Woodinblack

There weren't any 5 strings back then so it would be a bit pointless.

53 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

It says "Please allow 4/5 weeks for international delivery."

He's dropshipping, so there's no benefit in ordering from him over ordering directly from AE.

Oh in that case, no, there is no point in him. So buyer beware.

2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Now that is a dream gig.

Certainly beats 2.5hrs.

Only 1 in 10 of our gigs would be further than 15 minutes. 1 in 40 would be almost an hour. Don't think I have ever done a gig more than an hour and a half away. We are purely local!

On 02/04/2024 at 10:42, Henrythe8 said:

It's actually Marylin Manson's version that is the Go To nowadays. 🙂 

Never heard anyone do mansons cover of that. My last group did tainted love, the original version, whcih I think beats all the others.

On the other hand, I doubt there are few who would disagree that Hard Corps Back in Black is clearly better than the original

My all gold stingray 5 came in a shade under 4k. But no option to pick a bongo!

27 minutes ago, NikNik said:

He's having to wait, as well. He's doing the ordering, and hanging c£220 onto the the pleasure of doing so! 😄

Well, yes, that is what his pay is for - you are buying it without the delays or any customs issues etc, because he has taken on that, so you are buying something local, he is getting the money for that, pretty well like any shop.

However, considering the amount of instrument he has there, he will easily go past the £1000 profit PA threshold where eBay then inform HMRC quite quickly

THere is no before packing up gear. I start doing that, the drummer starts packing up his, the guitarist stands round watching, and the singer goes off to chat to people. Then eventually the singer comes back and puts the PAs in the bags and helps carry stuff to the car, around the guitarist who is still watching stuff.

Then I drive home and unload everyhign into our outbuilding.

Then I have a cup of tea and either watch some telly or read the internet to calm down.

On 03/04/2024 at 10:39, MacDaddy said:

There is a difference between perfect tuning and well tempered tuning.

And with a more than non zero selection of guitarists I have worked with, also a difference with those two and what they are tuned to!

I don't really see an issue with that. Anyone can take the risk of buying from the original supplier, waiting for the delivery and chasing up any problems that they want. Or they could buy from this guy and if something goes wrong send it back (and yes, I know he says he wont accept returns, but that is his opnion, not a statement of fact!).

I have often bought something in the UK from a seller when I know there is the original in aliexpress, but I just don't have a few weeks to waste,

Did you copy in place with the same name or frame as the last picture? Maybe there is something there. Try uploading it as a second post with a different name and see if it does anything different

I don't know, there is no image compression in use on the site, although the images are now on cloudflare, so maybe they have something, unless whatever you were uploading it with has compression

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On 31/03/2024 at 14:12, Lazydog said:

Honourable mention has to go to "Dancing in the Moonlight" by Toploader. If you think the song isn't too bad, check out the video but bec sure you have a bucket close by. 

Thank the gods someone mentioned that - our new keyboard player decided he wanted to play that, and the guitarist joined in. I flat out refused as if I am not being paid by sainsburies I can't believe anyone in a pub ever wants to hear that song again.

1 hour ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

No app? No problem. 

iOS support but not Android? 

 

What does an app do with the B2-four?

TBH - not sure I would trust them anyway, I had some of the flat audio cables like that and a large proportion of them stopped working

Because it is based on small numbers. A graph like that works well if you are selling a lot of things, current fender P basses etc, but if you are only selling a small number and the value of those things is based on hugely intangible things such as appearance and perceived authenticity, it is fairly useless.

Seems like a silly idea, but I would find it hard to criticise them because it is quite clear in the photo how they fit, so if that wasn't good why did you buy them? I have spent ages looking for plugs that went the right way, and many places don't show photos anywhere near that clear.

I have a few that I don't play, but just generally because of the nause of selling them. Worse still, I have guitars I haven't played in decades, for the same reason!

And don't forget the other bonus of a bongo, when the singer encroaches into your space and head buts your headstock, he will remember the bongo much longer than the fender!

2 minutes ago, drTStingray said:

But in my experience only occasionally, and always from bass players, who represent a part of the small percentage of those who frequent bass fora 😀 and an even smaller proportion of bass players overall - so almost never. 

I must admit since having a bongo, I haven't had any negative comments by anyone in person. I have actually had positive comments on it, and people do notice it, in a way they don't really with fender shaped objects. If you are someone who wants to blend into the background, a bongo certainly isn't the right bass.

7 hours ago, casapete said:

Don’t know if I’m getting old but audiences in

some pubs which were previously okay now seem to be getting more ‘lairy’, for want of

a better word. Tuesday evening and they were battered by 9.30pm, loud and annoying

some of our regulars so much that quite a few of them left early.

I certainly feel that post lockdown audiences are different to pre-lockdown audiences in a negative way

6 hours ago, Faithless said:

Unfortunately, P's only four strings, and I'm a 5 player, and, considering everyone's impressions on it, looks like the MM5 is a better way to, at least where I'm going, which is heavy pop-rnb kind of stuff.

Every so often some 4 string bass seems very appealing, and I forget that I play 5 strings almost exclusively. Then i end up not playing it and sell it. Then the cycle repeats!

Well, obviously its whichever you prefer, as you get a chance to play both, but I am not sure that there is much of a question on versatile. Do you want something that sounds like a P or something that can sound like other things.

If you are doing session work a P is generally something you have as a lot of producers only want that. If you want modern, the bongo is it.

11 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

So many of the Glam bands were actually very good musicians.

Mud are never a group that I would have thought of or described as glam, but i agree, there is so much more work in even the basic songs back then, especially for a bass player. Work that had pretty much dried up by the 90s!

3 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

There is a very high pitched overtone parallel with the singer - Is it an effect / distortion or a member of the public?

 

Ignore me I am an idiot - I didn't see you had another singer due to the location of the camera!

There is a very high pitched overtone parallel with the singer - Is it an effect / distortion or a member of the public?