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I find Mark very responsive, even out of hours. They’re not Amazon, but a one man band (plus the odd helper). Despite the higher commission than the Gallery they’ve sold all the basses I’ve sent on commission in a few weeks for far more than I’d get on here or eBay/Reverb with all the tyre kickers and lowball offers. It’s easy to forget there are very few dedicated bass shops in the UK, and I doubt any of us would do a better job for the profit margins on offer. They have a lot of very nice kit for sale, and post Br**it and the reduction of realistic buying options, have become more important.

I may reassure Mr @JapanAxethat the DoI has no association with this thread. Indeed, our guiding principles are a firm adherence to English as she is spoken, a penchant for clarity and brevity, and a fanatical devotion to the Oxford comma. That said, the 'Level 42 before Level 42' thread has excited the interest of the DoI's Faculty of Humanities; a team of our finest researchers are engaged in a deep-dive semiotic study, the results of which will be published in late 2022.

Thank you. I've read it all through a couple of times but was unable to draw any conclusions. Was this via Google translate?

I took a risk recently and sold off my Stingray 5 and Rivoli and have ended up with this from Bass Direct. It’s a 2021 Nash PB-J 63 in Fiesta Red. Apparently the first owner already had too many basses. Lucky for be though as it plays like a dream and sounds amazing…

I’ve used Direct Courier Solutions and they have confirmed in writing that they insure instruments, but with any courier, close attention to packing is necessary. I pack everything like I am expecting it to be thrown out of a second floor window.

I didn't even know he was on life support.

Indeed - I'm absolutely over the moon with the work they did. Extraordinary job. Looks incredible, feels like a veeery expensive bass and sounds wonderful. They even managed to preserve the tricky little plastic sleeve on the truss and the dot locations at the interface between the board and the neck (now replaced with luminlay...a very nice touch). In addition you can't feel the join. An impressive achievement given that the original gloss finish on the neck is untouched....luthier witchcraft if you ask me!

I must say, I loved Nevermind at the time, I thought it was finally the death of hair metal. A triumph of substance over style, for a change.

My Classic Sabre

Be part of the pandemic or not. I don't understand how people are willing to facilitate these events currently. -paragraph deleted- I'm sorry, I have nothing positive to say. I work in a hospital.

Is this an offshoot of the Den of Iniquity thread?

...and Marcus Miller would be working in a McDonalds today if it wasn't for some guys that used to hang out in Denmark St. 😂

It wasn't even the sound of nu metal that annoyed me the most - it was the LOOK. Yes, I am aware of the irony of that statement following on from 80's spandex.

I'm not sure anyone is being hostile here. My observation would be that the way you write is incomprehensible to a lot of us. There are many on here for whom english is not a first language, maybe even not a second, yet folks always try to make themselves understood. But this weird street patois you have adopted really is next to impossible to unravel. I am sure you have some interesting points to make but I actually have no idea because I can't make head nor tail of what you are writing. And clearly I am not the only one.

So I'll bite in the spirit of the question, i.e. albums where I went crikey!... from bass perspective: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, 'Flight of the Cosmic Hippo' Jaco - eponymous, Joni & WR +1 for Bruford Yes - all 70's albums Return to Forever, 'Romantic Warrior' Stanley, 'School Days' UK - eponymous Rush - 'Permanent Waves' & 'Moving Pictures' Mark King, 'Influences' Steve Khan, 'Modern Times' w/ Anthony Jackson Brand X, 'Masques' There you go... some crackers in there.

Fishbone - Truth and Soul, 1988.

The Average White Band, early '70s.

Tuff cab is great, it's full of solids so it builds really well. It goes on as a sort of gel, a bit like painting on Swarfega in texture and it stays workable for quite a long time but it sets really hard. The long open time means mistakes are really simple to correct and you can work slowly and carefully FWIW I have a simple process I now stick to. First make sure all your sanding and shaping is done, sanding back set Tuff Cab is almost impossible it's scratch resistance is also sandpaper resistance. First coat I apply with a paint brush, I apply a thin layer but take care to get it into every crack and crevice. I have tried thinning it to get deeper penetration but it isn't necessary and the adherence is excellent if you have a dust free surface, I've never had any peeling or scratches through to the wood. Second coat I apply a generous coat of paint all over the cab (again I use a brush) and then use a standard mini roller to even out the spread all over the cab. Having an even coat is important for the texturing. I'm aiming for about 0.2-3 mm depth of paint here all over the cab. Having got it even I then do a very light rollering over each panel in turn using long strokes of the roller all in the same direction. This lifts a texture on the paint which I think of as a 'linen' effect like a coarse cloth finish. The texture will depend upon how coarse your roller is, the thickness of the paint and how quickly you move the roller so slow light even movement is what i aim for. The glory is that Tuff Cab stays open for so long if you aren't happy you can just flatten it and repeat, it's a joy to work with. Final coat I apply an even thicker layer, it doesn't drip so you don't get runs. Again I use the roller to even the paint layer first then do a finishing pass with a coarse roller. I have the coarse foam rollers sold specially by Blue Aran but I've used thicker mini rollers too and you can get a good effect either way, just different. I've done a lot of house painting so I'm used to a three coat paint finish and three coats might be unnecessary but this is a system that works for me. The attraction of Tuff Coat is that it is so forgiving, take your time and it's hard not to get a good finish

New neck is on... setup & truss rod tweaking required now. Once it's all set up and working, I'll strip it back again and apply the oil/paint/decal. Very happy with the look. EDIT: setup complete, action now down to a much healthier 2mm. Neck is lovely. Rich is very happy bunny

One of the best selling albums of '73 and it just passed me by.

