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I just about spat my tea out at the price of 'em!

I'm not a fan - kinda flies in the face of the name "broad" bass. Old school tubby BBs for me

I use the spare leads at rehearsals. I assume batteries will be good until their expiry date. But that does remind me that I ought to check that DI - it does tend to live in its box...

Obbm FTW

Is it time for this thread again? I'm one of these irresponsible, unprofessional blaggards who doesn't take a spare bass or amp. I have a Behringer preamp/DI which I can use to go through the PA in an emergency. I do take spare strings, leads, batteries etc. Usually they have been used to bail other people out...

If a song ends on the same notes repeated while the drummer does an ending, I'm fond of a "machine gun the audience" type move...

I rarely remember to flick a switch to change pickups during a gig, never mind tweaking an active EQ. Added to the fact that I'd say that the majority of the audience don't care as long as they hear the songs they expect and it isn't egregiously wrong sounding is the reasoning behind my movement away from active basses. Even recording with passive doesn't bother me - just run it with the tone wide open and all the EQ and even the effects can be done in post these days.

I'm heading in the opposite way, all passive these days, with my final active bass in the process of being made passive once more.

Wood's rather soft on matches. Cocktail sticks are better.

Debatable? Hardly worth appointing a chair for what will simply boil down to another syntactic/semantic bun fight, imo.

It's what all the cool kids are doing. Well, it's what I'm in the process of doing to my black Epiphone Les Paul. I blame Squier for that black and gold Precision they put out recently.

Eh, no-one seems interested in doing business, it would seem. I was in the market for a couple of special order DiMarzio pickups. DiMarzio themselves to be fair replied straight away to say they couldn't/wouldn't do custom shop orders internationally direct. I emailed the UK distributor (Headstock) and got hee-haw reply (not entirely surprised as they're a distributor so under no obligation to reply to a pleb like me who's not in the trade, but still they could have been helpful and pointed me to some retailers). So I went to Andertons, knowing that they sell DiMarzio pickups and asked for a quote. Well, that was 31st January. They took all the details and said they'd get back to me. I chased them a week later. They replied and said they'd chase it. I have had not a peep back, although I'm sure this is as much the distributor's fault as anyone's. So the pickups are on their way across from the States thanks to a very helpful eBay seller who I contacted on 30th Jan to speculatively enquire about the pickups I wanted (which they didn't have in at the time). In response to my speculative and rather non-committal query, they got 2 of the pickups in anyway and out of the blue got in contact with me directly to let me know they had them and they'd just gone live in his eBay store. Legend! Snagged! Sorry Andertons/Headstock - you snooze you lose!

Dumbass(es) - stealing such a unique thing. Hope it gets recovered.

I would shop in a shop called GTFO, it's deliciously paradoxical! I can't say I've noticed that attitude, but I'm not in that often. And don't get me started on Aberdeen - the bass selection is so small that you can be in an out of there before they've even had a chance to get their "can I help you with anything" on

I guess if I was keeping it colloquial, I'd have simply said GTF (Get Tae F), but GTFO is a more commonly understood internet acronym.

Close - Get The F Out (of here, I suppose).

You're in the situation you're in now. Suck it up and fill/redrill the holes you need to. You've spent all this money on new tuners - don't halfass it because you're feeling a bit aggrieved. The screws will go in at a weird angle and will look like you halfassed it. At least you only have to do half the holes?

Zombie thread, but my one from 2021 had its bridge in the right place (just - only just enough room to move the E saddle back - you might be in bother if you like 110s...)

I have just dispensed with the three pointer off my Epiphone Les Paul, fire me the measurements and if it lines up, you can have it.

Glasgow or GTFO, and even then it's merely "better than everywhere else" with a low bar to clear.

I don't see how this backs up your claim. But as a non-oil painting myself, I guess I would say that.

Citation needed!

If someone's been taking too long to tune up, or is having to deal with an audience member trying to talk to them mid gig, I'll sometimes start playing this: The x2 should really ad nauseum...

Identical, assuming the shielding is complete and sound.