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That's really very bad as the case for simple theft - and indeed fraud, is easily made out. I understand if it's about 1 pedal on 1 occasion as that would effectively be one word against another, but this appears to be a serial thief/fraudster. First you have to make the allegation of the crime. Use your local police force online reporting facility. In your report you need describe what happened: The date and location (the location is where the offence happened - (don't say Facebook or eBay or whatever - someone here must have the guys home address?) That he was dishonest - "Whether, according to the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people, what was done was dishonest." That he intended to make a gain for himself - According to section 8 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967, “a court or jury, in determining whether a person has committed an offence… shall decide whether he did intend or foresee that result by reference to all the evidence, drawing such inferences from the evidence as appear proper in the circumstances”. He appropriated 'property' - 'Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation, and this includes, where he has come by the property (innocently or not) without stealing it, any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner.' Property - 'Property includes money and all other property, real or personal, including things in action and other intangible property.' Belonging to another - 'Where a person receives property from another, and is under an obligation to the other to deal with that property or its proceeds in a particular way, the property or proceeds shall be regarded (as against him) as belonging to the other.' With the intention of permanently depriving the other - The important test is whether the person appropriating the property 'treats it as his own to dispose of regardless of the others rights'. In simple terms: I paid for the item and he failed to send me the goods, and that you know (and point to) several other victims of the same theft/fraud; His intention to make a profit/gain for himself is clear as he has done the same thing to several other victims (as above); Despite repeated requests for your money he has kept it; It was a £xxxx including postage He received the money and was under an obligation to send you the goods. Point them to this thread. They may NFA it straight away but you can take it further: Make a complaint about the police using the IOPC website - https://iopc-complaints.egressforms.com/ The local Professional Standards Department will inform you about the rationale why it wasn't investigated in an attempt to 'service recover' the complaint. Don't accept service recovery and tell them you want the complaint recorded. Then they have to write out their rationale as a response to your complaint. You can appeal their decision to the local Police & Crime Commissioner. If you get no result - write to your MP informing them of the multiple scams and that your police force is doing nothing about it. If we can just get one police force charging him, then you can tell them about all the other 'unsolved crimes' and get permission from the court to consider them all in the same court. I don't know about Scottish law - sorry.

My recording rig :

So. The Auditions for the 602 are over, there is no 602 any more. this thread makes me howl when I relive the petty nonsense involved in getting a band together… Anyhow, welcome to Flying Oceans. 3/4 of The 602 with Andy on guitar. Lead single “Circles” from the “November sessions” which actually turned into the “End of January sessions” because all of us had covid at various stages. This is now on its way to Mastering guy. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oqNmmrVpKVNsQArYDyAIRG5PsGoaRgHR/view?usp=drivesdk

When Steely Dan started gigging after a break of 20 years, they bought the sheet music to all their songs but found so many mistakes that they had to relearn all the songs off their records.

How do you like that, the Wal-ish will have an actual Wal fretboard! I know any Indian rosewood would probably do, but there’s something very romantic about the notion…

Well here is mine. Pre birthday it was looking a bit bare without the "Landlord Lock-in Tuner" and "Hypergravity Compressor". Post birthday it looks more like a pedal board (hopefully). The gap between and above the "Bad Monkey" and "Hypergravity" is reserved for (probably) an Octave pedal (one of the more natural sounding ones rather than very synthy ones). The Bad Monkey may get replaced at some point. I'm using the Fender ABY to switch between basses (a G&L L2000 Tribute and a Sire V7 fretless). The power supply underneath the board is an "MXR DC Brick"; it just about fits under the PedalTrain Metro 20 board - it would have been less tight if they'd provided a few 90degree to 90 degree power cables, rather than all 90degree to straight. I hadn't intended the patch cables to give it a slope type aesthetic, but as they do I'll claim the artistic creativity😜. The bass lurking in the background is my G&L L2K (the same one as in my profile pic).

Because Basschat.

