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Actually the vinyls are now being superceded by acetates at 78rpm. They just have so much more atmosphere about them, especially once they've been played a few times.

Personal opinion only, but my God those are ugly basses.

At one time the band "Family" included two twin necks: Charlie Whitney on 6 string/12 string, and John Weider on 4 string bass/6 string guitar.

I have both a US and a Mexican Stu Hamm Urge Mk 1. Puely because of the 32" scale. The US one is particularly beatiful, but I've mostly moved to 5 strings now.

Are you sure that it is more 'oomph' you need rather than 'Heft'. Very different things.

Definitely the last one for me.

Even when the adhesive is conductive I tend run a bit of solder along the joints. Aluminium works as long as you can ensure a good earth connection to it, and between sections. The disadvantage is that it oxidises with a non conductive layer, and, whether oxidised or not, it's difficult to solder.

Surely, if you only need 2 and he needed 4 than that makes you twice as good as him. No?

For me: Lazy. Partly because we used to play it in a band I was in (which also did SOTW). EDIT: Just noticed how old this thread is, and that I have already nominated Lazy - Back in 2017!!

I think I'll wait for the graphene based GR cabinets to come out, and until GR spell "Fibre" properly.

I love the music. I also love the way that it gets more and more surreal as the film progresses.

It's such a shame that the Demo Video doesn't show it being played as a bass.

I love Colin Hodginson, but this really doesn't do it for me. Way too fast for one thing, but possibly this technique doesn't work if slowed down?

It probably is going round in circles. The problem is probably the lack of subtlety in the typed word. 5 minutes over a pint and we'd probably be in full agreement.

On a more serious note, if you were to go with untralites, there is a lot of excess wood on that machine head, the removal of which might also make a big difference. I real like the head shape on the Ibanez SR series: Just enough wood to take the 5 tuners, but leaving enough to make it aesthetically pleasing.

or simply hang a brick off the bridge end.😁

But I also added the note on the ** that "Therein lies the problem" or similar. The crucial point being that there isn't anyone paying more in that business.

Of course, what we all really want to know is "What does Chompsky say about it all"?

My son's band once took up a commercial offer from a company that picks up the band and it's gear and delvers them to the gig (including load in) and then picked the gear up the next day and returned it. I guess basicaly you're hiring roadies for the gig. They got a very good deal as it was start up business I believe, with an introductory offer, and the the band and the gig were both in London.

That's not what I said, or certainly not what I meant (and I think you know that). I was saying that it's hard to on strike for more pay, or go to an alternative employer, if that alternative employer is already paying less than your current one. We might not like the situation, but people (including you and me) have to live in the current real world rather than the world as they'd like it to be.

Not really. If the RM workers think that they are undervalued then they could go and work for someone else who will pay more**. Much easier than striking. **..... and there is the problem. For people who handle parcels and postage the RM people are possibly some of the better paid.

Who determines what anyone deserves? Sure RM could pay more, but (as I've said) that could easily lead to fewer jobs in RM. Those people then end up on benefits, or working for even less money elsewhere. As I say, I don't like it, but (rightly or wrongly) we live in a free market economy, and that is the sort of thing that happens. Other current strikers are not quite in the same situation. Nurses, border force, railway workers; irrespective of what they might or might not deserve they don't work in a competitive market, so their strikes are more likely to work, and be less likely to damage their own employers' long term "business".

Don't get me started on Amazon!!

Exactly. It's like trains. Just because they might arrive early doesn't mean that they are allowed to leave early. If a company works around a 4pm postal collection, they would be pretty peed off if they found at had already gone at 3.30pm.

Not arguing with any of that, as I said I sympathise with the workers, but the fact remains that Royal Mail will be loosing customers through these strikes, which will inevitably mean less jobs. Also, Royal Mail parcels operates in a competitive environment so if the competion pays their drivers less it makes it hard for the Royal Mail to compete. Ie more lost contracts, more job losses. I don't like it, but it's how it is.