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My Embassy is 7.2lbs. It's lighter than my solid body skinny stringers let alone my other basses.

This is the laurel board on my Gretsch skinny stringer next to the rosewood on my Precision Deluxe. The board on the Gretsch is completely untreated btw, I've never even oiled it. I don't think they're vastly different. I have seen some laurel that has a less attractive greyish hue to it but it's far from universal. I imagine the new Casady basses will have a fair bit of variation in the boards from bass to bass.

I didn't get the error, I got 'thank you for your order' or some such after the payment page but I haven't had a confirmation email yet either. Money has left my account too. Hopefully it's just an administrative IT oversight.

For me this is a relatively inexpensive toy (certainly relative to some of the instruments I've bought over the years) that I'm getting to scratch a long held itch. If I find a practical application for it that's a bonus.

Managed to get my order in this morning. The website is still glitchy but I'm reasonably confident it's gone through. Currently saying delivery in 8 weeks, though as a first run, I wouldn't be too suprised if that changes.

The Stylophone Theramin is theoretically available for pre-order as of today. Theoretically because the pre order page on the website has crashed and they've sent out an email to apologise but there should be a chance in the next day or so for anyone interested to put a pre order in. https://stylophone.com/product/theremin/

Just been watching this. I don't need either another fretless or an acoustic bass but these still have me very interested.

Saw them in 1989 on the Pump/Permanent Vacation tour during what was probably their best period. Tyler and Perry had been clean for a few years, their back catalogue was outstanding, the two albums they were touring were amongst their strongest and they hadn't yet started churning out all the shmaltzy 'paint by numbers' ballads that pretty much stopped me listening to them a couple of years later. Tyler is probably the most energetic front man I've ever seen, spinning all over the stage, doing sommersaults and backflips. The whole band were spot on. I imagine all the gymnastics got toned down a while ago, but that's how I'll always remember them. Definitely think they're doing rhe right thing by calling it a day now rather than attempting to to limp on or trying to replace Tyler for the remaining gigs. That would have been an awful end to a (mostly) fantastic career.

I bought my 72 thinline tele reissue new in 2000. Over the intervening years I've added a few other skinny stringers, some are theoretically a bit more valuable, but that's the one I'd save in a fire. This is the only pic I have on this phone

If it had had the moving pickup I wouldn't have been able to resist. Yes I'd probably have found the 'sweet spot' and never moved it again, but that's not the point. As it is I reckon I'll wait for the G3.

Worth remembering that the Fender group includes Charvel, Jackson, Gretch and EVH. They don't need to radically shake up their Fender range because they've already got most of the rest of the market covered by their other brands.

I'm the same, I know it's just because I've been used to seeing Rosewood used for dark boards for most of my life but Pau Ferro never looked quite 'right' to me. Weirdly I don't mind Indian Laurel though as long as it doesn't have that greyish tint you see sometimes.

Sounds like Fender have finally run down their stocks of Pau Ferro.

+1 for talking bass. I've never done a whole course with them but I found Mark's free videos the absolute pick of the YouTube crop when I finaly got round to learning how to slap a few years back. His teaching style really clicked with me.

Little bit surprised they got it on before the watershed, but I suppose it's not really any more fruity than the Carry On films I watched as a kid where I was completely oblivious to even the single entendres.

It's been doing the rounds on social media for a few days. Are they showing it on the telly?

As above I'm confident that the gizmo does what it says it can, but I'm doubtful it's as simple as just clipping it on and you're good to go as implied on on the website. Once you'd adjusted the action to work with the 'Flatter' you'd presumably then have a bass that had a very high action without it.

250 apparently.

Beyerdynamic DT770 pro.

John Lydon is currently on a speaking tour in the UK which ends at the start of August. There was some sort of legal dispute between him and the other Pistols over Danny Boyles biopic TV series, no idea whether it got particularly acrimonious but maybe that's a contributing factor as to why he doesn't fancy the reunion.

This is a genuine screen shot of the options when you try to 'filter' the shop.

That was my first reaction but now I'm starting to quite like it. Although to be honest if I was in the market for another VI at this moment I'd get the silver.

Looks like there's an Olive one coming in at about the same time. https://www.thomann.de/gb/squier_ltd_cv_bass_vi_lrl_olv.htm

Any of the above would likely have me reaching for the wallet. Assuming I can overcome the current mental difficulty I have with spending 1k+ on an Epiphone, should they be priced in line with other recent releases by the company.

I stopped watching traditional TV channels some years ago. It wasn't a concious decision one day I just realised that my entire TV consumption had moved to 'on demand' The only time Eurovision is even on my radar is when I see the inevitable threads on here or elsewhere online. I'm quite suprised, given how much TV viewing habits have changed in the last decade, that it's still seemingly such a big thing and that people are apparently so passionate about it, those who dislike it as much as those who love it. As a non viewer I'd say it's probably doing something right purely on the grounds that a concept and format that hasn't really changed for decades hasn't just quietly faded into utter obscurity.