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Ant bought a Handbox WB-100 from me this week. Great comms and payer making it all a nice and simple transaction..... Highly recommended.

Yeh, its gone up since I bought mine, crazy the cost of living IMG_9101.mov

I just bought a Handbox WB-100 amplifier from Paul. I paid for the amp on Tuesday evening and it was here at 10am on the Thursday morning, impeccably wrapped. Can't say fairer than that! The whole transaction and communication was tip top. Thanks very much for being such a good seller. A pleasure to deal with. Ant

Sew You Win Again - Hot Chocolate

£7 🤣

It is not. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184374210289 As already mentioned upthread, they are hard to come by in the UK. The last few I got was ages ago from a U.K. eBay seller, and I've not seen any since then for sale in the U.K. whenever I've looked. Mark

I was in a band in the late 90s, and we had a "battle of the bands"-type gig lined up. We'd have some trouble getting hold of our guitarist for the previous week or so, and he'd been a bit off at our last rehearal. He showed up at the gig about 10 minutes before showtime, and basically told us this was the last gig, and that he'd decided he didn't like rock music any more. We got up, we did the gig, the guitarist played most of the show with his back to the audience, and then he left immediately afterwards and nobody saw him again for years. It wasn't dramatic or anything, there were no punches or pint glasses thrown, but it felt like a very selfish act on his behalf. He wasn't lying either - a few weeks later I saw his two guitars and his Marshall up for sale in Loot. For what it's worth, we won that heat of the battle of the bands thing, but, of course, we couldn't progress to the next one. I guess time heals though, our old drummer and him recently reconnected and started a new band. He obviously rediscovered his love of rock music sometime in the intervening 20-odd years! Our former singer now curates an art gallery in Germany, and I'm stuck out here in the States, but it might be a nice idea to get the band back together for some kind of one-off thing one day.

ESP do a left handed B-206 which had a decent reputation and was a fair price. https://www.espguitars.com/products/9858-b-206sm-ns

I use GHS Gorgomyte to keep mine as good as new. It's amazing stuff. https://astrings.co.uk/products/ghs-gorgomyte-fret-and-fingerboard-treated-cleaning-cloth-1

I assumed the bass player was just desperately trying to stay awake

To counter the maturity mentioned in the thread referred to. I played bass in a version of the Brian Setzer Orchestra. It was run by the drummer, a supposedly fearsome bloke. His wife seemed pleasant enough. Things were fine, and he accepted an invitation to be the drummer at the after show jam that happened at a Blues Weekend. I had put the band together. The Tuesday night beforehand there is a band meeting called. We turn up at the pub and the drummer turns to me and informs me that I'm a great bloke and brilliant bass player, but he can't play with me anymore. It seems my (then, and now late) wife had said something to upset his. I said that I presumed he was honouring the weekend commitment, to which he said 'no'. More bizarre than bad tempered but the best I can offer this thread.

Reminds me, we need another rank after GrandMaster, with a title like 'needs therepy' or something!

I’m pretty sure that the Affinity series come with Ceramic pick-ups, my white PJ certainly does… They’re a bit of an acquired taste, being quite bright, but get the height right & they can sing. I found the maple neck quite bulky but I swapped the neck out for a 70’sCV which is somewhere between a Jazz & a P-bass width, but lovely & slim in depth. As others have suggested, get a good set-up done & see how you get on before shelling out on too many upgrades? Otherwise you might be better off saving for a better quality instrument in the long run…

I fear he won't. It wouldn't be a good thing for him in any case. He has a degenerative condition and has already lasted almost 10 years beyond his initial prognosis. He has a new lady friend and they are enjoying getting out and about. His future is ultimately going to be horrible, so better he enjoys time with her.

Thanks, I've sent them an email.

I too have mostly stayed on very good terms with all my ex-band mates. However, I was in a duo in the early 2000s when I first got back into playing again, after a break. The duo quickly became a trio and ran for a few years with the three of us being thick as thieves. The singer used to get a lot of female attention but was always really humble. Then in the last few months, something changed. It was silly comedy things like him taking his shirt off onstage and posing with fans for photos. I probably overthought the whole thing but one possible turning point was us showing up to do an open mic and he was raving about some 19yr old who was playing. He really rated her and I remember saying privately when asked that I didn’t think she was anything special as a performer. He seemed really put out. I then noticed that having had a rock solid friendship that he was barely speaking to me or even looking at me. He was turning 40yrs old that summer and had a wife and two young teenage boys. His wife was always really intense and a little hard work. One day she phoned me whilst I was on holiday to say that the singer had left her and run off with a 19yr old. The band kind of broke up as a result. I saw him about a year or two later and was really pleased to see him. He was cool but a little distant. He then added me on his social media and was messaging me but as the messages started to dry up, I suddenly just started getting invites to like his new band. I wound up deleting him as I obviously wanted more from him than he did from me. I’m still on good terms with the other guy but it was not so much bitter, just bizarre. It had an impact on me for a couple of years but I just put it down to experience. I saw he was selling our albums as digital downloads on Bandcamp but I can’t imagine 20yr old recordings of a band that never made it do too well so wasn’t bothered. He tried to get the other guy to do a reunion without me about 10-15yrs ago but the other guy was classy enough to say all of us or not at all. Oh, and he’s now married to the aforementioned 19yr old, who is nearly 40 and they have kids together. Good luck to them. No malice on my part. A weird ending to what was a great run of music.

What's this "fifth" thing you mention?