Beedster

It's a fair perspective, but can I add another. Having worked professionally with both pro football players (at three Premiership clubs) and pro cyclists (world champion and Olympic level), when it comes to stress, burnout and mental health, the latter have it easy, trust me. Most of us can run around a field kicking, hitting or throwing a ball, but most of us can't ride a bike up an Alp, so we tend to make assumptions about the relative stresses of each on those bases. But burnout, albeit underpinned by biological processes, is largely psychological in origin. Very few pro cyclists will experience it in their careers, whilst many team sports players - soccer, hockey, cricket - will. Irrespective of the rights and wrongs at societal level, the media and business pressure on pro team sport athletes is a league above that on pro endurance athletes. So Southgate, rightly or wrongly in terms of how things should be, is correct in terms of how things are. And yes, the cause of this is in many respects the hysteria you mention. But it's not just sport, it's music (burnout is common among successful and aspiring performers in all genres of music from rap to orchestral), and many other areas in which the media can build or shatter a person within seconds.

From Eric Clapton towards thorny issues around racism then via Bob Mould and Eric Cantona to the sad demise of Scottish Association Football. A glorious Basschat diversionary manoeuvre well executed

No one speaks ill of the Rutles on my watch

Man, I gotta get that album

Can't help feeling that in certain postcodes that caravan would fetch a fair few quid

Just posted this in another thread. It'll either make things better or worse........

I can't help thinking of Cantona when I see this vid

There is wisdom in the lyrics

Discuss

Frankly, I would pay good money to see Cantona perform the blues, the lyrics would be epoch defining

I saw the title of this thread and for some reason read "Eric Cantona's Music Mediocre". Having come here I'm now very disappointed.

Yep, can play havoc

Problem is that the photos are just not quite good enough are they I had one of these a few years ago, and its a very nice bass, and the dots on the treble side of the board were really helpful, more so than lines to be honest. But those bloody maple fretless boards are a nightmare, I wouldn't own another bass with one because they are so bloody fragile in real terms (compared to rosewood, ebony etc). I think if you have a light touch and a new board then you're OK, but I found even flatwounds started to wear mine pretty quickly.

There's a significant scoliosis evident that suggest either traumatic birth, undetected childhood spinal injury, or possibly degenerative neuromuscular disease

All part of distance selling culture I'm afraid, same thing as in this thread

Love it

If you'd played bass in the 70's you wouldn't have to ask

I've done my best to keep the bids low for you Mick

Yep, and to be honest, £150 is at the low end, that board looks very dirty meaning that over and above a refin - essential as this is a wood that on a fretless is dependent on a finish unlike rosewood, ebony etc - finger dirt has got into the wood and it could well need some work to get the surface back to playable in real terms (OK, it's 'playable' as is, but you get my point). My maple fretless repair - done to a neck that looked to be in better condition than the one in this listing - cost £300, although it was an outstanding job done my a real expert (Martin Simms), and was probably a far higher quality and longer lasting finish than when the bass left the factory.

Maple board will need a refin, so either expertise or about £150 will be required. I’ve been there before with a similar bass