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£20,000!! Thats just Madness 😎

Prime(ate) Time — The Tubes

At least Bass playing is potentially quite a sociable thing (or even if only playing alone at home - it gives the skills to play in a band at some point). And it is relatively cheap. Most other instruments cost more. A second hand Bass doesn't really depreciate if well looked after. It's basically a refundable deposit. And I think playing music is good mentally. It feels to me like it uses different parts of the brain to my day job. Good for sort of zoning out and I suppose a sort of meditation. I saw the other day that model trains can be £400 just for the engine bit and about £40 a carriage, a decent model railway must cost people many thousands. Many mountain bikes are £3k and expensive to maintain and depreciate quickly. Then look at the cost of hobbies like Golf, vintage cars etc. Bass is positively budget in comparison.

They are local to me and that is a real plus. Glad you had a good experience…I won’t be back for anything serious

Looks ace Rob. The pickups were sold to me on basschat as Fender late 50's pickups pickups which I had no reason to doubt. I certainly thought that had a good balanced tone. Anyhow great job, You've really made an impact on that! 👏

I can really relate to this. I've been shafted by similarly mundane but essential expenses this week and it's a bit soul-destroying in so much as you feel like you're running to stand still. You have to spend a lot of money to to renew what you had paid for previously, so your money is gone and you've got nothing to show for it except what you already had. Even at my age I've never fully reconciled myself to spending money on boring crap like buying tables and paying electricity bills but unless you want to sit in cold darkness eating off the floor with a load of dossers for company (although to be fair, that's what being a student was like in my day and I quite enjoyed it) that's what you have to do. What happened to the days when money was for going out to discos (yes,discos, I'm that old) with my friends and buying things I actually wanted? Being an adult is rubbish.

Panic Macaque - Judas Priest

Glad to hear it. Even when the first came out, I had a look at one in Guitar Guitar and thought I would end up getting one at some point. I didn't think it would take ten years but here we are! Every time one came up on Basschat I'd always consider buying it, but I love being able to go to the Bass Bros website and doing it all with a couple of clicks in a minute or two.

I consider it a basic necessity but I wouldn't say I was thrilled to spend £2400 on it, even though the last boiler lasted nearly fifteen years. It's one of those things that you need to spend on, but the money always looks better in your account, a bit like the car insurance. I call them 'cost of living' expenses.

Apeman - The Kinks

Fly Me To Baboon - Sinatra

@MacDaddy, not an entirely invalid assumption these days, sadly. Mark

I bought a guitar from Peach and it was a perfectly satisfactory experience. They provided me with 3 different instruments to try and a room away from electric guitar noise, and all 3 instruments were properly set up. Huntingdon is an extra 2 hours round trip and its hard to see what value they would have added.

I saw him on about this on the Facebook. As 1st April is more than a month away, I assumed it was A.I. 🤣

Funky Gibbon - The Goodies

Ive walked past that shop so many time over the years, always past it in to Park Cameras though.

Not really set up for hands on retail though:::

GH valuations are always punchy. I bought a double bass owned by Jack Bruce with solid pedigree and provenance for the lowest estimate.

It’s a shame as I think their website is very good, with details such as the weight of each individual instrument of a certain brand/range. Their demos are pretty good too.

I've never liked Peach. It's my #2 least favourite retailer in the sector. Staff attitude stinks in my experience.