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It was after about 20 or 30 mins - it wasn’t helped by the fact it was snowing outside so the customers were all outside playing snowballs. New guy just wanted to close up as only people left inside was us.

Lovely, really! 😍

I'd have thought he'd have already done it 5 years ago! 😂

Wow! That sounds gorgeous

I have one of these amps, and I've had the cover off a few times to replace failed/crackly pots in the preamp board. I'll pop the cover off and take some pictures when I get a moment. These would be the big electrolytic, yes?

After how long? I played a pub in Worthing where, after figuring we needed to watch our volume, we were asked to turn down after the first number. When they made the same request after the second number, we were asked to stop playing and got the full fee.

I would love this bass for the sound alone.

Waltzing Back - Stranglers (Keith Floyd)

Luscious. May I suggest 2 bottom strap buttons so that you can lean it against something and it does not tip over? I cannot count how many times I have put my Tele down in the house and loved that aspect of it.

maybe you can list 5 that you had that was "Cream of the Crop" of your bass load ?

Oh yes. Way better than any glimpse at a Health and Efficiency. Proper smut for the aspiring and skint adolescent musician.

Ainsley Harriet advises you to give your meat a good old rub - Raised By Owls

Is that a young Jez Woodroffe (wearing glasses)?

I do. Don’t like it, tho.

I bought my very first bass guitar from Deans just along from the Stage Door in 1982. It was a Kay "Les Paul sort of shaped" thing! 😁 It was awful but got me started. About a year later I part exed it for a Hondo II at Bulmers in York. Bulmers wasnt a music shop as such but sold second hand goods. As they stocked a lot of used music gear and PA it was a haven for us skint kids. Before venturing into proper music shops like Deans the closest I came to a shop was receiving the Bells Music catalogue which I obsessed over, probably driving my parents mad. 🙄 It was a sad day when I found out that a big part of my adolescent life had ceased. Another shop I miss is Mars Music in Houston. I moved to the States for a few years with work and obviously checked out the local shops. This particular one just blew my mind when I first visited it. It was huge and seemed to stock everything. Penny whistle? Certainly Sir. Double bass? Check out our selection in the string department. Bass guitars? Sorry Sir our stock is quite depleted at the moment were down to the couple of hundred on display! 😲 It even had a full stage, lighting and PA set up permanently in the middle of the shop which they put on gear demonstrations and clinics. The whole place could have been an aircraft hanger. As with many places now long gone.

Have you still got the BWB, as it really ties in the blocks

Bought a Spectracomp from Simon,rapidly despatch and well packaged. Many thanks!

In harmony

Having been a long time nickel user I recently tried a switch to steel. First some fat beams and then very recently hi beams. I got used to the rougher texture pretty quickly. To me both have a lovely low tension and response. Perhaps a controversial view but Fat beams didn't actually seem significantly brighter to me than various nickle-plated roundwounds I'd used on my basses recently (NYXL, lo rider nickel, dragon skin nickel). Decent strings though but not quite what i expected. Hi beams are as I expected/wanted them to be - really bright and clear, piano-esque almost.