NancyJohnson

The guy who wrote the song passed away a while back and the drummer doesn't have a writing credit. It would be interesting to know whether he gets any kind of residuals as being one of the performers. I think in the interests of privacy, I'm not going to name the guy (or song) but I reckon a ton of people on here know the song concerned and there's likely a few of our number probably played it in the last week or so.

#1 - Paul @NancyJohnson

Good afternoon If you've been following the old thread, you'll see that me and @prowla are going to try and sort something out for a basscentric get together. Provisionally, we're looking at St Sebastian's Memorial Hall, Crowthorne, Berkshire. The room is decent (and there may be side rooms), good parking, connections, railway. At present, no date...I'll wait until the hall comes back to me with available dates. Here's a link to the hall. Hopefully it'll prove adequate. We'll need raffle stuff, a guest or two, discussions etc. Let this evolve. In the meantime, add your name to the list. Cheers Paul

OK, started forming a queue. I'll wait for the rental quote and hall availability dates to come through. MODS! Can you close this thread to comments and I'll start a new thread.

The hall can hold 90...it might just need to be a bit different.

Let me pick up here. I'd always thought setting one of these up should be pretty straightforward and I have capacity. @prowla (Paul) has just been in contact - we're local to each other AND both @jonno1981 and @ceteralive about a mile from me. How would everyone feel if me and @prowla tried to sort something out? Proposal would be (possibly) St Sebastians Memorial Hall, Crowthorne (see details below). There's a map/link below. We'd need to hire for say six hours (10-4pm) on a Saturday @ £25.00 an hour. I honestly can't remember what Colin used to charge for entry (was it £10?), so 15 attendees and we'd have a enough to cover the hire fee. I'm sure we could rope on the Barry at the Bass Centre and get enough stuff together for a raffle etc. It's a big room and it has a little stage if we do another shoot-out etc. The hall is remore enough so as not to annoy people. Easy connections M3/M4, closest train is Crowthorne (on the Wokingham and Guildford mainline). I'd be happy to do pickups from the station (I'm sure others would as well. @neepheid (I think) may be kipping down at mine. Anyone interested? https://wokinghamwithout-pc.gov.uk/facility-hire/st-sebastians-memorial-hall

"I love this bass so much. It's the best ever, but I want to change it." If you love the sound, anything you install will have a profound effect on that, even in a flat position.

Be nice to the guy at the Parcelforce depot, if he wants to have a look at the bass, let him. If he wants to pick it up and have a noodle, let him. For one of my Ishibashi Thunderbirds he did this, I asked how much the duty was and he he just went, 'What duty?' and waved me on my way. Sometime you can get lucky.

I can't actually grasp why this money-grab has irritated me so much. (Well, I can, but...) Anyhow: Musicman Stingray basses: 1979 (£2.3K) https://reverb.com/uk/item/88807689-musicman-stingray-sunburst-r-1979-sn-b013725-04-07 1978 (£3.6K): https://reverb.com/uk/item/85274423-ernie-ball-music-man-stingray-pre-ernie-ball-1978-sunburst or £3.9K https://reverb.com/uk/item/90415351-music-man-stingray-with-maple-fretboard-1978-made-in-usa Just buy old.

I'm not talking about one of his actual basses. There's dozens of Stingrays from the 70s available for well under the price of this signature model. The thing I don't get to this day with signature models is that the ones PP has - minor tweaks aside - were all just stock/production line instruments. There's nothing unique about them and there's likely hundreds out there.

Six grand? Mother of god. Wouldn't a genuine one from that period cost less? (Checks Reverb, and yes.) Six grand?

Fundamentally you need to look at the festival itself. They love a 'legend'. I'd wager that there were thousands of people gushing over AM that probably knew one song (if that) or hadn't even given her a second thought in the last 20 years. She still has a voice like nails on a blackboard. Some things don't improve with age.

My wife has recently moved from 'Buy what you want/need' to a strict 'Sell one before you buy something else AND always trade up'. It's not really about the delivery, it's about seeding the suggestion well in advance (much like our upcoming American style fridge-freezee purchase). When @cetera sorted out the recent Spector Euro-X build, I was able to spin some kind of backstory about it being a test build and being offered at a healthy discount. If she knew the actual price, I fear I may have been wearing my ballbag as a hat.

It's odd, these festivals. I'd never go to Glastonbury; to me it's a four day hellish version of Later... Likewise Download. Aah, I remember the old days, drive up, backstage parking, watching Motley Crue and Aerosmith from the side of the stage, proper bogs home and asleep in my own bed about 2.00am the next day. Now? Four days of bands with vocalists just clearing their throats. Nope. When all this was fields, the events that got my attention were just 12 hours. It's difficult to fully quantify but take the old Monsters of Rock things at Donington. 70,000 people, one stage and (usually) seven or eight great bands. Now it's all multiple stages, dozens of bands no one has heard of etc. The day long Donington has evolved, but the 1980s type event would now be supplanted as part of a tour itinerary (if this makes sense). It would be like Green Day just playing Wembley Stadium with a decent undercard, then this moving to the Manchester City stadium.

Here we go. The top-hat is unobtrusive, albeit non-reversible. W for the win.