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Yeah.. ‘if’.

Um, Thunderbird - Thunderbird

Played the first gig with my new band tonight,my first gig in 10 years! We only played for 20 minutes opening a charity boxe event, in front of about 200 people. During our second song my bass strap fell off and somehow I managed not to let the bass fall. Apart for that and too many mistakes, I guess it went well. Looking forward to the next.

It has an Eminence Deltalite II 2512 driver (120 quid at Blue Aran), which is what most makers use in their price point neo loaded cabs, so yes, the price is insane, even in the US, where the street price is $799.

Haha yep, it’s 25Kg with the amp. Paul from zilla just got back to me, it’s complete and he’s done an excellent job; the oval window on the front looks excellent in tolex, and he’s put a good sized square window out back too. The V8 style 3-handle arrangement looks perfect! Now all I have to do is touch up the black paint on the head in a couple of places, mount the V4 badge on the front grille and she’s ready for some action again thanks for your help on here guys, much appreciated.

You could just cover the Markbass steel grills with speaker cloth of your choice. It'd be far cheaper than changing cabs - unless you're looking for an excuse to change? Frank.

I would spend your money on lights instead - your missus is gonna be furious when she spots that you've pinched her standard lamp from the front room

I'm sure he said something that sounded quite like that at the time.

At the LBGS I looked at their prices and laughed. £1750 for a 4x10?!! Which was 5 times more than the Peavey 4x10 a couple of stalls down. Their pedal prices were beyond stupid as well. It makes Westside Distribution price gouging us on Mesa gear look reasonable. Pfft. Jog on.

Aye, and if you go TKS you can get two :-)

They're aware. Aguilar is a small company, with a business model of selling small numbers of high priced goods rather than larger numbers of lower priced goods. They price their gear with the intent of attracting those who perceive high prices to equate with high quality, and there's no shortage of those. This cab won't work any better than one of the dozen or more other cabs using the same 2512 driver that sell for as little as half what the Aggie does, but so long as Aggie customers are willing to pay their prices they'll keep charging those prices. Can't say I blame them.

Yeah, it is. I wonder how the Aguilar stuff compares?

Whilst I’m waiting for some more paint to arrive to finish the 70’sP Bass I’m gonna get started on a new build I’m doing it out of sapele and pine again but slightly different to the ibby body build Its going to be pine backed with a couple of sapele lines in then sapele wings with pine in the middle, with soap bar closed pickups not sure what colour hardware Black or Chrome I’ll decide when I’ve made the body I’m going to buy the neck which is a eBay special maple/maple with blocks full paddle

Saw this for sale here this morning, it is now my latest acquisition, and very nice it is too. Sounds good acoustically, and surprisingly good through an amp as well. Quite a lot of bass for not a lot of money, I can see this one getting quite a bit of use in its new home.

Am I wrong in thinking these latest Aguilar UK prices are insane? https://www.andertons.co.uk/aguilar-sl112-super-light-weight-1x12-cab

Thanks to everyone who was helpful, with minimum time it was no trouble in the end. The key bits were fine, the twiddles I just made up as I went along and it went great. Without going into detail it was a big thing for my mate and he was more than pleased. So collective thanks to Basschat for making someone’s night. Thanks all.

I'm with you - techincally wonderful, but not my mug of Urlong

Limelight- replica kit car with fake badges.

Cool shape

If you can do fret work, you can do nut work. Just be patient when filing, because if you over do it and the slots are too deep you'll need to do it again. But it's easy. Plenty of videos on youtube will help you. It doesn't take long either.

Got a bit of time this afternoon, first time it hasn’t been raining, did the start of the edging. Hopefully do the next bit tomorrow

Excellent! I watched the recording this morning. I was amazed by the background story to Superstition. Like the OP I wanted to find out more about the artist. Anyone who swaps between spanners and instruments so readily is cool in my book.

Bargain!

£25? bargain of the year right there! Very jealous- been looking for one of those for years!!!

Excellent documentary, what a player. Spitting image of Nigel Tufnel as well.

So pretty

I've also been following your posts on Facebook about the tour, Paul - great stuff. Good to see you on Basschat too!

or rather 'itth a mythstery'

Pics here too........hope you like it. https://photos.app.goo.gl/BHBRR6bd0nm4D4T02

I think Aguilar are soon going to be in danger of having priced themselves out of the market.

Wow. 1988 stingray £2500? this guy is a bargain king!

Dr Robert Moog, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Ralf Hutter and the crew at Roland. Why? Cos at age 6 or so I got turned onto bleeps and whirrs etc from listening to the Dr Who theme , Magic Fly by Space and Autobahn. And I've been annoying the crr@p out of wives, mates etc ever since with my own sounds and extensive collection of electronica

Pah! Call that a crowd? We've got the World Cup coming up, which means that our pub gigs starts to look like this:

Nigel Tufnel once said; "The last band was so bad that the audience was still booing them when we were on!"

Melted Wispa on dark muscovado? Mmmmm

New addition to the rig..

Quite so. Couple years ago, I'm down at an open mic (as a punter) and these three guys plumped themselves down on a sofa (it was that kind of boozer) pulled out their phones and settled down to text their friends and view web-pages and whatnot. For a good quarter hour they exchanged not a word between themselves. To my fascinated disbelief, even their pints remained untouched. Utterly bizarre behaviour (to me) but actively disrespectful to the performers? Not really; they were just socially-atomised numpties doing what socially-atomised numpties do. They might as well have been walking the dog or sat at home with the missus or halfway up Everest in a blizzard, they wouldn't have known or cared as long as they had their digital pacifiers in their sticky little hands. On the other hand I have attended any number of gigs where an audience member has chosen a lull in proceedings loudly to observe that the band is f$cking sh1te and they can all f$ck off and die. That's disrespectful though sometimes quite funny if the band in question is f$cking sh1te and don't know it.

To be fair, I wouldn't think anyone would expect your average pub covers band to get the total attention from the audience.

Happy birthday Glen, one of my top three bassists of all time. Lovely melodic lines and great phrasing.

Put the bridge ground in the same slot as a pickup ground all will be good

Seriously basic and old school rig for a Ceilidh last night. Gear4Music precision copy, Carlsbro X100 PA head and a Carlsbro A112 PA cabinet. Sounds OK for occasional use and has the upside of the total rig having cost about £60 Andy

My full rig, complete with hat!

the thing with the JB75s is that Andyjr1515 can do a magic trick with them and make them incredible.