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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.

I can happily recommend the ABM 600 and Barefaced Two10S combination

The 45-105 two pack is only £23! Bring on payday!

Dang it, rumbled!

Played a 60th birthday party on Saturday at the Baines Hall at Elland Cricket Club. We'd been brought in as a replacement for the band originally booked who became unavailable, and who for some time have been trying to get us to fulfil gigs they can't but this was the first time it had happened. Absolutely pissed it down all evening, so got drenched loading in and loading out. I also made the mistake of being set up first which led to other band members dumping things on the (fortunately quite well padded!) gig bag containing my spare bass! I used the Sire - Elf - Two10S setup again, but it didn't sound particularly great, probably not helped by the hardwood floor throughout making the place really boomy, or by the fact that the Sire desparately needs a string change. It didn't sound bad, especially when the full band was playing, but when I was on my own then it was definitely noticeable (by me) that it didn't sound ideal. I also had the amp cut out during the first song, but a quick reduction in gain and increase in volume, together with a conscious effort to play lighter, solved the problem and there were no further issues. I had cut the pad on my left ring finger a few days prior to the gig - not a deep cut but given the aforementioned filthy strings I didn't want to get anything nasty in it, so I had to play in a plaster. That didn't cause any issues fortunately, except when I had to slide using that finger and found myself a fret higher than I'd intended to, and towards the end when it started to come off my fingers would stick together which made me really have to concentrate. We didn't expect to have much audience interaction, and apart from a dad and his two young kids, and a young woman in very sparkly trousers, we had no dancers until about three songs from the end when there were a good twenty people up and cheering. No encore and the fastest teardown I think I've ever had, and I was home for 11. Shoes were a pair of very wet brown Clarks ones that need a bit of attention now. We've a couple of months off now until our next gig in November, so plenty of time for string changes and learning new songs.

Man alive man!

Black bass with tortoiseshell guard is always a winner in my book.

Having driven a Nissan Juke as a hire car I find it to be an utterly horrible car to drive, so whatever's wrong with them it started before they bought their car.