BassTractor

Love a baritone, and thanks for posting about this one. Is it an ABT60E? I got bewildered as the web told me that has 21 frets, whilst this one has 20 if I count correctly. Do different versions exist maybe? Also, pix on the web mostly have a scratchplate, but it seems the bursts do not. Haven't delved into it yet. Anyway, how did you find the thick body? I'm wary of that aspect.

Guessing you're referring to me: thanks, but I just scratched the surface, and we did have a thread about W3W two years ago, and another one earlier this year, so my delving is not from today. I think it's very promising as a system, but still think it needs to be integrated in other systems, and there, I think, lies the bottleneck. For example: TomTom and W3W proudly announced cooperation in 2017 or 2018, before somehow forgetting everything about it, and going back on their promises. In general, there is the hard bit of negotiating systems like these in B2B environments due to conflicting interests.

BTW, and maybe interesting to users of TomTom GPS units, the Mapcode Foundation offer mapcodes that may be as short as 4 digits/letters, though often 6 - for example: 4H.JB. AFAIK, TomTom units accept these mapcodes. Of course, W3W was designed so the words can be pronounced and understood during a telephone conversation, but it offers its own drawbacks: for example, I found different addresses in the UK that differed by one letter only , e.g. squabble vs squabbles. Great, great potential nevertheless.

It works! 😍 I'm not at home, but I'd like everyone to visit me at unimpeded.hero.inviting. Be very careful when parking your car at steaming.squabbles.collision. Please find tea and something sweet in the cupboard at cakes.twinkling.system. My sofa's not new, but please be seated at marginal.risk.shipwreck. C-ya there when I get back! 😎 BTW my old address, as relayed in the old threads, was perfect for ordering food as it contained pizzeria and delivery. PS all true W3W addresses (after correcting a misspelled one), and with true placement of everything from car park to sofa to cupboard. I still like my old address more.

Ah. I thought that under the light-hearted tone there was a certain concern. I'm glad this isn't so. My openness though was much about other possible thread readers. As a community (I'm old-fashioned that way) we need to exchange all aspects of being BCers - in my thinking at least. Happily, I didn't lose money either. Between the layers of madness, there was a brain that looked for bargains explicitly so I could try the gear, learn about many types of gear that BCers had talked about, and sell it again if needed whilst losing little. Turned out I even made a few bob.

Sadly, this is factual: 36 months, 16 basses (some of them expensive), 14 amps, cabs and combos (some of them expensive), 6 effects and multi-effect units, plus tuner, metronomes, straps, leads and other stuff. In my case it was health related, and very not a good thing. Can't comment on your situation as I don't know it. Make of this what you will: inspiration or despair or whatever. Me, I'm free now after having sold most of it.

...in a mountain ridge, if you ask me, which you didn't, so I'll shut up now. 😁 Seriously, I'm flabbergasted at their output: so many peaks! Thanks for the heads-up about the live stuff!

Another thread revival! Heads up: Colin Moulding got together with Terry Chambers again in 2016 and the two recorded the ep "Great Aspirations", which was released in October 2017 under the artist name TC&I (which I suppose means "Terry Chambers and I" as in that in essence this ep is a Colin Moulding thing. FWIW, Wikipedia says Colin wrote all four songs. Couldn't find a cd copy immediately, and downloaded it from Burning Shed for the time being. It's playing as I speak, and I think the typical Colin thing is present. The first track, Scatter Me, hit home right away, and to me seems to vaguely refer to Andy Partridge whilst still seeming to me like a true Colin Moulding song - a good thing. "Kenny", the third track, too seems like a Moulding track one could find on an XTC album. The second track, "Greatness", has yet to build an impression on me, and the last one, "Comrades of Pop" seems to be about the lyrics only. Now, I'm lyrics deaf but in that last track I did hear the words "It's the guy that writes the hits that gets the money", "the bassist and the drummer might be lucky", and "lawyer". so this might indicate that the lyrics indeed are more important to CM than the music, which basically is some simple ostinato. No comments on the bass parts or the playing yet.

