Big_Stu

[quote name='SidVicious1978' timestamp='1342621401' post='1738027'] how as a seller I am meant to refund or exchange to someone over a year later after for we all know has tampered, used or damaged themselves i mean come on, this is a year later [/quote] Sounds more than fair, case dismissed!

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1342615955' post='1737907'] No offence, but the original question is just plain stupid. [b]Might as well ask ............... what colour bass to use[/b]. Does anyone actually listen to music these days or are they too busy checking out the pick, the pups, the strings . . . . FFS! [/quote] Can't do that, it's a specialist area on Talkbass.com - think of the kids!

Struggling to find the difference between this thread and the recent 11 page epic? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/179147-real-bass-players-dont-use-picks/page__st__160__p__1704976__hl__plectrum__fromsearch__1#entry1704976"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/179147-real-bass-players-dont-use-picks/page__st__160__p__1704976__hl__plectrum__fromsearch__1#entry1704976[/url] Though it is one of those that's always valid to talk over again & again.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1342565462' post='1737299'] If it's new it should be perfect. Take it back. It's up to the shop to make things right. Don't try and fix it yourself, if something goes wrong the shop will wash their hands of you. [/quote] ^this, definitely. Seen a few posts on US sites lately saying Gibson's QC was going iffy again. A Gibson should be perfect, an Epiphone maybe you'd give them a tolerance.

[quote name='slobluesine' timestamp='1342565988' post='1737310'] i finally get a reply from the seller.... he bought the pickup on ebay and cant remember who from, didn't have a meter to test it and recommended some pickup repairers [/quote] [quote name='slobluesine' timestamp='1342601067' post='1737503'] another ebay dumper, selling all of his crap buys on here, others have had similar experiences with him. sellers should not be alowed to advertise kit as 'new' on here either. and it seems you have more protection as a buyer on ebay than here, be warned!!!! feedback to follow......... [/quote] Bugger! I'd be severely hacked off too, after the description you were originally given. No signs of it having been used/tried out??? All the SDs I've ever had - all 4 of them (I do like their Tele Broadcaster bridge pup) - have had very neat soldered ends to the wires, maybe about 5mm long? I must admit, I do find it that someone buy s a pickup off Ebay & it doesn't go near a guitar OR tried out before moving it on, not by a player anyway.

[quote name='ben604' timestamp='1342604223' post='1737567'] Sorry, I missed the bit out about lots of people whinging that all the hear is Beatles songs all the time in there! To lots of local people who go there, it's their actual local, they don't want to hear the Beatles all the time! [/quote] Isn't that a bit like having a Hard Rock Cafe as your local, and wanting Sky Sports on the TVs?

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1342557817' post='1737151'] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Ricky Martin does.[/font] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Oh and yeah, I'm just going to say it ... Ricky Martin never spits. [/font] [/quote] You are Ricky Martin's live in lover and I claim my £5.

[quote name='petetexas' timestamp='1342026870' post='1728403'] Hi, Does anyone know where Metal Speaker Grill can be purchased from (over the internet ) The type I mean is the sort of grill on Peavey TVX410 etc ? Have tried Peavey, do not stock it. Pete [/quote] Dunno if they still do but many moons ago I bought a big sheet of steel grill (with 6mm holes in it) from Halfords. Think it was for boy-racers to replace their Corsa's radiator grills. It was a lot less than £75! OR [url="http://www.diy.com/nav/build/building-materials/materials/metal_sheet_material/-specificproducttype-steel_panel/Steel-Panel-Perforated-Steel-Coloured-L-1000mm-x-W-500mm-9284108"]http://www.diy.com/nav/build/building-materials/materials/metal_sheet_material/-specificproducttype-steel_panel/Steel-Panel-Perforated-Steel-Coloured-L-1000mm-x-W-500mm-9284108[/url]

Yeah, but who's concern for what is the greatest? I'd plumb for the organising company not wanting to pay more than they have to for the Met's overtime if Bruce & Macca had played on.

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1342532952' post='1736684']I imagine that an accidental umbrella/arse deployment situation wouldn't be a pretty sight. [/quote]

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1342524048' post='1736461']and H&S is only a part of it. [/quote] Yeah, but H&S is a damn big umbrella - and in that kind of climate a damn big umbrella is a handy thing to use when other folk want their arses covered.

I still have bad dreams after watching footage of the "mass playing of Smoke On The Water"

[quote name='justjazz' timestamp='1341835389' post='1724729'] Hi everyone, this is my first post here. I bought this Bass from Tim Gentle Music in Southend around 1984. Soon afterwards it went up into my loft and it has been there ever since. I chose it because it had such great tone and the action was so fast, so smooth, so nice. It is a very good quality copy [/quote] Was there an issue with it that made you put it into your loft "soon afterwards" when it's such a good bass?

[quote name='slobluesine' timestamp='1342461453' post='1735581'] havn't heard back from the seller yet so can't comment[/quote] [quote name='slobluesine' timestamp='1342469681' post='1735800'] ....... and there's me thinking Ebay was the crap place for buyers, so.... if that's the case it's going back into for sales maybe as 'as new with original box' and i'll add the 'tough sh*t if it doesn't work' in small print. moderators happy with that? [/quote] It took just over two hours to get from the earlier reply to the latter. Did you get a reply from the seller between times? It's very rare on here for a selling dispute to go really nasty, I'd be very surprised if it did - unless it was that bloke from Spain via Nigeria kinda thing.

