FinnDave

We know, but thanks anyway!

I'e got 4 post 2012 US Standards and a recent Classic 50s. They're all perfect!

I'll take a live version of anything over a studio recording every time.

Graham, I am still the original owner of Super Twin number 001, and you know that it won't have seen an easy life with the Wirebirds, but it still looks as good it did the day I picked it up from Brighton. If anything, it sounds even better now than it did then!

No biscuits??

Blue, I am sure that your attitude makes you a lot more fun to play with (and gets you more gigs) than being a virtuoso prima donna with a sour face who thinks they're 'too good' to be playing bar gigs Reliable and pleasant to be around win every time in my book.

I find and book the gigs. All of them.

Completely thrown by the title of the thread, I was expecting to read about a colliery band! Can't remember seeing any coal mines in Cheltenham, though!

Call it Brian, after all, it's nearly christmas!

No, he was right. Please stand in line and wait your turn

All of my Fender basses are strung with Chromes, and I find them a bit 'sticky' sometimes, mostly a problem with the right hand rather than the left (I'm a right handed player). Not really thought about it until I read this post though.

He didn't have any with him when we met today. He buys the sheets of celluloid tort from WD though, so his are very similar to the ready made one WD makes.

Damn. Just perfect!

As a Smooth hound and barefaced user, I'll give that a go!

After my first gig using a Smooth Hound, I have blue-tacked it to the top of the amp - never moves now! I always have a lead coiled up next to the amp 'just in case' as well.

Will do if I get a chance. Seeing him at one pm tomorrow.

I disbelieve in a lot of things, including things I am certain I have seen. It was ten years after the event that I was finally convinced that the amazing laser show during the Here & Now set at Deeply Vale in the late 70s was invisible to anyone except me. Probably something I ate. Might have slipped off topic there...anyway, I'm collecting one of my Precisions from the guitar chap in Oxford tomorrow, I'll ask him about the celluloid tort guards he makes. If they look any good, I've half a mind to try one after the Christmas drain on my wallet is over. (To be fair, having had a mind means I will, 'coz that's all I've got!)

Surely if the early ones had a metal backing plate, they wouldn't crack or warp as they do?

You have to remember that back in the 70s I was a bit younger and music was a bit louder, and we didn't have super efficient cabs like we do nowadays. I used to use the T&B 50 with a home-made (well, made in the woodwork class at school, really) 2x15 with a couple of Fane speakers. I later used it with a no-name 4x10 I picked up in Leeds when I got my student grant. Who needs food and books anyway??

I sold my T&B 50 in the early 8os, had hit about ten years. Remember it fondly, but nostalgia is a powerful drug. I do remember having to slave both channels together and run it flat out to get enough volume!

I have a total of 32 strings evenly divided between 8 basses. Never played 5 stringers never felt the need to do so. In the circles I move in, I rarely see them, to be honest. Nothing against them, just not something I need.