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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

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The bass sound was an edited clavinet preset on an Oberheim OBXA

This might be of interest 

It hasn't been said out loud yet, but everything about that guitar screams that it was made by Teisco

7 hours ago, Quilly said:

Does anyone know if items I sell into the mainland UK from Ireland will incur import duty, I've 2 amps , one made in UK the other Made in China, I think there's some rules of origin thing making the UK item exempt for UK tax or something??

Apologies for the laziness but I just figured there's folks here used to buying/selling into UK post Brexit . 

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.

On 30/04/2020 at 11:15, lowdown said:

Indeed, he was a great player.

 Dave played on lots of library/production stuff as well TV sessions back in the days of regular Light Entertainment Music.

He comes into shot from around 01:25.

 

Here he is with his Burns Bison...

I recognise Don Lusher playing trombone there, too

3 hours ago, cetera said:

 

Phil Lusher (son of Big Band leader Don Lusher) managed Hands for quite a while too at the site in the alley by the Thames. I also remember when Hands was further down the Thames road out of town.... and, before that, just a small concession in the original Bentalls in Kingston (god I'm old...)

Phil had previously been manager at Ivor Mairaints just off Oxford St in London's West End....

The last time I saw Phil a two or three years ago, he was helping out at Sutton Music Centre

On 10/03/2020 at 16:23, scalpy said:

‘I was in thunderclap newman’

’I sang backing vocals on Rocket Man’

’I played guitar Everyone’s Kung Fu Fighting’

All from one guitarist. 

Pete Goodall, by any chance?

On 20/02/2020 at 13:58, AoLStudios said:

I have one we occasionally use at our studio. Actually used it for a live keyboard amp last week with very good results. 

Once you get the hang of them they're an excellent little amp. Built like a tank. 

Can't compete with a loud drummer but have taken it out on a few quiet gigs & it's handled with ease

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.

14 hours ago, spectoremg said:

He's right, great track. Time to finally get off my donkey and check them out. 

Alternatively, time to Shake You Donkey Up 🙂

5 hours ago, prowla said:

I think that Rossi is probably the most qualified person to use the brand.

But only if he uses his green Telecaster 🙂

I don’t do FB, but thanks for the info 

Oh, my Sabre is my daily driver

2 hours ago, bartelby said:

I’m not a xxxxburst fan, but that is a seriously good looking bass.

I concur, that is pretty sweet

Looking forward to it

Welcome to the ‘79 Sabre club anyhow  👍

A different beast, I know, but I cannot say my 1967 Verithin has a particularly high action

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

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!

40 minutes ago, Dapper Bandit said:

There have indeed always been excellent rock bands outside of English speaking countries, whom you could only find out about initially through niche interest 'zines/tape trading and later forums. Now the internet has reached ubiquity in our lives it's inevitable that this sort of cultural cross-pollination will occur.

Plug for my favourite French band from the late 70s and early 80s, Téléphone

6 hours ago, chris_b said:

The oldest thing I'm still gigging with is my 30 years old Whirlwind instrument cable. It had a guarantee period of 25 years. That made me laugh at the time, but hey, they were right! It shares duty with my OBBM cable.

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.

6 hours ago, jazzmanb said:

We invented it,seemed to have lost our way a bit in favour of other styles ,they loved it in numbers and have brought it back to sell to us 

This sounds like the British Invasion of the USA in the 1960s, but we are on the receiving end this time 🙂

On 25/06/2019 at 08:17, uk_lefty said:

Look for second hand OLP stingrays? Obviously not the real USA Stingray but should go some way towards the feel and tonal style. The cheapest Ernie Ball do are around the £350 mark new so again, not the real thing but it should be as close as you can get if budget restricts.

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...

[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...

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.

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.

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.