in the decade, yes.

...by people who were paraphrasing what they heard someone say in a pub once.

Quite.

If I'm listening to Bob Dylan or Mark Knopfler, I love what lyrics mean. If I'm listening to Yes, I don't care what they mean.

I just delete these messages without responding, and crack on with my day.

This has never been a thing for me..?

Dunno what you’re taking about 😄

Perhaps they have a house…?

I bought a set of flats in 2002, and I've since bought a villa in the Algarve with the money I saved on not buying rounds.

I’ll give you D&C, but Black Mountain Side is basically Trigger’s broom.

Well.. Stairway, I guess. Any others?

As an aside, I'm not sure how 'original' the original is. The words, aye, but apart from that iIt's a pretty standard country blues. When people (not you, granted) have a go at Page / Plant pinching from old blues legends, it tends to be conveniently overlooked that said blues legend probably nicked the song from someone else.

It's canny, I like it. But - as it's Basschat - I'm going to nit-pick. The "Don't it make you feel bad / When you're tryin' to find your way home / You don't know which way to go?" verse was always the money shot on the original. But on this, it's... anticlimatctic. Consider that nit picked.

It's definitely a different flavour to the R-400 - it's quicker and tighter, but it's not 'dry'.

Cheers! It's a Maruszczyk Basstank, built by Handbox. Solid state, two channels - one of which is geared to DB use. I don't use that channel. It's a lovely head.

A strange one for me today... A gig with band I regularly dep with, who specialise in playing Eagles / CSNY stuff. In a pub. In a Newcastle suburb. ...at 3:30pm. On a Thursday afternoon. Yep, just a normal midweek afternoon pub gig. And there were people there to watch us, too. So confusing. I was home with a Chinese for 6:30pm. Wouldn't mind doing it again sometime, actually. Anyway, this is what I used:

Thank you. It's my '71.