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  1. scrumpymike
    Did anybody else watch the Jools Holland Hootenanny on NYE? A pretty turgid event as usual but I was interested to see and hear The Kooks' bass player laying down some neat bass lines with a pick on a Hofner Club bass.
  2. scrumpymike
    All the prices in the range I posted included delivery. Thinking about it, I guess some of the sellers are exporting direct to the end customer (who then has to pay the import charges and VAT before the goods are delivered) while others must be exporting to an associate company in the UK or EU and factoring the import charges plus VAT into the price paid by the end customer.
  3. scrumpymike
    Just fired a message at Danny 🙂
  4. scrumpymike
    Had a quick look yesterday and there appear to be half a dozen sellers all giving the location as Japan. What I don't understand is the massive difference in price from £700 to £1k including delivery. Any ideas what's going on anybody?
  5. scrumpymike
    My sentiments exactly! I don't know what the Fender marketing guys have got for brains. They don't seem to understand that they are trading in a global market with a world-wide shop window. Any attempt to segment the market in a way that appears to disadvantage certain countries (in this case the UK, EU and USA!!) will pi$$ many customers off to the point where brand loyalty is eroded - or even turns into 'brand hostility' over time. And that's really bad news for Fender given that their competitors are routinely matching or beating them in terms of quality and value for money nowadays.
  6. scrumpymike
    Interesting to see and hear The Kooks' bass player putting some neat bass-lines down with a Hofner Club on Jools Holland's Hootenanny last night/this morning.
  7. scrumpymike
    Can't help feeling that the seeds of this myth were sown way back by Fender as an indirect way of rubbishing Gibson's 31"-scale basses and setting Leo's 34" scale as the gold standard.
  8. scrumpymike
    And here's a short demo vid for this amp - one of the best I've ever seen for any amp head! EBS 360 HD demo
  9. scrumpymike
    Me too.
  10. scrumpymike
    This would make a very nice Xmas present 🙂
  11. scrumpymike
    I was about to comment on the massive pay-off to Hofner arising from the random purchase of a violin bass by the then unknown Macca. On reflection though it probably wasn't that random. IIRC, Stuart Sutcliffe played a Hofner Senator bass, which Macca may well have enjoyed noodling on during idle moments between shifts in Hamburg while Sutcliffe was otherwise engaged with girlfriend Astrid. Although the Senator had a much bigger body, it probably had the same neck so the violin bass would have presented Macca with that nice playable neck on a much less unwieldy body.
  12. scrumpymike
    Thanks, much appreciated. The Hofner and Wilburys are a pretty good match vibe-wise, although the only video I can remember showing TP playing bass with The TWs featured a Danelectro Longhorn.
  13. scrumpymike
    Funny that, I always think of her as playing a Gibson Les Paul Triumph but that's probably because I gigged a pair of '70s Triumphs for years in the late '80s-early '90s. Mind you it was like having a tree-trunk hanging round your neck. Which is why that mere slip of a lass Tina changed to something lighter. The Hofners would certainly fit the bill weight-wise.
  14. scrumpymike
    I'd say that he's already done more than enough for Hofner. Without the Macca factor, they might not have lasted this long.
  15. scrumpymike
    I briefly owned a Hofner Club bass, the Contemporary version IIRC. Didn't get on with it at all but I still have an inexplicable urge to own a violin bass. All down to Macca and the extent to which he (and the Beatles) shaped my muso apprenticeship. Happy days!!
  16. scrumpymike
    If Macca is still as pally with Putin as the video of his band playing in Red Square would suggest, he may yet be the best bet we've got.
  17. scrumpymike
    I've just read that Hofner have filed for bankruptcy protection in Bavaria. I assume this is the same as filing for 'Chapter 11' in the USA, which means that the business will be run by administrators in a way that protects the company from market forces for a limited period of time. The idea is to give them a last chance to avoid bankruptcy.
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  19. scrumpymike
    Certainly is!!
  20. scrumpymike
    There's a new satin shell pink one on Fleabay now for £866 delivered. Can be returned for a full refund within 60 days BUT you have to pay for (and presumably organise) shipping. Could end up being your worst nightmare if anything went wrong, and there's lots of opportunities for things to go wrong.
  21. scrumpymike
    Can you order the MIJ Junior Jazz from Thomann?
  22. scrumpymike
    I can only remember seeing a handful FS on here in all the years I've been a member. Re importing, they occasionally come up on Fleabay with Japanese sellers and a note saying free returns but I'm always wary - maybe wrongly so. Personal imports are probably quite easy - if you know what you're doing!?
  23. scrumpymike
    Me too. I've come close to buying a few times, not done it and then wished I had.
  24. scrumpymike
    +1 for the HB. These basses punch way above their weight in every respect. Err, except weight, that is 🙂
  25. scrumpymike
    Certainly looks like mine 🙂
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