Billy Apple

On 19/07/2019 at 20:46, skankdelvar said:

There's nothing wrong with purloining the occasional sartorial cue from those musicians who have played a formative role in our personal development just as long as we don't overdo it. For myself, I specifically wear the same brand of socks as did the late Mr John Entwistle during the period 1973 -1998 (M&S towelling socks / Black) but I don't make a song and dance about it; it's a discreet homage between me and my shoes.

But dressing up as Hendrix in a tie-dyed tee-shirt and a bandana would be de trop unless, perhaps, one were performing in a Hendrix tribute act like the gentleman pictured below. Crikey! You'd swear it was Jimi come back from the grave.

 

Pie Hendricks

7 hours ago, fleabag said:

There maybe some Dutch speaking members here, but pasting a  load of posts in a foreign language on a mainly English speaking forum isnt of much use

Excellent piece of diversity and inclusion right there. Instead, why don’t you bung it in Google translate and help?

From the opening lick going into the kick in the guts, players like Bruce Foxton made a young me pick up a bass.

Something's may seem funny, but if you are not in that club they may not.

Playtime's over boys.

5 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

If you use a direct debit for PayPal so that any transaction automatically comes from your bank account the bank won’t refund you for any purchase.

I had a direct debit set up and this is what the bank reversed.

4 hours ago, fleabag said:

so, i contacted my bank and got them to reverse the payment.

Suddenly, PP took notice

I did exactly the same thing. Pay Pal didn't want to know until my bank reversed payment. Suddenly I started getting phone calls from them at 0800 everyday asking for their money. Now they were calling me, I got my point across. I got my money back from a vendor who I'd returned goods too (not as described).

Pay Pal are tu7ds of the first order.

I think Basschat is the only place where I would send goods and use bank transfer, but still only with established members with a Marketplace history.

I do sell on Gumtree, but only face to face for cash. I don't even give my address out. I give the address of a local supermarket car park and tell them to ring when they get there. They have ANPR and CCTV which is useful if skullduggery is on someones mind. If they want to look at the item and handle it that's fine, but I ask for the money in my pocket first. I've been  asked 'don't you trust me?' to which I say you're a feller I've just met in a car park.. of course I don't trust you!

With respect to the OP, it's so obvious this is nonsense, I find it odd that people are still asking about this.

I was thinking though, couldn't you string the scammer along and send them a box of bricks or something? Sure they'll get their money back, but they'll also get a box of bricks. Come to think of it, I've got an old Armitage Shanks 'Dominator' model bog and cistern gathering weeds in the back garden. It's there because the local tip are now wanting £10 to take it in. Maybe some lucky person in South Africa could get it!?

6 hours ago, fleabag said:

you're speaking for yourself

You keep repeating yourself. You’re speaking for yourself.

What’s your  point?

4 minutes ago, fleabag said:

You're speaking for yourself, but cant speak for others.  Who knows what someone else might want to do with them. Without the stems, there's zero options

None of us can speak for others. But many recordings beauty lies on the moment.

You only have to look at star wars to see what happens when things are revisited.

Mind you, I've always thought everything I've ever committed to tape could have the bass a bit louder

3 minutes ago, fleabag said:

Possibly, but would they have been able to record the stems, or just the track as a whole ?

An mp3 of a master is just an mp3.  There's no stems to  speak of so no re-mastering can be done

Why would you want to remaster? Surely the joy is how it was captured at the time?

You wonder that these early recordings might just disintegrate anyway?

Bad things happen to good things. I'm more concerned that Universal didn't just fess-up. But of course they wouldn't if there was a penny in it for them.

Anyway, we can record them all again with the latest X Factor winners. And play them 'live' from the new ice-rink on top of the Notre Dame. Be great for the kiddies.

My opinion differs to that of George, in that I think they should be smashed and burned.

There's pretty much two punk basses. P Bass and RIc, and out of all those played you'd have to pick the bones out of what was real and a fake.

My memory is they started with a Ric and finished with a P.

No Gibbo's apart from Gaye Advert

7 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

Disappointing, isn't it? 

1 hour ago, Billy Apple said:

The other main one was Wendy Richards. We used to watch her from the tills in Selfridges while she peered over the top of her dark glasses to see who was looking.

