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cybertect

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  1. Per this discussion, it's played on a keyboard https://gearspace.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/513627-thompson-twins-2.html?s=e56c4ec83002b0e43e038f04207af7d4
  2. It hasn't been said out loud yet, but everything about that guitar screams that it was made by Teisco
  3. That would make sense. Since Brexit, there is a Free Trade Agreement in place between the EU and the UK, which means no import duty is levied on goods traded between them. However, that exemption applies only to goods that are made either in the EU or in the UK. Goods that are from other parts of the world, such as China, get duty levied on them accordingly. That being said, it appears that the third-country tariff duty (China is a 'third-country' in this context) on 'audio-frequency electric amplifiers' which appears to be the best match for a guitar amp [Commodity code 8518400090] is set at 0%, so no import duty is due, whether your amplifier is originally British, German, Chinese or actually hails from Betelgeuse. https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/8518400090 FWIW, from what that I have seen, most import tariffs on most products are below 5% most of the time. Finally, don't get duty confused with VAT. Regardless of any duty, rules of origin or anything else, whoever is responsible for the goods entering the UK will have to pay VAT upon import. That is almost certainly going to be at 20% Standard Rate and will be a much bigger hit to your pocket than any duty. I've spent much of the last year rewriting my company's trading systems to accommodate Brexit and VAT is a much bigger headache to deal with than duty.
  4. I recognise Don Lusher playing trombone there, too
  5. The last time I saw Phil a two or three years ago, he was helping out at Sutton Music Centre
  6. I used to abuse a 1 x 15 Sessionette 100 very badly in the late 1980s - extended bass feedback with my Horner Verithin at close quarters produced something gorgeous noises that were probably not very healthy for the speaker cone. I’m constantly amazed it carried on working and somehow it kept up with a loud drummer and two Peavey Backstages cranked up full.
  7. Alternatively, time to Shake You Donkey Up 🙂
  8. Looking forward to it Welcome to the ‘79 Sabre club anyhow 👍 (mine’s a natural blonde that I’ve had for 26 years)
  9. A different beast, I know, but I cannot say my 1967 Verithin has a particularly high action
  10. Gardening at Night - REM Garden of Earthly Delights - XTC English Garden - Roddy Frame Eric The Gardener - Divine Comedy In the Garden - Van Morrison In Bloom - Nirvana
  11. I will confess that I never have been much of a Rush fan and never took much notice of them, so I was surprised to be told by a few people that I looked like Geddy Lee toward the back end of the 90s - this pic was taken in 2002. The weirdest bit - after I had learned who he was and a couple of years after this, I was visiting Land's End in Cornwall on holiday and I will swear Geddy walked right past me - my wife did a double take, too!
  12. Plug for my favourite French band from the late 70s and early 80s, Téléphone
  13. Likewise. I have a pair of Whirlwind cables I must have bought in 1988 that have been gigged ever since and still get regular use. I only just replaced a GK 2x10 cab that has done sterling service since 1993 with a Barefaced One10 about a month and a half ago. The item I've had the longest, though, is a Marshall guitar amp I've had since 1982, but but I hardly ever play guitar these days so that lives in the loft. Edit: I told a lie! I have a Stylophone that I got probably for a birthday or Xmas circa 1975.
  14. This sounds like the British Invasion of the USA in the 1960s, but we are on the receiving end this time 🙂
  15. I have an OLP MM3 that I bought new about 15 years ago to see how I would get on with a 5 string. It was a cheap impulse purchase from a local music shop and I still have it. For the money and of its time, it's a decent enough instrument (I gigged with it). It's really not the same as a real Stingray, though - the big difference is that the OLPs are passive. The exception is the Tony Levin signature model which does have a preamp. Everything else is different enough that it won't give you much of an idea what an SR is like. My point of comparison is a 2015 Stingray 5 fretless, so I would have to acknowledge that's hardly the same beast either However, I played enough fretted ones before I settling on that. I'm not sure what the decade between buying the OLP and actually getting a 'proper' 5 string says about it...
  16. [quote name='blue' timestamp='1510180452' post='3404559'][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If anyone has any tid bits on The Rattles or Cliff Bennett please share.[/font][/color][/quote] I don't think they much of an impact on your side of the pond, but about ten years later, Chas Hodges, Dave Peacock and [font=sans-serif]Mick Burt[/font] of [i]Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers[/i] went on to be[i] Chas 'n' Dave[/i] together Rabbit, rabbit...
  17. It must be noted that Macari’s closed their shop on Denmark Street a few weeks ago and are now only on Charing Cross Road.
  18. Count me firmly in the 'love it' camp. [quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1503122510' post='3355807']I've not followed Fagen specifically but I liked Steely Dan.[/quote] [i]The Nightfly[/i] came out when I was fifteen, so I kind of came into Steely Dan backwards by discovering them through this album by Fagen. Ever since, it's been one of my reference albums when checking out new audio gear (along with [i]Pirates[/i] by Rickie Lee Jones, with which it shares Donald Fagen, Dean Parks, Chuck Rainey and Randy Brecker in the credits). It gets a lot of listens.
  19. Well, the page on Reidys' blog linked to in the OP on this thread been removed entirely. Google cache shows there was a note added before it was taken down https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YwWZfKd-CeQJ:https://www.reidys.com/blog/rosewood-no-more-fender-cites-1901/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=safari [quote=Reidys]DISCLAIMER: Yesterday, we posted this article based on information received from Fender EMEA stating that they would not be using rosewood as an option for 'necks' (fingerboards) on future models. However, this morning, it has been clarified by Fender that this will only be the case on selected models, and not the entire range. More updates to follow...[/quote] Make of all that what you will.
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