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Beedster

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  1. Sorry Jack was a slow Friday night 😕
  2. I was thinking through the rights and wrongs of this last night, largely because it’s so common and about so much more than just an annoying few - in fact a lot of us probably either do it or have done it (there’s a thread on here somewhere about what well-recognised basslines we like to play at gigs). So I thought I’d shift genres and pictured an orchestra performing Wagner, and between the 2nd and 3rd movements a French Hornist kicks in with a solo rendition of the famous last movement of Mozart’s last Horn Concerto. Would be fired on the spot 😆
  3. Orch stringed instruments tend to be a whole lot louder bowed than pizz so I doubt this pumps out a whole lot
  4. As a DBist I thought this section was about live sound or have I misunderstood?
  5. Yep, similar issue with a singist a few years backc, used to do impressions of a Memphis-based rhinestone-clad cheeseburger-munching Jailhouse-Rockin’ performer between songs in our otherwise bluegrass set. Used to make me so so SO angry. Funny how the ‘But people seem to like it’ argument was also used …………
  6. And neck is 21mm deep at the 3rd fret, unlike most Telebass or '51/'55 necks it's pretty shallow and, while gloss, also rather fast. Nice bit of figuring on the neck also 👍
  7. I suspect it's a definitive watch for any bass player, whether you like the music or not. To me it's not unlike Some Kind of Monster, less about the music than the people
  8. Hello mate, that would be great, many thanks, he's not a name I've come across, most of the guys I used to know round these parts appear to have stopped doing amps (guess more and more people these days are using gear that can't really be economically repaired by anyone other than the manufacturer) or retired 👍
  9. Could I take that off your hands @jrixn1?
  10. Thanks guys, yes I know I should take this to a tech etc but I barely have time to look at Basschat these days let alone find a local guy (most have disappeared round here), drive it there, collect it etc, so frankly thought I'd let someone else have that pleasure. I've checked the tubes I've used with it and both models are pretty low gain so I might try a higher gain version which might do the trick, in which case the price goes back up again
  11. Crikey, it's not easy selling a totally unique high quality and rather unusual bass round here these days
  12. Not that it matters of course, just love that version
  13. Yep, there's a nice feel to GE's band, @JimmySims did you play on the Live Lounge version of These Days?
  14. Watching the Who's Next documentary, love the moment when Glyn Johns says of Pete's demos "How the hell am I going to compete with that'?. What's clear from watching it is that Townsend wasn't just an incredible musician but an equally incredible innovator, his use of synths probably wasn't bettered until Kraftwerk
  15. Glad it’s sorted 👍
  16. Like I said above, Thomann appear to share a terrible comms policy with their UK courier, I’ve heard of this same thing happening so many times - it’s missing, it’s missing, it’s missing, it’s arrived all’s good here’s your refund - but all the time none of the return process apparently notified by the courier to either Thomann or to the buyer. Even despite this, I assume in the grand scheme of things it’s still sufficiently rare for Thomann to keep DHL under contract
  17. Coming on BC suggesting that 45 years of age is in some way old is a brave move! You should probably head over to BasschatJnr.com which carers for the under 50’s 👍
  18. 10cc songs, despite their extraordinary diversity in terms of genre, were always instantly recognisable, a truly great but largely forgotten band. And yes, very much the soundtrack to my pre-punk/pre-metal childhood. IIRC that documentary was great 👍
  19. Only place you should see competition stripes
  20. And FYI folks, three of those bitsas are going to be up for sale this week 👍
  21. I have got the impression that Thomann and their courier share a complex relationship in which - via a tortuous process of the slow reveal of very poor processing systems - early problems are eventually resolved. Good luck 👍
  22. It is, I messaged them a few months back as I was hoping to have some work done on one of the Enfields. A couple of weeks later I received a very short but polite reply which simply said 'we are no longer working from our workshop'. Links to but the PUPs are still live, but no links to buy the basses, so I'm assuming PUPs are still being made. Certainly a great upgrade to an instrument, and given the cost of top-end PUPs generally these days - I'm guessing the vast majority of which are imported from the US - really not all that expensive 👍
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