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We all need reminded sometimes just how insignificant and unimportant we truly are...

They're a niche (ERB vs. 4 string), inside a niche (bass guitars vs. guitars). Not exceptional in the sense that everyone knows what they are, but I still reckon 5 (and more) string basses will be outnumbered by 4 strings in the wild at least 5:1, maybe even 10:1. Dogma is difficult to change. I know it's a super parochial view of things but right now in my house it's 10-0 in favour of 4 strings, and over all time, the score is 56-2...

You may have to reassemble them first...

One thing's for sure, you'll definitely get nowhere fast if you don't do it. The Inevitable Teaspoons are a great example of this. Who? The Inevitable what now? Exactly.

Get a scrap of mahogany and some dyes and see what works for you? A lot of this "works" business is subjective and at the end of the day only you can say if it "worked" or not.

Winking smiley at the end! Want context? OK, because Dad was commenting on a "strange world" I got a vision in my imagination of an alien with a clipboard, tutting at our petty squabbles and making notes. It's my brain and I reserve the right to let it go to weird places sometimes...

How's the report you're authoring for your powers-that-be back on your home planet coming along? I fear that we're failing the test...

All Jazz basses can get in the bin. Zero exceptions.

So, a P bass then?

This is where here and Talkbass differ - on TB this thread would descend into a flame war - an interminable bitchfest until it reaches about thirty pages long before some mod finally pulls the plug. Here we rebound gently between the sublime and the ridiculous, deftly and subtly extracting the Michael out of one another using extreme examples of the subject under discussion and obscure pop culture references, then everyone calms down and has a cup of tea. Guess where I prefer to do my bitchin' and moanin'

5 string? Pah, amateur hour

They're better for me. Your mileage may vary.

I fully intended to build my rig around the Puma but mere weeks after I got it, a Markbass combo became available locally at a stupidly low price that I could not ignore. Sits perfectly on the Markbass New York 121 that I had started to build my rig with. It also sounds great, and the combo suits me better (take the combo on its own to rehearsals, use the whole rig for gigs). Puma got relegated to backup - and you know that amp is too good to sit around the house waiting for the offchance of an amp failure. The new owner is delighted with it, and I'm delighted it's gone somewhere it'll see some action.

Unfortunately, you can't have it both ways - there's an exemption for transactions begun the previous year which need completed with a final payment in the current year of abstinence. For that to work, the transaction is considered to start when the deposit is put down, irrespective of future delivery date. Or, just don't tell us about the deposit and wait until delivery time if that's how you feel it should work - it's not like we're under oath or anything

I admire the endeavour and the mental gymnastics nonetheless

Maybe a trip to the doctor is in order if anything that colour is excreted...

Umm, see you in court? Or are you asking for a friend?

I can categorically state that there is no such loophole, no credit scheme or any such thing. One wrong click on the Buy Now button and you're out, irrespective of how much stuff you've sold this year. It's a brag, basically - "look how well I'm doing, not only am I abstaining from buying gear, I'm selling the stuff too!" type thing, I guess. Upgrading "make do with what you've got" to "make do with less", if you will.

Dunno - FAAFO?

No, you buy something, you're out. I'm merely highlighting the danger of having money (electronic or folding) burning a hole in your hipper (physical or otherwise). Could I have worded what I wrote better? Was it ambiguous in some way?

During this time when you can't buy a G&L (USA or Tribute) for love nor money right now, here's a pic of my Tribute LB-100 for no reason other than it was there.

Winning - I'm negative gear for the year - just sold a Tecamp Puma 900. The trouble ahead is that's most of what a Sire Z7 costs... still, stock won't be available for months - plenty of time for the car's MOT to eat those funds instead!

Wrong time in life - I wasn't interested then. I wish I had been, but I wasn't. Brief history: Primary school - sang (until my voice went weird and couldn't do all those solos they used to want me to do) and played recorder. I know they were trying to get us to sight read but I always memorised. That was fine until one time I couldn't figure out the song, so when it came time to play it I stuck my hand up and asked to go to the loo, then took my sweet time about it. Quit recorder group because the second last boy quit and left me as the only boy. Girls were ikky then, so I quit too. Was offered the chance to play cello but I couldn't be arsed with the huge thing. Secondary school - compulsory music for the first two years, wasn't interested, just saw it as a skive period and used it to skive. Didn't take up the bass until my 30s, joined my first band in 2009 at the ripe old age of 34. I grew up late, what can I say? It wasn't school's fault, it's not as if I wasn't presented with opportunities, I just didn't want to take them up then. So I guess I didn't let school help me with my musical life, looking back I marvel at how stupid, wasteful and downright ungrateful I was back then. Oh well, live and (maybe) learn!

Of course it's a personal thing. It's also why sometimes people take it personally, but that's a conflation of two similar but very different things.

I love blocks on any bass. Can't love the snotburst though, sorry.