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GAK selling a red 424x, same price on website and Reverb, £280 delivered RED (I really need to stop picturing that with a white pearloid pg)

Yesterday it dawned on me that the upside of having a pink bass pinched and getting a black one instead is that orange straplocks won't clash 😊

Complete with orange straplocks https://www.talkbass.com/threads/83-stingray.1496380/#post-24815003

These are cheaper than his were - most retailers have them for well over £30 a set, he was doing them at £25 a set, Bass Direct are £22 a set ( + postage)

GHS Bass Boomers. Round wound over hex core, so much more warmth and character than Daddarios, and from Bass Direct a bit cheaper.

I'm having a little think. First of all I wanted to get myself detached from gear4music (I didn't like how you can't phone up the nice shop staff when you've got a problem) My options are another Ampero One from somewhere else, a used Ampero (the slightly bigger version with another pedal) or a used Headrush Gigboard. Or a new Headrush Gigboard!

I love how the varying perspectives of various snobberies can meet in at a single point: here Tchaikovsky is being used as a stick for beating heavy metal, but within vast swathes of the classical world, expressing any kind of fondness for the odd piece of his requires all manner of excuses and a definite promise not to claim that he's actually any good.

You forgot to mention Schubert?

Right, that's back at gear4music, who I'm very glad to say we're very happy to straightforwardly refund me – no attempt to force a replacement on me. Trying to phone or email their remote customer services is a pita but the staff in the showroom are universally lovely and helpful

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Input and output connected to bass and amp. Power unit given time to get itself settled down. Power attached. Screen stays blank, but a very unhealthy-sounding throbbing noise comes from speaker.

Being well-educated and literate, Andrew Eldritch knew what gothic had meant for the couple of hundred years before post-punk rock, and in that context his assertion that the Sisters were not gothic makes good sense (especially as he self-identified more as a poet than as a songwriter) The easiest way to illustrate this is by comparing his lyrics for "Alice" with Wayne Hussey's for "Garden of Delight". "Garden of Delight" is full dark gothic imagery — Take my hand and lead me to the Garden of Delight blah blah revelation blah windswept blah breathless blah — whereas "Alice" is a straightforward portrayal of the kind of screwed up modern girl who lives life through that Pre-Raphaelite filter: Alice in her party dress, she thanks you kindly, so serene, she needs you like she needs her tranqs to tell her that the world is clean.

I know that SBMM basses are made in Indonesia - do we know if that's going to be from Cort as well?

Unfortunately the sodding thing doesn't work. That'll be another hour and a half traipsing up to gear4music and back 🙄

The Indonesian Squiers and Ibanez, too?

DPD did in fact refuse to do it Thank you for the warning. Parcelforce it is. I'm hoping this instrument is too cheap to attract the attention of Parcelforce's pixies of misfortune.

Slight difference in size

This has helped me get some vague thoughts in my head into focus: the difference between the general tones of a P and a 424 neck pickup (whether through the pickup itself or its location a little bit to the left) is that quality which allows a P to cut through

From an article about 1986. Then, Metallica were supporting Ozzy.

The Wikipedia entry on Heavy Metal is extraordinarily thorough on all this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music

I've just taken a bass to the tech. We agreed that the nut could do with being replaced. He offered a choice of bone or Tusq. He pointed out that the Tusq will give a brighter tone than the bone. For this bass, that sounded like a good thing.