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Companies created knock offs of these? Really?

Kil'n an Arab- The Cure

I bought a bass from @Lukasz Chyla who does all his own work. Might be worth a try.

Donations from D'Addario

Donations from D'Addario:

Man with the golden gun - Lulu

Smooth operator - Sade

Sweets for my sweet - no idea TBH

Me, myself and I - De La Soul

Ah, thank you. I remember now.

Are you sure it was me? AFAIR I've only bought one sixer and I still have it.

Dancing Queen - ABBA

Bring it all along - hopefully they'll be somebody who's looking for what you're selling.

Crawling King snake - The Doors

I can't believe that Will doesn't already have a feedback thread but the search facility yielded nothing. Mods, if there is an existing thread please merge. Anyway, found an amp that Will was selling on Gumtree. Matched a cab I'd taken in a trade so a few messages later we reached a deal and the amp is on its way to me. Will clearly knows his gear and has several other very desirable items for sale on Gumtree - so take a look. More than happy to trade again. Good man.

Lady in red - Chris Rea

A bomb in Wardour St - The Jam

Didn't even occur to me to do that. Unfortunately the only way I could record the basses would be on a phone which TBH wouldn't be worthwhile. Looks like I'll be keeping it to myself.

I'm with @Rayman on this. Far too many formerly famous people just doing it for the money. Give it up...

Bad man - Steel Pulse

I have the SimS pickups in a custom build and even though they are excellent you can buy two of these basses for the price of a pair of SimS pickups. Worth thinking about how to spend the £450.

Welcome sir... TBH you can get much more bass for not many more pennies just by reading a few of the threads here. If you're committed to playing bass you will outgrow the Encore within 6 months and will have to sell it and find a replacement. You will find many good basses in the £200 range - a similar amount will get you a half decent Ashdown or Trace Elliot combo which will do fine till you are gigging regularly. Lots of online resources available - you can learn lots from the free part of Scott Devine's site: https://scottsbasslessons.com/ Or Mark Smith's TalkingBass site: https://www.talkingbass.net/ Just wish these resources were available when I started playing.

Somebody's watching me - Berry Gordy's son feat Michael Jackson