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[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1345318713' post='1776304'] Guys, anybody know anything about Yamaha SB-30 basses. There is an absolutely gorgeous looking one for sale relatively close to me and he's asking for offers. I don't know if they go for £100 or £1000, can find bugger all on T'interweb, Found Yamaha catalogues back to 1980 but this series appears to have been long gone by then. He says its 1973, original case and it looks in great nick. It just looks so different and nicey. Any help/advice greatly accepted, cheers, Karl. [/quote] It probably won't be of much help, but [url="http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/guitar/archive/sb30/index.html"]according to the yamaha[/url] website it was sold in the 70s for some 40k yen - also, it's got 20 frets and is surely some sort of short scale. It appears to have two bigger (and more expensive) brothers - SB50 and SB70 - so I would say this is the entry level model. In any case, these bloody things are so rare they have got to be collectible

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1327173215' post='1507484'] I'd have lured him to a deserted warehouse and shot him in the face. [/quote] Hah! I see Mr. Blonde survived the bullet wound.

Well, it seems pretty clear which two options are getting more votes, so now we just need a new poll for the second round

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1321810909' post='1443317'] I just realised that with it being anonymous a sh*t stirrer could inflame things by negging posts top wind folk up. [/quote] My hat's off to you if you're this particular sh*t stirrer. That was pretty darn amusing.

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1321727901' post='1442522'] Not many votes though really - 60 isn't very representative of the 18000+ members we have [/quote] Yes, but I'd be surprised if you had more than a number in the high hundreds of actually active members (excluding the folks who restrict themselves to the marketplace). EDIT: Can't the new board version set site announcements like the earlier one? Failing that, a mass admin e-mail should get people's attention (I wouldn't be surprised many are oblivious to the fact this discussion is going on),

[quote name='Vibrating G String' timestamp='1321405747' post='1438865'] Yes and no. Invision (the software of the forum) is kind of like buying a Fender, it's highly flexible and modifiable but it does take someone who knows what they are doing. And just like with fenders most of the "experts" really haven't much of a clue. [b]So finding the right person and paying them can be more effort than it's worth.[/b] Often these problems will be shared by someone else out there and an hour spent googling the problem can sometimes lead to a solution. If it really is something broken in the software and a bug fix is coming there should be a ton of threads out there discussing it. If not we can assume it's a problem unique to BC and waiting for a software upgrade may be dissapointing. [/quote] I am SO going to neg your post because of that. I hardly think an hour on google by someone who doesn't really know what they're after will solve anything. You wouldn't really advise anyone with no experience messing about in a car to go on google to learn how to rebuild an engine, though looking through google results might be useful if you're a mechanic and you're just not familiar with that model. In this particular case, expertise in the matter will allow you to know what you're looking for (because the problem might not even be with the software per se - I wouldn't be surprised if the problem was in the mysql db and a botched upgrade from v2).

Come on people, let's get this moving again. Quite like the existing playlist, but there's nothing wrong with finding out a few more gems. I've added 5 tracks to get the ball rolling.

Well, IMO the fact that there are basses sold at ridiculous prices speaks nothing to the fact that at this price point you can expect a bass to be flawless. Let's face it - this still costs about the same as a month's (net) average wage in Britain, so why would you expect to have to tinker with the instrument to solve issues that should not even be there in the first place?

I love Chic but these two tracks are new to me. Pure awesomeness