The best was Joan Collins. Selfridges was her local and she was in all the time. No shades, no make up, nowt. And no one gave her a second look. She used to come into the book department and talk to Brian who had been a child actor with her and then worked most of the fly's in the West End.

One day she did a book signing and she came through the store on a chariot pulled by oiled Chippendale's while wearing a jewelled turban. Everyone knew She was in that day and it stopped traffic! She still spoke to Brian.

IMHO Ms Collins really understood the game.

5 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

Was he crafty? Was he cockney?

Do tell.

He was trying to look like someone who wanted to be noticed while looking like he didn’t want to be noticed. None of it mattered as I pushed him out of the way to get to the sautéed potatoes. I’m lucky as I’ve been around a bit and not too startstruck. Mind you, I met that Marsha Hunt once in the Manchester Travelodge and she just sat there while I filled her plate.

I think the Darts theory has it. To prove the point I met Eric Bristow at breakfast in the City West Hotel, Dublin.

I'm going to sit right down the front. Mr Hall, Mr Hall! I've got a pair of Dungarees just like yours, they're great are'n't they?!

Just now, prowla said:

I meant in general terms, rather than what is for sale now.

I meant in a way for light comic relief.

Just now, prowla said:

What's the going price for a Greco 4001 copy these days?

We'll never know... Not on Basschat anyway

8 hours ago, Skinnyman said:

Harley Davidson is a very good comparison - thank you! And talking of cool, I am now seriously lusting after a Walnut 4003s. In fact, I might go have and have a little browse through the Marketplace to see......oh, hang on......

d’oh.

No, Harley is not a good comparison. Despite the basic configuration of the engine not changing (erm apart from the V Rod and the Street Rod), Harley have done loads of stuff, but they do it in a way that to the casual observer you’d not notice.

if Harley were running Rickenbacket they’d have solved the bridge, but it would be able to palm mute, look the same and sound exactly the same. With no additional issues like the Hipshot.

they'd also be making a Far East version and making more money on Tee shirt sales than anything else 

37 minutes ago, drTStingray said:

The Allegro was introduced in 1973 (or maybe 74) and stayed in production until replaced by the Maestro in about 1983. They were pretty popular but the square steering wheel (I think it was called quartic) was deeply unpopular and was dropped for a standard one after a couple of years. Believe it or not the Allegro 1750 SS was the epitome of a boy racer's dream in 1974 - I know - I went and looked at one - but they were eclipsed by the Golf GTI a couple of years later.  

Vanden Plas made luxury versions of BMC cars as well as limos and then BL ones - the Allegro was possibly the worst looking of all - it's predecessor - the Vanden Plas 1300 was much nicer!! They had full leather and in some cases an upgraded engine (including one with a Rolls Royce 4 litre). The grille looks abominable on the Allegro - all the other badge engineered saloons like MG disappeared in 1973/4 - presumably BL had a financial stake in VDP and its workshops. There is a parallel here between the hatred for JH and the chairman of BL, Lord Stokes - he scrapped the Mini Cooper, fitted hideous bumpers to the MGB for the US market among lots of other hated decisions - the Graham Taylor (in England manager guise)  of car company chairmen. 

I thought the point with JH was that he’s changed nothing. He’d have put a square steering wheel on a car and tell everyone to go f**k themselves for 30 years

15 minutes ago, Bassassin said:

This, in theory, is of course true. However it's interesting how uncommon it actually is to see such bespoke bridges. And, thinking about it, curious that Leo Fender (whose entire ethos was about simple mass-production of electric guitars) specified fully adjustable bridges on the majority of his designs. You'd think a radius-matched tune-o-matic type would have been perfectly practical & more economical.

You can use one BBoT over a range of necks.

1 minute ago, NikNik said:

Gotcha. You're spot on. Still....

Well, it’s a funny old world. But I’d still have a fire glo 4003s

2 minutes ago, NikNik said:

Indeed. I mean, if you were a woman  would you tap this??

 

Have you seen Bernie Eccleston? Money is a powerful afrodizzyack 

53 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

Chris Martin IV is passionate about Martin guitars and everyone agrees he's the nicest man in the biz.

Yeah, but Ed Sheeran plays them