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Kirky - if you still have the crime number, then you stand a chance of getting it back. A minute chance given the culprit sounds like he's in another country.

I'm ashamed that this utter abomination comes from my home town of Farnborough. There again, I knew there was a reason I got the hell out of there as soon as I could.

A little tip of my own. If you're recording a track or comping one together from parts where you don't use all the strings on your bass, then tape the unused one(s) down to stop them vibrating in sympathy with the other strings. Can make for a cleaner take.

So it's £215 for an original one or £450 for a bodged one. Hmm.

I love Gloomy Sunday in its original Hungarian version: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBichAa9NeE"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBichAa9NeE[/url] The first English version had lyrics that were close in tone and meaning to the original, but the version most people know is a later one that has a much less direct style and a "happy" last verse tacked on to it.

Did a gig a bit like this. Club promoter wanted something "edgy" to try and make his club "alternative", so he booked us. Didn't tell us the support band would be using our equipment - first I knew of it was when our guitard wandered into the dressing room and told me some slappy,poppy Flea wannabe twunt was using my amp, having switched out the limiter. Went to find the promoter, who had disappeared. The doormen said it was par for the course. So we went on and played the most aggressive set I've ever done, finishing with both guitar amps howling out feedback and the singer berating the promoter. The student audience loved it, but we didn't get paid.A little addendum. The gig was at the Aquarium club in Old Street, London. Twelve years later I played at the Purple Turtle in Camden - different band - and one of the guys on security wandered up and reminded me of that night as he was the one the promoter had asked to try and eject us from the club (he'd refused on the grounds that the promoter was a knobhead).

Diane was in remembrance of a friend of the band who was murdered in the manner the song describes, so I don't think it was written principally to shock.

The tolex has finally arrived from an eBayer in the US. So now the weather's finally turning nicer it's time to get the router out and finish rounding the corners off!

There's not many more black than my Stingray Stealth (although the mythical ebony fretboard version would be a little blacker):

I gig a 1979 bass and have on the past gigged with a 1977 one that's now a back up. No problems with either of them, as I had them checked over when I bought them, and the only things showing wear and tear were the jack sockets.

Typical Eko hollow body if it feeds back then. My Eko semi-acoustic cost blew several power valves in my amp when I didn't hear the feedback in time. All I knew about it was a low rumbling and vibration from the stage decking ...

It looks like someone with a spastic bowel following a mutton vindaloo has "redecorated" the headstock.

i find that Rick basses clean right under the rim and leave a pine fresh smell.

[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1427115468' post='2725869'] a newbie asked if Laughing Cow or Philadelphia Light was best for metal. [/quote] I'm was so trying not to stoke that particular fire, but surely it depends on the sub-genre of metal. My recommendation would be Cathedral Mature Cheddar for your classic heavy rock and Stinking Bishop for blackened death metal.

[quote name='Raymondo' timestamp='1427013664' post='2724587'] I tried, I did, .....I really,really tried to ignore it...... but you know what happens when you've had eight pints of Doombar [/quote] Rabbit poo the next morning. Or is that only me? Guiness has the same results.

[quote name='The Admiral' timestamp='1427067104' post='2725504'] This is becoming rather like Last of the summer wine'. [/quote] Have you seen that TV channel called "Yesterday"? Seems to be documentaries about the Nazis interspersed by reruns of Last of the Summer Wine. What's that all about?

I assume you mean the one started by "Bronner". Surprised the mods haven't deleted it or at least locked it, as it seems like an obvious troll to me. I've criticised the attitude of Hall and his acolytes, as well as stated how disappointed I've been by the Ricks that I've played, but they are a unique looking and sounding bass (the reason I've tried a few is that I love the sound and look, but ended up with a couple of fakers that suited me better).

Blimey, lots of familiar studios in London mentioned so far! I used to endure La Rocka in North London at one point, which was the filthiest, most poorly equipped rehearsal studio I've ever seen. The worst if it was that it was hardly cheaper than my favourite studio, Terminal in Londonbridge (which I think others have mentioned above but not by name). Have also used Mill Hill Music Complex, which is great except in Winter when the lack of heating becomes very apparent. In Acton, Panic has great rooms but the bass amps are terrible Ashdowns, while around the corner Survival has better equipment but is a bit damp in Winter. There is also a great three room rehearsal place in Kilburn called Resident Studios.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1426193329' post='2715585'] Hall "worked for the British government"? What have I missed? J. [/quote] See this post on RickResource: [url="http://www.rickresource.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=194687&p=209286&hilit=government+hall#p209286"]http://www.rickresou...nt+hall#p209286[/url] It's part of a thread where someone's complaining about RIC's bad customer service with regard to the colour bleed on a blue bass. The guy posted a query regarding the problem on the official RIC forum. His post was removed, and he was subsequently banned from the forum. He then posted on Rickresource, where a number of other people came forward with the same issue affecting circa 2005 blue finished Ricks. Ben Hall (John Hall's son) acknowledged that there had been a problem. John Hall then waded in with his usual passive-aggressive stance and effectively told the original poster to shut up as his bass was "illegally imported".

Hall possibly went after Basschat rather than TalkBass because he felt he could afford to piss off w few thousand Brits on a fairly UK centric forum, but not a massively subscribed international one. I wonder if the BC owners ever contacted the firm that he claimed represented him or RIC in the UK. I did, and they couldn't recall ever representibg him or his firm and certainly don't now. With his claims of having worked for the British government and to know "important" people, Hall strikes me as a Walter Mitty like character.

My Greco RB700: