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I must admit I quite fancied one for a while, but I went with an actual 6 string bass in the end. I suspect, due to the string spacing, it would feel much more like a guitar than a bass, and playing with fingers would be difficult if not impossible. I'd still like to get my hands on one and try it fist hand though. The Squire VI looks nice too, and it's not overly expensive.

I can't comment on the science, but I just can't get over the looks. It's like one of those optical illusion puzzles. The fretboard always looks warped and bent to me, even though my conscious brain knows it's straight. So looking at them always (genuinely) makes me feel slightly nauseous.

It's not a scratch plate. It's a one piece bridge. That's the whole party piece of Trabens. They have oversized super high mass bridges. They sound superb, and sustain for days!

I have one of these with Seymour Duncan pups and preamp. It's absolutely superb! I paid about £250 for it. The one above looks a bit rough, but still a bargain.

It will be interesting to see what it goes for, but the current price is often no reflection on the final selling price. In my experience most of the bidding on eBay is done in the last 5 seconds. Anyone bidding earlier than that is just having a punt, and stand little chance of actually winning. Unless they've already bid more than the item is worth.

Well you lot have talked me into it. I think I'm gong to add one to my Thomann order on Monday.

Story of my life. The E's always wear off too quickly.

Weirdly, I love a good rock ballad. Nothing clever, nothing noodley, just the bass providing solid bottom end underneath guitar chords.

The only thing that puts me off slightly, is I'm sure I had a Zoom pedal many years ago, kind of looked like this but with a circular central display. Probably much older than this model. But I just remember everything sounding really wooley and pretty much useless.

If they run out, they're only £2.65 more on Thomann with 3 year warranty and 30 day return policy 😉 I've got an order I want to place with Thomann anyway, so I might just stick one of these in the list. I thought they were just cheap, outdated crappy plastic pedals, but the review are actually pretty good. I'm generally not a fan of "patch" driven pedals, they're way too much arsing about, and I don't really use many effects, occasionally a bit of reverb. But I need a new tuner anyway. At at that price it's probably worth it just for a tuner and reverb pedal.

That's the only theory you need.

I've heard plenty of music compiled by NI (no intelligence) No Limits by 2 Unlimited being the first track that springs to mind.

Pretty much sums up the Basschat fraternity. 😂

Sad about the band's cancelling. But it could have been worse. You could have actually gone to Butlins. Don't know about the Minehead one. But the Skegness one is like a holding pen for the Jeremy Kyle show.

I looked at it, but went with the Bugera Veyron instead with absolutely no regrets. I don't know how good the HB is, but the Veyron takes a lot of beating, and it's cheaper.

Tried Band Mule a few months ago, and it was almost perfect, except that it didn't do live push messages, which meant if any of the band members sent a message, the rest of the members didn't see it until, or unless they logged into the app, effectively making it useless. I don't know if this has been fixed since, but it's a shame as otherwise it would be pretty much perfect for a band app.

I actually thought the first series of Big Brother was ground-breaking in it it's time. It was a kind of social experiment conducted "live" on television, and was quite interesting in that respect. It all went down hill after that as people realised they could get famous doing it, pandered to the cameras, and the producers recruited more and more extreme personalities to make for perceived "better" viewing. Now i'd rather pull my own toenails out than watch any kind of reality TV. Actually i'd rather pull my own toenails out than watch any terrestrial network television at all.

I'd go as far as to say I never really rated Clapton or Hendrix. They were way before my time, and while I can appreciate they were ground-breaking in their era, I grew up listening to the likes of Steve Vai, Satriani, Malmstein, Slash, and a myriad of other rock guitarist. Who for me, far surpassed anything that Clapton or Hendrix ever did.

Yeah that's another great album.

Why did you have to bring those up! 😂 Those things have been killing me for over a year! If I was in the UK i'd have taken his arm off the day he posted them. Can't believe they still haven't sold. In fact, I totally agree with you about things seemingly not moving very well on here. As far as Facebook marketplace goes though, it's absolutely massive, so pretty much impossible for any forum to compete.

Cool little video, thanks. High praise indeed, coming from the legend that is Brian May. Probably long overdue time to dig out my old Extreme albums for an airing. Pornograffiti is still one of my favourite albums of all time.

I refer to my earlier post. I genuinely believe that it's a purposeful dumbing down of the masses. Keep people dumb and distracted, and you can do what you want.

Not sure about the bass playing, but I've always thought Nuno was an extremely underrated guitarist. He's up there with the best imo.

I think it's a purposeful dumbing down of society. I had to stop watching terrestrial TV when being an utter moron from Essex was enough to be "famous". I started off just avoiding those type of programs, but then it spread like a virus, and they started to appear on programs I actually liked, especially comedy panel shows like Q.I, Mock The Week, Buzzcocks etc. That was probably about 8 or 9 years ago, and I've watched TV and movies exclusively online ever since. I wouldn't pay a quid to watch the BBC, and I can't stand the adverts on commercial channels, which also seem to be made by, and aimed at morons. So streaming services are the only way to go.