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...And to think I was annoyed to find that my favourite "extra-super-ultra-uber-lightweight-barely visible to the human eye" 30-85 Rotosounds have now gone up to 26 quid on Amazon.

I use an old copy of Razzle Magazine on top of a "Learn Slap-Bass-In-A-Day" book to hide the ramp.

Gruv Gear Fret Wrap. After many years of playing rock music and succesfully using my right palm to mute notes or even lightly touching string next to fretted notes on the very odd and rare occassion, I suddenly decided that I really OUGHT to get a fret wrap because... well I had seen the actual cool people on Basschat and Youtube etc using them and I needed to try and be a cool guy too. I fell in love with the naturally more expensive cool Dekade version as it looked the coolest thing I had seen that week so promptly ordered. After using it for about 2 mins, I realised what an utter waste of time it was, and I would never really be one of the actual cool people, and maybe I should just carry on using the techniques I had already been using for years. What a Tw@t. Anyway if anyone wants it I'll gladly post it to you as Im sick and tired of seeing the damn thing. In fact I feel rage just thinking about it. I hope this counts as an "ought to get" thing.

Yeah, the bass is on a grab stand! Here is the actual headstock.. It does have a wonderful neck which is only spoiled by that hand shaped nut. 😆

My Laney Nexus went and has recently been replaced with this big lump of pure Rock 'n' Roll... (or should that be Tuck-'n'-Roll)? The sound and build quality is way beyond what I expected. The head has absolutley everything you need and nothing you don't.😎

Have you got a Sidewinder speaker in there? 😎

Not had a problem with mine at all, holds a 9.5lbs bass just fine, and has done for a few years now. ! Maybe you just got unlucky with a bad one? I had a chrome version of that Stagg stand a few years ago and to be fair it was a very nice little stand and really well made. I prefer a grab stand personally. 😎

I have an Ultimate GS-1000 pro. Great stand Ultimate GS 1000 Pro

Sorry, but I own the ULTIMATE guitar stand. It even has a sticker telling me so.

I bought some Grover machine heads recently from Thomann. No problems. I had the usual service from them. Picked, packed, sent and received within 4 days. Maybe you were just unlucky on this occasion?

Just to let everyone know that I'm not a member of MENSA but I don't like to brag about it. Actually I'm barely a member of Basschat come to think of it. 😆

Tell him you have checked and had it confirmed it's pronounced "Flongeur" in a French accent.

The Laney Digbeth Preamp has all the features you require, and should give you the tones that you're after also. 😎 https://www.laney.co.uk/amps/bass/digbeth/db-pre

I grew up there. It always had a good music scene. I was never short of bands to join/ people to play with, and there were plenty of music venues in the town and wider area at the time. I moved to near Wales in about 2002 and it pretty much finished off my live playing days!