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Beedster

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  1. He’s not widely recognised as an FL player because a) he was in tune and b) his playing didn’t rely on signposting the absence of frets, unlike that of so many FL players
  2. There's so much more I suspect
  3. You could post a picture of the map and sofa on their own and we'd still all be here drooling and checking our Paypal accounts
  4. Post of the year to date, and probably true (apart from the Hermes bit of course, we all know that was a step too far) I had a Mesa 15 that we dropped during a load in, it broke my car but the cab was no worse off for it. Ah the good old days, when cabs were cabs
  5. So, for those of you who do not understand what Walshy's up to, it borrows strongly to the work on classical conditioning of Ivan Pavlov, but is perhaps more in keeping of the methods used by the Soviet block in the 60's and 70's to 'encourage' certain behaviours of their agents. In short, for a few years now Paul has been putting beautiful instruments in front of that map and sofa, which, you will have noticed, are always arranged identically in each listing. The prices, because these are beautiful instruments, are high, but rightly so, many would say below market value. But you watch this space, suddenly there will be Satellites, Columbi, even some of those awful Russian things, and we're all going to be so conditioned by the map and the sofa, that we'll just carry on buying at the same high prices. Do not stare at the map. Repeat, do not stare at the map.
  6. That bloody map again
  7. I can’t disagree with that
  8. Completely agree, looks really bad but could be the angle. Either way, how a USA neck makes this a USA Fender is beyond me
  9. A story that resonates widely on this form
  10. Funnily enough I was going to mention my old BW loaded Peavey as well, and like your TE, paired with an SVT the tone was huge and visceral
  11. Yep, love Mesa 15s. Sign of the time however that as soon as ‘best’ is mentioned in terms of amplification the word ‘weight’ soon follows. Most of the lightweight gear I’ve owned has lacked something tonally to my ear and has also been quite fragile by comparison, which means I get more anxious about damage at rehearsal/gigs (I’ve never damaged a Boogie cab despite trying quite hard). And it might just be me, but I’ve not always found light gear a whole lot easier to move around; Mesa Powerhouse 15s certainly weigh a ton, but on wheels are really no great challenge. OK, 1516EV in a road ready flight case is a different issue Talking of 1516s Greg..............?
  12. I think that used to be mine, if so it's a cracker
  13. Damn, there was I thinking I might do some bass playing this weekend and along comes this bloody thread, the watching of which is clearly going to become the BC equivalent of painting the Forth Bridge
  14. I’ve been there a few times
  15. Thanks so much for posting this, I hadn't come across him previously but am now hooked. Rare example of extraordinary groove, creativity and technical skill working so well in and complimenting the track
  16. Odd, I had the opposite problem, tried to remove it, wasn’t easy
  17. Board is quite pale, I’d go light coloured body
  18. Re basswood, I had a lovely light Precision a few years back, very resonant and toneful. Having decided it was a keeper I made the mistake of stripping the body to find it was ply. Wood’s a funny old material, I really wouldn’t worry too much about it
  19. You’ll need two of them Owen
  20. Hey Mike, just checking, are the dots where the frets would be (I think this is the case on an Allparts fretless neck), or between where the frets would be as they would be on a fretted neck?
  21. Basswood strikes me as a pretty good choice for a bass?
  22. The top string ran very close to the edge of the fingerboard on mine, and I understand on a few other 5-ers. I had to have a new nut cut to correct this, but it was still a problem. Not the best design, which I suspect is why you see so few of them. The TR-7 of basses
  23. I’ve owned many very expensive basses and the two I’m left with cost me a total of around £800. Part of it is increasingly high levels of skintness, but also a recognition of what I need versus what I want. The latter tends to be where the expense creeps in
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