StingRayBoy42

One decent sized bag of rough wire wool, one smaller piece of softer wire wool and half a sheet of wet/dry paper (? - like sandpaper but for metal? I think?) No idea of gauge or anything, sorry. It's no good to me, free to anyone who'll pay postage (I'd guess about 2-3 quid?) or pick them up from Bewdley DY12 (near Kidderminster) I'm in Manchester in the next couple of weeks if that helps. If they're still here in a week, they'll go in the bin.

I sold Dunc some patch leads - he was a top bloke to deal with all the way.

'K, 9 puns is enough.

Dobie Grayhound

Do it! It's great fun, your reading and musical knowledge will improve, you'll meet other musicians (who will all have new jokes and good stories about other shows they've done), you'll have a laugh, you'll play stuff you'd never usually play, you'll (hopefully?) earn a few quid, it's another string to your bow, you'll learn the joy of playing in 6 flats... Do it!

+1 for ACS - Best £150 I've ever spent.

This is NOT the Basschat way!

Nice axe. Welcome to the family!

I guess enough people fall for these scams to make them worthwhile?

I wil gladly to buy your [item name]! Pay by paypal adn my cousin's brother will be collection OK?

Mr Winks bought a lead from me. Good comms, quick payment, a pleasure to deal with.

'94 StingRay, natural, maple neck, 'flea' bridge, 3 band EQ, Hipshot extender, Bartolini pickup. Had him nearly 30 years(!) and I still smile every time I open the case.

There's an SLO StingRay on here at the mo And a SBMM with a EBMM neck which is stupidly cheap

Get a grip of yourself, or I shall have to take matters into my owm hands!

LAST NIGHT! The Cantina Band's tour of The Vaults in Knowle continued at The Vaults in Knowle. Again. Dep drummer (the chap from my other band) as our usual dep drummer had got his dates wrong and is in the USA (He's from Wisconsin, which he'll mention if you hang around with him for more than about 14 yottoseconds). We had a rehearsal with him (the chap doing the gig, not the chap who's in America) and he'd really done his homework and had nailed 99.9% of the set, so no worries on that front. (In fact, he knew the stuff better than the rest of the band - they/we're not really known for their/our meticulous preperation.) Load in is a good one, parking right behind the stage (I say 'stage'... I mean the corner between the toilets and the fire escape), set up was the usual, bit of good-natured piss-takery, catching up and gossip swapping. Not many in there when we kicked off, the singer and guitarist had brought their partners (both lovely) and a few mates (quality levels: various), so enough to make it worthwhile. I was presented with a (belated) birthday cake, a (belated) birthday badge (which everyone insisted I wear for the whole gig) and a rendition of Happy Birthday (belated) after song 2 (the second song in the set, not Song 2 by Blur, which we don't do (we should, actually)) which was as thoughtful as it was unexpected. First set was good, drummer smashed it. We play more poppy stuff in the other band, so it was nice to hear him giving the heavy rock stuff a good spanking. It was incredibly hot and sweaty, which is sort of what you want at a rock gig in a pub I suppose. Quick vape at half time, back into the second set which was also pretty good - the stuff we play (Ramones, Sex Pistols, Sabbath, Motorhead, Metallica, McFly* - all the big names in Rock/Metal) isn't for everyone... those that like it tend to REALLY like it and those that don't tend to sit at the bar and ignore us. A few young people appeared when we finished with Sex on fire and Brightside and filled up the Dancefloor (I say 'Dancefloor'... I mean the bit of sticky carpet next to the the corner between the toilets and the fire escape) so I went and joined them for a wireless boogie, which is always a laugh. They shouted for one more so we punished them with Enter Sandman, a guaranteed Dancefloor-emptier. EBMM Sterling -> Small board (EHX Tuner -> EHX Bass Soul Food -> Hookers Green Bass Machine -> MXR Bass chorus deluxe) -> MB CMD 121 The landlady loves us for some reason, we're back there a few times over the next couple of months. Paid, packed up, loaded out, home about half midnight for cold pizza remnants and a bottle of old father StingRayBoy's whiskey cider (ABV unknown but it certainly packs a decent wallop). * We had to learn a McFly song (Five colours in her hair) for a wedding we did, and we all decided we secretly quite like it, so we kept it in the set.