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I can't remember where I heard it, bit after the "Get Back" movie, Hofner sold 2 or 3 times more McCartney basses than the year before.

Breakfast in America - Supertramp

The Breakfast Line - Cardiacs

Steeleye span, last night at the Apex in Bury st Edmunds. Numbers from the latest album except a couple of obvious ones. Seriously good level of musicianship with a few numbers really venturing into Prog-Rock territory. Not sure I heard one bar of music with 4 or 8 beats in it😆. Some very complicated structures going on. Maddy Prior is now 78 but doesn't sound any different from 50 years ago and the five part harmonies were perfect and excellent bass playing from Roger Carey. All in all, a very good gig.

Burnt Toast and Black Coffee — Mike Pedicin

OP buys a bass, ..then one of these... ...sends the crap half back... Problem solved 🙂 !

T2 fail in the last month.

I'm not a trained fire fighter - I'm out.

No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits

Mine...

Let me correct you…. 1. OP buys a bass 2. Bass has a badly bowed neck, scratchy pots and the top is mismatched 3. OP returns bass and retailer says they will check the replacement before sending 4. Replacement bass isn’t book matched at all, worse still the wood on the other half is a totally different shade 5. Rather than ranting, OP post a picture on here to check other people’s opinions to make sure he is being reasonable in rejecting the bass 6. 90%+ of people who expressed an opinion think it is unacceptable 7. Possible millionaire owner of guitarguitar exiled somewhere in Belgium starts ranting on this thread🤣

There’s a bit of a story about that one if anyone is interested, it was one of Aston Barrett’s early basses originally ,and when he started touring with the wailers he gave it to Robbie, Robbie thinks he might have played the Hofner on the Wailers Concrete Jungle recording

That’s great news, John. I look forward to coming to see your band! I will definitely keep my ears and eyes open for potential band mates and point them in your direction. Also, over the last few months I’ve made a concerted effort to sample the open-mic and jam nights in and around the fair city of Derby. When it’s appropriate, drop me a line and I can pass on my recommendations for the launch of Level Neville.

Hi Rich, you still looking? If it's the same size as the CV Jazz one, I can post it off to you.

Yup. The agreed 25 quid seems the easiest - the path of least resistance (as I suggested earlier). Re the OP, the questions was 'would it bother me?' My answer, a resounding yes.

Hanging it from the ceiling's gonna be a job....

Personally I’d just pay the return postage, mark it down to experience and get looking for another bass

Why are people getting het up about this? As far as I understand it, the only quibble here is whether or not the aesthetic quality of the top of this bass is a fault or not. Some say yay, some say nay. Ultimately the vendor's covered by the Ts and Cs, they don't consider it to be a fault, so honestly I'd take the offer of getting it picked up for £25 and move on. Yes, they've been a bit rum and heavy handed about it - it's been escalated and a compromise offered. Whether or not I would have allowed it out of my factory is irrelevant (but in case you're wondering - I wouldn't).

I truly think you didn't read the entire thread, and certainly not my crystal clear posts, or maybe you didn't understand what I was talking about regarding the OP's rant. So here it is even more clearly exposed: 1. OP buys a bass. 2. OP doesn't like it. 3. OP sends it back and asks for replacement. 4. OP gets it and find it's badly bookmatched. 5. OP asks for another replacement arguing that the top is badly mismatched, not correctly bookmatched. 6. Seller says OP has to pay the return fee, because there's no fault. 7. OP starts a rant here. 8. Everybody, but me starts ranting. 9. I explained why this is inadmissible to get a free return in this case. 10. Nobody reads the thread and the arguments, but push the rant further away. 11. My blood pressure is fine, but I really can't stand bad faith.

The Sad Milkman — The Handsome Family

This looks great - and I think your process bang on i.e. record properly and mime, and find a video wizard to mash it up 👌