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I hear good things about the Fender Jazz Geddy Lee model, but if I got one I'd have to replace the pickguard, 'cos I don't want to be Geddy. I'd also consider an Alembic Stanley Clarke, because I have a couple of old albums with them on the cover. I might consider a Rickenbacker Chris Squire model, but he said they sound nothing like his one and they are way overpriced (they're not actually his bass, folks). Similarly I'd have one of the Rickenbacker Lemmy models, though I'm not a Lemmy fan but I just like the styling; however they're way overpriced too.

It doesn't look quite right to me, but then the camera shots are like they were done in a hall of mirrors. That said, this is one of my MIM Precision's headstock.

I was half-inclined to make an offer, but I just plain don't get the idea of a headless with regular tuners at the opposite end; I thought the same about a real Kramer I saw a while back.

Spotted on Facebook, £150 . https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1724614328036845/ (I didn't know they had aluminium necks and a search brought me to this thread.)

Looks like two ghosts waving.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/j-munday-jazz-bass-electric-bass-guitar-japan-vintage-project./1466545396

Yep - I wouldn't buy a new one for that reason.

Well, I can't unsee it.

All of this Squier malarky - anybody who pays £590.00 for that is a fool.

Just imagine rehearsals, or sitting in the van going to a gig.

(Squier.) You can check the necks are the same scale length by putting them face to face and confirming that the frets and end of fingerboard align precisely. As to fitting, it just depends whether the screw holes line up. A word of advice (as much to myself as you!) always make sure you have the exact right size screwdriver for the neck screws or you will mash the screw heads.

It was equivalent to something like a 50% price increase (ie. you would need to by one and a half bars to get the same amount). I've never bought a Toblerone since; I didn't know they'd reverted the change.

Yep - totally hacks me off; it's like they're looking you straight in the eyes whilst they're ripping you off! I've taken to shopping at Costco, where things are BIG! It may or may not be cheaper, but try finding that size in the supermarkets. (I haven't bought a tin of those, BTW.)

The bars have about halved in size too - halved in size & doubled in price = 400%, so really not worth buying.

I think mine may have been a 286 - I'm needing to have a clear-out, so will see what I find. I've still got some hard disks, keyboards, mice, cables in need of sorting out too.

Ah yes - I had one of those cards; might still be somewhere around.

Sun purchased another company (begins with a I but can’t remember)(searched - Interactive) for the PC product and then rebranded it. I’ve still got a set of SCO on floppy disk media in a box somewhere.

Amusingly, Micro$oft used to take a royalty fee on every PC-based UNIX (SCO & Solaris), because it was part of their deal in producing Xenix.

Yep - Linux seems to be fine supporting older kit. Incidentally, I have a couple of VMs on my Linux box running older versions of Windoze for obsolete kit.

I've got a couple of pedals which do it, though: the HX Stomp and a SansAmp

These "top 10" studies are great as talking points, but are very subjective. I think it's impossible to generalise; I like rock/metal/prog/jazz-rock and have a number of US and UK bands in my preferred listening. Synth-pop was OK, new wave had some decent acts, grunge had some standouts, but whether "the UK" liked them or not wasn't me - I was going to Rainbow, Rush, Yes, Judas Priest, UFO, Scorpions, Schenker, etc. gigs at the time. I couldn't tell you what is in the charts at the moment, but I can't be doing with autotune as an effect and the awful oversinging, regardless which country it's from. (And as for country, my achy-breaky dawg divorced me is meaningless to me.) I'm in my lane and I like what I like. I'm sure there are lots of Yanks and Brits who like similar music, and a heck of a lot more who don't!

Since different brands of Hi-Fi sound different, I don't think there is an absolute; some Hi-Fi systems strive for tonal perfection whilst others lean towards pace and dynamics. The only thing I can say for sure is that low-fi is easier to identify. If you ever plug in an instrument and think it's lost something of the sound, then it's low-fi; I have one or two pedals like that.

I sold an Itanium HP-UX server in Novermber; it had been sitting under my desk for years. I've still got a HP workstation and a Sun 1U server. My first job was writing Fortran on a PDP-11 running RSX-11M. Ah - happy days...