NancyJohnson

On private function nights, 90 people. We can squeeze a few in.

Everyone tends to bring something. There'll be enough kit to keep people happy. On the subject of the bass shootout thing, it would be nice to have a list of basses ahead of the curve so I can do some printed sheets for marking.

Blimey. Why Peavey?

I've been watching the BBC iPlayer. Observations? Lots of mullets. Quite a few performers long dead. US show was a shambles. U2 and Queen were great. Elton John on for too long. We were talking about the bands that didn't play (Geldolf, for instance, believed Big Country had split up).

Photos or it didn't happen.

And this is why I can't even begin to compete.

@prowla and I had a chat earlier. The London Guitar Show is on Sunday 26th October and I've just found out I can't do the weekend of November, so looking at the weekend after, which is 8/9th November. Could we get a list of preferred dates please and we'll go with the majority. If it's a Sunday we can get in the hall from 11.00am. Thanks

For washing it down in the shower.

Here's what you need to do and how things will go. Buy both. Then buy another one, and another one, then another one. After you've bought the last one, get another couple. Then one or two more. Oh, and then another one. This is how it goes. This is how it always goes. Don't buck the trend.

Mangling the statistics, it's barely 10% that are vehemently against it.

The hall is available Sundays from 11.30am.

Oops... I don't know if you can insert a poll, but state your desired month, September to November.

Brief update! Hall managers have said that as we're contributing any proceeds to a charity (TBD) we can get the hall at a reduced hourly rate, which is nice of them. We have access from 12.00pm for as long as required. It begs the question the date we want to do this...I can't do first weekend of November, but beyond that, I'm good. September my be too soon to wrestle the troops, dunno.

Interestingly, in the last few months it became apparent that it was actually cheaper to buy in a Chinese neck for my Aria than to fork out for a refret, so that's what I did. It's got a '70s style Fender Jazz Bass logo on it; do I care? Nope, in truth, not really. Everyone who needs to know its provenance knows what it is and if I sell it, the buyer will know as well (and they'll get the original neck, too).

#1 - Paul @NancyJohnson #2 - Paul #2 @prowla #3 - Martin @Merton #4 - Matt @Wombat #5 - Andy @Wolverinebass #6 - Stevie @stevie #7 - Lozz @Lozz196 #8 - Matt @neepheid #9 - @bassace97 #10 - Robert @bass_dinger #11 - Christopher @chyc #12 - jaco @Geek99 ** #13 - Alan @WalMan #14 - Trevor @TrevorR #15 - John @jonno1981

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 Another edit here (30/10/25). Please read this and treat as pinned content. The honourable member for the Bracknell @prowla (aka Paul) and myself (also Paul...blame Mr McCartney) are happy to announce that the SE Bass Basheroonie is confirmed for Sunday 9th November 2025 (from 11.00am to 5.00pm) at St Sebastian's Memorial Hall, Crowthorne, Berkshire. We have the whole site (main room (which has a small stage) and a side suite), so the whole place is ours for the day. Gary/@cetera has also come on board, too. The site has decent parking, good connections with M3/M4. Closest rail connection is Crowthorne (which is on the Guildford > Reading branch line) or Wokingham (Waterloo > Reading), but I'm advised (inevitably) there's rail engineering works scheduled in the area that weekend, so please check online. I'm more than happy to pick up/drop off at either station, but I would prefer not to keep shuttling people back and forth. @prowla has offered to visit CostCo the day before to load up on cakes, coffee, tea, milk, paper cups and plates. We'll operate a CASH honesty box for these. This is the place: Map below. ++++++++++++++ We're proposing the usual £10.00 entry per person. PLEASE BRING CASH. You'll get a sticker on entry, please put your name on it and wear it for exit/re-entry (this will also be useful for identifying people!). RAFFLE We're hoping to do a raffle of some sort if we have enough donations (so please find some stuff you're prepared to let go for the raffle table). SELLING Of course, you'll be able to use the event for selling your unwanted stuff. Right now we're undecided whether it'll be best to have a dedicated sale table or whether to just have each member simply piling their stuff up next to their equipment. It is not the responsibility of the organisers to provide cashing services, please sort out your own transactions on the day (ie cash/bank transfer/PayPal). ATTENDANCE Please note (as usual), this is a private event open to Basschat members and their guest(s), and we will categorically not be letting any local oiks in. It goes without saying, please be vigilant. VOLUME This is a two room village hall. PLEASE respect your volume and be considerate of other members around you. Yes, we all know you're proud of your earth-shaking SVT and 8x10 fridge, but this is a small hall and 300w of valve-powered bass tone is going to melt the face off the guy next to you, so please try to restrain your rig. When the talks are going on, please try and keep it down as well. WHAT'S THAT BASS? The blind bass shoot-out will return this year. If you want to have your bass included, please let us know when you arrive. You know the format by now. One bass per member. Please make sure you have a stand for it. Oh, and because we're not your mummy, if you want to take part, bring a pen/crayon/bit of burnt stick as well. OTHER SHIZZ We are not currently aware of plugs/sockets situation (hopefully adequate) etc, so please bring an extension cable and again, be respectful of other members equipment...no unplugging anything if it's not yours. ++++++++++++++++ Moving on to a (fluid) schedule: 12.00pm Matt Gleeson from Monty's Guitars (https://www.montysguitars.com) will be talking all things pickups/looms. (Mike Brooks hosting/playing.) 1.00pm Phil Starr will be doing a cabinet shoot out. 2.00pm Q&A with Chris Childs (Thunder, Tyketto, Union) (Mike Brooks hosting): 3.00pm Another enthralling round of What's That Bass?, the legendary blind bass shoot-out. This will be hosted by Yours Truly and Gary @cetera on the bass. Ideally, we need 10-15 basses. Bring pens! 4.00pm Hopefully raffle, closing poop. 5.00pm Go home you lot. It's dark out. ++++++++++++++ As we're a bit new to this, we'd be grateful for your patience/understanding if things go wrong. Any input insofar as guest speakers goes and any ideas for input; I've emailed Lee Voss, Steve Lawson, Barry at The Bass Centre, Alex at Barefaced and D'Addario, Gary is working on Lee Pomeroy (all hail). While I'm uncertain at this juncture whether he'll attend, I am in contact with the wonderful Colin Moulding of XTC - he declined earlier in the year and asked that I contact him nearer the date. I'm a bit of a fanboy, so it would be superb if he could attend. ++++++++++++++ In closing, we're obviously looking to break even and make a profit from this. @prowla and I have agreed that any proceeds over our costs will go to COATs (Crowthorne Old Age & Teens) of Crowthorne, where I volunteer weekly. COATs have a well run shop, a lovely day centre on the edge of the village and they run a couple of mini-buses to get the oldsters to hospital and for day trips. The whole place is volunteer run, even the top line people. It's a great cause. In the meantime, add your name to the list. Cheers Paul/NJ

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.