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put a set of GHS Flats on my Precision at Christmas (pressie to myself). Much better definition than the previous set, Fender flats, and a good solid thwack when played through my TV Bassman. So forty quid well sent. Makes unimaginative playing sound quite classy!

A strange thing happened when playing at a local festival last summer: we were the first band on, and were all tuning up when we noticed the lead guitarist was having problems - he couldn't get his amp on. He had power as his effects were live. Switching on the power, nothing happened. The sound tech came on stage and hadn't clue what the problem was, other than changing the mains lead. Then someone noticed there was a keylock on the amp, like bicycle lock. The sound tech said he wondered why he had been given a cycle key! I still don't understand why an amp is fitted with key lock to keep it switched off. (Caused much mirth at the time..)

Hi Columbus fans I bought a Columbus jazz from Greenhalghs, Fore Street, Exeter in about 1976, and played it in local bands. It's claim to fame was being used by me in the production of 'John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert' at Nottingham Playhouse in 1981(?) I really liked the guitar and regretted selling it to the sound tech at the theatre at the end of the run to fund a precision. I had stripped off the lacquer to the natural finish and the body was solid, although I remember the wood wasn't particulary hard.