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I remove them and throw them in the bin.

24 minutes ago, pfretrock said:

First used them around 1996, ordered on line, posted US$ bank draft to Seattle to pay invoice.

Stopped using them 18 months ago. Can't support carbon headed global warming cardboard box tax evaders.

Don’t forget minimum wage, zero hour contracts and employees p*ssing in bottles to meet targets and not get fired.

JUST had enough on a full tank to get from Nottingham to Bristol, then Brighton and then back to Nottingham.

May be a struggle to get to Skegness for the gig on Friday though. I’m hoping it will be a bit better by then.

I love Jennifer Finch’s Misfits bass that she used in L7.

Also Melissa auf der Maur’s silver metal flake Precision which inspired my wife to get a similar one in red. Which also looks great!

Black/black/maple

Sold a pedal to Mike. Everything was really smooth, great communication, quick payment.

A pleasure to do business with.

I’m selling a nearly new Source Audio Aftershock pedal.

Only been used a couple of times at home. It’s a fantastic pedal, I just don’t really have use for it at the minute.

Comes with box, power supply (which has an EU plug) and phone connector.

Happy to post in the UK for an extra £5.

There’s a lot to this pedal. The drive settings are completely customisable and edited via a free smartphone/desktop app.
More info about the pedal on the Source Audio website.

23 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I've just ordered vegan strap.

 

Does anyone know how I should cook it?

 

Singer in my band just bought a couple of these. I haven’t used them but I know she really rates them.

22 hours ago, Cat Burrito said:

Nice one. I've seen those Right On Straps but discovered Couch straps through here so use those. I can honestly say even if you take away the vegan aspect, they're the best straps I have ever used. They look really cool and they are as reliable as anything I used before. 

+1 for Couch. I’ve been using their seatbelt straps for years and I don’t see myself buying anything else.

They did start cutting them slightly shorter a few years ago, which was too short for me, but I emailed them and they cut one at the old length so all good.

I’ve bought wallets and belts from them too!

11 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

I agreed to give it a try altho i do still have long hair and dont look like a typical punk but i can see a ponytail coming on.

The Ramones all had long hair. You’ll be fine!

7 minutes ago, Rich said:

 

Something I've noticed quite a lot in the last couple of years is bands/artists from the US playing a 'European Tour' that features no UK dates whatsoever. My favourite jazz artist's last European tour featured pretty much every country in mainland Europe (9 dates in Germany!) but the closest he got to the UK was Paris.

Depends on the size of the fan base, usually. I know a fair few American/Canadian bands who will headline to 1000+ people and play big festivals all over Europe but struggle to pull 100 people in the UK, despite sometimes having toured here for years. If they don’t come to the UK whilst on a European tour it’s often because they’ll lose money doing so.

I would imagine so but, as mentioned above, American bands wouldn’t usually be bringing gear with them.

Smaller bands tend to borrow gear and bigger bands will either hire or have gear already stored in the EU. A lot of bands will often get merch produced there too to save bringing it with them.

The difference with UK bands is that we could drive and take all of our gear and merch with us, which would now cause these issues.

American bands do need visas, however.

5 minutes ago, pete.young said:

The Guardian article have now re-published the article under the same link, but with a different title, essentially about musicians saying "WTF?"

That seems like VERY bad practice.

Like everything involved with this whole mess there are a lot of unknowns. But at least it’s a step in the right direction.

According to this article UK musicians may soon be able to tour the EU (19 countries for the time being) visa-free.

I’m sure there will be caveats but it’s promising, at least.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/05/uk-musicians-to-be-able-to-tour-visa-free-in-19-eu-countries-brexit

Dammit.

For anyone who might be interested the Museum of London are exhibiting Paul Simonon’s ‘London Calling’ bass from today. Not sure how long for though. Entry is free.

Just curious, why did you think the E string shouldn’t be at the top of the fretboard?

30 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

I don't know about the switching. The pickups may have been stock as Matsumoku pickups  were very similar to DiMarzio aesthetically.

That would make sense. I was told they were DiMarzio but never actually verified.

10 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

The neckplate on my Westone said it came from Matsumoku:

The Vox was neck thru so it didn’t have a neckplate that I could check.

It does look very similar though.

Matsumoku was what I found when doing a bit of research when I was selling it too.

I believe the pickups were DiMarzio, no idea if that’s what comes with the other basses.

The strangest thing (to me, at least) was the pickup selector. There’s a standard 3-way toggle switch for bridge/both/neck but there’s also a smaller toggle switch which just controls the P pickup and toggles between bass coil/both coils/treble coil. Do you know if that’s common for the Westones or Arias?

I had an early-mid ‘80s Vox 3002 Custom that my dad bought from the guitarist in his band.

Learned to play on it then got my first Precision and didn’t touch it for years. Then, about ten years ago, I sold it here to fund an Ampeg SVT.

Sounded decent, from what I remember. Weighed a ton though!

Very nice!

It always kinda bothers me when an instrument of that age looks pristine. This one certainly has some tales to tell!

Enjoy!

Blink 182 will forever be one of my favourite bands and he was a big part of why I first picked up the bass.

I really hope he’s doing ok.

No bass players for me. Just Jools Holland.

Surely this has to be a scam?

How does someone find an eBay item, find the seller’s address and then turn up claiming to be the person who bought it and have it just handed over?

I went to an all-dayer in Nottingham once and saw two bands that had two bass players. One was a 3-piece, with a drummer, and the other had a drummer and singer/guitarist. Sadly I can’t recall the names of either band.

Until then I’d never seen a band with two bass players.