Rich

Well, I appear to really like pretty much everything you lot hate, with the exception of buckeye burl (yuck) and Antigua burst (double yuck). So I think I'm going to keep my head down in this thread

As far as sleep is concerned, grab every opportunity. Sleep whenever you can. And for dealing with jet lag, I always follow the same procedure. The moment my plane takes off, I immediately set my watch for the time in my destination city/country and start working my sleep pattern there and then. It's not failed me yet -- jet lag has never caused me problems.

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1457180943' post='2996071'] I've always been a one-bass-man [/quote] This must be why you have three listed in your signature

Mick Jagger looks like a retired GP. Ronnie Wood looks recently defibrillated, while Keith Richards looks like he is still waiting. And Charlie Watts looks straight out of a Werther's Original advert.

[quote name='Daz39' timestamp='1457359178' post='2997700'] Yes - eagerly awaiting the Dingbird. They need to do a Ding-Bongo (which is a bit like a drink we used to have as kids), and then maybe a Dingberger (headless, tiny body), heck, perhaps even a Ding Paul SG-shape. [/quote] 'Ding-Bongo'? Surely that would be a Dingo? I also think they need to make a Fly-Ding Vee.

Latest LAPD reports indicate that it was an accident.

[quote name='CHW' timestamp='1457272183' post='2996887'] I spent 10 years or so playing in a ceilidh band, and there were plenty of occasions when we arrived at a venue, and had to set up with the room full of guests and no opportunity to do a sound check. In the end we came up with a solution that worked really well. <snip> [/quote] Nice solution. I like it.

I loved the B1. In fact I love almost everything the Essex boys have produced, but that? Nah. For me, it's second only to the Buzzard B2 in the 'ewww' stakes. (Although having said that, I don't like the Streamline much either.)

Definitely sounds like the ACG pre isn't your bag. So I'd go with 3, or 4 if you have doubts about its 'hotness'. You will easily be able to sell the ACG on, they're popular and rightly so.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1454204986' post='2967559'] A few years ago we made the mistake of taking a gig at a country music venue because the band booked cancelled. Were a 70s style rock and blues band. Nothing much of any good happened that night. The pay was decent. Blue [/quote]"That ain't no Hank Williams song!" 😄😄

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1457077742' post='2995003'] I've just seen a video and I'm grinning like a halfwit and bouncing about like an over excited eejit. [/quote] Better than standing there with a mope on your face looking like you'd rather be anywhere else..! 😄

Yup, another Rick vote here. Borrowed one many years ago, great sound but god I just hated the feel of it. Shame, it'd be a great sonic addition to the toolbox but I just know it would drive me mental within minutes.

There are two, both of them going back quite a few years. 1) pre-EB Stingray (before 'Rays became trendy/popular) I saw advertised for £250. 2) mint condition Shergold Marathon 8-string in a Reading music shop window for £295. EDIT: now I come to think of it, that Shergold was £195, not 295.

I'd just got halfway through typing a rambling response when I realized that frankly I could not be arsed. Suffice it to say that thanks to this and the other groundhog threads, I am now less interested in that ruddy band than I have ever been and Revolver is off my playlist for the foreseeable.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1456672194' post='2991228'] Even if you check out and leave, all the rooms are occupied. [/quote] Simultaneously occupied AND empty, in fact. 😃

Or perhaps it's Schrödinger's hotel. You can check out any time you like, but nobody will know if you've left or not.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1456605051' post='2990743'] I just don't [i]get[/i] the Beatles. So what if they sold 1.6 billion singles just in the US? Or 600 million albums worldwide? Or that the '1' album was the biggest selling album from 2000 to 2010 even though the band split 46 years ago. That's just trivial, piffling ephemera compared to the fact that [i]I[/i] don't like the Beatles and never think about them except when I want to make people notice me on internet forums. Look, the Beatles were just a band and totally unimportant compared to - say - musical comedy of the kind performed by my Tiny Tim tribute band. We're huge in Trowbridge and there's nothing the Beatles can do about [i]that.[/i] [/quote] For me, The Beatles were finished the moment they fired Tony Goggle.

I regret selling my Sei Flamboyant 5. Beautiful instrument.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1456473029' post='2989295'] I regard the electric bass as a portable, easily amplified alternative to the double bass. [/quote] So strictly speaking, surely [i]this[/i] is an 'electric bass'..?

Non linear dynamical academic gossip is all very well and good, but what's that got to do with racist moths?

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1456262136' post='2987272'] Wal Pro II E... bought it in 2001 or 2002 for £550. [/quote] WHAAT??? Five hundred quid??

A real bumper crop having a lot of difficulty choosing between 3 or 4 definite outstanders. They're all good though, well done to all concerned!

[quote name='Sammers' timestamp='1456139978' post='2985711'] An immense talent for sure and still very young!(although she's 18 now I think) [/quote] She's 18? Playing like that at [i]18?[/i] Oh man, I hate her**. **not really, but you know what I mean.

[quote name='kevvo66' timestamp='1456172211' post='2986292'] If you want to be a fret board w***er , take up guitar and leave the bass alone ,your missing the point love Don't take offence take the gate it's easier I thank you�� [/quote] Lid, worms, can.