They have serviced all my basses and I have bought and sold basses through them over the years. If something ain't right Martin and John would be the first to want to fix it. Lock-down taught me not to take for granted really fantastic specialist shops.

Good to see they’re making some improvements, think the UK bass playing world is far better off with BD around.

If there's nothing wrong with the Squier, keep the money. You don't need to upgrade things just because you can and the adverts pressure you into thinking you should.

Great to see Rick Beato talking about and listening to several of my fav bands (Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana) in this more than 90min video. Cool stuff. Check it out!

Carrie Anne Wayward Son - Kansas Edit, @SteveXFRwell that's ruined my joke 😄

No. None whatsoever. Honest guv.

F**k off and die - Darkthrone Too much?

I have spent three evenings working through a transcription of Anthony Jackson's bass part to the version of 'Not Yet' off the Michel Camilo album 'Caribe'. I am still on page one. It's incredible.

Think I just coined it. I think it's 'Leicestairian' officially but my version is much cooler ✌️

If.........if I had spoken to them, which I'm not saying I have, then I would have been tempted to ask them about the black frost and price matching Andertons. But, of course, I'm not saying that happened. Or didn't happen.

I feel the words, beware someone with just one post complaining, coming on. Not to say that there isn’t a genuine grievance here, albeit delayed, but we have seen this before. For my part, any work I’ve had done at The Gallery has been top notch and very reasonably priced. When they defretted my EB USA SUB, the end result was nothing short of stellar.

Eurosender - £908. I’ll pass!

1982....it was and Ibby MC924 strung with Superwound, the ones you had to trim and thread yourself!

Insurance is £20 per £1000. I have used them 3 times.

I missed out on a 9 pound Classic they had at Bass Direct a couple of years ago and I'm still miffed about it. I am still sans-Stingray, although my Bongo and Reflex make up for it a bit. I much prefer the feel and durability of a laquered neck on most basses to the oil and wax they use now. So many manufacturers, not just EBMM, go the way of oil and wax precisely because it is much less expensive to apply. Oil and wax can get to look very grubby after a few years unless you really maintain it. I've got enough chores to do already.

But being from Seattle in the early 90's made you Grunge yet there is a massive difference in the music of those bands therefore as a music genre it's a misnomer. It should have been simply called the Seattle scene. Grunge has become sylised with a certain rock based element that had certain qualities marking it apart from earlier hair metal, not least the look of the musicians which had as much owed to the time rather than the music. In that sense I would argue that STP were Grunge. That's to say they had that sound, look, style of grunge at the time. At the end of the day who cares what's grunge and what isn't? I just liked all the rock music coming out then and if it got lumped in with grunge then I called it grunge. I liked grunge as in I pretty much liked every band I heard back then. Apart from the Melvins. I couldn't get into them.

Nobody is more guilty than me, for unnecessary upgrades.... Nordstrand pickup and new EQ into an OLP Tony Levin..... EMG pickup and new EQ into a Fleabass.... Etc.... many many more pointless expense on other basses... and ALL sold on anyway. I learnt the hard way that in most cases, for me, I still didn't like the basses and lost money big time on the resale. Now.... I spend time with the bass, get to know it, get to know it's pros and cons, and take it from there. I REALLY have to love the bass and KNOW I'm going to KEEP it, before any more money is spent on it. There's very few basses, these days, in my opinion, that need any work doing at all. Just my thoughts, after 40yrs of wasting massive amounts of cash.

Nailed it, as usual 👍

Not so much overrated (it was rubbish, obviously) but the arrival of grunge signalled many changes to metal as we knew it from the 80's. On top of that, weird things were happening ... Bruce Dickinson left Maiden, Vince Neil left Motley Crue, Joey Belladonna left Anthrax. On top of that, 90's metal sounds began emerging that took time to reconcile. I have never really got on with industrial as a result. I remember feeling like someone had pulled a carpet out from underneath my feet.

what happened ? if anything

I like a couple of nirvana songs but I really think the whole grunge genre was really overrated I always remember the metal heads and grungers always scrapping obviously metal always won 😊

My passive Corvette Standards The honey violin ash 4 string has an ovankol neck and the bubinga(?) 5 has a wenge neck without volute and the original just a nut. It’s also got a truss rod cover that reads ‘Corvette Proline’ possibly a mix up or mistake at the factory? Quite a change from the earlier 5 to the 4 in the contouring etc……. Really taken with both. Especially the passive growl and the necks/playability of both which are really fantastic.

I don’t know what any of this means.

The Latest combination. changes may be made….. but what to give up and what to replace ? Daunting.