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    Fender reportedly lays off hundreds of California employees

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    7 minutes ago, TimR said:

    There's a warehouse full of unsold Fenders. 

     

    The whole supply chain problem and looming recession following Covid is really weird. Some companies have excess stock, some can't get parts and so can't produce stock. In both situations you won't be making new stock so the employees are doing nothing.

    i was recently looking at upgrading a decent modded squier P with a US factory neck - none  any in stock anywhere and fender website says none available until the end of this month

    Fender reportedly lays off hundreds of California employees

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    the optimist in me says, on a plus note it might put an end to this million and one variations syndrome of having signature models for barely known z-listers

    8 hours ago, Doctor J said:

    Perhaps putting the same products into the market for 70 years has finally filled it to the point that almost everyone who wants one has one and there are enough used ones to satisfy the rest?

    the pessimist in me says, not necessarily because there will always be new z-listers coming along who people who are easily parted with their cash will follow and consequently buy the new signature model 🙄

     

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    Virus alerts on bass sites

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    6 hours ago, Ed_S said:

    SSL Labs usually gives you a fair idea of what's going on, and their tests won't complete for the BD site due to behaviour which "usually happens when there are multiple TLS servers behind the same IP". Before failing, the tests return the SAN certificate I'd expect, and also a seemingly unrelated wildcard for a shared SSL CA which seems to belong to a hosting provider called Heart Internet. The IP of the site sits under the ASN for Host Europe, but in a block assigned to Heart, so that ties up. I don't get alerts from either my home systems or our secure gateways at work, so I'll continue to look at the pretty pictures on the purely personal assessment that it's more likely a sub-optimal configuration than anything malicious in that one particular instance.

     

     

    Yup! And and don't trust my assessment either - you've paid them to keep you safe and they seem to be doing an alright job.

    +1 this - sounds like they have not configured  to force all traffic via https and redirect http to https

    My dad, bass in the sixties

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    21 hours ago, Bassassin said:

     

    Only just saw this thread - apropos of nothing in particular, 64 Spoons was the second live band 16-year old me ever saw, some point in the summer of 1978, at the White Horse on Chatham Hill, Kent. The local punky pub rock band we'd gone to see had cancelled & these guys filled in. Their weird brand of proggy jazz wasn't at all what I expected, but they were nice guys & happy to chat to me & my mates about music & the band we were planning to start. They were fronted by a prodigiously talented youth called Jakko Jakszyk, who went on to do various interesting things including playing with Level 42 & currently fronting King Crimson.

    never went to or even recall a single gig at the white horse ... the tam o'shanter 100 yards up the hill is a completely different matter !

    What are your views on the vinyl s(pl)urge?

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    Have had some reissue pressings which sound dull and lifeless compared to 70s originals and ocassionally vice versa

     

    only have one half speed master in the collection which is monkeyhouse friday and the quality is outstanding but then also some bowie reissues which sound decidely average

     

    its quite nice when you pick up an old original 70s or 80s disc and the production and mastering are so good it still sound fantastic today albeit it with a few extra pops and crackles

     

    then again there are some things also which both labels and/or artists have steadfastly resisted re-releasing, so if you want your copy then vinyl is the only choice

     

    re the OP comments, the same near here with the big hmv store at bluewater shopping centre, extremley well stocked but extremley high prices too, but there are plenty of local shops fortunately covering both used and new vinyl at much better prices and better overall shopping experience imho

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