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When I was messing around with my old Orange Terror Bass head, I tried out a number of valves. Here's one that didn't get used. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

When I was messing around with my old Orange Terror Bass head, I tried out a number of valves. Here's one that didn't get used in the end. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

One of the first FX I ever experimented with was a Hughes & Kettner Cream Machine. It was too fierce for my tastes and lived on a shelf for a couple of years. Then I got my Orange Terror Bass, discovered an urgent need to re-valve it, and lost my fear of valving. This is the high-gain valve that I swopped out of the Cream Machine. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

There was a period when I was experimenting with having two very different microphones on a single stand, so I bought a couple of these cheapo Skytronics units. This one just never actually got opened. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

No clue. Absolutely no idea where these came from or why I still have them. I haven't owned a Jazz in a very long time, probably the thick end of ten years. I can tell you nothing about them, NOTHING you hear? You'd best assume that they came from a 1962 stack-knob owned by John Entwistle until he sold it to Chris Squire. Or something. £3 to cover P&P and they're yours.

I like to do weird things, like buying a bass notorious for its weak electronics (Westone "The Rail") and then dropping into it a really smooth high-end pickup. This is what was removed. Presumably the original pickup from the 80s but I have no clue as to who it's by. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

When I bought my @Chownybass shortscale fretless, it had these pickups in it. Steve Chown then kindly sent me the upgraded versions for testing, leaving this original set surplus to requirements. I came across them today and thought "time to move them along". £3 to cover P&P and they're yours.

I seem to remember that these were taken from a genuine 1980s US Fender to be replaced with a pair of Seymour Duncans. That of course is no guarantee that these were the original pickups, but they could easily be. They were working fine when last in use about six years ago. Yours for £3 to cover P&P.

The first time I saw one of these Caddys up close and personal, the one thing that genuinely astonished me was how little space there was inside. As the song says, "I got me a car that's as big as a whale", yet you can just about fit two full-sized adults in the front, the back only has room for a couple of (small) children.

Can you show me a Mink De Ville in Candy Apple Red? Asking for a friend.

Aaaaaargh! Daphne and Sonic ... no Lake Placid.

Yup, I posted a Cadillac to point out that it wasn't actually Ford colours that Leo used, it was DuPont colours and they were used across the industry AFAIK.

The Bubinger ones are better.

[Soap box enabled] Every lead is always coiled after a gig. Every lead. Always. A coiled lead takes up less space, doesn't knot, doesn't become entangled with other leads. With a little practice, any lead (yes, including 10m ones) can be successfully coiled in about the same time as it takes to stuff a rat's nest into a bag. I only let bandmates touch my leads once I know that they know how to coil them properly. If they don't know how, then I show them. [/Soap box] If you want your cables bag to last a long time, don't waste your time with normal luggage or nylon sports bags, buy a tool bag. https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=tool+bag+large&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 Better still, search for Stanley FatMax 1-93-935 Waterproof Toolbox 28inch That will give you cable storage that can also be used as a step-up when you need to route cables or lighting (or whatever) near the ceiling of the venue, can be used to put a combo or lights on to get them off the ground at gigs, and can keep vulnerable pedals safe when travelling to/from gigs.

Or perhaps the colour balance in the OP's photo has been distorted by the presence of peach-coloured plastic sandals?

It's a screen thing. I posted that pic because on my screen it's so obvious that the bass on the right is the correct colour while the bass on the left is wildly different.

The two Mike Lulls that I've bought which actually came with anything both came with better-than-Fender hardcases. The case for the T5 is particularly impressive.

My Clarus II needs service/repair ... not keen to send it to Raleigh in Virginia so where in the UK would be best for this?

I'm waiting for the extra-long 12" version.

They were new in 2011 and selling for about $700 new.

Is this guy a spectacularly good drummer? Or does he maybe bring in all the gigs for the band or something?

So anyway @Nicko, what do you want to do?