Rich

This, entirely. We've binned songs that we'd worked hard on and quite liked, because they were floor-emptiers. Conversely, Mustang Sally is absurdly popular with the punters but we had to stop playing it was because we'd been doing it for 20 years and it was affecting our mental health 😄😄

Bin him. Enough is enough. It's a baptism, a tremendously important day in those parents' lives, and he couldn't give a sh!t. Get rid, and tell him exactly why.

I Concentrate on You - Cole Porter

Weave Your Spell - Level 42

Xmas ads are all, without exception, awful and cringeworthy.

Hannibal approves.

Yup, thanks for the reassurance chaps. 👍

Here's a thought. Obviously the new pickups are active, and so is the eq. So... will it all work off a single 9v PP3? The installation instructions suggest that 2x9v is preferable in such circumstances, but it doesn't say it's mandatory. Problem being that if I want to go 18v, I will need to do some routing first -- thus making it all a substantially bigger job.

You've never played support for anyone then?

Currently either Spector 4-string or Shuker 5-string into Genz-Benz Shuttle 9.2 into Barefaced Super 12T. Overjoyed with the way it all sounds and in no hurry to change a thing.

Not yet... I need a gap between gigs.

Ska band a variety of t shirts (current favourite is a wild tie-dye I got in Grand Cayman) with a b&w checked shirt on top; either black jeans or patterned shorts depending on time of year; trilby or pork pie hat; b&w checked Vans. Daft party band I have 3 different outfits... 'Peaky Blinder' (grandad shirt, tweed waistcoat, watchchain, bakerboy hat, etc), 'Australian Idiot' (ridiculous Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts, huge boots, hat with dangly corks) and generic US footballer (Dallas Cowboys shirt, white leggings, inflatable helmet). They all look f**king stupid but that's the whole idea.

Woohoo new sonic toys.

I've had an extensive fiddle about with the DIP switches. Still experimenting. They're both Off at the moment but that's sure to change as I keep fiddling.

And so that's what I'm now doing. New 35P4 and 35DC are on their way to me now 😀

The Shite Stripes The She British Tea Power Nose Tattoo Wishbone Àss

My mistake. I'll give myself a hard stare to make up for it.

I'd probably keep the original HZ pickups, and re-fit them if I move the bass on (which at the moment I think is highly unlikely).

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye - Sound of Music OST

Run DIC Backstreet Bogs Derp Purple Motorheap

This is my favourite Level 42 song. Not a slap or pop in sight, just a beautiful song and a simple message, "I want love in a peaceful world". Don't we all. And from the same album, this. Another of my very favourite Level 42 songs, and again entirely free of any bass acrobatics. Just a lovely song about searching for The One.

Electricity - OMD

Oh my word, this man's voice ❤️ Oh my word, this woman's voice ❤️

My preamp is the EMG BTS, I'm happy with it. TBH my main driver for the pickup change is to get more beef and aggression especially from the neck pickup.