Maude

Throwing My Baby Out With The Bathwater - Tenpole Tudor

My biggest issue with lending a bass out isn't even for the safety of my bass, it's for the hygiene of my strings. People do all sorts of nasty things with their hands, I don't want the remnants of their habits ground into the windings of my strings thank you very much. If someone used my bass for a whole gig I'd have to put new strings on afterwards. Every used bass I buy will get new strings for this reason. It may be over the top but there you go, we all have our 'things'.

Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Skrillex

If anyone in the West Country (Newton Abbot) is looking. A nice BB235 that just isn't selling. Now £150 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/624240578937859/

Know Your Rights - The Clash

"Fender are using all the right parts, but not necessarily on the right bass."

Hands Off... She's Mine - The Beat

Dragular - Rob Zombie

Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

May I be the first to apologise for using Amazon and indirectly forcing you to work in appalling, victorian workhouse-esque conditions. Here my brother, let me carry that p!ss bottle for you and help shoulder your burden. 😉

Love Potion Number Nine - Tygers of Pan Tang (and The Clovers, The Coasters, etc, but none like the Tygers)

English Rose - The Jam

If they kill off the competition by being cheaper and more efficient, then put all their prices up, do you not think someone else will come along, undercut them and put them out of business?

Last Christmas and Armageddon It would work. It could be released on Def Wham, I mean Jam Records.

Lovely thanks. 🙂 I'm going to leave it I think. I've bought too much lately and need to use what I've got and stop buying. That said I'll probably be back here in a couple of days with a N(BB)BD post. 😂

I've just bought a set of my usual strings through them. D'addario half rounds, well into the £40s from D'addario and some retailers, well into the £30s plus p&p from most retailers, but £26 delivered for free the next day from Amazon. I not sure I believe all the band wagon jumping horror stories of Amazon, sure they're probably not the best employer, but show me any big retailer that is. A forty hour contract is a very rare thing in any supermarket or large retailer these days. Death of the high street blah blah blah, I've never enjoyed having to drive twenty miles to my nearest music shop and pay through the nose for the limited stock of Ernie Ball Slinkys as that's all they had. Or most any other product for that matter, 'going shopping' has held little appeal since being a child with a fistful of Christmas vouchers. When high street shopping became a thing there was probably a load of hand wringing over the death of small independent local shops. It's progress that's all, and if people didn't want it then it wouldn't be happening. Yes I am a miserable old fart well before my time. 😄

It's also a logistical nightmare being 250 miles away. Mrtcat says he gigs all over and could deliver but I bet he doesn't get this far down. I'm going out for a walk to ponder the situation.

The 1024x in the classifieds looks like a great buy. Go get 'em Floyd!

Thanks. 👍 My 424 has through body stringing. Buying the 1024 and A/B ing makes sense but I'll convince myself I should keep both as a normal P and a reverse P. I not good at selling basses. 😁

Righto folks, educate me. 😉 What are the differences between a 424 a 1024? The P pickup is a blade and the neck laminates look different. I'm tempted by the 1024x in the classifieds to replace my 424x, but is it worth it as I do really like my 424x, just wondered if I'd like a 1024x even more. I know I reversed my P but I have the Hooky for that now.

Thanks @Delberthot. I'll use the points I've got on a full price set of strings then. It's still free strings, which you can't grumble at. I don't normally bother with any points collecting deals as you usually need to spend a fortune to collect enough points to get anything, but the Players Circle points are decent. My usual Enr72 half rounds give you 650 points, which seems to be about £6.50 going on the rough points value of stuff. D'addario are my go to string company so I'm glad this thread has brought my attention to the points. 🙂👍

All the cats are grey - The Cure

Another Girl, Another Planet is the finest pop song ever committed to vinyl.

I thought this was terrible, until I realised the Slipknot one above it was still playing. 🤣

Big Wham fan then? 😁