tom1946

Hmm, I've met and dealt with some exceptionally good people on Basschat with just one or two exceptions. I can live with the numpty's because the rest is just sooo good.! I have 2 basses for sale at the moment and sadly I've had an offer on each, one was £65 less than the asking price and the other £55 below. To my mind that is a bit insulting and they were turned down flat. By all means make an offer but make it sensible!

[quote name='acidbass' post='1187224' date='Apr 3 2011, 10:51 PM']So now that Guitar Emporium has shut up shop - where do we get CIJ basses from? Always fancied one of their reissue Precisions. Danny[/quote] I have a mint 2 tone sunburst for sale?

[quote name='paul_5' post='1187472' date='Apr 4 2011, 10:04 AM']I once sat through a seminar on rehearsal techniques (and jolly good it was too). The two guys running it said that most musicians don't stop as soon as a mistake occurs, and so end up 'practicing getting it wrong' more than they practice getting it right. The idea of practicing until you don't get it wrong is a really good one. Think about band practice - how many times do you play a new tune before you get it right? 5, 6, 7? then you get it right. Hooray, once more for luck, then move on. You got it wrong more times than you've got it right - so mathematically you're better at playing it wrong than playing it right. I think that was the upshot of the seminar (I've missed a fair bit though), but it's stuck with me for ten years plus. Cheers, Paul[/quote] I actually blushed when I read this It's a church band and that's what we do so on Sunday our keyboard player can't even find his music! Needless to say it's never all right.

[quote name='markstuk' post='1183195' date='Mar 31 2011, 12:15 PM']I think the difference is that in Europe they get a pretty good rate to other european countries including the UK whereas we get scr**ed as it's seen as somewhere strange... Also they get better weight bands as well.. For instance the Post office have to deliver 30 KG packages from Europe, whereas they appear to have a 15KG limit for UK packages... Why not get the folks in europe to arrange the courier to pick up from you?[/quote] I have if you read my post again, it just goes quiet at their end when I suggest that. Julian, I don't know where you got that £25 quote from? or was it tongue in cheek? Northern Ireland isn't cheap either.

^^^^What he said^^^^

This is to do with shipping costs to Europe from the UK. a lot of the time I get asked for a shipping quote to France or Spain or Poland or wherever and the buyer often says 'you should be able to ship that for £25 fully insured to here'. So out of politeness I do the rounds of the companies and very often the cheapest I can get is £68 insured for £50! I don't know where they get these daft quotes from and when I ask them to arrange their own shipping my inbox goes very quiet. I have to say that not everyone does this, it's just a few. So come on guys, get real with the shipping

My local Ryder shop has mysteriously closed down... hmmm...

The curry version was [b]Vesta[/b]

[quote name='macshadow' post='1179906' date='Mar 28 2011, 07:29 PM']Anybody seen a red, rosewood 'board bass in an SR shop recently? George[/quote] I have one if you're interested.