Ah - the joy of re-buying that first guitar, which was so awful you couldn't wait to get rid of it and get something playable!
(I've been looking at a Satellite bass nearby...)
I think Jimmy Bain was hard done by in Rainbow - he contributed big time to Holy Diver (which Dio said was when everything came together for him).
I've still got a piece of Blackmore's guitar from their first tour (Leicester De Montfort).
I always viewed them as Dio's backing band, be it Rainbow, Sabbath, Dio proper.
Did you know that Blackmore played most of the bass on Long Live Rock 'n' Roll?
(I've seen Dio in Rainbow, Dio, and Sabbath.)
Well, I'm not going to make it today, as my son is home from uni and I was working all week.
I'll have a think about tomorrow, but I've got a load of stuff to do too, so will see if I've got time (travel is 2+ hours each way to go 40 miles and the event closes at 4).
Hmmm, I recall one of these being up fairly recently and someone saying the bridge might be worth having. I'm thinking not at that price, though.
For me the whole thing is daft - the purpose of a headless is to save space, so just plonking a set of tuners at the other end of the instruments doesn't really cut it.
I guess there are different types of folks.
If I see an item with ono, make an offer, etc. Then it says to me the seller is prepared to accept less than the asking price; if they are just trying to manipulate me then I get offended.
I sent them a message saying that they had the offer option there, so I made an offer...
They got back to me and said it was so they can do a discount on a multi-buy.
I guess that's simpler than just putting up multi-buy prices, like some other sellers do.
(And the one I bid on was their last anyway.)