Rich

You jammy sod, I had my eye on that

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Tony Butler... a lovely, charming and humble man. They say you should never meet your heroes, well I'm overjoyed to have met this one.

Busy!

Love this.

Oh wow, a Performer... I am very jealous.

Our guest columnist writes: No no no, Mr Skenkvar is incorrect. A Russian men vill do things wigorously -- such as pointing at vigs, building trektors, emerging wictorious against kepitalist foe -- but he vill never do them wiolently. There is no wiolence in Mother Russia, especially in KGB vich is really just a knitting circle and social club and definitely does not ever torture its wictims, errm I mean members."

Two words: Mustang. Sally. Bands hate it. But punters bless 'em, they go mental for it. We have Love Shack in the set list. It bores me silly, but again the punters are always up and dancing their botties off to it. So I swallow my pride, think happy thoughts, and play those 5 notes over and over again because we're giving 'em what they want.

I think you'll find it's pronounced "wiolent".

You have a PM

When I defretted my Yam RBX, I replaced the standard Yamaha 2 band with an Artec SE3P-A -- a 3 band eq with sweepable mid, featuring two concentric controls (bass/treb on one, mid freq/level on the other) so the whole thing fits into the existing 4 holes. For my money, a 3 band (especially with sweep mid) is the best eq for fretless, it allows you to really bring out the mwah and the swell. I know the Artec is a budget piece of kit, but I found it worked beautifully.

To avoid drilling holes, I'd suggest a stacked bass/treb eq (e.g. EMG BTC Control) plus a set of nice pickups of your choice/taste.

Generally on the floor next to my FX. I slip them into poly-pockets to keep them damage/beer proof, and I usually print them double-sided (hugging trees) and in 48-point so I can see them from a distance.

Yup, I've got two or three long extensions (stop sniggering at the back there), I'll stick them in the car. I have a few 4- and 6-ways too, will bring them.

From the OED blog https://public.oed.com/blog/january-2018-update-new-words-notes/ : "The use of snowflake as a derogatory term has become prominent on social media in recent years, but it has its roots in more positive connotations. The OED’s entry traces snowflake back to 1983 in a more affirmative sense, referring to a person, especially a child, regarded as having a unique personality and potential. The metaphor was based on the notion of every snowflake being one of a kind in appearance. By the late 1990s, that idea of the special snowflake was established enough to be sarcastically invoked in Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club: ‘You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.’ Over time, the term’s meaning shifted, and snowflake came be used as an insulting term for a person characterized as overly sensitive or easily offended, or as feeling entitled to special treatment or consideration. In this way, the original idea of a snowflake’s uniqueness has been displaced by allusion to its fragility." Although Mr. wood is correct in that some use the word to mean effectively 'someone who disagrees with me/is annoyed by things that I'm not'. Which by their own argument makes them snowflakes too. But then again, logic is often not exactly their strong point.

snowflake NOUN 1. A flake of snow, especially a feathery ice crystal, typically displaying delicate sixfold symmetry. 2. derogatory, informal An overly sensitive or easily offended person, or one who believes they are entitled to special treatment on account of their supposedly unique characteristics. 3. A white-flowered Eurasian plant related to and resembling the snowdrop, typically blooming in the summer or autumn.

So, what was the... Oh bugger.

Likewise, my Shuker custom 5 cost me less than a bog-ordinaire Stingray 5 would have done.

It started life as a fretted bass (mine, in fact ), and was beautifully de-fretted by Jon Shuker. It's also got a 3-band eq with sweepable mid, which IMO is the ideal eq for a fretless bass.

Can we change your name to Bruce? It'd be a lot less confusing.

Oh that's not fair. Now I'm going to have to nail my bloody wallet to a table before I leave home.

Did you mention on the SWBB thread something about it having gone wrong..?

Oh my god. I remember seeing BC back in the day before they hit it big. There were about 20 of us at the gig I was at, but they still rocked the place like it was sold out. I just know I'm going to go all fan-struck and end up gibbering like an idiot.

My bud @Witters has an Eden 1x12, I've asked him if he fancies bringing it along. I've also got an SWR Bass Monitor 12 which I could throw in the boot.

I wouldn't bother listening to any of the others I listed then