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Hmm... for this price you can get a genuine Streamer. I'm going to call it and say, 'pass!'.

It'll be the other way round... If they (capital investors) have looked, they'll have said get your business is shape with robust operations before you see our investment. But frankly I doubt they would invest: online training possibly but for an atrophying music and ageing customer base possibly not. Unless its a precursor to a sale to a larger online music lesson provider or retailer.Possibly Fender or Thomann. Cue big focus on the female Taylor Swift inspired demographic (fair enough) and shudder our new guitar school! Gasp.

Lot in that... together with how the market size interacts with his licence model. Not to mention, with a bit of diligence, you can put together a free educational package on YouTube that would rival any paid college/music schools. Yes it would lack interaction and feedback from a tutor but in most other aspects its all there. You'd be a pretty competent bass player if you learnt and applied all of Scott's free lessons alone. I agree the ad is badly worded but at its core is a commercial Ops Director role so hopefully the remuneration is commensurate - sorry, the pay is appropriate.

He also did an endorsement briefly for Guild... Not sure he played them beyond the ad's...

Rithimic in action recently....

I know. I'm the same. But you'd go there, buy another copy of the book, and get your 90 seconds and think, "OMG! I'm with Geddy Lee!" and then you'd blurt some crap about 'Moving Pictures' then be moved on. Probably good for all of us and Geddy it's sold out.

Not sure you've linked the vid properly but I've seen it before. It's the Musicians Institute 'throwback' series. I don't believe it's his but a 'volunteer' for the event - probably procured from the audience or staff. I've seen Jaco's (written) responses to questions about boutique basses, i.e. "why don't you play an Alembic?" before and they go along the lines that he's all about a straight ahead Fender Jazz. Sting tried to get him hipped to Steinbergers but it didn't stick...

He had a killer tone circa, 'Going Underground'. Great lines too but heightened within the structure of brilliant songs.

Incredibly well but it's such a bad sign that people will only consume 'rock' through films and theatre shows effectively with narratives around personalities or 'classic' bands thrown together on top of medleys. It's not vital, creative, sexual, interesting or rebellious any more - it's just nostalgia.

And it has that 'beater' mojo... ding a Marleaux and it's like a knife to you heart. Ding a Sire and it's a battle scar...

Chatters, Advice please - I've a Squier VM fretless which I'm pretty 'meh' about: It has a high action and limited tone. Is it a good start point for mods - set-up, bridge and possibly pick-ups, or should I move on and get a Sire say. Anyone upgraded one of these? Do people bother these days with the proliferation of good cheapies. Thoughts?

Not sure I heard a single bar of good music in the whole show, including Madonna's 'performance'.

Go for it!

Hopeful. 1) There's precious little bass guitar-enabled popular songs anymore. And I'm not talking about artists before 2000 Grandad, and 2) It's basically 'assault' on the ears and should be charged as such by every court in the land. The world has moved on since this was the most exciting thing ever!:

Egmond for me... followed my a major upgrade to an Ibanez Blazer like some previous posters. Pic is a similar bass to mine... **Edit: still got them both... Egmond in bits unfortunately. Blazer defretted and refretted.

I appreciate the sentiment but 'keepers' are generally acquired than built I'd suggest. You can spec' your nuts off with Alembic or Fodera then a cheapie comes by and just lands... tone, feel and mojo. Someone is taking a big gamble with £22 kilo-dabs. Of course it will be a great bass but maybe not for the commissioner...

+1 from me. His band song breakdowns 'what makes this song great' usually feature the basslines too and is theory vids are just great. A whole musical education not just bass. And he likes Rush and Yes.

Who is going to buy this? Really who? In today's instrument market, music industry and live music scene - a £22k 'bic!? I'm sure Mark/BD know what they're doing commissioning it - presumably for a paying customer but really who? I can get a dedicated (jazz) player sinking £10g on a full spec'ed Fodera - at least you'll get 2/3 of that back in a 2nd hand sale but £22k! Mystified...

I'm not an owner so treat my comments as unfounded rubbish but just on 'buzz' alone, I think SIre have stolen the best 'BfB' crown. *Edit: Internet buzz rather than fret buzz*

Erm leaving it a bit late given that they've split up, no-one goes to see rock any more, etc. Just went past the Hacienda on the train earlier... now posh flats. Last time I saw Ian Brown, it was in Warrington's bowling alley.