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Killer tone as always!

Zombie - The Cranberries

Braineaters - Misfits

Oh, that's a shame, I was fully planning on auditioning some German bows from them whenever I was feeling flush enough. I might try a speculative bid or two on the auction, you never know, especially with the German bows where demand might be lower...

Thanks for all the recommendations, and comments pro or contra. Much appreciated. I’m not sure whether to go fretted or fretless, so I just acquired one of each in the lower end of the price scale to help me fight it out: a Danelectro Dead On 58 Longhorn and the Epiphone Jack Cassidy Fretless. I used to have the Longhorn a decade or so ago, and the Ibanez SHR 4-string fretless, but have been away from the bass for a while. I’ll give them six months or so, then make the decision on a single higher-quality instrument. My style: And

I think they deal with such incredible volumes of parcels these things happen. I had it with a super long parcel collected by Evri. (Stagg EUB). It sat for 5 days in the depot then was delivered the next day! I’m glad the buyer got the bass and I’m sure the money will be sorted out.

I met the family when I was last there and they’re a wonderful bunch. I think the closure was forced to some degree by the state of the building (but I can speak with any authority on that).

Paul Chambers - "Freddie the Freeloader" by Miles Davis it's in bars 11 and 12 of his walking line , I think it's because it wasn't the chord I was expecting I should write it out Anthony Jackson on Donald Fagan "Ruby Baby" there's a sharp #11 in his line (maybe like Freddie it's a dominant lydian chord)

Out Of Our Minds - MadM

I guess ebay now have to extract the money out of the buyer on behalf of the courier?

In fairness, most pedals would look crap/unreadable under strong enough direct lighting. Here’s my high-powered torch pointing at a few. One shown not shining directly. Not sure what I am missing here.

There is a happy end to this story....The guitar arrived at the buyers home yesterday after being missing for 8 days! No idea what happened. The tracking stopped last Friday when it was marked as not arrived. The buyer raised a case with E bay and there was some tracking updates but I think they DHL,were looking in to it! Fair play to them them found it in Livingston a week after it was lifted from me! Oh and I must say sorry to the two guys in the white van that uplifted it from me! (They did look shady)

Use a hairdryer to get all those stickers off - softens the glue so they should peel off without leaving too much mess or residue.

Funnily enough, despite my best efforts, I'm in the opposite camp. I tried out loads (and sent a lot of money on one), and even though some of them have a decent enough tone, I've never found one that has a response that works for me live. I ended up selling my expensive Class D amp and getting a Handbox hybrid amp, which is an easy one-hand carry but sounds great. As far as the OP goes, I'll see your Trace Elliot and raise you an old SWR amp. For me, SWR coming onto the market was the big step forward for bass amplification. You can pick up secondhand SM-900 heads for a song these days and they are serious amps (the cabs were superb as well).

Also, my 50s inspired but not really that 50s Partscaster. Mark Jenny ice blue metallic, light aged body. Shuker neck, gotoh and EMG hardware.

Well, if anyone on here happens to come across this bass at a gig, can you have a peek at the backline to see if they're also using my missing EBS combo. Thanks

That one is really bad. The only specialist bow shop there is (was) in the UK. Glad it's retirement not bankruptcy. I see the stock is going to auction. "OUR HUGE SELECTION OF BOWS IS NOW BEING AUCTIONED by Amati Instruments Ltd., 10A Chandos Street, London, W1G 9DQ (2 minutes walk from the B.B.C’s Broadcasting House), 0207 099 7114." Doubt there will be any bargains once auctioneers fees are added, but worth a look. Most of the bows have bowspeeds price stickers on so you can see the approx value. https://app.amati.com/en/auction/1128-the-hamilton-caswell-retirement-sale-5th-6th-november

(withdrawn, sorry, bad day)