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Money Talks - AC/DC

Or they're selling it because a family member died and they got it in a will, knowing absolutely nothing about it, and not wanting to. There are more shades of grey than you think.

I must admit I don’t use eBay enough to know of this feature. But with a bass guitar that is enough to put me off because it shows they don’t really know much about the instrument. I then have concerns on maintenance and how it’s been treated under the seller’s ownership, or worse it has been stolen.

A real shame. Bought my last bass from PMT. Its been my workhorse for the last two years. These and GAK were always my go to places. Sorry to all those who lost their jobs.

Unable to find any of this size. Any pointers. Preferably from UK seller. Something like this. New or used.

General fitness is obviously never a bad thing and certainly helps with stamina on gigs, but I find that to be good on the night at playing bass (particularly DB), I have to specifically train beforehand beforehand by....playing bass. I can have a really nice active month between gigs with plenty of cycling etc, but if I don't spend some time working the "bass muscles" then the next gig can be a bit hit-and-miss.

I couldn't find that yesterday! Except I have notifications turned off.

He should just whack some tolex on it. He'll get some pretty low offers otherwise.

I doubt anybody is actually getting upset about it. We're most likely to laugh if off and look elsewhere. That's what I do anyway.

As ever something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay. If no one is willing to buy it, it won’t sell. At this point the price has to come down or the seller is stuck with it. It’s not worth getting upset about.

Yes I suppose I can't rule this out. I guess I'm hyper-sensitive to chancers. Recently on Reverb (March 2025) I saw a used Fender Professional Jazz V that was completely stock and the seller wanted £5.5k for it. I messaged him and he confirmed that was the price and it wasn't a typo. The delivery charge was about £200 and this was for mainland UK delivery. They're out there...

I suppose while it's nice to know the DNA of an instrument, but once it's all bolted together and playable, does it really matter? Irrespective of the years, everything here is machine made and the parts are interchangeable.

I can testity that doing a festival on a stinky hot day with a bad chest infection is/was madness. Vid of me looking like a drowned rat I was sweating so much....But I did it for the band (said the hero)..haha. Shuffled off the stage, jumped straight in the car - home. But yes it definitely pays to keep fit and positive when there's a line of gigs on the horizon.

It could just have been someone using the eBay recommended pricing, which is hardly ever accurate but may well have just used a standard USA Stingray as the template.

Well, my personal view is more nuanced than that; some people here I have met in person, some I haven’t; some I consider friends, some I most certainly do not (and BTW there’s no correlation there!). Most interactions here have been positive but some have not. I don’t generally expect anyone to do me any favours just by dint of our mutual BC membership, but then IME most people here are generally decent and I would try and help a fellow BC’er if I could. I have had some experiences over my time here which call that into question, including a recent fairly substantial purchase which was very much not as described, but like anything, there are risks and rewards. My view is that if someone parts with something without any express caveats or conditions applied to the sale, then I’m free to do with that item as I will. I’ve certainly seen items given away with the proviso its to help those in need, or to help education etc. Obviously in relation to this particular instance I’ve clearly been the beneficiary of good fortune, but equally I took a risk it could have been a complete nail and fit only for the bin and wasted £50. The seller could easily have done what I did, with the same result. Not sure why that is morally objectionable. (I spent a very pleasant afternoon with Hamilton at Bowspeed who talked me through the history of the maker, value, possible sale options and recommendations, and I also talked it though at length with some orchestral string players I know before offering for sale, so it’s not a price pulled out of thin air. I’m also pleased to have been able to support Bowspeed as well - it was amazing spending the time in there and listening to the decades of acquired knowledge).

Yes I find it off-putting in all honesty but you have a point that it could have been genuine ignorance. Because it was a viewed item by me the Ebay algorithm went to work and fired the e-mail.

Great to see something filling the void left by the end of AI. Presumably small production runs, premium materials (all that wood) and the cost of importing from the US will make it an expensive choice in the UK, but I'd love to try one.

Good buy and schlepping it will help keep you fit 🙂

Can't Buy Me Love - Beatles

It did seem a lot! Mind you, it’s been around for a few days now with no bids.

Hi David, Thanks for this. I didn't quite follow your final para - grateful if you could clarify for me: If the singers are getting the pre fade signal in their IEMs (which as we have said will help give them a constant IEM level independent of any adjustments we make to FoH levels), but the fx/reverb is only being applied at the post fade stage, then won't the reverb be present in just the FoH and not in the IEMs at all if we set it to pre fade? If I have this wrong and the reverb will still be heard in the IEMs, albeit at post levels, when the IEMs are set to pre fade, this should actually be a decent compromise!