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People complained that Rics did this/that/whatever, so RIC produced a model which addressed it all. Everybody carried on buying the ones that they'd been complaining about anyway. The 4004 isno longer in production.

Looks like a great day out.

There's nothing innovative about that: it's a P-bass with a vaguely Ric(ish) pickguard and a Hipshit (ripoff of a Hipshot) bridge slapped on it. Other companies have done it.

I’ve got some on other basses too, plus some waiting for basses (no more Ric ones, though).

I have them on 3 of my Rics. But they won't fit a 70s one.

I'm like that - I can zone out of conversations if the music gets in the way.

My enthusiasm is bounded.

Well, selling a toilet seat could be something of a convenience... 🙂

I've got some Peli cases, but I prefer musician-styled flightcases for musical kit. I do use a wheeled Peli for cables and suchlike, though. If you're looking for inner linings, Shadowfoam do some rather nice stuff; I have some in a number of tool boxes; you can cut precise shapes into it rather than the foam "pluck & pull" generic foam.

A couple of years back I went to Guitar Guitar in Epsom; whilst walking back through the town I started humming along with the music they were playing in the shopping centre and then realised it was Dio! Nice one folks!

I’m not sure I want a brown note.

Only December? - they're very restrained in your neck of the woods!

I've seen Wet Wet Wet live. They were playing at the Virgin Records store on Oxford Street.

Looks like GG have been Cort out! 🙂

There was speculation in one group that they might be doing aluminium necks, but maybe not.

One of mine's headstock...

Linkin Park at the O2 - they were so far away and didn't have screens to watch and the sound wasn't working to the upper tiers where I was;it was an unpleasant waste of time going.

I saw Marilyn Manson at Brixton - the sound was so bad I couldn't even make out what the music beiong played over the PA was before the bands came on.

I’ve got loads of the mini-LP CDs. Moving Pictures and Clockwork Angels are especially good ones. Sabbath CDs are not so great.

I'm ashamed to say I understood it. 🙂 I use EAC to rip CDs to FLAC and DVD Audio Extractor to rip DVDs to FLAC in either 24 bit 96 or 128 kHz; they reside in VMs on my Linux PC. I've currently got that PC running Kodi as my share, but I'm in the process of replacing the defunct innards of a Naim Unitiserve with a more up to date Mini-ITX mobo to act as a share/ripper. My main HiFi is a Naim NDX streamer via a Hi-Line interconnect into olive 82/Supercap pre-amp and 250 power-amp, and Linn Kaber speakers; I also plan to get an XPS2 for the NDX, as my CDS's XPS won't drive the NDX.

I like the hi-res re-releases, since I've got a decent streaming system. The Beatles Giles Martin remasters are rather good too. Some bands, particularly Black Sabbath could do with a proper rethink of their earlier stuff, as the mix on some is pretty awful.