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I've got 30-90's on my Streamline and really like them. They seem to kinda fit the whole 'ethos' of the bass, lol

These guys have a new range of cool vintage style guards: http://www.fatboyguitars.com/ Not shown on their site yet but if you ask them I'm sure they'll be able to send through some details

UK prices on these are crazy. Last time I checked the dealer price in the UK was more than Thomann were selling them for - and by a significant amount as well, something like £30 more expensive to buy as a dealer!

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1434233720' post='2797918'] or that you probably supplied much of said gear... [/quote] Definitely not the Monique or the 66, probably not the TH500 but possibly the SL112's, lol

Looks a bit dodgy - someone in Dublin advertising a bass for sale that is owned by someone they know in Germany

[quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1433872680' post='2794764'] OK, still not released in the UK (early Spring, it's fekking June already), but they are now up for pre-order, so the prices are online... £67 for the Metro 24 (£93 with hard case)... hopefully not too long to wait now [/quote] Distributor seems to be saying they are close to being shipped to dealers now

We rehearse from time to time without a drummer. We use drum patterns from a keyboard and our singer is now a bit of a whiz at cutting the drums in places where there are stops and then bringing them back in on time - sometimes he even adds fills as well

That's way more, nearly £1,000, than the last one I bought!

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1433709458' post='2793328'] Hard to take that seriously when you stock Sadowsky and your competitor stocks Lull....... [/quote] I'm a gigging Mike Lull player Dan - sure that means I'm not showing bias? I've owned five of them and that gives me a lot of direct experience as a gigging bass player. Some have been good, some haven't. The not so good ones have been a bit bland and lacking in character. The good one isn't. Even my Facebook profile picture and my band web page shows me playing the Lull, as did my previous FB profile pic! Edit - I should also say that Mark and I have discussed being 'competitors' in the past and we've always thought that we're in the business of selling instruments and amplification etc together, in a very small market, rather than being competitors. We've supported each other in the past and get on really well.

I live in a relatively small town (pop 10,000 or so) and WHS always has BGM on the shelf. Maybe the store manager is a bassist

I've found Lulls, like many brands, to vary in tonal qualities and it feel to me that the pickup choice can make a real difference. I've owned five now and only one has really stood out for me and that's the one I've hung on to. Some of the others have had all the ingredients I tend to look for in a bass, light wright, well built and finished, slim necks etc (hence why I keep buying them!) but when I've played them for any length of time they've lacked a bit of character and sounded a little bland The one I have is simple passive P with a custom wound pickup and a J neck with blocks and it works really well as modern P and does a decent impressin of a more vintage tone if you wind the tone back. I've gigged it a few times and always enjoyed it right up until last week when I really struggled to get a sound I liked at a difficult venue. At my previous gig I'd taken my new Sadowsky NYC J and I was really missing the bridge bite and a bit of active boost. After owning a few that have, ultimately disappointed me, I'm not sure I'd buy another one 'blind' without hearing it properly first.

Is Reading close enough? I know a good guy near there.

I've always liked the XM2 shape. Used to be as cheap as chips when headless basses went out of fashion and dropped as low as £600 in 'unfashionable' red. Still kicking myself that I didn't buy one at that price when they were around!

The Carvin sounds very different to a Streamliner. The latter is very warm (sounds 'muffled' and wooly to me but that's obviously just a personal view). The Carvin delivers big clean gobs of power and punch and goes very loud indeed - especially if run at lower ohmage levels.

My old function band were once asked, by the bride, to open with 'Hit Me Baby One More Time'!

Just watched a large chunk of this. I really don't understand the whole 'tribute' thing. A series of people singing Stevie's songs to him and not one of them could get close to the man himself. Jennifer Hudson was pretty good but the rest just came across as second rate warm up acts to Stevie. The whole show suddenly came alive when he came on stage with his core band Plus Nate Watts - what a fabulous player he is!