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Date depending, of course, but I'd be interested, aye.

I have a bass from the Bass Centre in Wapping too. At that time I was attending Saturday classes at the music school that used to operate from upstairs in the same building and afterwards used to pop downstairs to drool over the gear in the Bass Centre. The one fateful Saturday I saw my dream bass hanging on the wall: a MusicMan Cutlass 1 with the Modulus graphite neck! My grandad had recently died and left me some money in his will and it was exactly enough to buy the bass so I put a small deposit down on it and returned on the following Monday to collect it. I still have that bass and it is still my most prized possession. Fascinating factoid: I recently found out, thanks to Gavin who runs the MusicMan serial numbers website, that my Cutlass was previously owned by Mark O'Toole from Frankie Goes To Hollywood. He bought it new from Manny's Guitars in New York CIty in 1985. I know this as Gav send me a pic of the original sales receipt and some backstage shots of my bass - how he got hold of them is anyone's guess!

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Thanks mate, appreciate it. Ideally you want somewhere with e.g. 3 rooms as lots of bassists all in one cavernous room playing over each other is a recipe for disaster....

I’d be interested.

HB shorty is 42mm.

At that price, i'd be perfectly prepared to have a go.....😎👍

I’ve ordered a stereo jack. The barrel jacks will not fit in the route, so I’m going to try regular stereo jack and a tele plate, and see how that goes.

Now you come to mention it, I've not had mine out of the case in months......🤔🤔

I'm currently looking at a Spector on ebay, but the owner isn't sure what model it is. He said it might be an "NS94". The pickups are EMG HZ's and the fret markers are all dots (unlike some models where the 12th is a Spector logo), so I'm confused as to what it is. It's definitely not a Performer. Could it be a legend? I'm leaning that way, even if I can't find a combination of those pickups and dot markers online. Any clues?

Let me pick up here. I'd always thought setting one of these up should be pretty straightforward and I have capacity. @prowla (Paul) has just been in contact - we're local to each other AND both @jonno1981 and @ceteralive about a mile from me. How would everyone feel if me and @prowla tried to sort something out? Proposal would be (possibly) St Sebastians Memorial Hall, Crowthorne (see details below). There's a map/link below. We'd need to hire for say six hours (10-4pm) on a Saturday @ £25.00 an hour. I honestly can't remember what Colin used to charge for entry (was it £10?), so 15 attendees and we'd have a enough to cover the hire fee. I'm sure we could rope on the Barry at the Bass Centre and get enough stuff together for a raffle etc. It's a big room and it has a little stage if we do another shoot-out etc. The hall is remore enough so as not to annoy people. Easy connections M3/M4, closest train is Crowthorne (on the Wokingham and Guildford mainline). I'd be happy to do pickups from the station (I'm sure others would as well. @neepheid (I think) may be kipping down at mine. Anyone interested? https://wokinghamwithout-pc.gov.uk/facility-hire/st-sebastians-memorial-hall

The old Mackie's are great sounding nearfields. I have a pair of the smaller version, which I still use - Mackie HR624's (Mk1). I got mine the year they first came out in the UK, the end of 2002 sometime. I've got so used to them sound and reference wise, I don't want to change them. If I remember correctly, I paid £700 (ex-demo). They were about a grand brand new. Originally, I wanted a pair of 824's, but I couldn't find a pair anywhere and didn't want to wait for new stock to come into the country. The HR824's were released a couple of years earlier. About £1200/1300 (once again, If I remember correctly). Enjoy!!

Meooowww!

Ah!

I think everyone with G&L on a saved search knew which bass this was before opening the thread 😆 Not quite up my street aesthetically, but I remember thinking the price weren't bad for how 'exotic' it is.

Saw this earlier today Mick. Apparently the audience were all in the venue ( 23,000 of them! ) when they made the announcement at 8.15pm that Jeff wouldn’t be doing the gig. I think that’s leaving it a bit late TBH, especially as he had been having problems at the previous gig, leaving the stage with assistance etc. People were coming from all over the UK, as well as Europe and the US for the gig - I just hope they can reclaim some of the costs involved ( hotels / flights / travel etc ) as well as get a refund on the tickets. Hyde Park this Sunday does indeed look doubtful too. May I just add that I hope Jeff makes a full recovery as soon as possible - he was quoted as being ’devastated’ for having to cancel the gig. With his broken wrist to cope with as well, this isn’t the swan song anybody wanted. Such a shame.

I have the exact same relationship with Rics.