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Easy Star All Stars Tour https://www.songkick.com/artists/166255-easy-star-allstars Aug 12 Southampton, UK The Brook Aug 13 Brighton, UK Concorde 2 Aug 15 Norwich, UK Epic Studios Aug 16 Birmingham, UK Hare and Hounds Aug 18 OUTDOOR Buckingham, UK Stowaway Festival Aug 18 Farnham, UK Weyfest Music Festival Aug 24 London, UK Electric Ballroom

Naked In The Rain - Blue Pearl

I looked at one of those cheap basses sites - AliExpress IIRC - and there was an Alembic SC copy for a couple of hundred quid - looked very enticing. HOWEVER I know that it's most likely a POS - however there will be would-be players seeing these and thinking that they've grabbed a bargain, only to find that the "bargain" they thought they were getting is rubbish at best, virtually unplayable at worst. This will demoralise the new players, thinking that they have little or no ability, and chuck the towel in. Alternatively they will persevere for a while, make little or no gains and eventually chuck the towel in. When money is tight people will look for less expensive alternatives - in this case though it will drive people away from making music and stop any future spending in the instrument market. Music isn't about elitism but by pushing prices up companies will make it so - at least from the point of sales of new instruments. Inadvertently music companies may cause their own demise. We may find that in the future instruments sales will be self build kits, "custom builds" by luthiers or used instruments. I've said this many times - at the moment it's pretty difficult to find a badly built bass, however if the market ends up being flooded with shite, poorly built instruments, this may not continue to be true. We, on the other hand, who suffer from GAS and currently hoard the quality items, may in the end save the second hand Bass guitar market. Big manufacturers beware - you may find that the marketing strategy of selling high backfires and instead fuels the used "vintage" instrument market.

As it says - I prefer the fishtail tuners TBH but I can only find 14mm.

Jackie Wilson says...DMR

Well well said the rockin' chair - Dean Freidman

I had a message from the owner of the Rick...the bass has been returned to a lost property office and she has collected the bass. All is well and she is happy to have the bass back.

Aladdin's Lamp - Teena Marie

A forest - The Cure

Doctor Beat - Gloria Estefan

Nine million bicycles - Katie Melua

Suzanne beware of the devil - Dandy Livingstone

Another one rides the bus - Weird Al Yankovic

Molly Malone - Eddi Reader

Money in my pocket - Denis Brown

Has this been authenticated? I remember a friend buying an "authentic" tape of Jimmy Page writing "Stairway to Heaven" from Camden Market - it could have been anybody stuttering on a load of chords. The seller claimed it was genuine though.

Over the rainbow - Tracey Thorn

I thought about this too - more about the vibrato stuff really.

If you're after a more vintage sound have you considered tapewounds??

Cream pickup covers!! Cream pickup covers!! Do you know how much trouble I had tracking down some Cream pickup covers!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!

I have an appointment in the not too distant and was considering sending this to my dentist. Decided against it. She probably wouldn't understand the sense of humour here and would question the type of people I spend time with. Afterthought: That's the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth. (Sorry!!)

Photos of the Shorty please... Many of us have played Jezza's creations at various Bashes - prizing one from his clutches is a different matter though. Sooo jealous...

We built this city (on rock and Roll) - Starship

If I post a new post in, say, basses for sale, it goes on page 1. If I post on an existing post it goes on the highest numbered page.

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