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It likes the three point bridge. Nuff said.

Looks like Tauzero has hit the nail on the head here. It is amazing how few combos have a speaker output.

The term is blooming awful, and coined some 40/50 years after the music was first made. I'm totally with him on this.

I wouldn't worry, that carpet takes the win for sins committed 😎

There will be posts about you on HarmonicaChat!

That's one for the kids...

Not just prints. I used to live near this place - the most unusual combination of Indian furniture/homeward, restaurant, venue and Roger Dean gallery where you can pick up an original piece (plus limited edition prints). Cool place to visit if you find yourself with spare hour in rural Sussex!

For me it was one guitarist who ignited my love for rhythm playing, and thereby the switch to bass. Freddie Green, part of the amazing Count Basie rhythm section.

Fugly Pickguard Jean-Luc...

Good call!

Always thought this was rather pleasing. Either that or one of MDP's masterpieces...

Depending on what you are selling, sometimes the specialist shops can get you a better price. Add Wunjo in Denmark Street to your list if that's the case.

Well that was a long planned move 😎 Great thread resurrection @kiat I've just moved to Stourbridge - heard good things about the place musically. Going to a gig tonight.

Micro Pog, guitar distortion - send the high octave to the Laney. Will sound great!

Just? There is no just when it comes to supporting others.

@Dood Marshall IBS - now there's an apt name if ever I saw one 😯

Entwistle should be on your list for consideration.

First thoughts were it would have been linked to Vox. A quick search revealed they did use a Crayford cabinet maker, PA Glock, who also made furniture. Does that ring any bells?

Lovely looking bass. Congrats on putting the effort in to get what you wanted.

You weren't on Gary's last UK tour were you?

What Lozz said, plus string spacing and scale length (which you have no control over).

Great CV, but Ray Charles - that's a bit special in my book. Just read the original thread that got you on here, and it is astonishing that there is so little about you out there on the internet. Extra confusing with your US namesake! Anyhow, welcome to BC.

Not at all! What this exchange did for me was to unlock for me what I really love about music. Swing, groove, arrangement and attitude. And it stopped me being too sniffly about more popular styles.

No disrespect to the musicians who have exceptional technique, or to those that love 'complicated music', but my real ear opener was when I was working as a teenager in a record shop. At the time I was learning guitar, and getting into the likes of Alan Holdsworth and John McLaughlin. I was playing an Al DiMeola album in the shop when one of the bosses said 'this is good and very clever, but it doesn't swing'. He then put some Count Basie on. I genuinely think that moment transformed the way I thought about music.