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This is good to know. Whenever I buy a bass (probably more often than I should) I factor a good few hundred quid into the price to ensure I get the set up, strings and feel I want.

Pino must be demanding a decent amount of cash for his name…

This would be considered fair use of a trademark.

when you’re doing a show like Coldplay, Swift or U2 it’s simply too big to fail, so they have multiple backups. It’s only logical this would happen. You’re paying for the collective experience more than the musicianship. That’s always been the case.

Same as me, Steve. Couldn’t really afford to be a collector, but I am a player and if it doesn’t sound good or play well then why keep it?

This is why we do it! I played a gig at a marina bar. Blues and funk covers and was going through the motions really (as double bass is my favourite instrument to play) and I looked over a guy in a Led Zepplin T-shirt rocking out like it was the best gig ever. All packed up and home by 10pm and he told us we were brilliant, etc. Some of the gigs we play I wonder why I bother, then you do one like this and it becomes a bit clearer. Doing a run of 4 next weekend (is that a tour?). Hope they’ll be as good

What type of pickup / microphone system are you using? It’s a bass amp with a tube pre amp so should be warm and lovely. Like all amps it’ll take some dialling in I guess.

This is absolutely it. Start low and build the sound around the vocals.

Absolutely. Some of the Fender curios come with 100% genuine provenance. Like the slab board ones that are all documented.

Just nonsense. Absolutely nonsense.

Today, with my funk/blues/soul band we turned up at 7:15, set up quietly (people enjoying their evening) and at 7:55 ran though half a song. Once we’d done 30 seconds, we nodded and went straight into the first track. Compare that to yesterday when I did a dep gig and we ran the entire set before doors opened as well as a full sound check. I prefer today!

I played a really good gig at Bar Silo in Golant in Cornwall. Crowd was amazing and the venue was absolutely wonderful. We even got free food which was delicious.

If not considered that. I’ve know people make replicas of all sorts of things, but this seems to be crossing a line a bit. We should reserve judgment until we know a bit more but the fact that a few people here have been taken in by it shows how accurate it is and how challenging authenticating vintage instruments is and how easily people could be duped.

Sort of shows how easy it is, eh? Stuff like this makes me sad.

In one sense, that's admirable. On the other hand, unless this is clearly marked as such, it could end up being sold as genuine. I've mentioned it several times on this thread, but two of my vintage basses sold with changed parts clearly mentioned to new buyers. Unfortunately, they have subsequently appeared for sale with all of those things not mentioned. The price was almost double (in one case, triple) what I'd sold the basses for. I know Limelight clearly mark their fakes, but Bravewood doesn't. I think I'm more supportive of the former approach than the latter.

This.

Your focusing on the practical protection for doing this rather then the principle here. Tech companies (billionaires) are using media and content that has been provided for free on the internet to train its models and effectively replace humans in the generation of creative endeavours. And charge us to do so. It may not mean much to you, but for lots of people AI will be an existential threat. In my industry it already is. This stuff is funny, but it normalises what is effectively theft. 16,000 artists against it here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/21/we-need-to-come-together-british-artists-team-up-to-fight-ai-image-generating-software 1,000 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyd3r62kp5o.amp More here: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/10/24/artists-statement-opposing-artificial-intelligence-content-scraping People against machines aren’t luddites looking to stop progress. AI (in its current forms) isn’t progress. It’s derivative rubbish.

Yes I read this. It’s also why all the Fenders are built using tools we’d all have access too.

This.

It's also had a really nasty looking truss rod job as well.

I went inter-railing twenty odd years ago and one of our favourite things to do in Eastern Europe was to learn about the local saints and martyrs, and figure out what relics they had at the church (and hopefully get to see them). It wasn't a debauched trip, but that's the life I lead.