neepheid

No, I don't get this at all. Mrs. Neepheid supports my hobby. Occasionally she encourages me to buy a bass I like - genuine conversation: "Do you like it?" "Yes." "Then you should buy it." She's even bought me a bass before. The kind of nonsense highlighted by the OP makes me sad, because unfortunately for some other people it might be true

This Saturday, Nine Lives are playing at Grays Inn, in Mastrick, Aberdeen. Please come - it's never been a particularly well attended venue in our experience

Entirely depends upon the desired outcome - freedom from her clutches? A punch in the mouth? An STI?

@SimonH bought a Squier Jag H from me last week. Fantastic, no-nonsense transaction, good comms, prompt payment, you can't say fairer than that. Deal with confidence.

I can participate in this thread for the first time - I don't generally have more than one example of a type of bass at one time, but for now at least... I guess there was the time when I briefly had two Squier Jaguar Hs in the house, but the grey one went back to Thomann as it got damaged in transit and they didn't offer me enough of a discount for me to want to keep it.

Not at all - bought purely for looks, I'm not ashamed to admit it. But the Epiphone Probucker 760s are easier to make work in contexts other than rock music, according to my ears anyway - just a bit more open/even sounding. It's all in the EQ though. With enough knob twiddling you can make most basses bend to your will, which is why I don't really care what bass I play, as long as it makes me feel happy and distracts punters from my bag of spanners face...

This is just an initial take, in headphones, and it might be slightly unfair on the Classic Pro as I have not had a chance to change the strings yet (not doing that until I get chrome tuners). To my ears, the Classic Pro is darker sounding, much more prominent in the low mids, whereas the Vintage Pro has a somewhat fuller range of sound, a bit more top end and a more balanced (but still very aggressive) attack. The difference might close up a little when I fit fresh strings to the Classic Pro, so may revisit this question again. But it is broadly as I expected. The Gibson TB+ pickup, love it or hate it is a growly, mean sound, with that emphasis on the low mids, but retaining a full bottom end and a (possibly only perceived) lack of top end as a result. The Epiphone Probucker 760 is more balanced - it's hardly "hi-fi", but it's an honest-to-goodness passive humbucker which is a tad easier to work with as an all-rounder. It's all EQ-able of course - you can make the two sound like each other more or less by tweaking some EQ. I don't like one better than the other, I know both work great in a live setting (because I played them both last night) and that's all that chiefly concerns me - I don't tend to evaluate basses predicated upon how they sound on their own much, hence my lack of vocabulary for describing such things. But you asked, and that's the best I can tell you right now.

I know, I owned a gold one a while back. Sounded great but I moved mine on for the somewhat less frequent complaint that it was too light. Plus it doesn't look like a Thunderbird - and I'll be honest - my reasons for wanting to own Thunderbirds are at least 50% for the looks... Vanity, they name is neep.

Well, that was easy!

Both my T-birds are neck thru. I'm of the opinion that if it's not neck thru, it ain't a T-bird. That bolt on one they make just doesn't cut the mustard as far as I'm concerned.

Last night a new venue for Nine Lives - Maud Football Social Club. Maud is a small village with an old woman's name in rural NE Scotland. Incidentally, it's also where we rehearse, so in a way it was almost like a home gig for the band! Early one too - 8.30-11.30pm, which makes a nice change. So we rock up and are pleased to find a large, empty space for us to set up in, loads of power sockets - dream start. Not an extension reel in sight. We got set up, and got going. A few folk came through from the main bar into the function area and we had folk up dancing most of the time. I wouldn't call it super busy, but with a few folk up dancing in front of you it makes it all worthwhile. We did have some trouble getting a decent sound - the area is quite wide and whilst this did give us the ability to put the PA speakers quite far forward, it created a bit of a dead spot where people were dancing, which got complained about. Sorta solved it by angling one of the PA speakers in a bit to fire a bit more in their direction and that seemed to keep them happy, but we will have to think about counter measures for situations like this in the future - perhaps have a monitor wedge, not so much for our benefit, but for the dancers! Got some nice comments after, some folk came up to chat to us and said they had a good time, so happy days. Gear was a flock of Thunderbirds into the usual Markbass modular monstrosity. And another thing... I don't want to hear about "Thunderbird neck dive" as a default from any of you so-and-sos in the future. The way some people go on about it, I must own the only two well behaved T-birds on the planet FFS! Enough! Even the headstocks are still intact! I don't want to hear it!

Miserable fsckers!

If I'd known, I'd have invited myself round for a cup of tea

Not had had a chance to do a comparison yet. Watch this space. At work the now, going to a gig tonight (as a punter), so probably won't have any answers until Saturday...

Through neck, Gibson USA TB+ pickups.

Well, technically it was NBD yesterday, but I drove to Inverness after work to get this bad boy and didn't get back home until late, so I couldn't be bothered filing the report until today. I have assembled a flock (?) of Thunderbirds - saw this guy up on FB marketplace for a most agreeable price and couldn't pass it up. It's even redder in person than these pics suggest - it's almost redburst rather than sunburst, and I really dig it. Here it is with its rather more outgoing sibling... Got a lot of extras with this one - Hipshot bridge (as you can see), the official hard case, strap locks (Schaller), a strap, a spare set of strings. And the bonus of all bonuses, the slightly longer Vintage Pro/60s/64 T-bird fits in the hard case - just! Happy, I am. Except that because the Hipshot bridge is chrome, I really want to replace the tuners with chrome ones to match... Jamais contente

1) 100% myth. 2) Your call, but in my world, instruments are to be played - I play all my basses live, irrespective of what they are, how expensive/old they are. Refinish it if you want, or play it as is, but play it.

BCC - anonymity guaranteed OK, think I've taken that too far now. Right, I'm going to call it - Brewdog Union Square, 2pm. Seems like a good shout, you can get beer if you want it, decent alcohol free options if you want it, coffee if you want it, food if you want it. I count 5 participants available (including myself) so far, so I'll book a space for 6 and see how it goes. If we need more room we'll probably be fine.

Not at all, we've been building towards something of a consensus, so we'll make it Sunday 13th and that'll nail it down. So, where do you want to meet, and at what time? I'll throw in the suggestion of a Brewdog (Union Square or Castlegate?), 2pm. But feel free to chime in with other ideas/preferences.

I have no frame of reference for how big the boot of a Mazda MX-5 is, so I can't answer the question.

This is pretty tame sauce compared to what goes on on social media. I just read through it and to be honest I think most of it was pretty relaxed. I think you're making a bit too much of it - don't be precious. If you ignore your hurt feelings and actually read the thread, you'll find advice in here - for instance you'd get a better price if you redid the covering. How is that negative? Here's some direct negativity for you - I think the cab looks bloody awful. So what? What of it? Why do you care what I think? If you like it, you're not wrong.

Thank you for the input on dates, with that info I have narrowed it down to two: 13th July 3rd August I'll leave that for people to chew over (and see if anyone else chimes in) then it'll be onto deciding on a venue. Which is a posh word for... pub. So gutted that CASC shut, it would have been a stick on for such a meetup