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So glad I'm out of the world or updates and getting on with life with analog pedals 🤣 just joking. The Quad is great just not for me!

I can beat that - my ticket was free! (It was some promotion, but I don't remember which company.)

Again not so rare depending on which model you want. I've owned 3 and the Hondo copy of The Duke. However these too are now starting to edge into ridiculous pricing.

Ah, so there is. A decent price, and the Angus Young red finish with horns that I want! 💕💕💕

No particularly rare, but almost always over-priced when they do come up for sale.

Oh boy - I'm on a roll! This was a weird one - they did a short run of them with bits cut of. I would like another model too.

Aha! - mine needs a spot of doing up. I think it might've been overpainted too.

I've got a 5-er; it's a nice bass, if rather large. It cost me an Epiphone EB0 plus a couple of hundred quid.

My older brother went to see Roxy Music play in a club either in Liverpool or Birkenhead in the early 70s for 64p.

Hanging Around - The Stranglers

What about mocha? That grain would gert lush darkened up a bit.

That's one factor, but not the only one. Juts as significant is power density, which increases by 3dB (doubles) with each octave reduction in frequency. While our E is one octave below a guitar E most of our content is two octaves below the guitar, for 6dB, or a quadrupling of power. The real question isn't now much power does the bass need, it's how little does the guitar need. If you've ever stood in front of a Vox AC 30 you know it's not 100 watts.

And I love the fact that, even through telephone speakers it sounds sooo like a pbass.

I like a bit of Roxy Music and even have a box-set of their albums. I do have some negatives though: I could do without some of the over-affected singing - he's got a great voice which stands up on its own. I just plain do not like Virginia Plain (and we used to play it in a band I was in). I'm not a fan of Jealous Guy either, but I guess it made him a load of money! 🙂 I saw Bryan Ferry at Hammersmith Apollo (I think it was called the Apollo) some years ago; I parked at Westfield, so that puts it after 2008. One or two of his old mates were in the band and it might've been Guy Pratt on bass; there were a couple of dancers on a raised platform at the back. It was a rather good show.

There's still plenty of metal out there for us older guys. I'm in a band doing original metal, and we're all in our 40s and 50s. It's not 80s-style either, it's quite contemporary. It's a case of getting the right mix of personalities and aspirations. Personally, my big aspiration in music was to play the London Astoria. I never did, and now it no longer exists, so I've had to recalibrate. Basically, I enjoy getting in a rehearsal room with my mates and making lots of loud noise, and occasionally going out there and playing it for other people. Plus I still love the bass, the sound of the instrument and what you can do with it. That hasn't gone anywhere in the past 33 years. If you want to get into sub-genres - doom, goth, thrash, death, prog and power metal are full of us not-as-young-as-we-were types. A lot of the time, as long as you've got someone reasonably talented and photogenic on vocals, nobody cares what age the people behind them are!

Interesting if you're equating K12-2s with RCF 912As in terms of your personal preferences Phil?

Maybe one the basses on my wishlist that’s more achievable than some others then.

Awesome! I’m drooling.

Yep, they are rare, but not to the level they are supposed to be, think Wishbass with a truss rod, so a very expensive lamp... And don't read what Ken Smith says about him, even if they shared the basement workshop for some time, I don't know who is the more selfish.

Waiting for My Han - The Velvet Underground

Not so rare, I had a few and sold them here before Breakshít.

I gig with 1000 watts coming from a Crown XLi2500 into two 18" subs for my lows and another 50 watts of tube power feeding a 2x10. Is that enough?

I've sometimes wondered about nicking one out of some of the cars that go past. 🙂

These string won't work with magnetic pickups as they need their magnetic field to be perturbated to produce a tension (induction) that can be amplified, hence metallic strings. That said, it will work with the integrated piezo pickup.