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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1430152958' post='2758441'] This thread is valid. Everything goes in cycles on here. New members join the forum daily. You can't expect them to trawl through about eight years' worth of old threads to find an answer to their questions, can you? [/quote] You don't need to, it gets done about once a fortnight.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1430061171' post='2757568'] I'd like the marketplace sub-forums divided up into manufacturer, type, colour, board type, scratchplate, number of strings, geographical location down to ward level and price bands in £10 increments. Example: [b]Forum[/b]: [size=3][i]Fender[/i] / Jazz / [i]Natural[/i] / RW / [i]Blk[/i] / 4st / [i]England / [/i]South Midlands[i] / [/i] [i]Oxfordshire[/i] / North Oxfordshire / [i]Banbury [/i]/ BA15 / [i]Shenington with Alkerton[/i] / £500-£510[/size] The benefit of this approach is that it would make things much easier for me and more difficult for everyone else. That's right. I said it. [/quote] Without specifying active/passive, modified/unmodified, headed/headless, fretted/fretless, and headstock decal genuine/fake/NA (headless)/NA (pretty inlay)/NA (big lump of metal), this is useless, I tell you, useless.

I'm in a covers band playing small to medium sized venues and I use a B3 or an MS60-B to get my original tone. If I was playing originals, I'd be just as happy using it to get my original tone.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1429879077' post='2755901'] That's a Zephyr isn't it? [/quote] I think it is but I bought it off That Ebay as a C5. I said it was a Zephyr when I sold it. Slightly deeper neck than a Grind (which is why I sold it) but lovely build quality.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1429873059' post='2755784'] Peavey C5 does all that, they go for less than £200 and are really well-made: Weighs a ton, mind. Jon. [/quote] What were you doing in my back garden?

Peavey Grind, if the string spacing isn't too narrow for you.

4x10 or 4x12, wobbly offset driver layout so it's close to vertically aligned but a bit shorter and wider, top driver angled upwards.

The DV247 description says it's a slim;line solid mahogany body, rather than the sapele hollow body of the other one.

I've got a 2000 Thumb which I had defretted by a luthier. I use roundwounds on it. No problems.

Anything that plays like butter. My dietary requirements dictate that it must play like Flora Lite. The word "Fender", unless it relates to a mudguard on an American bass. Too many knobs. I don't like crowded shops.

Was your floor in an appalling state then?

The start of "Highway to Hell", then the whole of John Cage's 4'33" (just the bass clef, of course).

Ebay and PayPal are about to be divorced. The Torygraph did an article on reasons for this [url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/11134139/The-five-reasons-behind-PayPals-split-from-eBay.html"]here[/url] but what is of more interest to me is whether it will remain compulsory to offer PayPal as a payment method for Ebay auctions. I haven't found anything yet - mind you, I haven't been searching very hard. There isn't an Ebay announcement covering it, though PayPal have just sent me an email.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1429354299' post='2750689'] This album was on rotation along with 'Stars'. Yes, the same flat, the same time, the same woman. So you can kind of understand why I don't like Simply Red or The Eagles. [/quote] Did you never think of simply not liking the woman instead? Then you might have been able to enjoy the Eagles. No-one, of course, should ever enjoy Simply Red.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1429045180' post='2747417'] You hide your TE from Dave's Mrs?!? [/quote] I'm just surprised at the concept of moving a Trace Elliot.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1429231643' post='2749584'] Mick Hucknall is a terrible potato-headed Tamworth with a voice like the dying breath of a lemming! Still, he did put the 'soul' in 'arsehole', so there is that. [/quote] How dare you compare the noble, sweet-sounding Sandyback with that squealing ginger Manc!

And if you look here [url="http://www.steinberger.com/XT25.html"]http://www.steinberger.com/XT25.html[/url] you can find the specs on the XT25 and (if you go from the navigation sidebar) Synapse - a little less detailed than your measurements. The Synapse is an inch longer than the XT25, accounted for by the headpiece which can presumably clamp single-ball-end strings.

[quote name='backwater' timestamp='1429042510' post='2747368'] I suppose a better question for me to ask is are the Steinberger XT, XT25 and Hohner B2AV the same dimensions? Running a quick tape over the XT25 : Width at tuners : 21cm Width at neck joint : 14.5cm Neck width at "head" : 4.5cm Neck width at body : 6.7cm Overall length : 97cm Maximum depth (at back strap button) - 7cm [/quote] B2AV - neck width about 2mm less on both measurements, overall length including strap pins seems to be 98.5cm (haven't got a tape so I've just been using a 30cm ruler).

No Doubt are all agnostics.

Mrs Zero makes a good frontman (well, frontperson). Sings well and is able to engage the audience. The singer of the hibernating covers band also sings well, but still hasn't quite got the frontman side of things.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1429208705' post='2749324'] I have been watching 'Zulu' this afternoon, and still had Burton's opening dispatch narration ringing in my ears, and very good it was. [/quote] Ah yes, where he says this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own. Classic opening.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1429168462' post='2748620'] At least Glasto has GOAT on the lineup this year [/quote] No, Valentino Rossi's at the Goodwood Festival.

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1429203180' post='2749225'] Since when was Richard Harris Richard Burton? Although you never saw them in the same room together. [/quote] Who can forget Richard Harris's stirring performance of that Bob Dylan Thomas classic, "Under MacArthur Wood"?

When watching musical programs, I route the telly sound into my hi-fi (it was state-of-the-mid-budget art in 1980). I tried that with Later (just as an experiment, I really CBA to watch it) and the bass was perhaps not as far up in the mix as I'd have liked but certainly not lost.

I don't play with the ceilidh band any more, but I used to switch between an Ashbory Mk 1 (19" scale), fretless Thumb (very slim neck), and NS WAV-4 EUB during gigs, just playing whichever one took my fancy at the time. Didn't find any problem with that.