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Are you talking a used Squier CV Jazz bass? If so, go for it. The Crafted In China CVs were among the best Squiers made.

Bought a Hipshot bridge from Vin. A stress-free transaction and nice to have a chat about all things bass when I came to collect. Cheers!

Zinc Fence City - Jah Lil

BTW thanks for the info on HB and meths - that's a good price for 500ml! I could use a top-up

The ones I linked to are actually being sold in the Amazon D'addario shop, and the 3 sets I've had so far have all been legit.

I’m a big fan of the sh!t sandwich. Start with something positive, then deliver the bad news, finish with another positive. But only if you’re asked.

What I'm about to say has already been said, but I'll regurgitate it anyway.... What you do depends on how good a mate your friend is and how you think he'd take your critique. When I have non muso mates at gigs and they give their opinion, mostly it's 'yeah, that was great' and I just sweep it under the rug. They're just saying that to be polite or, hopefully, it did sound good and they actually enjoyed it! I have a few mates in bands that I know will give honest feedback and they're the ones I listen to most. We've talked about this and I do the same for them, it really helps to have mates that can hear what needs to be tighter and offer feedback. We even check in with each other mid first song to get an idea of levels etc. Whether the form of feedback is 'that was crap' or 'that could be improved' is down to your friendship, I guess.

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle

Yeah, this looks more like what I'd expect to see on a tweeter in my car. And as far as I can tell all that little guy adds is some fret noise for slappers. But I'm not the best judge since I can't hear much above 10k anymore anyway.

Nerina Pallot at The Fiery Bird in Woking.... Intimate venue with over 100 in. Beautiful songs, beautiful voice and beautiful lady singing them. Sunday night's don't get any better....

My kingdom for companies to announce things without making me watch a bloody video

I have a Vester Catalina P-bass copy. Gigged it a few times way back when, did the job.

Sounds like the band would do a Les Dawson alternate version 🙂

Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders

It was indeed a cheap Korean brand that came out in the mid 80's, and lasted through the 90's. Nothing to fancy there, cheap instruments from the bad Korean period. Tried a few at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt back then, but none of them were great.

I’ll just wait for the Harley Benton version for £500 in yellow 🙂

So we’re thinking of upgrading our PA. Current system is Behringer XR18, dBX DriveRack PA, an old pair of Peavey Pro 15 powered subs, and a pair of EV ZLX15P tops. As we’re all using in-ears now, and with most of us having the gear to go amp-less, we’re thinking of going down that route. The band is a southern rock five-piece (2 x guitar, bass, drums, fiddle) and we play everything from small pubs to largish clubs. I’m looking to get a good solid kick drum and get increased vocal headroom as we, on occasion, run out of headroom. There is lots of chat on here about how to get a great sound with minimal kit, but if you had a budget of £5k, what would you buy? To give you a steer, I’m old school, so I don’t see us going out without subs, and I’d not rule out going back to passive cabs if it reduced the weight of each individual element as we’re all getting on these days.