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14 hours ago, Longhairedhippyfreak said:

Chiming in from British Columbia , Canada. I was at the authors house a few weeks ago buying a Mesa Boogie Mark II and we got to talking about Odyssey an Attila guitars. I used to visit Iron Music on Granville Street downtown Vancouver in the late 70's and 80-81, just down the street from one of my favourite strip clubs. I think I longed for one of the Odyssey basses far more than the beautiful girls I would see that same day. I remember that you could basically order your guitar optioned the way you wanted it, pickups, finish, binding etc so there are a lot of one offs out there. Highly thought of by the local music crowd at the time. Unfortunately as a musician I could not afford to buy the one I wanted, about $1000 CAD at the time. I bought a 1973 Rickenbacker 4001 instead for $450! Very recently I have acquired 3 Odyssey basses. Not sure how to submit photos. Does anyone have advice for cleaning up the old brass hardware?

Cheers

There you go.

14 hours ago, TheGreek said:

Found this on the Reverb site - looks very nice.

 

 

 

 

Roller bridge!

Behringer gear is cac, imo.

I bought a Beh V-Amp Pro, with the optional foot controller and it cut out on me three times on its very first gig. Straight to ebay!

I bought a bass off him. When it arrived, the colour was nothing like the bass that was advertised; the hue/saturation was totally different. And, no, it wasn't any of my computer monitors.

I later discovered a couple of tall frets. which weren't mentioned.

There has also been an issue where I added a bass to my basket, only to be told it had been sold. 

The above are enough for me to pass in future,

9 hours ago, jrixn1 said:

The 'Do Not Track' idea failed years ago.  "DNT is not widely adopted by the industry" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

 

Hardly any websites pay attention to it.  In fact here is a list... (it's very short!): https://allaboutdnt.com/companies/

 

You can read about your right to erasure here: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/your-right-to-get-your-data-deleted/

I have heard of this. But ABB isn't even giving you the option to reject cookies. Anyway, moan over.

56 minutes ago, Rayman said:

It makes me feel kind of empty?

Deflated,  and disappointed,  is how I felt.  Fkn annoyed me. He has something that I'd drop >£2K on, but with a policy like that he can FRO!

1 hour ago, rumble_on said:

 

I remember the Link Bingo from The Piper Club on Newland Ave, Hull, ....it was a bit of a student hangout on a Sunday lunchtime back in the early 90s,....why they tolerated us students, I've no idea, must have been all the 20p life memberships that got paid every week, repeatedly...anyway, woe betide anyone who spoke during the bingo, you'd be outside in no time....

It was Phoenix Nights on steroids! Drums and Hammond backing up Debbie from Doncaster who in the words on the compere "had come to take her clothes off for you, but remember, lads, no touching", then Brian, a 60 year old regular with the thickest milk bottle glasses, would get up and perform amongst others,  2 Unlimited's There's No Limits again to the sounds of resident drum and organ duo.

All that came flooding back when playing a social club in Wigan only a couple of years back, furniture dating back to the 70s, half time bingo and a meat raffle. When a band member's wife asked at the bar, what sort of wine they had, the answer was "Both, red and white".....happy days!

Happy days? Sounds like Hell.

11 hours ago, EMG456 said:

Noticed this on Amazon the other day and bought a copy.

It's an interesting read for those of us who look fondly upon these rare instruments.

 

Thanks for that! Just bought the hardback!

21 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

What it was like to be in a gigging band in 1976

 

 

'Hello, Cleveland!'

36 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

We had a Sherpa at one time called Van the Man. Painted matt black and having an MOT by the skin of its teeth, The Mystery Machine it was not.

 

Across the top of the main interior section, was a kind of cross-bar - known as The Trophy Bar, and as time progressed, it became festooned with, shall we say, 'women's dainties'. Now our drummer had a live-in girlfriend of whom he was very proud. He bought her some fancy lingerie and went on and on about it. One night we picked him and her up in the van and headed for a gig. Unbeknownst to either, while I had engaged them in conversation in their kitchen, our guitarist had galloped upstairs, into their bedroom, found her underwear drawer and purloined aforementioned lingerie. After the gig, they were proudly flying from the crossbar, much to the amusement of guitarist, keyboard player and me - a couple of others were around scrounging a lift home. The drummer saw these and went ballistic. I'm laughing as I type this. God know how they reconciled after that event. Great days. 😎

Rifling a woman's knicker drawer??

3 minutes ago, Rich said:

(bear with me, there is bingo content)

Many years ago when I lived in Swindon, my blues-rock trio (Hendrix, Gary Moore, ZZ Top etc, and though I say so myself we were really good) had a booking at the Plessey Social Club... when we walked through the door, we lowered the average age in the room by about 40 years. As we set up, I could feel the glares from the light-&-bitter brigade burning holes in the back of my head. We had backline and a vocal PA only, nothing DI'd or miked up -- Steve the drummer was first to get set up, he sat down and picked up a stick and hit his snare drum ONCE... and I heard a croaky old voice from out in the shadows say, "ooh, it's a bit loud...". 

