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    Vintage (make) V940 Bubinga. New for £149

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted

    Nothing to do with me. Thought somebody might be intersted in it.

    [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-V940-ACTIVE-BASS-BUBINGA-SAH-260_W0QQitemZ350208882091QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item518a1375ab&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262&_trkparms=%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A30"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-V940-ACTIVE-...%3A1%7C294%3A30[/url]

    New Stingray for £750

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    The ad. says it's "Burgandy". According to my dictionary, Burgundy is "a deep red colour". Makes you wonder what colour it really is.

    Anyway - is it still available? I'm tempted to ring them (since they're not responding to emails).

    New Stingray for £750

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    Just spotted this:

    [url="http://www.americanguitarsuk.com/bassshop/musicmanB.php"]http://www.americanguitarsuk.com/bassshop/musicmanB.php[/url]

    Nothing to do with me whatsoever. I'd love it, but can't afford it.

    Steve

    Stockport Bass Gathering

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm flying back from holiday late on Saturday, but should be able to come along. I can bring: G&L Tribute L-2000, 1987 Peavey Fury (For Sale) and an interesting, fake-aged, fake-Fender Vintage V4.

    Could you send me details please?

    Thanks,

    Steve

    Sacked..............

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='clauster' post='500551' date='May 29 2009, 07:11 AM']Yorick, get yourself on Bandmix and Musofinder and you'll have a steady stream of requests from bands interested in your services.

    Today is the first day of the rest of your bass playing life![/quote]


    There are opportunities out there, especially if you have previous band experience - which clearly you do. I've had the most responses from ads I placed on Gumtree and Partysounds, with very little coming back from Musofinder. Good luck to you - I've been trying to find the "right" band for months now and it's far more time-consuming, exhausting, irritating and political than I had even begun to realise.

    Awkward Band Problem

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    As an Occupational Psychologist, I used to work in management consultancy and I collected these sorts of euphemisms. We've all heard of rightsizing, downsizing, rebalancing, restructuring and re-engineering. However, my favourite was "No, we're not making people redundant at all - we're in a transitional phase of ongoing negative recruitment". :) This sort of hiding behind word-nonsense was one of the reasons why I left the whole field of work. I just didn't feel I was being open and honest - and that's one of the things we were exhorting our clients to be with their staff!

    On the band front, I've recently decided to leave a band because it wasn't for me. Took some doing, but honesty was the best route - be true to yourself because you have to live with yourself in the future. Yes, I could have said I'd found another band or something, but I preferred to be straight and honest about my thoughts, while preserving my and others' dignity.

    I did have a giggle about some of the ideas for getting rid of somebody! However, I'm fairly certain that some people might actually seriously consider these suggestions about splitting bands and reforming without somebody, suggesting to another band that they pinch somebody from yours, deliberately antagonising somebody so they leave, forcing them to listen to somebody who's better than them to embarrass them into leaving. These are all perfectly awful, aren't they? I wouldn't want any of that to happen to me, so I'm certainly not going to do it to somebody else. Be true to yourself and treat others how you'd like to be treated. Then you'll be able to hold your head up high.

    Sorry. I'll shut up now.

    Steve

    G & L L 2000 tribute bass. SOLD!

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    [quote name='stingrayfan' post='486505' date='May 12 2009, 11:31 PM']Cracking basses. I gig mine every other weekend. Big sound and light too.[/quote]


    +1 Mine's definitely a keeper, and the standard against which I judge anything else. So far, very few basses I've tried have been better.

    1987 MIA Peavey Fury. Price reduced again to £150!

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    In terms of neck-width (38mm at the nut), it's very much a J. That's what I'm struggling with, nothing else. The body shape is somewhere between a P and J.

    In terms of tone, it's more like a J than a P, despite the pup it has. Roll off the tone fully, and you still have piano-like clarity without any of the muddy thump you can get with P's. Tone full-on produces a modern, very bright, clanky (!?) tone for playing stuff by Blink 182. It's more versatile than my p-bass, with clearer tones throughout the spectrum. Lovely sounding thing.

    Why don't you come and have a go for yourself?!

    Steve

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