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Gig debut for the Yuer last night. Perfect. The best music money I've spent in ages.

Filthy Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters

On bass, Derek Smalls... He wrote this...

Now that's a festival lineup I would pay to see.

Absolutely 100%. Back in the day I recall reading an interview with then-Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach, where he expressed his anger at musicians who complain about going on tour etc, he said something along the lines of "every morning when I wake up I never cease to be amazed at my good luck, actually being paid to do the thing that I love most... If you hate it that much, give up and be a janitor or something...". I always thought he was a tít TBH but he was bang on with that.

I recall reading somewhere that 6'3" Mike Rutherford's main driving factor behind developing a full-bodied Steinberger bass was one of his then-young children telling him that he looked really stupid playing a cricket bat Steiny.

Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon - Neil Diamond

We've had a couple of disinterested audiences in the past, at a couple of function things where we were just the hired background music. Best thing to do -- the only thing to do -- is shrug your shoulders and treat it as a paid rehearsal (and in the case of a Brighton gig we had, a free weekend away). Anything except slag off your audience, because no matter how good a band you are, a toy-throwing will end up going viral on social meeja, you'll look like a prize knob, and your hard-won reputation is in the toilet. Suddenly you're no longer "this really good tight band, you need to see them", you're "meh, don't bother, bunch of primadonnas". I can pretty much guarantee that the first thing Wayne Kerr's manager said was "what the fck did you think you were doing?? Have you lost your mind??"

I made my own -- still trying to work out how to shoehorn a blend control and phase switch into it -- but I do like the look of the cheapy Amazon one, and the Swift. I'd go with either of them, for a simple setup. Which it's obviously not, if you're looking at the ES5..!

1979 to 1989.

Now you're just being silly. If you'd said Dave Lord of the Gates of Hell in the 10th Kingdom of the Minds of Angels Who Dance with the Leaders of Men, I'd have been with you all the way.

I found that Grenades v1.0 tended to explode violently without warning. That caused some tremendous embarrassment at the vicar's tea party, I can tell you.

I've just experimented -- with it plugged in and charging, it still powers up and all the pedals are live. So it looks like a yes.

I watched the Franken P video, and chose the single mod that I thought would prove more useful for me. In time I might do the second mod too, but for now I'm happy with this one.

The only named basses I have are 'Skabass' (2-tone themed Jazzish thing) and 'JayRay' (OLP 'Ray with fretless Jaydee neck). Everything else is just a the... i.e. the Wal, the Shuke, the Spector, etc.

A good iron, a steady hand, and the thought that if it all goes horribly wrong it's only a twenty quid Behringer knockoff.

I did this mids mod to my BDI earlier... made it switchable as per the Franken P video. The first time I've taken an iron to a SMT board so I had to take a deep breath first! but it's well worth doing.

We're headlining this wee one-dayer... should be a really good day judging by reports from previous years. We're on 9.30 - 10.30, sunburn and all @skankdelvar are you around for this? https://lovesalisbury.co.uk/2023/04/06/salisbury-live-offering-up-loads-of-live-music/

Wicked Tea? What, like Earl Grey with Ex-Lax? Have a great one, the weather looks perfect for an outdoorsy.

And if you forget the B in your Basschat search, you get a call from your IT department

Slow morning?

Nothing new for the online Sindypendent. It's been wall to wall P.Schofield for days. Lazy pseudojournalism.

Another partially pick player here -- I favour the pick for some songs either for playing ease, or when I want a harder edged tone. Can't believe I used to play Rancid's Time Bomb with my fingers, it must have sounded really flat! I've got a pick-specific patch set up on the Zoom MS60B (slight volume drop, roll back on upper mids, wee boost to low-mids) which I'll select if I don't want any particular tonal or volume boost (see earlier comment re: playing ease), but Time Bomb has a patch of its own based on an SVT model with a gritty edge. I use that same patch with my fingers for Too Much Too Young and it seems to work well.

Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron - English folk song

Yeah, great idea to slag your audience off. Doesn't make you look like a total and utter c*ck at all. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/royal-blood-big-weekend-mike-kerr-b2348031.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR36yc1vCTGt5kT-JSeruwMD6FYHOP-_Y8XGj87PhRbe2UV4d5rlVHdp9Mg#Echobox=1685430098