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Great thread one thing that would be a brilliant addition , and I know there’s a few of you do already , but could you all post your gigs in the gig thread. i follow the thread , and while I can’t get to most , I’ll always check location and dates to see if I can get to any.

Katy’s been doing the singer/songwriter thing since she was a young teenager. About 2016 she put an ad out to find a band to back her, and at the same time a band I occasionally depped with had decided they wanted to find an original singer to work with. So the band started 2016; I’m bassist number 3 having joined in late 2022, but have known the guitarist for 11 years and the drummer for 20. We’ve just finished up a small UK tour supporting her debut album release (which should have come out in 2020 but Covid put paid to that so it’s been waiting to go for 5 years!) and we have a few festivals etc lined up still. Tonight we’re playing the official opening night at Rodeo’s in Birmingham, it’s gonna be a hot one!

I played a single-cut platinum 5 string at Bass Direct quite a few years ago so my brain is a little fuzzy on the details. However there are a few instruments that leave lasting impressions and that was one. Effortless to play, crazy good construction, resonant, and a modern versatile pair of pickups and preamp. I wish I had bought it, but as comfortable as it was, at the time I wasn’t the biggest fan of single-cut basses. For context I played a Japanese Sadowsky and a secondhand Alleva Coppolo that day and the Elrick was far nice than both of them in my humble uneducated opinion.

You're both liars as he's doing my gardening as we speak.

Typical - these appear when I'm skint !!! Time for me to sell some of my existing surplus basses. Here's what Pino's original bass looks like these days (pic taken by Pino's wife, Maz)

Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richtea

You Read My Mind - David Benoit

I don’t have inside knowledge, except for a comment from an official dealer when asked what was happening with Vanderkley……..”he’s selling all his stock and inventory”. Doesn’t sound great and it would be a sad loss if it folds. I have both amp and cabs and they are top notch gear. (Weet een van onze Nederlandse collega’s er meer over?)

Who's got one of these Valeton GP-5? I'm looking at getting one, partly because of the 9 FX chain (my Zoom B3 "only" does 3). More basschatter feedback would help me decide!

Snap. I bought my old Precision from a guy with at least 40 of them...

If I ever make it to England I’ll be visiting Bass Bros.

It looks like a nice instrument, good luck if you proceed with the purchase

Set up a cam on a tripod, trigger with Bluetooth no bribery required

The only difference between these basses and a standard 2 band Stingray of that era ordered in any one of those three colours (candy apple red, metallic blue and white) was the lack of a hard case and substitution of an EBMM gig bag instead. They were certainly sold cheaper at the time (£995 IIRC) but that was because Strings and Things had a bulk order for them and used the slightly cheaper gig bag (nevertheless the gig bags are reasonably expensive - I bought one for a used Stingray which came in a very cheap cover). They are red, white and blue as they also celebrated an anniversary of Strings and Things, the U.K. Distributor. So don’t feel you’ve been done - it’s a standard full fat Stingray. This is rather similar to the fact that certain finishes (such as natural and sunburst) had a higher new price than say, a solid colour - despite this they often don’t seem to command commensurately higher used prices….. Poplar was used on most solid colour basses made up until the Stingray Specials in 2018, which all had ash bodies for the first couple of years. Poplar was also used on the late 80s/early 90s blueburst basses (as well as the US Sub basses made in the early 2000s). Alder was used on most translucent red basses. Ash was used on most natural finishes and original sunburst/ honeyburst basses.

i can't see how since he's working in my local tesco's.

Whatever you do, when dealing with any insurance company get the thing you've asked them for in writing.

Can you say what band?

Sold a power supply to Martin. Swift payment and great communication made it a smooth process. Would be happy to deal with again. Cheers!