mr4stringz

I love dear old TW to bits. Have been most fortunate to have seen him live twice. Love all of his work. This one has worked wonders for me on occasion.

Very nice. Has that pawn shop kind of look, what with the MM-style pickup.

Me too (zombie thread though this is).

As visually incredible as it all looks, it’d be sensory overload for me and I’d have the worst migraine ever inside 10 minutes, and that’s without factoring in that it’s U2. I just don’t know with all of that going on if I could actually tell you if the band had been any good and/or entertaining at the end. But then, maybe that’s part of the point? A small ‘spit and sawdust’ venue with a band playing and living and dying by the simple sword of ‘just’ being up there playing to a room will always be more my thing. It is true though that, in recent years, tours and concerts (by the bigger bands at least, see also the bigger festivals) are being marketed far more as an experience and an aspirational lifestyle thing rather than ‘a gig’. So yeah, not my bag but that’s OK!

Keenly priced stuff. Apols if already posted. https://ashdownmusic.com/collections/basses-22 Quite like the look of the Green Capri (there’s a 1980s phrase if ever there was one).

This thread is of no practical use to me personally, but just chipping in here to say that it’s threads like this that demonstrate rather succinctly what a great forum BC is. Or rather, how great its users are individually and collectively. Anyway, that’s enough of that mushiness. Pray continue…

Yes, Mr Realale-Donerfarts. Posh git with his double barrelled name.

Good grief, no. That said the toilets alone are fairly bad.

I got this at Download once.

Those are (I think I’m right) the difference between the Ignition and the fairly recently released Ignition SE. That one is an SE.

The Telebass looks great. Just saw a post from my local independent shop. They’ve got a Vintage White up at £999.

Totally my experience with the Ricky I had.

Balls Chillin’ Rich.

I rarely have the chance/opportunity to do bricks and mortar shops these days, but when in Birmingham I find the GuitarGuitar guys there are sound.

Just a thought, but it’s possible this might not be the thread for you.

For Gretsch to do an Electromatic Billy Bo bass.

There’s a fair glut of the 40th anniversary stuff reduced in there just now it seems, skinny strings and basses. https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=Squier 40th&smcs=21038b_6161

I’m sure that for a brief period in about ‘94 (not sure for how long) it depended what the model was as to where the ‘Made in Japan’ was printed. From memory, the Vintage models had the spaghetti logo on the headstock and the ‘Made in Japan’ was above the s/n on the reverse of the dusty end of the neck. Standard/Contemporary models had the transition logo on the headstock with ‘Made in Japan’ also on face of the headstock. So, not sure whether it was a similar kind of thing with the CIJs in the mid 00s for a bit?

Time to update, having recently added an Epi Vintage Pro T-Bird to the ranks…

Echo the above. It must be a bore to many to hear me so frequently wax lyrical about mine. They got it so, so right with this model.