I'd prefer one with a few thousand miles on the clock - the Roadworn version. Or maybe a few shunts in it on the M25 for the Relic look.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1342348543' post='1733456'] 'When did England become a police state?' 'Around forty years ago, Steven'. [/quote] They only shut him off because the roof-top missiles missed him on the way in.

Hiwatt 4122 4x12" cab (made for guitar or bass). Though at around 40+ kilos IIRC - and you'd need two - not really what you're after. Your weight limit may be a big ask. You could see if you can find a similar Music Ground (oh dear) Hiwatt cab. They sell for a lot less than a vintage Hiwatt, but will still be weighty. They take 300+ watts so should be OK unless you go full tilt. You can get around the twinned outputs by plugging your speaker into output 1 - and a new & unused and unwired jack into output 3. Then set your impedance as though you had two cabs. It's a dodge that was done since year one of the 200's use & recommended to me by two tech pros, though I got around it by also using a 2 x 15". But now by back is knackered!

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1342078248' post='1729033'] There are few things more annoying than the "flick thru" people at Smiths etc. Have they no shame? Have they no money? Can they please get out of my way? I'm actually trying to buy something. And why do they all dress like train spotters? There are better ways of looking cheap - but I can't think of any. [/quote] Plenty money - and shame ............ when it's warranted. I'm just not about to fork out a fiver for a magazine full of opinions by either nameless wonders most folk have never heard of or never will again in a few months time - or revues about planks of wood which have never been near a craftsman in their entire existence. The kind of folk who buy a magazine just because they did the month before are the same kind of folk that play a mass produced plank because a lot of other folk play mass produced planks. There's a big difference between scanning the pages to see what's worth reading with an intention to buy if something is spotted - and using a shop as a library. The stacks of old guitar & bass mags in my loft will testify to that - as well as the three articles I've been asked to write - and had published.

Saw this on a Tele once. Mine is a six saddle job so I'm not affected. Problem was because on the brand of strings used the point on the string where the bead-anchoring wraparound (or whatever the hell it's called) stopped, coincided with the break over the saddle. Must have been a bit of a stress point, so they broke on a regular basis. Solution then was a change of brand (not ideal) with a shorter wraparound. If it's not that I'd be checking the grooves in the saddle that they're wide enough & not being pinched by the slightly thicker than norm gauge.

[quote name='Jellyfish' timestamp='1341686073' post='1722840'] Hi guys. I've been told that this kind of damage is quite easy to repair, but i'm not too sure. The bass is stained a black colour and I believe the finish on it is quite thin (it's an Ibanez Prestige 4005E 'Transparent Black' finish). Does anyone have any experience in repairing this kind of damage that can help me? Thanks. [/quote] Just fixed similar on a Washburn guitar. I had a few quizzical looks in Boots as I compared their various nail varnishes to find an off white pearloid finish. That was my alibi & I'm sticking to it! But it worked, plenty of time to dry (next day) & then rubbed it back flush with Brasso/Duraglit metal polish wadding. NB. If you give it a pop dry a dab in a place you can't see (under a knob - rubber or otherwise for eg.) in case the chemical bases don't like each other. Though as already said - I've also used shoe polish to good effect on an open grain.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1341409655' post='1718521'] Actually can we not have any more Fender than you already have. As has already been pointed out Fender only really make two basses. And if you want to find out what those two basses are like you can go to to a Fender dealer and try them for yourself. It's easy and you don't need a magazine to tell you want to think. Unless they start doing something radically new, one Fender review per year should be sufficient. And Fender basses aren't not as ubiquitous as you think. At the gigs that I go to, a Fender bass is a rarity... [/quote] ^THIS - in spades! Pages of Fenders and/or Fender clones of any level of build is what turns me off buying a magazine when having the WH Smiths flick-thru. Can you actually make this a law of the BGM staff's writing? If you do I promise to take a sub for the rest of my natural life.

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[quote name='WHUFC BASS' timestamp='1340783684' post='1709411'] There's nothing more embarrassing than seeing a politician trying to interact with music of any description. They are completely clueless.........[/quote] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIwBvjoLyZc[/media] [quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1340785121' post='1709432'] wot no RUNRIG ?? [/quote] Sod Runrig........... WOLFSTONE is what you want! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urrMPH5dHus[/media] I've been in that mosh many, many times where it explodes after the first minute. Glorious!

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1340746711' post='1709186']the blowing-bag.[/quote] = Alex Salmond [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1340746711' post='1709186'] the finger-tube[/quote] = Chanter (d'amour, rat-tat-tat tat-tat)

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1340550617' post='1706008'] So, last night Sea Bass Kid was to play at this outdoor gig. It was an interesting one, at Bilston Glen, the protest site with the tree houses etc, protecting a bit of forest from some planned roadworks.[/quote] That's Loanhead for you! They still point at planes in Loanhead.