You're an idiot. Nobody has ever taken that title from me since 1976! What, they've not even challenged me. Hasty edit: You're NOT an idiot! 😮

Found this quite interesting: the same R. de Visée prelude played on four different instruments: theorbo, lute, baroque guitar and harpsichord.

😀 Thanks! ...and as you can imagine, I did find out immediately after posting. Somehow one has to. (It appears I've been in Somerset several times when driving between Anglesey and Devon.)

What a shame! I'd have paid a lot more than that for a meet-and-greet! 😉 (BTW, before anyone thinks I'm a stalker: I am indeed a stalker but not in this context; I never zoomed out after my Google Maps search, so I still don't even know where in the UK Somerset might be. 😁 )

Lovely read. Thanks for posting. They're right, ya know. What can I say, other than: Thank you, Newfoundfreedom. Keep up the good work. Basschat is as much yours as it is ours. From BassTractor (the bloke), Søgne (the village).

Well... I was nervously waiting for you in Wirral Park Rd... Were you there at all, or did you somehow end up in the Townsend Shopping Park?

Wrong. It was there, and it was a large part of why I, and IIRC others, left.

Aye. In the background one hears the hardship of the Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA.

I'd wager the notion that everyone sometimes acts in bizarre, unusual ways - though admittedly some more than others. People go through many different kinds of stuff in their lives, and most of the time, one can sense those hardships in the background when they post in said ways on any forum.

Thanks again, folks. As i said, @AndyTravis's July 28th proposal of a Spector USA Rex bass is as close as I think we're gonna get. It's so close that it could very well be the exact thing I was trying to find. best, bert

To bring some science to this thread: I've just visited my ex, with ear plugs well-mounted in my ears. Ear Plugs Don't Work.

Listening to your music (I love it and consequently bought the album), I can't hear the relationships on first listening, so yeah, I'm quite open to the notion of this being a different band. Searching a tiny little bit, I did find a band called Lutz and they were described as playing Americana and something else I've already forgotten. Anyway, thanks for the music. BC has some great bands!

That's you? him? Congrats! I've seen worse music-maps:

IME Word of mouth indeed, if added to availability and dependability. In practical terms: someone with the contacts who likes to shove work your way coz that won't reflect badly on them again. I'm sure agencies would or could do great work, but my own experience doesn't stretch that far. Peers of mine would be very active in networking, but the eagerness was dripping from them, and I still got the work without being that good.

First of all: an immense Thank you to everyone! The response, though typically BC was far greater than expected, and gave a lot of purdy pics. I'm with @Unknown_User, coz this is fun! As to Andy's proposal: WOW! Methinks that is a close as we're gonna get, and maybe if these existed several decades ago, this is the one I was in fact looking for even though I remember and saw it as more "rectangular". Mind you, I've been doubting myself, as many different pics of Thunderbirds give many different impressions, and also they came in a plethora of variations - with for example different placements of the bridge (dunno how they do that - I'm no specialist in these models). The thing I remember from that bass, and from what I thought I saw on the telly is exactly this character of obviously stemming from a Thunderbird but with the angles that count being closer to 90 degrees than in an original Thunderbird. Andy's Rex does that exactly - to my eyes that is. Maybe you guys provably see it as much closer to a Thunderbird, Idunno. Yes indeed. I fully agree with you there, and I did try both before and after posting. Many of the programmes they show here in Norway can be seen online afterwards, but many can't. I've scanned what I can, but haven't found it. Should of course have made a note right away, but overestimating my memory is one of my weaknesses. If the programme was Norwegian, you wouldn't be able to see it outside Norway - hence my attempt to play it online and make a screenshot. Also, admittedly, my brain functions so unwell these days, that I might have seen an ad on my computer whilst watching tv - the bass being in the ad but my sick brain remembering it immediately as if the bass was on tv. Therefore I've trawled my papers in the hope of a possible ad appearing again. BTW, that would be Lord Bertie to you, but as you know I'm more of an Algy type. 😁 (Young uns: look it up! 🙂 ) Thanks, folks! Lord AlgyBertie

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