Woodinblack

As I mentioned in a previous post, that was a typo for class D

I think now it has been superseded by just modelling the amp you want and going into the PA.

I would suspect that straight frets will always be standard. Most people haven't got away from the 1950s P bass, its 70 years to the fan frets!

Either you don't, ie, it isn't a neck though body, or you just make a neck through and slap a logo on the end. Probably the former.

Ashdown are one of the few companies I found that had aftersales service.

ok, that makes more sense, you said 8 grammes difference and I thought you meant by tuner, so it would take 28 to make ½ lb!

Thats what I am going to look into

Send it to the lobster - I am sure he would have something to say about it!

Do AVRI Precision basses have 28 tuners then!! 😮

A few more than 8 but still not something you see every day!

By a bit of a controversy you mean many tens of pages of people saying how dishonest TC were and how they would never buy anything from them again? Yes, there was that.

I haven't had much of a chance to look last week, it would have to be a style change, because adding a signout dialog would be tricky and it frankly doesn't seem to be much of an issue to most people

That looks good, if a bit cramped, I guess it was a bit wet out! Does your guitarist have a peerless there? I know the music shop in frome used to sell peerless (I almost bought one there)

Yeh, our singer is like that, he can keep the enthusiasm up when he just getting nothing back from the audience, not something I could do. I guess he does scout and cub things so he is used to a hard audience!

Oh yes, remember seeing that on one of those house building programs, George Clark I think. Didn't remember what they were called at the time but the house is featured on their site.

Having seen that a lot, and being a big fan of Curve, although there is some connection as it is the same sort of style I really don't see it as being that similar. Similar to SPC-ECO (or what curve did next). However, always good to go back to curve for any reason - I would start at the john peel radio sessions!

And remarkably cheap!

Been there, done that. A little downheartening at times.

Yep, different things for different folks. For me he is one of the few soloists who seems to have really though about the whole thing rather than thought oh i need to put a solo here and gone through the motions. It doesn't to me either, and neither am I, I was just saying that about it being memorable, and my lack of skill. As we say, its down to what you like. i hear something you don't hear, and that is fine

Yes, and to me they really are. ie, I would pretty well say that up to but maybe not including all of Power Windows, when I stopped really following, I know them note by note and if I could play well enough I could play them all. Which is his style, which I love. I still remember spending weeks trying to nail songs like Analog Kid (which is a flurry of notes all the way through) and La Villa Strangiato . Some are fast, some are less so, some really make a statement but all of them bring stuff to the party rather than just fill in a space like a lot of rock / blues songs. For me he will always be one of my favourite guitarists, both for solo and rhythm, but I don't really separate the two.

Not for me, his solos are amongst the most meaningful and significant and affected my guitar playing growing up (not enough to make me good mind!). He has a style that was not like the standard samey rock / metal / blues riffing that most other have got, with a few notable exceptions, and are still solos I really listen to. Considering them wanting to be zep style at the start, going somewhere totally different I guess its the variations to what we like. Solos don't have to be 8 bars of pentatonic noodling.

Yep, I made that. I need to reset up the neck but I was quite proud of it!

Thats nice, more like a fireman than an iceman, the iceman the horn is on the bottom. I have a bass fireman shape

I think one thing we can see by these descriptions is that there is an amp for everyone. In the modern age (ie, since the carlsboros etc), I have had a TC BH250 1x12 combo for 2 years of one group. I was quite happy with that but wanted more flexibility (and maybe joined here), so I got a TC RH450 and a GK410. That sounded great, but the 410 was too big as my knee was collapsing and I got 2 x TC112 speakers which were easier to carry. Probably spurred on by hearing how evil class Ds were here I got a Ashdown 300 and a MiBass 220 for next to nothing. The mibass, as mentioned, was a piece of junk, the 300 was ok, but was still using the 450. Then I got an CTM100 - that was probably the best of all and if you want to do old rock and blues, couldn't be beat, but I don't, and it weighed a lot and was a pain to carry, so I got the ABM600 on a deal on lockdown. (and the bam200 for £85 refurb) I like the ABM600, I find it a pain it doesn;'t have a tuner, like the TC450 but it is a nice size to sit on the speakers sideways, and good to put the mixer on, so that is my standard rig now. TBH, apart from the mibass, I would still be happy to gig with any one of them.