stingrayPete1977

^sounds perfect

It's not really about being pro or amateur, I don't want to be living hand to mouth in my mid sixtees no matter what profession I'm in.

Loving it!

Like me, too many hobbies and not enough time

Do Americans not have hobbies? I spend my spare time on my motorcycle, All day every Sunday when it's dry but I'm not looking to become a professional rider in any capacity, some people spends hours painting or building model train sets, what's the difference if people want to spend maybe 2 or 3 hours a week playing together? I wouldn't play at all if it wasn't for gigging bands so something like this in the future for me to keep my hand in might be ideal, there's no way I'll want to be playing five nights a week when I'm your age Blue.

My 79,82,02 rays all had different neck shapes to each other.

Derek now only does a handful of gigs a year calling on numerous professional musicians to join him, because he can.

Are you familiar with The Climax Blues Band bluewine?

So their advert has done it's job.

The advert is clear and honest, I have no problem with it.

I'm about to renew ours with them, we take it from the first gig of the year and it's all done for 12 months, £69. I do the PAT testing too and keep copies in the PA bag for both.

The pickup shape has actually gone back to the original shape.

Ampband is the answer.

Certainly, it's not that I haven't tried to like them or looked for good ones though. Once I stopped playing four string basses I stopped looking at Rics in General. One day maybe I'll have to eat my own words, and I will if needs be but so far they've all been shite

Maybe you should go to Specsavers?

Same here.

Let's do some simple maths; Decent sized gig with 15000 people in the audience like the Genting Arena in Birmingham. Main act play 20 songs and let's pretend they are divided equally as "my favourite song and the only one I recorded" between the audience. That's 750 phones being held up obscuring the view of probably four times as many people directly behind them and at least a few hundred people with a stinky armpit shoved in their face! Maybe nerf gun snipers is the answer?

Most of us can manage to understand things without the need for signs everywhere, I like the grumpy guy and would have been thinking the same as him but wouldn't have been brave enough to ask you to stop

I think we underestimate our American counterparts and collectors in general, a lot of people here have one P bass and a backup so a new version of what they already have needs to be a contender for moving on their existing bass, the musicman forum has people with dozens of them, they'll want a few of these just for starters!

Lots of people have lots of things going on in their lives, it doesn't matter if people want to text all night as long as they're not holding their phone aloft all night does it?

From the all different compensated nut slots or the bridge saddles that are different depending on string choice and setup?! They are the worst two places to measure from. Pick a fret, any fret and measure it from there as stated.

I don't mind him protecting his business as he sees fit, I wouldn't expect Jack or Silvia to get involved with any of that.

A few less things for them to make a hash of?

It just comes so easily to me!