Predictably the first set was horrendous, every song met with almost total silence apart from a few “turn it down!”s from some of the oldies and some muted applause. One of them even walked up mid-song, stood right in front of me and stuck his fingers in his ears and bellowed “It's TOO LOUD”. It really wasn't. Our amps were barely ticking over.

The end of the first set couldn’t have come soon enough for me. During the interval, the club MC asked if he could borrow one of our mics to do the bingo. (see, I told you!)

Eventually we couldn’t put the second set off any longer and trudged dejectedly to the stage. I was just putting my bass on when a woman approached me. I thought, if she tells me to turn it down I’m just going to pack up and sod off home, and to hell with the fee. But she said cheerfully, “OK lads, all the miserable old farts have bugggered off home, they only come for the bingo... you can turn it up now”. So we did... needless to say, the second set was a lot better and we never set foot in there again.  

At that Easington gig I mentioned above, we had some of that. 'Too loud' 'Play something we know! The heckling was constant, and I turned to the guys and said, 'F*** it, I've had enough!' and unplugged my bass. Then one of the officials came up to us and said if we didn't finish the set, then we wouldn't get paid. We played another half hour. losing interest as the baying crowd sensed defeat. We loaded out to cat-calls and boos.

3 hours ago, police squad said:

that was great. I remember playing clubs like those in the late 80s

Same here.

1983, and I was in a 7-piece funk outfit. But, to finance recording, etc, The core of that unit used to play the workingmens' clubs from time to time. One place, we did 45 minutes of quick-steps. bossas, etc, then stopped, as the punters had a chicken in a basket followed by a bingo session. Then an hour of standards/oldies, and a DJ rounded off the night. The Miners' Welfare clubs were full of rabble and raucous behaviour. We used to slip in an original to test them out and sometimes beer mats with 'F*** Off!' scrawled in Biro came flying onto the stage. Fending off the advances of drunk women whose equally-drunk husbands smouldered in their seats was another joy. 'Gie's a kiss, sonny! Come an' sweep ma auld lum oot!' 😵 

An agent got us a weekend of gigs in Easington, Durham and another place I can't remember. Absolutely grim. Unreceptive audiences, and on the Durham gig, the Convener disappeared and we never got paid. We got back to Edinburgh, finding that we had only made £100, after taking off fuel. I refused to do any more of these gigs after that

Below is the most miserable place I have ever, ever played!

3 hours ago, ped said:

Maybe, from a historical perspective. But I think resto-modding basses which have been hacked up in the past is a noble cause. The result is probably just as, if not more playable than the original, it just loses its historic value which is basically nonsense anyway IMO.

At that price, I couldn't justify spending £xxx on a total refin (which, IMO, you'd have to do with that bass) plus source a set of wavy (waffleback) Grovers and a Ricky tailpiece, etc. I get it that some folk would go for that, but not I. Had that been all original and not so battle-scarred, I'd have snapped it up.

I'm sure it'll sell.

It is a shame, from my perspective.

Initially spotted this on the Tree of Gum, but it's also on evilbay.

On and off I get the urge to own a 4000 (pref neck through) but they're rarer than rocking horse shid! Spotted this one earlier on and got excited>  Then looked at the pix and my heart sank a bit. Player grade, probably sounds great, but not for me, not at that price.

4001 conversion

26 minutes ago, warwickhunt said:

2-3 MONTH delivery but if you are unhappy return it... within 3 days!    

 

Love that all the sets of strings anchor through 1 hole/retainer.

Looking again at that, one of the D strings isn't making contact with the back of the tailpiece, which may indicate that this bass isn't even tuned to pitch. In fact, I'm convinced that you can see the slack in the strings.

Three courses, over the same saddle; that's PCG's modus operandum. I'd love to hear how that intonates across the 'board!

12-string bass

Is that a non-export Aerodyne? 

No, can't be, as no jack socket on the top.

41 minutes ago, jmmc said:

A little update on this. Yesterday was on the phone with Paypal which advised phoning Thomann and failing that, Citizens Advice or police to report potential fraud. Citizens Advice said my options were limited since I didn't have any proof of collection. After being on the phone with Thomann they said they were going to investigate with DHL. Surprisingly today I receive an email saying the parcel arrived at their warehouse and refund will be processed in a few days.

 

I genuinely don't understand and I wonder what would have happened if I didn't push things forward. Bottom line is Thomann returns just simply don't work and the label they supplied via email wasn't recognised even by DHL when I tried to understand what that was as there wasn't a clear tracking number. Customer service is a nightmare and this was the last time I used them for my musical needs.

 

 

You should always have a returns label printed off, x 3. One for the driver, one for you, and one for inside the box. The first two, the driver should sign, and don't let him away if he says 'no need'.

Photo for non-members.

11 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

I've seen the "You must log into Facebook" screen loads of times. I'm still not going to sign up 😁

Don't blame you. I only have it on my work's PC for jumping onto the Bouzouki and Lowden group. And Marketplace

Yamaha/JD Bass

Never seen anything like that before.

He who shall never be named must be eyeing this with envy.