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Thank you, I appreciate the reply - will contact Status today. Thanks again.

Hi, I used to play guitar in a very technical style. I had some brain damage due to strokes so gave up guitar and took up bass. I just didn't want to give up on playing. I just bought an old Status S3000 and I got it very cheap. Mainly because it has 2 neck pocket cracks stemming from the outermost edge next to where it first meets the graphite neck, and radiating back, about 2 inches each, irregularly shaped spider- web like. Must have been a 'drop down on face' type of fall I guess. Doesn't seem to affect the bass at all playing wise, but out of fear, how would I go about stabilising them? Also, the body needs a total refinish as the previous owner wore the finish back to the natural wood in places with his thumb!!. Where or who could refinish it for me at non-lottery winner cost? I could have done it once myself but not now due to my brain damage and deficit. Any help or advice thankfully received. Thanks.

I have read that they may be playing 'Signals' in it's entirety this upcoming tour.

Really entralling topic, your posts are excellent. It's hard for Music to effect change, I think it's down to the individual and their free will. But I do think that we can be reminded of things we comfortably forget. I guess we have to stay sane and functioning. Once reminded, by a song, it can be impossible to ever be 'comfortable' again, sometimes there is just no going back when you get your eyes opened. Many famous musicians get to go and see things we could never hope to experience and some take it on themselves to say that things are just plain wrong and we should go another way... Music can be very powerful. I love Killing Joke and their song 'Tiahuanaco' from 'Outside The Gate' haunts me to this day. There's the First World then there's the rest of the World. I have never looked at Tourism in the same way since. It took me a long time to admit that what I have is often down to someone else, somewhere else, going without. My technology and entertainment often being their bloody hard work. So much inequality in the World. The piano piece at the songs end is often too painful to listen to, have to turn it off.

Megadeth - 'Dawn Patrol', 1990.

[b]MSG was my first ever gig in 1983. Chris was great, played Hamer Explorer, 'Blitz', basses back then. Great show. [/b] [b]I bought an old VHS of that 1983 tour live from Hammersmith just yesterday at a car boot.[/b] [b]Make a grown man cry. Musicians could really play then, perfect chops 100% of the time.[/b]

Rush - Power Windows.