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Eh, I can't remember when I bought the Fender Cabronita P, where I bought it (might have been Kenny's in Glasgow), how much I paid or even how long I had it. Same for the Starcaster bass (I have an inkling it was in a now defunct Aberdeen music shop, iiMusic). I think both products were released within the timeframe though. Presumably I'd need to know those details in much more clarity than this, have receipts etc?

Don't tempt me - failing the Gear Abstenence thread with 2 weeks to go would be pretty embarrassing... If it's still available in the new year, let's you and me talk, Basschat...

There's collection only bass down London way which is seriously calling to me. MUST STAY STRONG. But if you think I'm travelling all the way down to flecking London from Aberdeen for a bass that costs less than a grand, you're sorely mistaken.

I know, you already said and I thank you for your openmindedness. I didn't quote you when I wrote what you quoted...

It seems like a passive/aggressive keyboard warrior thing to do more like. I'd like to see them do that in reality - the rough equivalent I guess would be to speak really loudly and slowly, like someone who thinks someone who doesn't speak English will understand English if its said louder and slower. And who enjoys seeing an ar$ehole like that engaging in that behaviour? Pathetic.

Harsh AND unfair, have some sympathy for us in the frozen ar$e-end of civilisation!

Take a walk in my shoes - I'm in Aberdeen - there's next to no cool gear up here locally so if I see something tasty that's collection only I'll ask. If you don't ask, you don't get. No need to get your nose out of joint - I can read, why do you think I'm messaging to ask if you'll reconsider? I'm not some flecking illiterate chancer, I'll have you know!

I always ask before I bid if they'll reconsider the "collection only" policy. If I hear back in the negative (or don't hear back at all), I don't bid.

We were supposed to be playing a gig tonight but the roads north of Aberdeen are really bad, RTCs on both sides of the main dual carriageway heading out of the city. For safety's sake, considering 3 out of the 4 of us live in the frozen wastes north of Aberdeen, we decided to cancel the gig. The venue were understanding, which is a bonus. Stay safe out there, everyone.

I use an earlier incarnation of this, cuts strings fine.

You've only had the bass a few days, you haven't even had a full volume go with it and you're asking about replacing the pickups? Give them a chance to impress you before you decide they're somehow lacking! I've been where you are - it's an expensive business and leads to more sideways moves than actual upgrades. At least give it a few weeks and a fair go before even thinking about such things...

Turn your amp up a bit?

Yes, we do it, we do it semi-willingly in December and it goes down well. We do Slade and Shaky. Pre COVID we did The Darkness too but people didn't seem to like that one so much so we dropped it. Weird, because they love I Believe In A Thing Called Love. Lighten up, it's only one month out of twelve, you damn Scrooges

Is that Pink Floyd, post Roger Waters, according to Roger Waters?

Last night was odd. First time gigging in a new town (Montrose) and a new venue (the Black Abbot). Early start at 8pm - when we arrived in the room folk were still eating their dinner. The area we were asked to set up in was made unnecessarily cosy because of various bric-a-brac left and right but we squeezed in there. Started playing and got moaned at for being too loud. We did our best to back it off a little and eventually they stopped moaning. I was barely brushing the strings! Got some folk up dancing. After the folks who were moaning left the bar staff told us just to do our thing and the second half was a lot more business as usual. After an annoying start it ended up being a pretty good gig. Got asked for one more tune at the end. Nice early finish too (11pm).

Aff it, otherwise I'd have been on it.

Simple answer is no. You do you. You're the bass player. Take anything anyone has to say about that with as many or as few pinches of salt as you deem necessary.

FWIW I use a Yamaha Sessioncake SC-02 as my headphone amp. Can take an aux in and has aux out for things like a tuner app on your phone etc.

Why do you pay yearly? We use emubands and it's a one time payment per release.

@cheddatom - I've got your back, fellow IT person.

"I thought you were attractive, but you're a just an ar$e!"

I've got Merry Christmas Everybody AND Merry Christmas Everyone ready for Saturday. Bring on the cheese!

We are at that crossroads at the moment - there is disagreement in the band as to whether or not to bother making CDs any more. I could take it or leave it, one is really keen to make CDs, one is dead set against it and the other two's opinions are undefined at this time. It looks like we'll do a minimum run of CDs (and accept that the unit cost of them makes it minimally profitable at the unit cost level) just so that they exist. We save costs by doing all our own artwork (which means it won't suck, but it won't be amazing either). The album is already up digitally - not that anyone cares - just another voice whispering into the cacophony of music out there. It just feels so grubby and makes my skin crawl to go all HEY, YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO OUR MUSIC BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME, so it's hardly going to light up the charts, is it?

It was a serious reply - there's absolutely no money in it. We're far too old and far too ugly to "make it" so we just make some tunes, record them and send them out into the ether to absolutely zero plaudits because we must suffer for our art - and we're terrible at convincing other people to suffer our art...

We don't do it for the money, it's all about the posterity.