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Of course, it doesn't help when customs get involved and kidnap your stuff for as many days as they feel like, regardless of the direction of travel...

By Internet logic, that automatically means that all Squier 40th Anniversary models blow all Fender CS models out of the water, because reasons!

In case you hadn't noticed, it's the same five of us having cyclic arguments about the P bass being the one true bass or not...

You fscking liar!

I can't stand that song. I have no idea why it's so popular, it's a drudge to play and the only reason its in the set is for the audience. Oh well, smile and give the people what they want...

Yes, but all I want is to be heard, while sounding good in a band context, and I'm the one who defines "good" as the chosen subject specialist for the evening. I will have given zero thought to, nor sought the opinion of the audience - and that is because the vast majority of them don't have one.

That's an impressively tall horse you're sitting on.

They're all basses and I claim my five pounds.

I'm not even going to dignify this with a view.

You want me to be... patient? You know that's not how GAS works, right? Unhappy to report I'm already there, and it makes me sad every time I see it.

Yes, it was. How "convenient"

I'm not even sure this bass player cares...

I can check with Squier if you want, but I'm pretty sure you're allowed to have one even if you're not in a band...

It's not fun getting squarer when the holes are getting forever rounder

I've played with the same drummer since 2009. We've done some practices together just the two of us when we want to figure something out about a song that's bothering us and it's always been beneficial. Did it work? Well, we haven't killed each other yet, so I guess it did! But in all seriousness, I would definitely say it helped foster a "rhythm section as a coherent unit" mentality. Maybe time alone did that, who knows? Hints? Keep it light hearted, but have a purpose - like working on a song or portion thereof in particular. I'd say going into it entirely rudderless will amount to playing 2 songs then spending the rest of the time drinking tea and talking bollox.

I've had to wear glasses to do anything above and beyond avoiding bumping into things since I was 8.

Yeah, I know, but waiting for shiny things to arrive is rubbish. I guess my main annoyance is the inconsistency - another bass gets dispatched DE>UK on the same day from same company using same courier and sails through.

I believe the parcel gets handed off to UK Mail/DHL. Trouble is, the tracking doesn't come alive until the package clears customs. I don't know how Thomann get their goods from themselves to the customs. I know of the site you linked, and you're right - sometimes they seem to be able to glean more than the official tracking does! No joy in this case though - nada info. Because it's most likely stuck in customs limbo land...

Been sooked in by all the Sire chatter of rolled fingerboard edges, roasty toasty necks and general niceness for the money, and always been vaguely curious about a '51/'54 P so thought I'd give the D5 a go. Thought being the operative word at the moment...

Nah, paid by card. Always had good service from Thomann in the past so I'm not concerned about some of the interesting tales recently reported regarding returning goods. This is a different situation anyway - it's not a return, I've never received it in the first place! Besides, I have little doubt that this is a UK Customs snafu.

I decided to treat myself to a bass. I ordered it from Thomann on the 18th June, it was awaiting the arrival of stock so not worried about a bit of a wait. However, the backordered stock arrived pretty quickly and it got despatched on 21st June. Haven't heard a peep since. Been staring at this ever since: So it's disappeared down a customs black hole I reckon. I have been in touch with Thomann and they've asked me for a little more patience and to let them know if nothing changes by Monday. What happens now? Ask them to send another? Cancel the whole effing thing and buy something else from somewhere in the UK? What's especially annoying (and I'm not angry at them!) is that another BCer also ordered a bass from Thomann which got despatched the same day as mine and it got through no problem. Just sitting here a bit grumpy. Sympathise, tell me to grow up (first world problems and all that) or ignore, I just felt like having a whinge about it

WTF is it with these fantasists? "Small crack on back of neck", yet lists the condition as "Excellent (used)". I think someone's applied some reverb to their brain.

For £200, maybe. EDIT - nearly spat my tea out when I saw it had been listed as "very good (used)" condition on Reverb. Are they high? With a band name like Mammoth Weed Wizard B'stard, there's a fair chance, I guess...

I drive. Public transport is a non-option - spotty timetables in the city and utterly hopeless out in the 'shire. Also, last buses way too early for playing gigs. Rehearsal space is 30ish miles away in rural Aberdeenshire - good luck getting a bus out there. Sometimes in the interest of taking less motors to the gig, I'll drive as far as the drummer's house then we'll go together from there. Or the drummer will pick me up on the way through to a gig in the south. He's got a bigger car than me. So, for the sake of argument, let's see how public transport works, using google maps for time estimations etc. Let's say I have a gig in Fraserburgh (played there last Friday, so a real world situation). Car takes about an hour, bus takes 2, so already there and back that's 2 hours stolen from my life I'll never get back. Want to get there for 8pm for a 9.30pm start. Well, the bus stop in Fraserburgh is a 5 minute walk from the pub, laden with gear - that'll be fun in the height of summer - so getting the bus which arrives at 8pm will make me late, better get the one that arrives before at 7.22pm then hang about like a plum waiting for my compadres to arrive. At least I can have a beer while I wait. Play until 12.30am, pack up, load out, probably takes us to 1am or thereabouts. Oopsie poopsie, no buses back to town - first bus back is at 8.30am. So, either find somewhere in a teeny tiny NE Scotland town to hole up for the night (good luck with that) or spend half my gig earnings on a taxi back to town. If you think I'm going to participate in any of that charade, in the immortal words of Judas Priest - you've got another thing comin'. Happy to forego the beer.

Rude! And we've had folk in their 20s ask us for Pink Floyd. You never can tell!