NancyJohnson

The guitarist in my current project was shortlisted for Chris McCormack's position.

I'm kind of with @Richhere. Curiously, it's been more a case of discovering long dead punk/indie (Fighting With Wire/Fortune Drive), purchasing a handful of reissues (Garbage/Wildhearts) and finding comfort from old material.

Lazlo Bane. Forget Scrubs/Superman. Great band.

This ^^^

Is this topic closed?

24 days. 🤣

As an owner of many Thunderbirds (now/historically), the subject of neck-dive has raised it's head many times but I would usually dispel these claims with a regal waive of the hand; it was never really a problem for me. I am curious though; given the price of this, would you consider any type of addition to the neck strap button that would extend the top horn out to move the centre of gravity? Someone over on (shh) T*lkb*ss came up with this:

It's not sprung (like a Kubicki)? You need to decide that need to drop to a D ahead of playing?

How does that work? #intrigued

I was thinking I'd not bought that much this year, but, well, umm, yeah. Bought a Hamer Cruisebass (below) that I'm in love with and while it's not strictly a purchase, I have an NS NXT 5-string EUB for my birthday in 26 days (and counting). I also bought three hardshell cases, a Fender Pugilist dirtbox, a GED2112-DI, an EMG GZR P/J pickup set and I have an Ibanez project arriving imminently. I think that's everything*. There's no bad purchases in there. (*Edit: I just bought an Ibanez Roadster RS-924 as a project.) Gratuitous Hamer glamour shot:

I'd use them, so yes.

Johnny Thunders/Heartbreakers this morning.

Yeah, but what Bezos does with his money is his concern. He's been shrewd and if he wants to fund a space programme off his salary and share options, then so be it. I've dealt with Amazon at a previous employer; I know we landed product for about a quarter of the price it was retailed for on the High Street. When we went into Amazon, they monitored the handful of retailers who were selling the same product and decreased/increased prices in line with that but only within an agreed percentage rate. They were supplied at within agreed bulk discount rates that applied to all our customers. We didn't sell any more or less product although our distribution channel changed. It meant little or nothing to us as we were still making the same £££ per product, but we sold more. This model would (or should) apply to every manufacturer out there. We're only worrying here about Amazon's impact on the small retailer and you're only focusing in one particular product line. You have to weigh in the absolute inconvenience of having to buy other stuff up against the convenience of one click shopping. I've heard numerous arguments about how Amazon were going to drive everyone out of business and start hiking up prices. I've been using Amazon since December 1999 and I've seen little evidence of this in 22 years. If nothing, this business shows customer is king and you have more availability at your fingertips than you would if they didn't exist. The only retailers complaining are probably geared towards the ones who haven't moved with the times. Forget just buying a set of strings. When my father-in-law was gravely ill a few years back, in desperation we went onto Amazon and sorted out vast array of products for his well-being in about ten minutes and it was delivered within 24 hours. I doubt we could have found this stuff on several trips out, without factoring in petrol, parking, shoe leather, time and availability. For that service alone, Amazon would be my first point of call every time. Right, as you were.

As a society that have access to so many retail outlets, it still surprises me that people maintain this stance and would happily pay 20% extra for something simply because they don't like to use the cheaper retailer. If Strings Direct went out of business today, nothing would change for the end customer, there wouldn't be any dip in demand and the manufacturers would just push more through Amazon (and Andertons and Thomann and and and..).

Spot on. The NR/Firebird reverse pickguard horrific.

Oddly familiar...

On the Gibson Mod-Shop they had a pelham blue NR Thunderbird up for $1.6K last week. Interestingly, this lacks the scratchplate and the chromed hardware/pickup covers of the current reissues and, to be honest, this looks a whole lot better for it. The only things I could add to improve things? Put the Gibson logo back on the truss-rod cover, give it a two part bridge, and cosmetically, line the pots up in a straight line and move the output jack to the lower bout. [Edit] Oh, and paint it black. https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Guitar/DMOWGQ675/Non-Reverse-Thunderbird/Faded-Pelham-Blue

@Biscuit_BassThese sort of questions are ten a penny here, you might as well ask people what their favourite colour is. It's just a matter of time until the thread degenerates into a discussion about the best basses for funk and people start posting photos of their basses.

OK, I'm going to get cheesy on you. Our first dance (shudder) was 'Walk Forever By My side' by The Alarm. I remember my mum crying at the time saying how beautiful the song was and that she thought they were a punk band. Bless.

Soul Asylum. The early stuff. When they were edgy and indie.

Oi! I know Carlton!

I am intrigued by the brief coverage of other Rickenbacker basses at the end of this. I'm familiar with the 3001, but only from some old photos of Geddy Lee. I'll admit I did get a little wobble on at the twin pickup Hamburg/2020 or 2030 model. There's some lovely looking black ones.

Anyone got any suggestions? Start me out at Amazon!