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I don't think Oasis have announced their line up for the reunion dates yet, but Mr Starkey has to be a leading contender for the drums.

He doesn't seem too devastated He put this up on his social wotsits a few days before the official announcement

Genuinely taken aback by this, she was a real asset to the forum, not just chatting on the main threads, she had mad electronics and programing skills skills and posted some really cool stuff in the build diaries, especially her first attempt at building her own bass. A huge loss.

Maybe he's never owned a Sadowsky or played one long enough to form an opinion? Aside from the collectors who genuinely have had one of everything at some point, I suspect most of us have famous brands we've just never come into contact with.

I don't think it's the quality of musicianship that's the problem, it's how far the sound is projected. When I used to busk acoustically 30 odd years ago I doubt anyone could hear me above the background noise from more than 20 yards away. These days if someone sets up in our local park with instruments and vocals fully amplified, there's nowhere in the whole park you can't hear them. If you decide you don't want to listen to them moving to a quieter spot isn't an option, your only choice is to leave the park.

Whatever the wrongs or rights of the situation I'm cynical enough to think that Mr Sapko probably isn't too upset at the significant boost to his own account is likely to get from exposing a more famous 'influencer'. Social media is just as grubby and cut throat as any other part of the entertainment industry, probably more so because of the number of competitors all trying to grab the limited attention span of an easily bored audience.

That last Bax sale was in my targeted advertising a lot and the low prices on items like the Tom Delong strat, the EVH guitars and others set off my alarm bells because no one else had those items on sale with £500 off. I actually wondered if scammers had cloned their website, if it's too good to be true and all that.. Guess it was just a desperate fire sale to get in some revenue to stave off the creditors a bit longer

My understanding is that US companies who manufacture outside the US are one of the main targets. I was reading somwthing earlier about US running shoe manufacturers, who dominate the global market but who almost exclusively manufacture in Asia, being amongst those at the very sharp end of the tariffs in the US market. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-tariffs-vietnam-would-be-blow-nike-other-sportswear-brands-2025-04-01/ But it's early days & I'm not sure anyone, posibly including those in the Whitehouse, really knows how this is going to work yet

Not sure about that. I think it may depend on whether the basses are imported into the US before they are exported to British buyers. There's not a lot of detail yet on exactly how the tariffs will be implemented or whether there will be an exemption for foreign buyers in the above scenario. Might be a while before we find out.

I've never played one but I've been interested in PJD's skinny string offerings for a while. They're manufactured in the UK. They only seem to offer 1 bass model at the moment but there's a few pickup options available. https://www.pjdguitars.com/product-page/st-john-bass Just under the £1500

If it wasn't for the £200 shipping I'd be very tempted to get a JD1 and maybe see if I could get a preamp fitted at somepoint down the road. At £393 they look like a bargain. At closer to £600 not so much.

Bass £393 Shipping to UK £182 In case anyone was wondering.

It's a fine line. One of my favourite bands in the 90s was Carter USM who I saw a few times as a duo. Their set up was live guitars and vocals everything else was pre recorded backing tracks, but they still had a great live energy in their performances. At the other end of the spectrum I saw Kiss live on the Unholy tour, which to be fair, seemed to be mostly live but when they played 'God gave Rock n Roll to you' not only were there backing tracks but I'm pretty sure there was also some miming along to perfect vocal harmonies and the whole performance had a sort of 'Top of the Pops' feel to it which stuck out like a sore thumb in the rest of the set. I couldn't really say why the Carter thing worked for me while the Kiss thing didn't.

Wouldn't be a huge shock if true Just annecdotally from recent posts on BC from disgruntled customers something hasn't seemed right with Bax for a while. Their recent Trustpilot reviews make interesting reading too, it's all either glowing 5 star or angry 1 star reviews

I really like the look of the unfortunately named single pickup 4 string.