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They sell different grades if you poke around you can find the type and quality you need.

Did you receive any sort of refund from Andertons; I'm assuming the next day delivery cost you more?

And you never know you could end up in a folk/funk fusion power trio ...

Dosh delivered 😄 SUGGESTION: As some of us might be able to come down on Saturday evening. Is there a Basschatter playing a gig nearby on the 10th somewhere near affordable accommodation (e.g. a Travelodge)? Would be good to make the bash into a mini break.

Awesome things. Is there a noticeable difference between maple and rosewood fingerboards?

I don't disagree regarding the bands you've mentioned. I'm a big Primus fan and bought LC's Vivid on day one, but have any of them written anything better than Stargazer, Stairway to Heaven or Bohemian Rhapsody? I think not. It was mentioned earlier that voters had up to 3 (I think) choices. It really doesn't explain how a lot of the very weak material got in at all. I mean Teenage Kicks - WTF? No Greta Van Fleet I notice 😂. No Blackberry Smoke. No Zappa either, which is criminal given what is in there. My next gigs are Kurt Elling at Ronnie Scott's followed by The Aristocrats. Music is the best!

I bought mine this week - traded in cash plus my Stomp XL that’s probably done 100+ gigs with me in the last year so it’s a bit of a leap of faith, but I have to say it’s knocked my socks off - everything about it is fantastic. I hope over time it’s going to get a larger array FX as I did used to love going through the Stomp and finding some random drive or delay etc that I’d never looked at before that suddenly nailed a sound for me, and it’s not really going to be the case as much on this as there’s not huge amounts of stuff on there in comparison, although if you take the guitar stuff off the Stomp and just count Bass stuff they’re probably pretty comparable Game changer for me has been the NAM player - found some cracking captures on Tone3000, my favourite being the Kasleder Albatross Fuzz! https://www.tone3000.com/tones/kasleder-albatross-30490 Also the DCX Bass: https://www.tone3000.com/tones/origin-effects-dcx-bass-28027 And I’ve been liking the B-Side Gain from the Jad Freer Capo: https://www.tone3000.com/tones/jad-freer-capo-31244 Any suggestions of other NAM captures to look out for would be very welcome. The Alabatross fuzz has some beautiful low gain fuzz settings, which if you save it as a NAM Pedal (rather than Amp or Misc) you get a blend control available so you can tweak it to give you a really sweet always on low gain fuzz tone, I’ve combined it with a LPF for an easy to switch on ‘vintage tone rolled off’ sound. I did similar on the Stomp, but this sounds SO much better

Hurt So Bad - Linda Ronstadt

That’s a bit of an unfair generalisation. I often listen to planet rock ( the gambling ads do my nut in though) but I’m just as likely to listen to 6music or give something new a try.

There's certainly nothing wrong with modern music, bands now are as good as they've ever been. Its the dinosaurs who listen to Planet Rock who just won't listen to bands they don't know. Its their loss, there's a whole heap of new music they'd probably love if they were more open minded. Discovering new bands is something I love, finding they have a couple albums for me to check out and enjoy and hear new, good stuff. I love Sabbath, they've probably influenced every band I love but Id probably only put one of their songs in my top 10.

Ultimately if you did this with Absolute Classic Rock you’d probably get a similar list; their playlist is very heavily stuck in those decades and the more modern takes on “classic rock” which PR plays don’t get a look in (Those Damn Crows, Florence Black, Massive Wagons, even Alter Bridge and the lamentable 5FDP). I bet if you asked the Kerrang radio listeners to do theirs, that’s when you’d get a bit more variety. They seem to focus on 90s onwards, with a smattering of classic Sabbath, Maiden, Ozzy, Van Halen etc. It’s through Kerrang that I discovered I’d missed all 25 years of Billy Talent (bloody love that band now) and Rise Against (same) and learnt more about a lot of other bands I knew from one or two songs only. It’s all incredibly subjective, and ultimately the PR raison d’etre is to play the older “classic” rock, hence that’s what the list will provide because that’s why the listeners tune in.

I also like the idea. I am a Ukulele player, who recently got a Flight short scale bass to play along with our Ukulele club(s). im finding it difficult to work out volume levels / comparison of 15-20w battery amps. Such as Joyo DC-15B and Scuru S8B and Blackstar Fly 3 - the later I already own.

Congrats, they are nice sounding amps

I'd concur on the Queen thing. NATO was the last decent Queen album, but I'd say Sheer Heart Attack was their absolute peak. Again though, it's all subjective. My brother taped SHA for me and I listened to it endlessly, along with Sweet's Sweet F*nny Adams and Sparks' Kimono/Propaganda albums. Time, place and circumstances account for a lot. Would they stand up now? If I told my teen nephew to go at listen to them? Probably not.

I remember one of my more knowledgable musician mates saying of my TRB6 ".....the sort of bass played by NYC session musicians". That pretty much says it all 👍