Twigman

Our guitarist never has a backup guitar on stage. Almost all our gigs are fly aways. Our luggage allowance means any more than one instrument each just isn't practical. He's never broken a string during a set but has had a machine head start slipping during the gig.

I took the plunge. This arrived this morning Not had a chance to play with it yet. Thanks everyone for your input.

I can second this. We played a festival in Spain in September 24 on the same stage as The Mission (and The Charlatans) and can confirm they played their 'Best of' - Wasteland, Butterfly On a Wheel, Tower Of Strength, Serpents Kiss, Severina etc etc We also played a festival in Athens in Summer 23 with The Sisters of Mercy who also played their 'Best of' - albeit only Andrew Eldritch survives from any line up of the Sisters I would recognise.

Seems to be the case there these days in my experience. I went to see Placebo there a few years ago with exactly the same experience. I'm sure it wasn't as awful in the 80s - I saw many a band at the Academy back then.

My 2017 EBMM USA Sterling 4HH black with a matching headstock bought new and patiently waited for for 5 months after ordering killed my bass GAS. Or so I thought. Recently I've been tempted by a Fender Custom Shop Jazz. - the £5k plus price tag isn't really putting me off as much as it perhaps should.....so far I have resisted, mind. That said it would only be an addition to the stable and would not replace the EBMM. I don't think that will ever go. I will never part with my 1982/3 Sqiuer JV62 Precision in Fiesta Red that I have owned from new. I paid £129 from a music shop in Romford. - (I can't remember the name but was tempted to shop there by an advert in Melody Maker).

1 Late 70s Kay Precision - sunburst white scratchplate maple neck - weighed a ton - gave it away 2 1982/3 Squier JV 62Precision - Fiesta Red - tort plate - rosewood board - still got it but never play it these days - my only bass from 1983 to about 2011 3 Warmoth Precision made it from parts - Green - tort plate - Lined fretless Jazz neck - ebony board - P/J pickups - Babicz bridge - very heavy - still got it 4 Warmoth Precision made it from parts - Yellow - tort plate - Jazz neck - rosewood board - Babicz bridge - John East P-retro - still got it 5 Warmoth DinkyP body with Status carbon Jazz neck - black rear routed - prototype nickel Babicz bridge - extremely light - still got it 6 2016 Fender T-bucket 300CE acoustic - cherry burst - still got it 7 2017 EBMM USA Sterling 4HH 3EQ - black with green pearl scratchplate and matching headstock - still got it and it is my #1 gigging bass - it cured my bass GAS I am not one for selling my toys.

We did exactly this in late 2008. We disbanded in about 1991 for what we thought was the final time. Our guitarist put together an album from old demos that he rerecorded with his brother, some of his friends and our singer in 2002 and released it under our name. A few of these were pressed on CD and sold slowly. An American fan maintained a web presence for us by keeping sadloversandgiants.co.uk alive. In 2008 we got a message via the website from an Italian promoter wondering if we had considered gigging in Italy. There was also a message from a Greek promoter asking us to play there. We hadn't really spoken with each other for many years. The singer and the drummer had kept in touch, the guitarist had become a global superstar DJ and the keyboard player had moved to Santa Monica USA. Despite this we reformed the band with a different keyboard player and have been active ever since. It's so much better this time around - we only play a few gigs a year but get together many weekends - we spend most of our time together in restaurants, stuffing our faces. We have played all over Europe and in the USA and put out an album in 2018. We are recording another now. There's no pressure this time round and it's a lot of fun. Edit: I forgot to mention that in 2002 or was it 2003 the singer, guitarist and drummer got together without me but with another bass player from the band's history (both before and after my first time around) for a one off gig in Rome. Apparently the bass player got very drunk and pissed off the guitarist which put an end to that incarnation.

Thanks for that info. My #1 bass is EBMM USA Sterling and of my 4 precisions, 3 of them have J necks....I suspect then I wouldn't get on with the Eastwood. Saved me making an expensive mistake.

Airline Jetsons

Eastwood EEB-1 ( Ampeg AEB-1 copy) I actually quite like it - anyone know what the neck feels like? I'm tempted.

Still umming and aahing about a wireless system - current top of the list is the Shure GLXD16+ Price was £458 hence the umming and aahing - was waiting to see if anywhere discounted on 'Black Friday' - I notice Andertons had a big red sale banner on the item early last week and had reduced the price to £458! - now there is a black Black Friday 'sticker' on the item with the price reduced to £458! Such savings shouldn't be sniffed at.... Still umming and aahing

Before the event we're discussing we were able to import goods from EU countries, irrespective of their ultimate country of origin, tariff free as we were in the same customs area. That is no longer the case.

In practice it doesn't work like that. For example: My company imports some video switchers that are assembled in Romania and sold via a Belgian company. The built to order machines suffer import duties. If we import the components from Belgium and assemble the devices ourselves no import tarrifs are suffered. The 'free trade agreement' that was sold to the British public is far from a full free trade agreement.

Not all new items.

Nonsense. That very much depends on the commodity codes declared to customs.

What free trade deal? We don't have free trade between UK and EU - I pay duties every day on imports from EU

Before that there was no duty or tax liability when selling between EU countries and UK. It was as simple as buying within UK. That's all changed because of it.

Only if he can prove it is to be immediately exported. If he collects from the factory expect to pay VAT and have to reclaim it when exporting.

The yellow P with a John East pre

My PJ lined fretless

My home built PJ has 2 stacked knobs

I was supposed to be going to see Cigarettes After Sex tomorrow at the O2 but I gave my tickets away to my 16yerar old son and his girlfriend. I've still got to be taxi driver.

I stil haven't pulled the trigger on any wireless system yet.....my gut is telling me to go with the Shure but my head has been telling me I don't need to spend that much and should go with the Nux.....that said my main bass is a EBMM USA Sterling HH with the 3 band EBMM active circuit...probably very similar to your Stingray...this story about the Stingray possibly not working with the Nux is steering me back to the Shure... Decisions decisions.

As do I. Mine currently has a green pearl scratchplate but is black Sterling 4HH with matching headstock. I will never part with mine. I am no longer interested in other basses - it's like a real marriage that actually means something.

and then there's this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194368628626?itmmeta=01JAZAHC3SC2PJ9BFNSJM0B3CX&hash=item2d4145e792:g:9SoAAOSwkV1hQ11X Check out the tuners on that!!!