Drax

If someone can't make it to a gig, you need a legitimate way to sell on the ticket, but if you're of decent values you just cover your costs. I don't begrudge someone a few quid for the admin.

Back to the OP - what you often find is the highest resale prices are immediately after the official sale has sold out. As the weeks go on, and these extortionate tickets fail to sell (plus the artist sometimes adds extra dates), there are better prices to be had. Often a few weeks before the tickets are a fraction of the resale value they started at.

That said - 1D might be a unique mental world of its own.

The whole 'ticket purchaser must be present with ID & booking credit card' cr*p that some promoters have launched to try and combat touts has simply jacked the tout prices and kept out a lot of real fans. O2 do this frequently.

Personally I've enjoyed lots of gigs where I've paid more than face value for - but at these 'card holder present' gigs, the spare tickets are scarcer, and so way more expensive. Touts will always exist, it's a shame that for many gigs only a very small wealthy elite (or people with more money than sense) can now afford to go.

If he's quitting bass he won't be needing that amp anymore..

thanks for reviving the thread, hadn't seen this before

More sterling advice, thanks. I've tried 6 so far and all the advice has helped.

Staggering how much junk there is out there, for so much money. I think I've got realistic expectations but there are £2k basses that barely work, shonky non-original bits, banana necks and fault lines you could stick a finger in. Admittedly yet to see Andy Baxter and believe that will be a different show.

The classic car buying advice keeps coming back to me: The best days of owning a classic car - the day you buy it, and the day you sell it.

The hunt continues..

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...you don't know what process it has all been through to get to the final article...

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+1
There's loads of audio manipulation going on in the record, compression, editing etc. It's not fair to compare your home practice efforts with a fully produced record.

And as Howie says, learning to mute unplayed strings (if you're not already doing so) will make a huge difference to cleaning up your sound.

Thankfully, they've just decided to make ep7 and 8 available for download, (eps 3-6 have been iplayer stream only). Sorted my commute for the next few days.

I'm lazy so let transport dictate.

Driving = the lot.

Public transport = 1 bass + spare strings.

Only fail I've ever had live was a Straplok, nearly broke a toe and then finished the gig sat in a chair.

Ever since then I've always taken a spare chair.

Definitely worth trying a move away from the long scale.

Don't know the dimensions of GSR, but it's easy to overlook that body designs (with the [b]same[/b] scale length) impact on reach. It's the distance between the top strap fixing and the nut (or how far into the body the fingerboard is set, often related to number of frets)

My Warwick needs me to stretch almost 2 inches further than my Jazz, both are 34 inch scale.

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And major artists often use autocue!!!
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True, but it's always well hidden. Agree with above, nothing kills the engagement if the vocalist is reading from a sheet.

Saw Tony Remy band supporting Marcus Miller a few weeks back. They got Noel McCoy on for their last track, a tribute to Jack Bruce with 'Sunshine of your love' - Noel was singing from a lyric sheet! for Sunshine..! It felt borderline disrespectful given the sentiment of the song that night.

Yeah great advice, cheers. I'm fully conscious these trips rarely result in what you set out for, most basses I've bought have been spontaneous.
See you this time next week with a BC Rich

In-ear headphones all the way. Really no need to shell out for in-ear monitors for home use.

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Are you being honest with yourself about why you want a 1970s Fender? It won't give you any mojo. It might give you a bunch of problems and regrets.
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Sounds like my marriage!

It's a fair point. I get good tone and playability from my American Std but it's all pretty vanilla. I like to think there's something with more character out there.
I'm prepared that might not be the case though..

If you're just wanting to jam, then something the Vox Amplug2 would work. Take the audio feed from your computers headphone socket, plug it into the Vox. You can play along with an audio feed.

If you're wanting to record your bass, you'll need some recording software, and an Audio Interface to connect your instrument to your computer. You can so this quite cheaply, there's a great thread put together by Skol >> http://basschat.co.uk/topic/248509-beginners-guide-to-home-recording/

Bass goes into Audio interface
Audio Interface goes into computer
Your bass is recorded on DAW
Headphones come out of the computer.

This is pretty much what most people will do.

This is me in the kitchen tonight while the wife watches X-factor.

It's all Stuart Price, uber producer to the stars. He's actually the one on bass in this video.

Some really helpful points here. Interesting to keep the negative stories front of mind, might help me exercise some restraint.

I know I'm not in the market for a Limelight - even Fender CS 'reclic-ing' seems ludicrous (although I know a great many people like these).

It's daunting auditioning what in theory should be identical basses when you're spending a big chunk of cash, but I guess that's just buying Fenders generally. Hopefully Mrs.Right won't be an extra £1k on the budget..

My GAS radar is dragging me towards a 70's Jazz and I'm trying a few out next week.

Aside from the usual 'don't do it' / 'waste of money' etc - does anyone have any pointers to look out for, or is it just about playability and sound?

I'm looking at instruments at Gallery & Andy Baxter, so I'm assuming the providence checks out, and it is the instrument it claims to be.

If you've been through the process yourself be keen to hear your thoughts.

Butchered! That is funny. The person who made that decision...

He brings so much to that track, would be empty without him. Listenting to lines like that you really wonder how / why the 1 finger thing prevailed.

I can't believe this bass is being ousted by a cat. GLWTS

@AJ - is the Diamond still available?

Hi Andy - do you know the weight?

That's some serious bling. What a bass

Nick Talbot / Aka Gravenhurst has passed away. Terribly sad loss, a great songwriter.

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Perchance?
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ha! Exactly the environment you expect to see a T-bird. Colin Brittas working his way through Maggie May in a Travellodge