tauzero

I put my Hayman together from parts when the Fender Soundhouse had a fire around the same time as Hayman went bust and a load of parts were sold off cheap. Didn't get a pickup guard, didn't see the point. Neither of the Precisions I've owned had ashtrays.

A Hayman 40/40 was my first bass. I part-exchanged it for a Fender Precision, which is the instrument I used for the one and only recording that I played slap on. Then I PXed the Fender for a Warwick.

Funny, I managed to get past just about every audition in the early 80s (and since then) without playing slap. Any that I didn't get past weren't because I didn't play slap.

The Broad Street shop (which I used to look into when I was a schoolboy) got hit by a fire. There was a bit of speculation about that. It moved to Snow Hill (where it was when I bought a P from them, and later PXed it for a Thumb), and years later became Reverb Sounds. Gary, who used to work in the guitar department there, went on to PMT in Birmingham - years ago, I think when he was still at Musical Exchanges, he showed me some photos of the fire damage in the Broad Street shop.

I bought a Carlsbro Stingray guitar amp at the Dale End shop in the late 1970s.

Only trying to be helpful, you charming little man.

Are you saying that you're writing a story? If so, could I advise you to write in reasonably comprehensible English and with punctuation that generally adheres to the rules of punctuation? It may be easier for you to write this way, but it makes it hard to read.

Narcissistic tw@ttery?

I thought it wouldn't be about Fenders because nobody used Fenders for funk. I seem to have missed a connection here.

I think it went off-topic during the first post.

No, it's not about grammar, it's about the collating sequence. In a phone book, "Level 42" would come before "Level42" as space comes before 4.

I misread it, I thought he was a pasta chef at Macaroni's, before becoming a wireless operator at Marconi's.

I was born rather before the 70s, and if you did a search for the demographics poll, you'd find that there's quite a lot of us. And CMOS was around before 1976, it had started making inroads when I was playing with TTL 74-series in about 1970. But what this has to do with Windows 11, I have no idea. And Marcus Miller isn't a household name now.

Have you got the opportunity to play them? I haven't played a Sadowsky, have played a few Spectors and never got on with the necks. Likes and dislikes are very subjective, I can only mention my own experience.

Here's me, brain the size of a planet, and I can't work it out either. Something about Santana teaching Mark King to play bass at Macari's under the guidance of the OP, or something.

You've got two other threads on the same topic to say that in, this one is in praise of Coldplay!

Another vote for the SGC Nanyo here. Also Peaveys in general - I've had a Grind BXP in 6-string and 5-string form and if I was still playing 4-strings, I'd be quite happy with one of those. Hohner - the B2 (B2A for preference) or a Jack if you could get it at a reasonable price. Headlessness, once you are used to it, has many advantages. Cort - GB74, as used by Pete Trewavas of Marillion when he's not using a Warwick Thumb.

Might have bunged a bit towards the James Webb telescope.

What a monstrous tragedy. Coldplay will do no more recording after 2025, before when they plan to produce three final albums. I'll be queueing up at midnight for them when they come on sale.

I think they're brilliant. I just thought I'd say that in the interests of balance, seeing as there are now two topics for Coldplay haters.

Did she? I would take what she said as meaning that she wasn't going to accede to the request to remove the item from sale. The point about the lawyers making the demands was that they were demands, so it's pretty pointless making them unless you insist on them. As it's a translation, though, I may be missing some nuance in the original.

At least this has reminded me that Mrs Zero likes Coldplay, and stirred me to order her a delayed Christmas pressie of "A rush of blood to the head". So that's their CD sales up by one.

Spalted, you mean? 😁

Warwick surface finisher for the Warwicks, occasionally (every 29th of February). Anything else which is bare natural finish gets occasional beeswax (see above), lacquered gets a duster about as often as I dust anything in this house. I don't seem to get muck accumulation on my fretboards - possibly because I mostly play fretless so there's no natural gunge build-up areas, but looking at the acoustic guitar which is probably the instrument I mostly play at home, there's no muck build-up from about 40 years of use. When I've bought instruments with gunge on the frets, I've used meths or IPA [1] to do the initial cleaning then some lemon oil to finish it off. [1] Isopropyl Alcohol, not India Pale Ale (other ales are available)

Bosting. Hope things continue to go well for you.