NancyJohnson

@cetera

I think we need to shoot a video.  

Spotify tells me it gets over 100,000 plays a day and it's been played nearly 243 million times. 

Does anyone really care whether the narrative aligns with today's world view; life's too short and people are too often offended.  Just read the lyrics (first time), it's storytelling, nothing more.  There's a whole lot worse (and less intelligent lyrically) out there; have a look at 'Stupid Hoe' by Nicki Minaj.

10 hours ago, spacecowboy said:

87 basses!?

When I saw them, I did a little bit of jizz.

I was up to about a dozen Thunderbirds at one point and I honestly couldn't keep track of those.  There'd be a gap in the rack and you'd go, 'What's supposed to be in there?'

I've been to the @cetera vault.  There's a lot of stuff in there.  An awful lot of stuff. 😂

Now then.  My only experience was off a guy who owned one in the late 70s/early 80s.

Distinctly remember the bass was a bolt-on and there didn't appear to be enough of the neck attached to the body in the rout/heel area and the thing was going like a banana.  Horrific action.

Buuuuuump!

49 minutes ago, Wolverinebass said:

Tell him to take a slightly bigger suitcase as he'll probably end up being "the mule." Ha!

$500 in £?  £395.00.  Bonkers.

2 hours ago, Wolverinebass said:

That's a fair point actually, but I feel it's still way too pricey. If it had dual inputs (which it doesn't) I'd probably agree with you.

 

For a pedal to have an almost 50% markup from US to UK pricing is obscene.

So US/Sweetwiter $500 preorder, Thomann £611 (or $775).  Bonkers.  If I do pull for one of these it'll be though my brother in law on a US trip.

7 minutes ago, Wolverinebass said:

See, I'd love to do that, but I bet we'd get sued as Rocky Road are the "exclusive" distributors in the UK. Or like Westside with Mesa some time ago, there would be a "non valid warranty of US items" policy just to choke it off. Am I wrong?

 

Who was the guy on here that did the bulk preorder of the Dug pedals for folk?

I know @tonyxtiger bought in some Tech21 stuff. 

The one thing that narked me with the Rocky Road distribution was that they didn't have a clue about the products they were dealing with; when my Ged rack lost its clank, it went to Rocky Road and their opinion was that, 'It's making a noise, so it's working, innit?'  Err, no.  For the salary they're likely paying their tech guy, they could just as easy have sent me a new one under the warranty.

3 minutes ago, cetera said:

5 string USA model:

https://reverb.com/item/82077753-spector-usa-custom-shop-ltd-5-string-doug-wimbish-true-champagne-gloss

4 string USA model:

https://reverb.com/uk/item/82183825-spector-usa-custom-shop-ltd-4-string-doug-wimbish-true-champagne-gloss

I quite like that colour.

 

Spector just need to release a 'pearl' white (affordable) Euro 'Rachel Bolan' sig model now......

They look nice.  Eyewatering prices.

I think the main problem I see with these is that I've never - from a Spector perspective - seen him playing anything except the honeyburst(?) PJ and JJ models.  He's not associated with anything that looks like that.

On 13/05/2024 at 16:51, Wolverinebass said:

Until Tech 21 gets a decent distributor in the UK, they're dead to me and that's really saying something.

I just don't get how hard it is to set up as a distribution company.  We've discussed this previously.

My brother in law spends a lot of time in Houston...

4 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Have you got a multimeter, and can you check that 9v is actually getting to the preamp? Might be the jack socket (especially if it's a barrel jack) not making good contact between ring and sleeve.

I have a meter - from memory the output jack is the same as the one in John's photo below (it just bolts into a jack plate).  I'm getting some noise from one of the jumper points behind the rotary trim pots indicated below, beyond that, nothing.  All the loom cables are in and tight.

A while back I'd have been desperate to get this fixed, now you just kind of shrug your shoulders and pull out another bass, because fixing it is a job from future Nancy! :)

To be honest, I'd track down a second-hand Fender.  Mexico/Japan. 

If I were you (not that I want to spend anyone's £££s for them), I'd stretch by budget and hit up Dave's Jazz, below.  I've no idea what the current price is...it's been yo-yoing up and down.

17 minutes ago, horrorshowbass said:

So you're saying I should buy his 6 string bongo instead? @NancyJohnson

(I could live with that)

Well, I love the Bongo.  I'd take the Musicman over the Yamaha.

I've just returned from a session at the physiotherapist.  While I was waiting, a second receptionist started work and there was a conversational handover, which was pretty much this:

'Oh hi, Sally!  Good weekend?'

'Yeah, not bad, took the grandchildren to the park, then we had a Chinese and watched Eurovision.'

'Oh god, it was just awful wasn't it?'

'Yes, terrible.  Why we even bother entering is beyond me.  Everyone hates us.'

'I know! Jesus Christ on a bike.'

So a little snapshot from middle England.

1 hour ago, Misdee said:

...winning entry made history by being the first victory for a non-binary contestant.  

With all due respect, there's probably been past winners who pre-date these tags and pronouns.  It's hardly history-making, winning something on the basis of votes.  Nobody will even remember him/them/whatever in a few days.

I just watched the UK entry.  WTAF?  It's honestly no wonder the public vote gave him zero.

Some of the posts on X are priceless.  One person posted something along the lines of, 'Oh, why can't we just enter a nice song, performed by someone with a decent voice, nice clothes, sparkly shoes, backing singers doo-bopping.'

Got a point.  I'd rather this than five blokes dressed as boxers dry-humping each other.

8 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

IIRC it's the inlay placement.

Gold star!

I know there's a lot of love for these, but there's one thing that irritates the pants off me regarding these. 

Once you see it, it can't remain unseen.  Even John Myung mentioned it, but Yamaha ignored him!

Used once during a ridiculous pandemic video shoot.  Just shoot me something for postage (fiver?).

I didn't watch it at all this year ... preferring Notts Forest v Chelsea, Clarkson's Farm and a bit of Doctor Who.

Maybe I'm just a curmudgeonly old man, but how anyone in this country would be right-minded enough to even consider entering it is beyond me.  It's a 100% (musical) career killer.

Long gone are (what I suppose) the good old days of entente cordiale, Katie Boyle, fair play and voting for whether a song actually has merit.  

Well it appears the preamp is at fault.  Swapped the battery over, preamp is dead.  There appears to be activity on it; I can tap around exposed contacts and this registers on the amp (you can hear a buzzing), beyond that no sound.

Groan.

Just a quick question on end of battery life.

Most of my kit is now active and I've been fairly diligent in changing the PP3s annually (on my birthday start of December, or thereabouts), but that slipped as I haven't really been doing much musically.  Six months late....

I'm just curious about end of battery life experience.  I pulled one of my Lulls out yesterday/John East circuit.  Circuit was still live, but quite unpleasant tonally, no clarity, farty.  I've experienced batteries being dead, never when they're on their last legs.

I've got a few Duracells arriving today.

I've got an Epiphone FT-140 Dreadnought acoustic I've owned since I was 12/13, so mid-70s.  My gran died, mum treated me off her inheritance.  It came from Adam Music, Staines (see thread elsewhere).  Needs a refret.

Basses, nowhere near.  Ten years.

[EDIT]  I also have a four-way extension cable that's in regular use to this day.  I can age it to summer 1977 because it has a sticker on it that says 'The Dags', a punk band we formed at school.