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The politician's syllogism: 1. We must do something 2. This is something 3. Therefore we must do this

Protecting children seems to be the main driver

I just need the fretless Stingray to complete matching the tone 😅

I'm still amazed that the Sire I ordered through Thomann on 12/12/2020 turned up less than two weeks later, which was doubly gratifying because it all happened before B-word did.

I would be very surprised if the majority of them weren't there already. All this legislation will do is catch the low-hanging non-tech savvy fruit.

Nice one, I will definitely watch that when I get a chance!

Have the Invision Community owners given any indication of how they're planning to work with forum owners to help comply with the new Ofcom regs? Is it time to start thinking about a Basschat Discord server or something to replace this site in the event that the worst possible outcome occurs and it has to close?

I was looking for this quote and am glad I haven't been disappointed

It'll take me a goodly few years to save up for one so I'm in no rush.

We do rehearse, but getting certain others in the band to do their homework is a lot more trouble than it should be, so it turns more into a figuring it out on the fly session sometimes, which is massively frustrating for those of us who have done our homework.

Octave and chorus

Despite yesterday's being truncated due to the keyboardist's Covid, we managed to rattle through a fair few songs, and I think Mr Brightside will be sorted for New Years Eve if the drummist can remember when to stop playing it... We had a quick attempt at Sledghammer, which has good bones but needs some work to get it polished, and then had a discussion over new songs to try. Picking popular songs that aren't obvious is really tricky, but I think next on our list will be Alright by Supergrass, which at least has an interesting bassline.

I may or may not be waiting for them to be available secondhand in a few years...

I remember going in there 20+ years ago on a cricket tour and abandoning my teammates to watch a handful of guys playing blues for the evening. Glad to hear it's still going, it was a great little place from what I hazily recall.

Yes, so keep doing it!

Done that, I knew something was off throughout but couldn't put my finger on it until the penny dropped a day or two later

When I had mine I used to enjoy sowing chaos and confusion by driving reasonably and indicating when the highway code says one should. It was delightful.

A certain G&L L-2500 Tribute would definitely still be on the list, but I suspect having to buy a house will be more pressing a purchase.

We got a few requests for rock songs which our singist politely declined, and a couple of requests for Erasure, which I'm sure will be ignored as they're out of his vocal range. I think I also need to find a rock group to satisfy my need to rock out more.

I'm happy to say that your playing was not in any way cackhanded and the tone was most excellent, as was catching up with you. Hopefully next time there'll be more time.

Pissing this now as I'm off to that there London at the arse crack off dawn tomorrow and won't be back until Monday evening. A much-hyped gig at the Salthorn WMC near Bradford this evening, up and "unfinished" road so bad that left me fearing for the car's suspension. Fortunately it survived and I was able to find a parking space virtually outside the front door. The pace was smaller than I was expecting but I decided to use the ABM anyway and it sounded very nice, but probably overkill. I'd been told that the club was likely to be packed and it was, but everyone was sat down until we were well into our second set when we had half a dozen brave souls up and dancing. We all played well, with only a couple of gaffs; the first being out drummist forgetting that he's not supposed to play during the breakdown in Let Me Entertain You, and the second where I, having remembered to retune after our last sing being in drop D, then forgot to disengage the tuner pedal and wondered why I was a bit quiet during the first couple of bars of our first encore. We went down very well and they've promised to rebook us next year, which is nice because we're having a hard time getting new gigs at the moment. Obligatory "tonight's office" photo and a warning aimed at someone called Worthington possibly...

The first one live on an actual stage was Daytripper. The first one live with a band I can't remember, I just know that Daughter was in the set but that's about it.

Second gig in two weeks!