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[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1325777396' post='1487505'] I have intercepted the package [/quote] ...and here is the Photographic evidence...

I love Precisions. But I wouldn't use that one to prop open the outhouse door.

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I use it. Good for home practice, has a nice John Paul Jones Preset. Doubt I'd use it "Live" but for home recording and practice its useful Better sounds than GuitarRig tbh

One Senheiser Wireless system changed hands in a McDonalds car park. John is a top bloke - great communications very honest and friendly. Pity we didnt have time to stop and chat longer. I'm sure the family eating their McDonalds breakfast thought there was a drug deal going on.. two middle aged muso's in a car park exchanging the comtents of a bag for £50 !! LOL

I had a (I Think..) 7215GP12 SM 250w Combo that I gigged in the 90's. It was an ok amp but I could never get a sound out of it I really felt happy with. When I picked up my Ampeg Combo this year, I just felt like I had come home. I had tried an Ampeg SVT and an old Ampeg Valve head that our guitarist used as a Guitar head and loved the pair of them, but at the time I just couldnt afford one. The Trace was built to withstand a direct strike by a nuclear bomb and compared to the Carlsbro stack I had before it was a Rolls Royce. I'd take the Ampeg over the Trace anyday.

1976, refinished by previous owner in late 70's, Sold in 2001 to pay bills, and for a lot less than it was worth as a Trace GP7SM 250w combo whent with it and a LOT of pedals (including an original Marshall "Guvnor"). Regretted it every day since.

[url="http://www.cashconverters.co.uk/auction-item/412764/behringer-bvt-5500h-ultra-bass-amplifier"]http://www.cashconverters.co.uk/auction-item/412764/behringer-bvt-5500h-ultra-bass-amplifier[/url] Seems like a lot of Amp for £159?

Mine's rough and ribbed round the outside and shiny on the top.. look..

[quote name='Tellumm' timestamp='1324464759' post='1474416'] Super français, bravo ! Si on aprennez à écrire de la sorte chez nous, cela serait déjà pas mal ! Thank you so much for your answer ! [/quote] Merci, je disais à un ami français, je parle français comme les Belges! J'ai eu beaucoup d'aide de Google Translate. Quand j'avais 17 ans j'ai eu la chance de travailler en France pour mon employeur "Foseco" Mais l'entreprise a été achetée par Burmah Castrol et j'ai perdu mon emploi. J'aurais vécu à Paris, si cela était arrivé pendant 4 ans. C'est la guerre!

Bonjour et bienvenue à l'Angleterre. Excusez ma mauvaise utilisation des français, il a été très longtemps puisque je l'ai parlé à l'école. Some nice tunes there mate

I have the VM Jazz and I am dead proud of it, its a lovelly bass. Like it how it is. When I started playing again I had to realise that I wasn't going to be able to afford to replace the 76 Precision/300w Trace Elliot Combo I used to have, so I decided to build. I ended up with 2 precisions - both have quality internals now (Wizzard Pickups, Cloth Wire/Orangedrop/CTS and Switchcraft stuff.). Thge bodies were no names from ebay, the necks unbranded from a seller called seco guitars. Have no idea where they are made, but I ended up with 2, 1 r/w and 1 maple - gloss laquer, nice fat classic Precision "C" profiles. I decided to put headstock decals on both. Thought briefly about sticking a Fender decal on them (then if I sold them on, I have no doubt they would later appear on ebay "found" in someones loft...") but I thought sod it. Saw a guy selling joke decals in a fender style - Fecker Jizz bass/Pretender Bass/Partsocaster/Testicaster etc. and whent down that route. Looks like a fender logo from a distance but get within a couple of meters and you can read the joke. They both play realy nice (if you're into the P Bass thing as I am) and sound as good as if not better than some fenders. I had an ex girlfriend who couldnt play a note but was a spoiled b****, so her grandmother bought her a top of the line Jackson 6 string when she wanted to learn to play guitar. It sat at the back of her wardrobe for 3 years and gathered dust. And it only takes a few minutes on youtube or watching some local bands with more money than sense failing to play some really nice instruments. If they can afford it thats great. By the same measure a good player can make the most god awful plank sound half decent. I dont consider meself a snob - I like a nice bass, particularly 70's Ps and J's but I do have a soft spot for most things with 4 strings and do love an interesting Cheapo (have owned many in the past, encores, Marlins, some I dont even know what make they were!). After all, you could hand a chimp a 70's Jazz, and he isnt going to play like John Paul Jones. But you could hand JPJ a cheap jazz copy and he would.

