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I brought a TC Tuner. Zero issues, well packed, thanks very much. Rob

The OnlyFans app has taken on a strange new set of people 😊

Fair point. It looks very nice. I'd love to have it but it would be wasted on me. Mind you, it's a cheap work of art

What would it be worth without the finish being stripped? It's beyond my means as it is so wondering how much more I couldn't afford 😊

Love to be there. Sadly got family here Take lots of photos for those of us who couldn't make it

Clever way to reduce the weight of the headstock and reduce neck dive. Is it called 20/20 as anybody with good eye sight would not buy it? It looks as if it was a child of the early 80's to me, it needs a lot of hair and hair spray. Rob

Wonder if I offered £250, they'd take it

The long strap extender looks a good idea. You are basically trying to move the Centre of Gravity away from the mass at the end of the neck closer to your body. That's one way, another way is on the other end. At the end of the day, you canna change the laws of physics, but you can bend them to your way of thinking. 1. Reducing the mass at the end of the long lever (the neck). Light weight tuners, shave the headstock down, try and move the neck further down into the body. 2. increasing the mass at the body end. You're trying to avoid doing this (aka a body-less body), so this makes point 1 even more important. 3. Changing where the CoG is located through a lever. Already suggested and is probably the easiest. 4. Some sort of clip that attaches the body of the bass to your body. I'm told there are devices that do this but never seen them. You are in effect becoming breeze blocks (see I wasn't being facetious :)) Rob

Half term hits everything, what’s worse is that different parts of the country have half term at different weeks, so the impact of it lies a week before and a week after as well as half term. Also many orgs have their holiday year from April 1st to March 31st so people take even longer off at half term. Feel free to mutter in the corner Rob

I had joined a local band just before Xmas. Well when I say band, we had a good drummer, a very good singer and then me. I moved back to the skinny strings as it didn't really work with just bass, drums and a singer, but that was fine. I just wanted to have fun. We'd agreed a couple of up tempo jazz and blues covers to get going. Two sessions later, singer pulled out citing too much stuff in her life and somethings had to go. These things happen. So the drummer and myself had a session to try and work out what to do. She can sing, I didn't try as my voice dropped eight octaves when I was about 12 and hair appeared in odd places. We messed around with some covers, didn't really work, so I suggested she choose a beat/tempo she likes on the drums and I'll jam something, anything but it'll probably be blusey in nature 😊 Well 45 mins later, I put the guitar down, she put the sticks down and we smiled. We actually played properly as a duo. We clicked on timing and it just worked. I wouldn't quite say it was Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton at the Albert Hall but I thought it sounded great. We were tight and just knew when to start and finish. I suspect most other people who play in a band think I'm wittering on, but I was over the moon. It's been a loooong time since I've played with anybody and this felt great. I'm going to try and write something original so we have 3-4 songs that we can sing or more likely she can. AI technology has not moved fast enough to make my voice sound good, perhaps another ten years or so. I know many of you play gigs all the time but for me, this was a big step forward. Rob

Did they charge you? I thought they stung people £20 for this service.

As it was immediately relisted, I'd go with fake bids. Given his description as a "liar and a crackhead", adding in scammer to this seems quite easy. I think you dodged a bullet here TBH.

The chords are dead simple and its entirely possible I am overthinking it. Its 'just' E, A and D. The damping is pretty key to it but I'm just struggling to get it right. To me it's about less rather than more, but it doesn't sound right yet. I'll probably get it and I'll go "Ah!" thats what I'm doing wrong. Got 45 mins on a massive Teams call with 400+ people so might just practise quietly in the background (Mic is off). Thanks Rob Rob

Black Velvet - Alannah Myles Turn the Page - Bob Segar Hollywood Nights - Bob Segar - Bass and rhythm guitar. The rhythm looks dead simple and (to me) is really subtle and complex. Spend a few hours and still can't get it right.