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  1. Here Comes the Judge - Pigmeat Markham
  2. So what do you mean by 'budget gear'? Do you mean cheaper to produce, or cheaper to buy?
  3. Back in the day, when I had a functioning back, my rig included TWO of these monsters driven by a Trace SMX pre and a 600w power amp. Oh, the sound. ❤️ This is a ludicrous bargain. If only you weren't on the other side of the country. GLWTS
  4. To my utter shame and embarrassment, up until last year this beautiful, extraordinary Shuker custom build had spent a good 2 or 3 years shut away in my bass-drobe while my Sire V7 got all the 5-string gig action. I felt that the sound of the Sire suited the gig best, but it wasn't until I sat down and properly experimented with the coil taps and eq that I realised this beauty worked even better. As you'd expect. I mean, as great a bass as the Sire is, it's not this. So now, the Sire is the one sitting in the bass-drobe. I occasionally wonder about selling it, but I won't for the moment because a} it's bloody good and b} we all need a Jazz in the armoury.
  5. That's not poor customer service. That is way, waaaay beyond the merely poor.
  6. Oh I do hope so. Anything that pisses him off is fine in my book.
  7. I flew with Ryanair once (emphasis on 'once'). It was a pretty crap experience all round, massive lateness notwithstanding... however, the lateness had a silver lining. It was late enough and a long enough flight to trigger the maximum EU261 compensation amounts... the flights had been so cheap that the compensation actually paid for both the late outward flight and the return one, and the car hire and part of the accommodation costs. It was almost a free holiday.
  8. Speaking of Cadbury, here's another company that would be dead to me if they weren't so completely unavoidable: Kraft. Cadbury's had planned to close the Somerdale factory at Keynsham, but a key part of Kraft's bid for the company was a solemn pledge they made, over and over again, that the factory would remain open, not a single job lost, blah blah blah. A week after they took over, suddenly it became 'financially unviable' to keep it open, and all its production was transferred to Poland. 400 jobs gone. The lying bastids never had the slightest intention of keeping it going.
  9. It's money very very very well spent, I have custom fit earplugs and they are wonderful. If I was going IEM, I would not hesitate in getting custom moulded buds.
  10. At risk of sounding like a "well in my day, we 'ad it tough" crusty old fart, when I think back to the days when I was starting out on the bass, you had to spend quite a bit of money to get anything even halfway decent. £140 now gets you a really very nice Harley Benton Jazz; that's the equivalent of £45 in 1983. Forty five quid. That wouldn't even have bought a dog-legged piece of Korean balsawood back then, much less a good quality solid-wood working bass. It seems to me that these days you actually have to work quite hard to find a genuinely bad instrument. This can only be a very good thing. And having read this again a couple of hours later, yes, I do sound exactly like a "well in my day, we 'ad it tough" crusty old fart
  11. Samsung. I bought my daughter a phone many years ago, it had an alleged warranty on it. The screen cracked through no fault of her own (that is what she told me and she's not a dishonest person), so I got in contact with them to be told that the warranty doesn't cover the screen. I pointed out that it didn't say so in the warranty blurb and was told the equivalent of "well, it just doesn't, tough titty mate". That was the last new Samsung product I will ever buy. I'd consider buying a secondhand one because they do not gain from it, but only if there were no alternatives.
  12. Just been told by HMRC that I paid too little tax in the last tax year. Great. As if money wasn't tight enough already, now I've got to find an extra 30p a month to give them. :( 

    1. martthebass

      martthebass

      I've been hit with that for the last couple of years.....never makes sense to me as I only worked for a single company and they did the figures.  Robbing barstewards....

    2. StuartB

      StuartB

      Do you have a way to double check the figures with a professional? The HMRC are not always right.

  13. The Commitments on BBC2 now. B|

    1. Rich

      Rich

      Totally worth watching just for Maria Doyle Kennedy's sultry, wonderful performance of "Never Loved A Man".
      https://youtu.be/kSIiw7iofwU?si=9tJqR83hzb3dbp3-&t=3

       

    2. Greg Edwards69

      Greg Edwards69

      We watched it in our hotel room at the weekend. Knackered after a day walking around Camden. It's one of those rare movies I can watch repeatedly and never get tired of. A perfect film.

    3. Rich

      Rich

      ...with the best closing line of any film, ever.

      "I'm f*cked if I know, Terry!" 

  14. You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) - I'll get my coat
  15. Until I wrote all that down, I hadn't realised just how bitter I still am about it, 36 years later.
  16. I was in a band that sort of did that. It was 1988, we were a (ok I'm biased) really bloody good Go West-ish pop rock band with 2 record companies interested. I knew the drummer was having musical differences and it finally came to a head and he quit. The remaining 4 of us arranged a band meeting to decide the way forward; I assumed we were going to audition some new drummers and get back out there, and get one of those labels (Island and Virgin, IIRC) to sign us. The obvious move, yes? Hah. What happened was that the two main songwriters had already discussed things (EDIT: on reflection, one of them had talked the other into it), and arrived at the meeting to present his/their decision to split the band as a fait accompli to the other 2 of us. I think he thought they could do a Tears For Fears and present themselves to the record companies as a recording duo with live hired guns. Unfortunately what the companies liked was the live 5-piece they'd seen, and all interest instantly evaporated. Thus buggering it up for all of us. I was *this* close to being a household name. 🙁
  17. Have you 'project'd it yet? Any changes or did you go with it as is?
  18. Does anyone have any experience with St Modwen Homes as a builder? Have seen one of their houses that I reeeeeeally fancy but I want to make sure they're not shoddy/cowboys.

  19. Quite. As we speak, the Status is sitting in the corner laughing at me
  20. Dammit. This would be the ideal match for my Shuttle 9.2 (which is 600w into 8 ohms) for smaller gigs. Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
  21. Had my 'growth talk' at work yesterday. A sort of career progression thing that must be really handy for the younger engineers especially.

    Boss's first question (admittedly with his tongue firmly in his cheek): "So Rich, where do you see yourself in 5 years..?"

    Me: "Retired."

    Boss: "Want to expand your skillset? Anything you'd like to do in the meantime?"

    Me: "Exactly what I'm doing now will suit me fine, ta."

    End of talk. :)  

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    2. acidbass

      acidbass

      I personally enjoy being challenged in my work - I'm always fearful of stagnation and boredom.  Each to his own :)

    3. Daz39

      Daz39

      Yeah - 2 of my 3 minions are in similar positions: one is 60something and happy to plod on, the other is my age (late 40s and is fine with being an expert at his middlish sort of level).

       

    4. prowla

      prowla

      I tend to find these HR box-ticking exercises tiresome.

      I'm doing what I do, it's the right mix of interesting, challenging, routine, inventive, procedural, ad-hoc, variety, and fulfillment for me; I don't need to fill in forms to say so.

      Setting goals and suchlike are an irrelevance; if the business gets to the point where they don't need me then they'll ditch me and if I decide it's time then I'll move on.

      I've been working in pretty much the same niche for years and have no desire or ambition to be "promoted" or chase any other perceived progression or career path.

      I'm happy in my lane and have no plans to retire.

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