[quote name='daz' timestamp='1324309397' post='1472842'] always preffered [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Generation-Terrorists-Manic-Street-Preachers/dp/B000007VOL/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1324309251&sr=8-9"]Generation Terrorists[/url], personally. [/quote] +1 to that

[quote name='eddiehoffmann' timestamp='1324297352' post='1472616'] Howdy neighbour! I live in Stockwell and go shopping in Brixton all the time. I really like it and it doesn't seem any more dangerous than the places I lived in London before. What happens to you was (thankfully) just a warnin. We should always be aware of the scumbag thieves all the time. I carry a baseball bat in my boot, just in case they try to get cute when I'm unloading... Welcome to Basschat! [/quote] As an American Secretary of State said about dealing with the USSR.. "Speak softly, and carry a Big Stick".

Damn, bridge, you sure is ugly...

ooh fellow Sandyback.. Welcome mate

[quote name='cd_david' timestamp='1324072573' post='1470694'] Restoration complete 1978 refinish, non original bridge and tuners. Hugely weighty ash body and massive tone [/quote] Liking that Neck, it looks lived-in.

Hmm. A hastily hashed together Black Sabbath covers band that lasted one gig - "Block Sadbath".. First "Propper" gig was with ablues band at a pub - guitarist took us down in his van, then buggered off in the van with the money at the end. Got told off by the landlord as the bass amp was making the glasses vibrate,,lol. First "originals" gig was depping in a band called "Prey Silence" at Stratford Civic Hall to a capacity crowd (was paid for by the local council for "the kids") doing Dream Theatre/Bon Jovi type stuff.

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1324025737' post='1469816'] Dare I mention [b]Good by Mr Chips[/b] (The original of course) A [/quote] Yep, seen that one a few times. Think my all time favourite has to be "Its a Wonderful Life". Has a lot of personal meaning to me, and alongside David Niven, Jimmy Stewart was one of my favourite actors.

[quote name='swanbrook' timestamp='1323996487' post='1469740'] Great band, great front man great loss. I had his black fender in my house for about a week must dig out the photos !! I got to know his mum after he died and she used to get up with our band wand sing whiskey in the jar. Great tune dude [/quote] That my friend is awesome! Closest I get is I'm friends with Jim Fitzpatrick on facebook, and the guitarist in my first ever band looked like Scott Gorham.

still a bloody good film either way, nowt like a good classic weepie!

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1323940036' post='1468805'] Cant help with the music but A matter of life and death is my all time favourite film ever!! Call me an old softy It was made as a propaganda tool to get American sympathy before they jouined the war but still its an amazing feat of cinematography and the love story is sublime. Oh and yep the music is very haunting particularly the 'going up the stairway to heaven' piano bit. Which I think your refering to. And finally..... I do have a bit of a soft spot for Kathleen Byron: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Byron"]http://en.wikipedia..../Kathleen_Byron[/url] Just sayin A [/quote] One of my favourites too. But wasn't it released in 1946, 4 years after the yanks had joined in and a year after the war had ended?

[quote name='leroydiamond' timestamp='1323943275' post='1468862'] Its a great tune. Phil was such a fabulous bass player!! [/quote] And one hell of a frontman! They were a very underated band. He had the image, the bass skills and the personality.

I'd imagine that needs to go to a luthier and have some rosewood grafted on before you could drop a nut on it - no idea what that would cost. Tempting, but I found a seller on ebay that does non licenced Fender necks that are only a tenner more than that and are a nice quality. I suppose if you were a Luthier yourself it would be a good buy - cant complain for the price (when you consider what AllParts charge and what you get stung in customs fees if you buy from Mightymite or Warmoth direct) just a bit too much work for me.