Hit&Run

[quote name='kennyrodg' post='330259' date='Nov 16 2008, 08:28 PM']speak to a guy called Ryu.If you phone them his name is pronounced "Loo" [color="#0000FF"][email protected] [email protected][/color] hope this helps. [/quote] Nice one fella, appreciated by yours truly!

Does anyone have an email address for willows guitars? I can't seem to see one on their website. Nice one, Andrew

[quote name='ianrunci' post='321774' date='Nov 4 2008, 01:37 PM']I considered a Bartolini passive but I can't seem to find anywhere in the UK that stocks them[/quote] [url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/bartolini.html"]the gallery[/url] stock them, though they may be out of your £100 price range. I got a bart 5 string MM pup off ebay (second hand) for about £40 inc p&p. They'll pop up every once in a while. You could probably get a bart MM pup from the US shipped over here for around £100. [url="http://www.bestbassgear.com/bartolini-mm-pickups.htm"]US site[/url] Good luck.

I've just bought a Dearmond Pilot bass off joe_bass, and the transaction went smooth as silk. The bass landed up at my house in one piece, untainted by courier's bootprints; what a result!

[quote name='Hamster' post='312592' date='Oct 22 2008, 10:50 PM']I'd also like to see your referenced source for the "sports cars in his palatial dwelling" comment.[/quote] I can only comment from what I saw on TV, he may have a rusty old transit now. It was a few years ago that I saw it. Maybe he had well-heeled visitors around for lunch? Whatever the explanation, this vicar appeared to be 'rolling in it'. [quote name='Hamster' post='312592' date='Oct 22 2008, 10:50 PM']In fact, it was part of a tongue-in-cheek "Matrix" style promotional video for a men's prayer meeting that was given the usual "Won't somebody think of the children" treatment by the media looking for a story.[/quote] Furry Muff. From the bits I saw it didn't look like a Waco-style recruitment video or anything, in fact I remeber finding it pretty funny.

Sorry to take things off topic for a second... [quote name='yorks5stringer' post='311373' date='Oct 21 2008, 03:38 PM']"I don't know where ALC is in Bradford" It's in Wapping, if you are stood outside Canal Road Tescos it is the massive modern building right up on the hill looking towards the Leeds Road area: in fact I've just looked out my office window in the centre of Bradford and can see it from here too![/quote]It's the big, grey, double warehouse saying 'Abundant Life Church' in neon purple. A past parishoner told me it was built as a warehouse so if the church 'folded', the warehouse would offer more 'development opportunities' (ie sell easier) than a 'traditional' church building. It's a thriving business at the moment, and hence it's recent expansion into a mini citadel. [quote name='BigBeefChief' post='311377' date='Oct 21 2008, 03:41 PM']Has it got one of those "progressive" vicars who wears a leather jacket and smokes weed and stuff? I love those! They usually get caught shagging the 17 year old daughter of one of the parishioners.[/quote]The 'vicar' is (surprise surprise) self appointed, and has a [i]penchant [/i]for sports cars which are parked in the grounds of his palatial dwelling. He got in trouble a few years ago for filming a promo video in which he wore sunglasses, a leather coat, and was brandishing a (replica?) MP5 machine gun. Also, other churches in the area question how much 'Christian' work the ALC do, you'd be hard pressed to find any of them doing a soup run, or a jumble sale for Christian Aid week. We've all seen Genesis' [i]Jesus He Knows Me [/i]video, and IMO the ALC parishoners are getting fleeced in the most appalling way. Even if charity does start at home. Slightly more on-topic: I saw some of the MOBO awards the other week and they have a Christian/Worship category. A lot of the clips I saw sounded & looked like straight-ahead chart-fodder. I'd never heard anything like it!

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[quote name='EssentialTension' post='306426' date='Oct 14 2008, 05:17 PM']do I want the brown tort or the red tort?[/quote] brown

[quote name='Jamesemt' post='303084' date='Oct 9 2008, 03:28 PM']I've bought a Fender Japan Jazz 62ri body but it doesn't have a scratchplate. I remember reading somewhere that the holes will only line up with a Japanese scratchplate. Is that true? Anyone know where I can get one?[/quote] Is this true? I too have a Japanese Jazz that I was thinking of changing the scratchplate on. I foresee another nightmare scenario approaching...

[quote name='The Funk' post='302181' date='Oct 8 2008, 02:14 PM']Where the bands hardly ever get paid anyway[/quote] Ain't that the truth! Most dirt holes only put on original bands because they know the singer's thirst for booze will ensure they break even on a Monday night. Even if there's only 4 punters in the audience! [quote name='casapete' post='302316' date='Oct 8 2008, 04:27 PM']Pubs in my area are generally suffering - down to many things such as cheap supermarket booze, smoking ban,increased costs etc as well as the 'credit crunch'.[/quote] Indeed. There's a pub in Bradford where my old band must've played 4 times in 18 months; it's recently stopped doing live music altogether for the reasons listed above. The guy who ran it had been doing live music at that venue for 10 years. Bad times ahoy.

I've got some EMG pickups (P5J set) that have got standard pickup wires and not the Quik-Connect cables. I'm thinking of getting an EMG BQC preamp to go with the aforementioned pickups, which prompts the question: will the preamp come with Quik-Connect wiring or will my 'normal' wires be OK? Cheers.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='286998' date='Sep 19 2008, 02:11 AM'].....which I spent time lovingly restoring before discovering who the actual owner was on the first time I took it out to a gig.[/quote] And the owner was?

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='285267' date='Sep 16 2008, 05:51 PM']witness the deal struck over Mark Kings stolen Empathy Matrix 001[/quote] What deal's that?

I also have one, which I got secondhand. It's top banana for the money involved. I got the vintage burst finish. I don't think I'll be getting LEDs in mine, but I'll be pimping it a little.... I'd have no problems gigging it either, in present state or 'when pimped'.