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Worth considering how regularly the string places are likely to turn around their string stock. I bought ten set of strings (guitar) from Thomann and when thy arrived they had small rust spots along the length of the stings. Turns out they were old stock from a bath that was known to be faulty & the brand had changed its packaging to guard against this happening again. Took me a while but I did get replacement strings after the manufacturer confirmed they were faulty. And I got to keep the rusty ones, which go on my beater guitars! So do be sure you ask if the strings you are getting are new stock.

The Monkees, of course!

Get a used Roland. I have a TD8 with all mesh heads and it is a decent playing experience, especially since I stopped using the onboard sounds and trigger drum romplers with it in my recording software. Crucial thing is that they are more than giggable and you can expand from a fairly simple setup quite cheaply.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1459808104' post='3019969'] Any work from guys like Chuck Rainy, Rocco Prestia or Willie Weeks. Blue [/quote] On the money, Blue. I was in Nashville when Willie Weeks moved there - same time as Hungate and Babbit. Sorta put the home boys on their mettle for a while. But Rainey is probably my all-time bass hero. Is there anything the man cant do? If you are in any doubt, listen to his wonderful take on Jamerson on the Standing in the Shadows of Motown stuff. My Hee-roe!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1456511394' post='2989920'] AFAICS from "The Burns Book" by Paul Day and "Pearls And Crazy Diamonds" by Per Gjörde the only Burns Basses made in 1960 were the Artist and the Sonic. Baldwin didn't take over Burns until 1965. [/quote] Correct. I was there. And I knew Jim Burns. Oh and I briefly owned a Sonic bass and an Artist guitar from the very early days. AND a Fenton-Weill bass from around the time Jim started getting involved...

Not too many 1944 bass guitars around that I can find so far....

Didnt realise his dad was that much younger than me! Derek has certainly carried on the family tradition. Great stuff

I used to do a set number of gigs per year for Cancer research and also rattled a tin for them at the local tesco on occasion. Different deal when it is your own pet charity. Those thinly disguised pay to play things can kiss my fuzzy pink butt.

Bass solos at ANY place in a performance I find excruciatingly embarrassingly dire. Regardless of who is playing them, but especially if it is me (having been coerced into it, usually by some knobhead singer) Happily, I am temporarily the singist in my current band for a few months, so none of that shenanigans right now!

[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1458732687' post='3010235'] I can understand this. Having previously lived between Manchester and Liverpool, and then Leeds (where there's a college of music) I've moved down to Cambridgeshire to find a comparative dearth of pretty much anything musical. Thankfully I already know a couple of people to do sudio stuff with but it would be nice to be in a gigging band again. [/quote] Plenty going on for the size of the towns in the area. We should get together and talk....

I was born on D Day. Apart from sore fingertips if I dont gig for a couple of weeks, the only thing I have had a real problem with is my vocals. I have had really bad post nasal drip for about a year, so bad I could no longer sing. I think I have finally narrowed it down to a milk allergy, so stopped using dairy altogether a few weeks ago. Do 2 gigs so far, third one tonight. Damn I have lost SO much vocal stamina. I walk my dogs a couple of miles every day but even that is not helping me - ran out of breath to the point that although my voice was still OK it was fast becoming inaudible at the end of the second one hour set. So now I have to figure out what I can do to get my lungs back up to scratch. Oh forgot to mention I had a pulmonary embolism in the eighties when HAS left my lung capacity down anyway. Suggestions, anyone?

I think Carol Kaye can say pretty much anything he likes, now both Babbit AND Jamerson are gone.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1458902732' post='3011955'] It seems very fashionable to take the piss out of the Stones, but I hope I'm still gigging at their age [/quote] (grin) some of us already are!

72 in June - I was born on D day. Currently playing bass in a 60s relic band plus doing singer-songwriter nights on guitar & playing guitar/singing in an r`n b band in the UK and a blues band in France when I am there. Plenty of work out there for us oldies, yet.

