Woodinblack

I prefer a neck through or set neck, but honestly it is not something that would make much of a pull either way. So for a given bass available as a neck through and a bolt on, I would go for the former, but that is not something that generally happens.

If you can get a VR09 for £300, jump on it, I have wanted one for years. Its organs are brilliant and the others are also pretty useable.

Oh I didn't realise he was on the Isle of White, in which case he is probably the local english language expert i

Needs the money to buy some punctuation?

Maybe it is worth giving it a bit of a skip for a while to relieve the pressure, bring it back once it has lost a bit of significance?

So what you are saying is it could be likely as the Guns part was related to someone who wasn't in the band when they made it big, like if axl had been replaced by someone good?

They would have been guns and roses with someone else, as you would have never known them any different. Maybe they would be better, I doubt they would be worse and maybe they would have got nowhere, but they would have been guns and roses. Same here, best thing for me that ever happened to genesis was PG leaving, I think they were both better afterwards.

If those people had fronted Guns and Roses, yes, that would have been bad. But they were fine in their own bands. I mean, I am not a fan of the pogues or PiL, but all of those they matched the singer with the band. Guns and roses didn't.

That was always far better, see what you could do with a good singer!

For me the worst offender is the intro to the album, welcome to the jungle, it really builds up like it is going to be a flat out rock tune, then it takes a pause, and then what sounds like a character from the simpsons starts singing, and brings the energy of the track right down.

phi's voice is like nails on a blackboard, so whiney. I have seen them twice as friends like them, obviously he/they are way worse in real life but even on the record without him they could have sounded great

which would have been a reasonable album if only they got a decent singer

I thought most were made in china apart from the CTM tube ones - maybe that is why it is more expensive?

Well, yes, but I have also never paid an RRP for an amp, so I don't think the price is as important. If you look at the list price of all the amps they are quite a lot, and luckily enough there are enough forums telling people how terrible Class D amps are to keep them in business!

I dont' think it needs an upgrade does it. you use your amp until something happens where you need another one, but if you were looking for a new thing, there is the new thing. There are still plenty of 3s and 2s around.

I have often thought of drilling a hole in the front for a tuner, its something I have had on most amps I have in the last decade.

In the last 2 years, I guess since just before the pandemic, prices on vintage or desirable instruments have rocketed up. I agree overall they haven't gone up much more than inflation but something has changed again. No the amount of disposable income has plummeted among the younger demographic, but it is not them that are buying vintage fenders, it is much older people who are doing it, and that disposable income has increased. Young are doing what they always were. They are buying 5-10 year old basses like they always have, just that a 10 year old bass is now 2010, whereas a 10 year old bass when I started playing was a 68-70s. When I first started playing the one thing everyone would say is not to buy and old fender (ie, 70s) because they were terrible. They weren't, some were ok, some were bad some were great. At the moment and over the pandemic, a lot of people have got a lot better off, although the overal amount of money people earn hasn't moved at all, the top has really accelerated away from the bottom, the gap between the top 10% and the bottom 10% grew a lot.

Sounds excellent!

What sound is that? I have played 6 60s jazzes and they haven't sounded the same. In fact, from sound I wouldn't be able to put a decade on anything. The best sounding Jazz I ever played was a 1965 jazz, sounded great (no use though, not enough strings). However, one of the worst jazzes I have ever played was a 1966 jazz - a squier affinity would have probably sounded bettter, anything would. The 66 was more expensive though as it was original, whereas the 65 had had a refret and had a replacement pot. And frankly what they sound like or play like is not really so important to their value. There is no bubble, it is an appreciating asset, there are (and can be) only certain amounts of 60s basses, that number is going down, and the number of people with disposable income is going up, so they will keep appreciating. There are no shortage of bankers or stock brokers who have a display case for one.

I never really liked the white stripes, but I liked the album he did afterwards. But this I like, will dig more out, and also the first use of a theramin in a rock track for a while which has to be a good thing!

I think there probably appears to be a difference in opinion between companies that make things and get ripped off, and companies that dont or are just admin sorts. It is really galling to see something you put effort into making being just taken and sold by other people. And no, it is never a compliment to see something you did being ripped off by other people.

Yes, they are japanese so they put the words the other way round

Fender Special Run obviously!

Your name -> Profile then on your page, edit profile and I guess edit signature if that is what you mean by your gear listing? Obviously it depends on what device you are doing it with

Mine aren't fingerless, they are most definitely fingerfull!