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[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1033016' date='Nov 22 2010, 06:27 PM']A bid removes the BIN, no idea why some idiots bid on BIN auctions.[/quote] I can give you a reason - if you're not sure that you want to buy it but don't want someone else to have it while you're making your mind up/sorting out finance/getting agreement from whoever wields the rolling pin in your household.

I rather like it, and you can see the logic of putting a fat arse on an acoustic bass to try and give it a bit more volume. Looking at his other instruments (not the family snapshot), they tend to be rather more conventional looking.

Up to £102, so someone fancies a bit of DIY...

With or without you Summer days (I see "You're the one that I want" has already been suggested) Honky Tonk Women (verse) - at least as recognisable as the bass line in the verse of "All Right Now" Some of the songs already suggested aren't so much recognisable from the bass line as from the riff - for example Enter Sandman, where the bass doesn't kick in for about three minutes. I suspect that the first of my suggestions might not be recognised by a high proportion of over-60s, while the second would be recognised by a similarly lower proportion of under-40s.

Bugger, really wanted to come, started up the M42 and the bonnet catch on the car started playing up. Having had a bonnet become liberated and flap up in front of me before, I gave up on the trip and went back home.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1029403' date='Nov 19 2010, 02:40 PM']"Look children, it's Widow Tw***y!" Well, that's completely f***ed my plans for a Panto thread.[/quote] That's a shame, Tim was looking forward to being in that.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1029291' date='Nov 19 2010, 01:28 PM']Personally i find it hard not to buy stuff when i come on here.[/quote] I find it very easy not to buy stuff when I come on here. If I had some money, it would be a different matter...

[quote name='Earbrass' post='1029109' date='Nov 19 2010, 11:57 AM']A bit of light exercise in sight-reading: [url="http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/tag/faeries-aire-and-death-waltz/"]www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/tag/faeries-aire-and-death-waltz/ [/url][/quote] A waltz? But it's in common time!

Better to have one string too many than one string too few...

He's a lovely chap, very patriotic.

It's a Bruce Wei (who seems to have stopped doing basses now). I rather fancy one to go with my Antoniotsais but I'm a bit short of funds ATM.

I remember the old days of dialling TIM and getting the Speaking Cock:

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1026350' date='Nov 16 2010, 08:45 PM']Got given a P bass yesterday but I don't what colour I should do it in, any ideas?[/quote] What's wrong with it as it is? People would pay a fortune for relicing like that.

I've got a Grind BXP 6-string. Excellent playability, sounds reasonable to me though I'd like active rather than passive. I compared the necks of various 5-strings at PMT a while ago, and the Peaveys came out top with the Grind being nicer than the Cirrus BXP which was nicer than the USA Cirrus, so when a new condition Grind 6 came up twice on That Ebay at half street price and had no love, I had to go for it.

£437.23

[quote name='Faithless' post='1025224' date='Nov 15 2010, 09:23 PM']I'm just too tired to argue with this kind of rant, when one of the most melodic bassplayers and musicians on the whole, along with other cats, is blamed for showing off chops. Don't you really think it's more than stupid to make such statements about these cats judging from 4 minute video? All I can say, is, stop talking nonsenses, go buy that album, listen to it about hundred times, and if you still think that they're showing off chops.. Then please show us music, which is really melodic.[/quote] They're not cats, they're people. I went to see Janek in Smoke-on-Trent (the evening that PeteAcademy promoted) and while I was impressed by his ability and articulacy, the recordings of him and his [s]clowder[/s] band didn't really do anything for me. Well played but a bit insipid. Before you get all arsey, I should also point out that I find Donald Fagen's "Nightfly" a truly soporific experience.

[quote name='karlfer' post='1023583' date='Nov 14 2010, 04:44 PM']Below is the gentlemans reply The "no offence" bit is a sarcastic reply to my politeness. Another FEEBay tit. "if you are not interested in buying the guitar at this price then dont waste your time or my time reading the message. you are the first person to point this out and i [b]always have a few watchers[/b]. but please "no offense". - theused_123"[/quote] Ting!

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1022095' date='Nov 13 2010, 01:58 AM']This looks quite tidy for £40 BIN: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Style-Bass-/270662847508"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Style-Bass-/270662847508[/url][/quote] Intriguingly described as "Manufacturer refurbished" in the "Condition" bit. I suspect that is, er, slightly unlikely.

Never take a photo of your bass against a white wall when it's on a hanger - this one looks like it's got a goitre.

That Zender one is absolutely gorgeous.

I can't help but think that putting his BIN up to nearly 2k is really shooting himself in the foot to spite his face. I watch quite a few things without bidding on them. If I sell something, I don't assume that every watcher is going to bid on it. You'd think that the seller (who IIRC has a feedback of over 500) would have been able to work that out by now.