Last night was the first time I have managed to get through a night singing in almost a year. Six weeks of steroid spray and giving up all dairy seems to be working! Voice WAS starting to fade a little towards the end of the second one hour set, but we shall see how it fares tonight! Grateful to have any voice at all, really. Talk about "you dont miss your water".... P.S. The 62 P bass reissue and Markbass combination sounded bloody marvellous and I can lift it with one hand! Elderly bass player nirvanva has been achieved. Also HUGE props to our dep keyboard player. The reason I am having to do most of the singing is that our regular singist is out after surgery for cancer. Get well soon Paul.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1458380165' post='3007055'] I was on a residential songwriting course last year & on the first evening somebody mentioned "Walking on Sunshine", which was the cue for me to go off into my usual rant about how much I hated that song. What I didn't realise at the time was that one of the women on the course was the wife of Kimberley Rew, the guy that wrote it.... [/quote] Ha Ha Haaa! Digging yourself in deeper and deeper! I introduced them. He also wrote "shine a light" which was one of our ill-fated Eurovision songs (and YES he is embarrassed by it) and had a couple of cuts on the last Celine Dion album. The man can really turn out a catchy pop song and happily makes a very decent living from it. He also happens to be a very nice bloke. And SHE incidentally is a rather good bass player.

Cool - you have your interpretation, I have mine. There ARE always other alternatives to any of these ways of raising money, of course. And you would be amazed at the names of some of my more famous customers. Some of them surprised me, But in every case they were just regular people needing a short-term quick injection of cash to tide them over & the vast majority of them just redeemed their stuff as arranged. Far more of Cash Converters business is in pawnbroking than buying stuff to resell. Amazing how many households would have half a dozen huge led televisions bought on the drip from Littlewoods, which they rotated in and out for "mad money". Easy. £10 deposit on a telly, then whip it down to cash converters and get a pawn loan on it for a month. Instant credit for cash. Apparently Littlewoods arent too fussy about who they get into debt beyond their means to pay either.

Didnt know we had New Country fans on here! Both solid acts, guys. I was working in NAshville back in the eighties and nineties when it all started kicking off.

Back when I worked there the franchise rules stated that if there was any doubt over ownership - especially if a police report of a theft had been made - the owner got his property back, with or without solid proof of ownership. But it IS a franchise and some franchisees interpret stuff differently. I worked in one of the training stores, so I know what the franchisees and their staff were taught (I was teaching them) but you cant sit on top of each and every franchise all the time. We did do mystery shops in East Anglian stores, where I was based, FWIW. Outr biggest problem at the time was actually customers shoplifting!

Lw (grin) sounds like your experience is from the other side of the counter than me. Cash Converters is a pawnbroking and second hand sales business, nothing more, nothing less. If you want to talk preying on the vulnerable, lets talk about payday loans and logbook loans. When I worked for them, Cash Converters didnt do either. As far as I know they still dont. But there are many "sound alike" businesses out there that do. Sorry - didnt mean to get on my hobby horse.

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Anfim: are you based in France, or just over here for that gig? (I am currently in southern Morbihan - Bretagne)

For what its worth I was the area "expert" for all things musical - and jewelry!!! Owners of other Cash Converters had my number in a list of specialists to call for advice on stuff that was brought in. bubinga - from your perception that bass is a precious item with a high value. From the point of view of someone wanting to buy it and turn it back into cash again very quickly, it isn`t. I would bet they offered you £150 hoping you would go away. A bass like that priced even close to "market value", whatever that is, would hang on the wall for a very long time waiting for someone who knew what it was, wanted it and had the cash to buy it. And in the pawnbroking and used goods market, the name of the game is how quickly can you turn over your money.

Standard procedure with un-redeemed pawns when I worked for them was take what you have in it, plus accrued interest, add on VAT and that is your price. If it hangs around on the wall for too long, price becomes negotiable up to a point. So the price you pay tends to depend on how good at valuing things the original loan arranger (hiyo Tonto! Awaaaay!) was. And of course the government DO insist on their 20% VAT even on used stuff.

Doesnt mention a PA being provided. I would rather stick all but bass through the PA with preamps - at least you know what you are getting. Back in the day we used to get pennies playing support in london pubs on the Toilet Circuit, which was then paid to the sound guy with the main band. Once you rose through the ranks, the money wasn`t bad. That was in the days of the Hope, the Nashville Rooms, the Greyhound, etc.