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Excellent - that's a good price in the end. I was surprised it didn't hit £900 as they rarely go below this. Just shows how much a decent description and a willingness to post can cost someone - in this case a good £200 or so! In fact I was bidding on a '75 today and it sold for £906 so that's a perfect example of the difference (although a '75 will usually sell for a bit more than a '78)

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1404000024' post='2488503'] did you read the doc from TC I linked to? it's quite interesting what they've done - also the fact that the RH450 and 750 have the same continuous power rating - but the 750 can have bigger burst peaks. and was the example of a 800w power amp a good one or a bad one? what was it? (if you can say) [/quote] I have read a lot about TC's measurements and methods. My biggest concern with them are they when I've gigged one it was the biggest sucker of any usable tone I've ever encountered. Literally awful sound in a live band context and yet sounded good when tested in a shop and set up at home. How much of this was down to the power control and how much to the highly processed tone circuits I don't know but it really put me off them. The 800w power stage was a Demeter. It was actually installed internally in a Monique pre-amp and we couldn't believe how loud and powerful it was. Had to get a tech to put some capacitors in the circuitry to lower the pre-amp output (or something along those lines!) because the power was just overkill!

I'm sure there is an element of output quotes differering widely from manufacturer to manufacture. TC Electronic are probably the most often quoted with their 450w heads only being about 235w but there's plenty of other examples too. I know of one builder who consistently quoted their top of the range heads at 900w whilst the power module was identical to someone else who rated it at just 500. I also heard an 800w power amp recently that was deafening at about 9 o'clock with a bass plays quietly through it.

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1403993730' post='2488452'] Bryan Ferry's band are immense. Especially drums and the bassist with his Status Vintage. Great job guys. [/quote] They are playing walking distance from my house in a week or so. Tickets are big money (range from £80 to £120!) but I might stroll down and see how much I can catch from outside (it's an outdoor event).

Bryan Ferry is kinda interesting - lots of big guitar solos, Cherisse Osei whacking the kit really hard and playing in heels and Guy Pratt really going for it in places with Ferry remaining his usual louche self (he never is going to move well is he?).

I reckon it'll go for around a grand - plenty of time for price to rise yet.

Bobby supped much of the soundtrack to my life from the mid 80's to early 90's. So much so that the first time my, very young, daughter saw a black person in the street in our little, predominantly white, suburb she proclaimed: "Oh look daddy, there's a Womack"! I saw him live many times and, when he was at his peak, he was an amazing performer and generally had superb live bands. Along with Al Green he was one of those people who could bring his band up and down with a gesture or a vocal cue and always brought great individual performances from his band members who he often featured mid-song. I was at each night of the sessions when the live album and film were recorded in London. It's a very good DVD and worth tracking down if you haven't seen it. Here's an example featuring Altrina Grayson on female vocals: http://youtu.be/L5JehlTaH7g

Levi Stubbs was the voice of Audrey II - one of my favourite ever soul singers

Paging Rick, paging Rick. . .

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1403428399' post='2482497'] 30+ qualifies as older now? Blimey. P [/quote] Only if you're 25

Marc is a top bloke, really, really nice guy

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1403380103' post='2482294'] I much prefer the Carvin over D Lakin basses. I have no objection whatsoever to non-US outsourced gear, but the prices the D Lakin basses are for a bass made in Indonesia, without even a high quality gig bag, is insane. I'd just get a Classic Vibe and upgrade the pickups. [/quote] I could be wrong but my understanding is that the D Lakins available in Europe will come with decent gig bags - don't believe everything you read in TalkBass Also, they are made at a top quality builder in South Korea not Indonesia. I have seen some TalkBass mentions of Indonesia but pretty sure they are Korean. Not much between them as I'm sure there are good and bad builders in each country but in general terms 'made in South Korea' is a pretty good quality mark these days

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1403378778' post='2482285'] Carvin was going to be my next guess Be nice to see some that aren't that horrid green [/quote] I didn't say which one Actually it may be more than one. . .

I reckon it's one of these. . . http://youtu.be/DS4Frg2gfzs

I love the look of the 65Amps stuff. We've got a complete rig in the shop and it looks so cool Did the cab come from Marc by any chance? I know he lives in Sandhurst and had one of these.

[quote name='NJE' timestamp='1403368416' post='2482191'] I got the wrong end of the stick too, I thought it was Fender Custom Shop basses and nearly exploded when I saw they were under £1000 I hope not, I was really interested in these but the D Lakin headstock is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. Also there seems to be a lot of moaning about them over TalkBass. [/quote] Sorry about the confusion - I hoped the 'Fender Style' bit would differentiate these from actual Fenders. I do actually have to place the next order for Fender CS soon and am alread planning to use the ideas here to help formulate what we ask for Unfortunately the CS instruments come in between £2K and £3K depending on spec I also saw the TalkBass stuff about D Lakin. One long thread that mostly said "these are Fender clones" with people either saying this was good or bad. Another one that ran to over 18 pages saying that the first bass shipped was badly packed! Whilst I totally agreed that it was indeed not acceptable packing, I did see that Dan Lakin immediately apologised and offered to replace it. Couldn't believe this warranted 18 pages of people saying the same thing over and over again - makes you realise how nice it is here on BC I also saw another review on TB where the owner was really happy. This one ran for a while one page, partly because it's newer but maybe also because there was nothing to moan about and they do like a good moan over on TB!

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1403366015' post='2482168'] If you do stock a sonic blue fender with matching headstock, I'd better stay away from your shop [/quote] You definitely need to keep away - they already have one of these in the shop!

If you're looking for something to practice on then is be tempted to get something with a neck profile as close as possible to your main 4003. Most P style basses are going to feel very different to the Ricky. I'd be tempted to look out for an Ibanez or Yamaha with a skinny neck.

We have had at least one attempt at 'Stairway' but The most commonly played bass line at BassGear has been Omar's 'There's Nothing Like This'. Haven't heard it for a while though

I have to admit that I dislike Queen intensely and they were always one of those bands that if they came on the radio I'd be reaching for the 'change channel' button. However, as others have said, when I had to learn some Queen songs I realised how interesting some of JD's bass lines were, some really nice little fills and lines I would never have noticed had I not been trying to transcribe them