The thing is people go to see different types of live bands for different reasons. If your original material intrigues me, then I will quite happily drive to a gig and pay a few quid to see you play on a proper stage. When I go to a pub gig, it's not just about the band. At a pub I want to see a decent band playing reasonably familiar songs (but ideally not the same ones as I heard last week) while I have a few beers and hang out with friends. My expectations, not to mention what I actually want from the night, are completely different to when I pay to see a band playing original material.

These are only £166 from Thomann so probably not much cop. I've never played one but still really want one! 😆

It is time for the formalities of deciding the next monthly champion and after due congratulations to @skankdelvar , who is finding his groove with style, he chose the following image for the March challenge. It is now incumbent on the BC massive to pick their favourite 3 Your choices are as follows .... 1. @Dad3353 It was the colours that inspired, with thoughts of voices from the East; will they ever be heard again..? Where are they, right now..? To be played quite loud, to drown out the thud of cannons. 2. @Nail Soup Daffodils always remind me of a works trip to a daffodil festival. The organiser has a son with some kind of nuerotype which leads to argumentative behaviour, which is very difficult for his parents. This is one of the few works trips he didn't come on. That is one of the topics covered. 3. lurksalot A few observations put together in an oddish sort of time , reflections of simpler things maybe 4. @NickD Inspired by the colours, the times in which we live, the thought of bits of kids being sent to do a job that's not at all what they were told, and the story of a very brave old woman. 5. @Leonard Smalls Here's a bit of jazzy groove with a soporific feel. Or not! Either way, it's inspired by Frank Bough eating daffs on Nationwide 😁 6. @Nicko Inspired by the Latin name for the daffodil, Narcissus which led me to write something about those people that rate themselves too highly. 7. @skankdelvar Just a song about daffodils. They're pretty. 8. @SH73 The song is called Diedfordills , unsure if lyrics have any meaning 9. @upside downer An instrumental with a slow and steady beat, a chilled feel and the wish that we'd all kick off our tight shoes, grab a tipple of whatever takes our fancy, smell the flowers and try and enjoy our time on this crazy old world with our fellow travellers in time and space. 10. @MoonBassAlpha It's a spring-like, yearning, germinating thing. Or something! ymmv! Well that's your lot , and a jolly good lot they are too! choose your favourite 3 Voting will close at midnight on 31st March , which I believe is a Thursday,.... It is ... yes its a Thursday good luck to all

This is superb. I’m genuinely flabbergasted. I seriously believe this is the most comfortable instrument of any sort I’ve ever played. It sounds pretty badass too! Totally pleased with this, the 5er I’ve been looking for!!!

Dennis Bovell , nice tune Dub games

Humble pie

The Downshift So-so Pension Plan.

Things like this are one reason why - My Limelight: Compared to my Nash:

The bass player who substituted for Carol at the last minute was in one of the first decent bands I ever played in during the mid 70s. He is a talented singer/guitarist and actually contacted me for some bass playing tips a couple of days before his performance. I thought he did an excellent job considering the circumstances and it was a great opportunity he could not pass up.

you used to play with Noel Gallagher?

Just about made it! Last minute, as usual. It's a spring-like, yearning, germinating thing. Or something! ymmv! I found a guitar sound that sounds to me like it is straining and yearning to get out of the cold ground into the light. There's burbling nutrients in the soil too... Drums recorded into reaper, the rest done on my Zoom R24 and quickly finished therein, currently typing within an hour of the entry deadline (as usual) Featuring my new Aluminium Tama SLP snare, Gordon-Smith 12string, Godin Solidac and U.S. Masters fretless bass

Absolutely, once I saw this I had to have one !! EBMM Stingray Starry Night Short Scale … I’m a sucker for sparkly

Primus suck! Sorry, had to...

I’m off to see them in The Roundhouse, London tomorrow, had the tickets for over 2 years now.

