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Paging Mr Dali to the front desk please, you seem to have lost something. NGL I kind of love it. edit: not enough to pay £1899 for it though

Looks like a bass that Mr Soft from the Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel song would play.

I haven’t tried one, but both the Tech21 SH1 Steve Harris and the English Muffy have a great Lemmy tone lurking inside.

It's a mad mad world https://richtonemusic.co.uk/brian-eastwood-bender-collision-bass-2008-sunburst-2nd-hand/

Bargain!

I hope it goes well for you John 😎

Fantastic. What a great way to spend your birthday 😎

I think they're all pretty much just IPA or some other similar organic solvent. They may have a few other degreasers in there to clean off grease a bit faster but they're all just volatile organics.

Tell me about it. Those donation boxes in Tesco and others, where you are asked to deposit food you've paid for to be given to charity, always annoy me. So Tesco et al get paid full price, including their mark-up, for stuff, which they then pass on to local charities. Do they offer you stuff at cost if you put it in the charity box? Do they say "Thank you to our generous customers" (or even name-check them) when passing on stuff they've sold at full price/a profit? Er, no. So they get extra sales, plus a pat on the back and publicity for their "generosity". Makes you sick.

Nope, it wasn't a Thomann operation, not even the warehouse. Warehouse is located in New Hartford, home to Ovation guitars. If the folks behind the Reverb store weren't ex-employees then they had plenty of knowledgeable people close to hand. 'Cracking' the US has never been a Thomann priority. Potential market for EU/UK is 520 million customers, it's 330 million for the US. What there was has pretty much gone. Kurt at Rondo quit importing SX, Agile and Haeden a few years back. Sam Ash no longer sells their own brands, Carlo Robeli etc. Guitar Fetish currently have all their imported brands reduced by 50%, my guess is they're getting out of the game too. It's several years for me. Owned more than enough US basses to last a life time, don't miss any of the crap coming out of Hollywood, stopped buying records around 2002 and I don't eat fast food .

Loving both of those bitsas Chris, but that natural ash Jaguar-eque P/MM fretless really is a thing of beauty Agree about the pickups - IMHO the Nordstrand Bigman is the best sounding MM pickup out there - I put one in my Warwick Streamer Jazzman LX (J p/up is a Bartolini J-axis)

It's all about the feels!

I can think of a couple of occasions where that has definitely been the case. On one, we played well, on a decently equipped stage, but the folk sitting around the tables were there for the 'turning to stone' little fellow for whom the event was planned. They had no interest in 'whooping it up' at all. A 'lead ballon' event; they needn't have booked a band at all.

I think a basic Sei starts at about £3500 these days, and upwards from there. It's still only a £400 deposit though - he's kept that price the same since the 90s! And you'll have 18-ish months to save up the rest. The two 6-strings I had been planning on ordering would have ended up costing about £5k a piece, so I've had to shelve that idea for the time being.

This is it in a nutshell. In my band, three of us are comfortably retired - kids off our hands, mortgagees paid off, etc - and not short of money. The other two still work, have family responsibilities and are less able to be so generous with their time. It would be unfair to expect (or even ask, because it could be awkward for them to say no) them to do so.

Way ahead of you, I predictively boycotted them as I knew it would come to this I think both of my rics and bongo are old enough, and will do for now! I would assume that all budget guitars in the US have gone up, except maybe chinese builds where they can afford to reduce the price.

Great, yeah no worries! Good to meet you Stuart, you can post here https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/75-affiliates/ Have a look at the T&Cs at the top and let me know if you have any questions.

Didn't realise they were that cheap. The 'adapter' would be metal rod or a piece of wood and the tripods have already been adapted. They came with the slo-mo heads on and I took those off made plywood plates to fit various EQ heads. They are rather battered from before I brought them, but were probably very expensive as they were made for Hollywood type film cameras . I know the model or or two up from mine was $12,000. That's mine below.