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Another one of my beauties for sale For Sale my beautiful Vincent Metropole 4 String with GigBag Great tone, great colour and super light weight Neck: Vincent One-Piece Maple Neck with Vincent Dual-Trussrod, Rear Mount with SkunkStripe Fret Board :Thin fretboard made of roasted dark maple fretboard radius (Compound Radius 7,25″-12″) Oil finish for a natural feeling of play Neck width nut: 40 mm String spacing bridge: 20mm Neck end: 62.5 mm Neck profile: C-profile Scale: 875 mm Frets: 21 + zero fret (stainless steel, medium size) 4-point fitting Saddle / String Holder: Vincent TRUE TONE Carbon string holder with integrated string guide and zero fret Body: Alder Body made in Vincent TRUE TONE Comb-Chambered process. Mechanics: Hipshot Ultralight Pickup: 2x Häussel J-Bass (Handmade in Germany) Electronics: passive, 1x volume pot, 1x pick-up balance, 1x tone pot Bridge: Vincent TRUE TONE Bridge (stainless steel), semi string-through-body design Finish: Glossy lacquered Weight: approx. 3.4 kg Delivery: Vincent Gigbag + Vincent Tool Set (Trussrod tool, Bridge tool, Vincent Neck Oil) Collection or Postage at buyers risk can meet-up halfway with buyer

Bass Notes is a book written by Stone Foundation’s Neil Sheasby. It’s an on the road journal covering 2011-22 and will strike a chord with anyone with touring experience. Foreword by Horace Panter. New copy, just published. RRP £15, yours for £11 £8 £6 Posted.

His latest posthumous release is a double CD and DVD presentation from the Swiss Baloise Festival in 2008. Highlight is Al Kooper’s I Love You More Than Youll Ever Know b Retails at over £20. This is sealed and unplayed, £12 posted UK seems reasonable.

This is as hard-hitting as Lucinda’s songs, and to be frank it’s a wee bit too honest. But that makes it compelling reading, so if you like her music it’s a solid investment. If you don’t know who she is, consult YouTube immediately… Hardback, very good condition. RRP £20, yours for £13 posted. Now just £11.

The review says it all: comprehensive, US published and hard to find. Price is UK posted, unread condition. Now £16. Times And Seasons - The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Zombies Robin Platts HoZac Books, $31.99 356 pages Classic British pop, expertly chronicled Few books on the Zombies exist, but theirs is a story worth telling. And it's predictable that, given their Stateside star status, this quintessentially English quintet of She's Not There and Tell He No fame should be chronicled on an American imprint. The band only hung up its touring shoes last year after leader/keyboardist Rod Argent's stroke, but the work he and singer Colin Blunstone created after their reunion in 2001 - the years since 1968 being silent, in a Zombies sense - are also covered in detail by author Platts. The band always had a youthful camaraderie, having come together at high school, and that comes over faithfully in this account of their heyday - plus a long tail that details their subsequent musical careers. While Blunstone went solo and Argent created an eponymous prog band (of God Gave Rock And Roll To You fame), guitarist Paul Atkinson went behind the scenes and signed Abba to CBS - a feather in anyone's cap. Detail is forensic without being stifling. If the layout is a trifle fanzine-y, the integration of illustrative material like press cuttings and photos with the text helps make this an easy read. And the urge to play the music, always the sign of a good book, is irresistible.

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One month old set of Dominant Solo strings. I bought them for the bass I just sold and they wouldn’t suit my other basses. Although they have been on the bass for about a month, while it was for sale, they really haven’t been played at all, so I hope they would still have their whole life ahead. Like most people do (in the non-classical world) I had them tuned down a step the standard G-D-A-E (instead of A-E-B-F#, which is what you will see written on the packets), and they produce a really satisfying blend of presence and ease of play. I think the superb Herve Jeanne (String Matrix) has an old video of them). Anyhoo, they come in the original package and they retail for £262 at Bass Bags, so £160 seems very fair. Any questions please ask.

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