I generally eat food. I find nothing else satifies

Its a Jazz gig, you are playing a DB, you will look fabulous AND you get to play no more than 50% of the notes a bass guitarist would play AND you will sound better. There is nothing not to love.

My disappointment is unique to this one. First single was really good, 2nd was the best I'd heard from them in years, 3rd I have nothing good to say about really. Ah well, 1 week before everyone can enjoy pumelling the album 😉

Don't be so quick to judge on price alone. There are some true pearls available for peanuts out there. This is a, erm, striking pearl.

Working For The Yankee Dollar - The Skids

What makes a song successful is that it is memorable and that it stands out from the "competition". Sticking to the formula can make that much harder. Making a song memorable means having something that people can latch on to. A song with different structure can be a very effective way of doing this. However IME you don't "force" it, because it always ends up sounding contrived. A successful unconventional structure is one that just happens during the song writing process.

It's RHCP after a Health & Safety inspection with all danger and risk eliminated. Lukewarm Chilli Peppers, goggles and rubber gloves.

In the first episode Martin said that for a recent Spandau Ballet tour he re-learnt the basslines from Youtube videos. I'm sure he was exaggerating a little bit for comic effect, but he does strike me as someone who only maintains his bass-playing skills to whatever he needs for Spandau at the time.

Thanks @LukeFRC, I thought if I was doing the R&D myself, I might as well share it. That was the original thinking behind the thread anyway! And I still have a lot left I want to get through, there’s plenty left to experiment with. It’s costly in time and money, but I think worthwhile. I probably should put some kind of link to this thread on Talkbass, there’s a lot of people there doing similar experiments to me out there and who share the same goals.

IME writing songs is something that improves the more you do it. In fact once you've reached a certain standard it becomes harder because you want every new song you write to be even better than the last one. You didn't start playing the bass well enough to be in a band overnight so why should song writing be any different? Also why rely on your guitarist to come up with musical ideas? You play a melodic instrument too.

Ahh, I too still have my much-used and much-loved Trace Elliot GP11 Mark 4 preamp, identical to yours as pictured above; great sound and completely bomb-proof construction. Haven't used it in anger for ages, but my emotional attachment to it probably outweighs the paltry sum it would be sellable for. It's certainly earned the houseroom for a quiet retirement!

As I said in the bass confessions thread, I don't really care what a bass sounds like as long as it is capable of going 'dum dum dum' on a gig. Therefore looks are pretty much my only criterion (bar weight, due to dodgy back)

Dusted off the acoustic guitars, one played in standard tuning the other in Nashville tuning Bass is a unbranded old 40+ years young Japanese jazz with equally old flat strings Drum kit a cheap Tornado kit Acoustic and vocals recorded with a Behringer mic All recorded in Ableton live, mixed and mastered with Ableton and T racks The song is called Diedfordills , unsure if lyrics have any meaning. Oh yeah, and nicked the phrase from a Thread, hope allowed 😁 Springs is here It's cringing me The world affairs Bring despairs Mr… . Stop refuting! Are we on the brink of a war? The whole world pleas For world wide peace Please end this tyranny What we're seeing Has no meaning Stop this madness Sorrow and sadness They died for dills They died for dills They died for dills They died for…..dills Spare our cities Leave our towns Spare our children Spare our lives Life is like Day and night When joy turns Into darkenss No guarantee as Far as we can see Where this takes us? It's surreal! Like the ocean Dark and deep Will we ever see the end? They died for dills They died for dills They died for dills They died for…..dills It's not the time to Say goodbye End this craze And Lough out loud…. Is this a dream I Wish it was All this conflict At what cost Stop the fighting and save The human race This world would be a better place All the mankind Join in Hold your hands And greet the spring They died for dills They died for dills They died for dills They died for…..dills

Yes, pretty much every bass I have ever bought. In my hands, in a band mix, most basses sound pretty much the same; so how they look is what differentiates them from each other. If you play live it is, IMO, important to have a bass that compliments the image of the band.