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Finally buy myself that five-stringer I've been promising myself for years. Ideally a G&L L-2500 Tribute if I can find any outside Japan, otherwise we'll see what's out there when I have funds. Still bemoaning the loss of the Zoot Funkmeister I tried a couple of months ago though.

I would have the G&L, but the problem is there aren't many for sale in the UK so finding one will be tricky compared to the eleventy million Sire basses there are out there.

Having only two basses (for now) I try and rotate them so as to avoid having a favourite. I love them both for different reasons so giving them both a run out seems right.

So it's ripping off its own Phil Lynott model then.

Well that's annoying.

Last gig of the year tomorrow night has been cancelled, but hopefully only postponed, as our guitarist is having health issues. Nothing now until January!

He's come a long way since doing Gear4Music demo videos...

Current bid is only $5250

The one I go to each room has an Ashdown Mag 500 amp and Ashdown 8x10 cab. Each room we normally rehearse in is about 4m square.

I can vouch for the 4-string version being excellent, and even if I think it sounds nicer with the Sadowsky preamp I've put in it than the stock one, that's not to say the stock one is in any way not good.

Not last night's gig but Saturdays, postponed because our drummist dropped a concrete block on his toe and broke it in three places. Dubious now for next practice at the end of the month, and our final gig of the year in mid-December.

This is a very relevant video on this subject:

If it's free to use you aren't the customer, etc.

Dreckly!

Need doesn't enter into it 😎

Everything about this was awesome apart from the camera work which made me feel a bit queasy

Actually really positive and we've two more tunes ready to replace some old safe ones at our next gig in three weeks.

Mr Sapko also seems to have a bee in his bonnet studded cap about Mohini Dey promoting AI tools at the moment.

Our singist has a tendency to say the same schtick at every single gig, and also to drag it out, so while the rest of us are ready to crack on to the next song we have to stand/sit and wait for him to get to wherever he wants to get to in introducing the next song. We played a birthday party the other week where we were more or less straight from one song to the next because nobody cared that we were there, which was actually quite refreshing (the efficiency bit, not the being ignored bit).

Bravo!

I remember when that pub was The Case Is Altered. Used to do their pub quiz occasionally when I lived in Sutton.

Having read Entwistle's autobiography, I think Daltrey was lucky he was such a good singer.