spacecowboy

God don’t get me started on Thomann and their returns. I couldn’t even get anyone to take my parcel off me in the first instance and I tried lots of those DHL drop off sites (all corner shops) no one wanted a bass in their shop store room and refused to take it… One shop mentioned the DHL man hadn’t been for 2 months… she showed me her stock room and it was just floor to ceiling of un collected returns parcels. In the end after threatening Thomann with legal action (I was really at the end of my tether) they got the DHL man to come to me to get the parcel from my home address and it went direct to them and within a couple of days I had my refund, but it took months and I won’t buy from them again as the returns are a bloody nightmare and the customer service team couldn’t care less.

I think it needs one more bolt just to be sure…

Think most of the good stuff is posted but a massive shout out to Robiq who is a monster bass player and has some incredible basses and grooves. https://m.youtube.com/@Robiq

Haha! I think they’re much of a muchness there!

My absolute worst nightmare

Yep 👍 when I deal with BassDirect and BassBros I’m happy to take a small hit compared to what a private sale would get me. For me it’s so much less hassle and an added bonus is they’re both on my doorstep.

I use Small Comfort Straps, adjusted almost as short as they will go! I like to wear my basses like necklaces!

I still don’t have context. what’s he selling his bass for? A one-off payment? To fill a deficit? To pay for a holiday? Technically you’re not covering the cost of the bass, your donating to cover the cost of whatever the bass was going to cover? And without context I can’t do it? What if it’s to cover a mortgage payment and then next month there’s another collection? Solving the root of the problem is going to help more than throwing cash at something? Also please don’t read this as “I don’t care” I genuinely sympathise with everyone who’s in a predicament financially at the moment, the cost of living is a joke at the moment, my household has had to make a lot of changes too! It does suck.

Yeah I have a 5 string Squier P Bass in my rack and I bloody love it! It’s one of the Cort made ones so quality is up there! Picked it up for around £250!

It’s the only 1 mind! 😬 everything else is north of £300!!

Great thread! I’d need a 5 string. Guitar Guitar in Brum would sort me out a Squier Affinity Jazz Bass V in 3 Colour Sunburst for £269! So I think I’d make the gig and be happy enough!

But what is the situation? People can’t just chip in money for something that’s not being explained to them?

Yeah this needs a lot more context?

Nah I’m sure he sucks at that bit, no left hand…

Bassworlder here too!

Nah you’ve got it in one, it sounds like he’s using a pitch shifter so it sounds comical, I’m shaking my head just thinking about it

I’m glad so many of you agree! I was having a slight pang of regret airing it all, but it seems we all feel the same! After talking with the singer last night I think the outcome is they’re both going to go! At least any new guitarist has a full band to join and can make the parts theirs!

Yeah the guitarists weren’t my idea! Singer wanted two, the keys players face was a picture when he found out there was two… he’s so talented as well… he can absolutely do the job for both of them!

So this is a quick rant, Background I moved to Warwick about 14 months ago, joined a band, it didn't work out, but me and the singer decided to leave and start something else. Myself and the singer put together 2 hours of covers to we'd like to play, and spent a couple of weeks on Bandmix finding the right people to play together in this new band, the goal was to play good paid gigs (IKR), we all have full time jobs so this is a weekend thing for fun / cash, for this we need competent and committed musicians who can learn that volume of material very quickly, gel as a band and get out on the road asap, aside from one drummer who we all thought was genuinely going to kill us we've managed to pull a good group together... or have we? Problem! We have two guitarists, myself on bass, a drummer, a keys player and our singer, everyone except these guitarists have learned the 2 hours of music in a 4 week period and the rest of us are in the position to work towards building a set with our own structures and instrumentations, and this is where we have a real problem, one guitarist while very good has only turned up for 1 practice in 5, mostly dropping out on the day of rehearsal via text, the other guitarist while not as technically gifted as the other one is solid enough, but, again he has only turned up for 3 rehearsals and in 4 weeks hasn't seemingly learned anything, his biggest downside being he can't use chord sheets or sheet music, if we write the notes out and the structure on a board he doesn't know how to follow, he changes key by using a pitch shifter instead of playing the new chords in different positions, its painful, he freezes to the spot and plays nothing rather than just playing the basics of the song... so with that being said, myself and the singer have had to give them an ultimatum, in 2 weeks they must catch up with the rest of us, play the songs well and make rehearsals or we'll have to let them go. The good guitarist was honest and said he doesn't have time to rehearse but when we get a gig he'll play... so we as a band pay every week and rehearse getting nice and tight just for this knacker to come in and widdle all over the set and take a cut home with him...? no thanks, so he's gone. The other guitarist has a mammoth task of learning all the songs in a 2 week window cause he's apparently learned nothing in the previous 4, my worry here is when the singer says "ok, sounds good but let's change the key to B", we'll all play in the new key and he'll just not know what to do... which isn't ideal, in truth I think he'll just bail before the next rehearsal and we'll have to start the search again. Nice guys, but not right. Ending Why are guitarists such bloody knackers?

I love this place, so whatever @pedneeds to do to keep it here I’m game.

100% try one of those before you buy mate, I tried a 5 string metro express at BD and it was just shocking, loose wobbly pickups, bad frets, high action it felt very unfinished for such a big name.

It’s such a shame to hear more bad experiences, I’ve recently bought my Ken Smith from them and they were great. 🫨

No he was Jaco…