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Yes a bit of stain will improve things, can always wire wool it if you go too far

You're forgiven. Whether asking for Wonderwall is....

Black Bear Tewkesbury. Large venue, absolutely rammed. Previous sound complaint issues have meant an in-house FBT PA which you ‘plug in to’. Fine in concept, but it’s underpowered for the job it’s trying to do. Result = all the tricks in the book to get sufficient vocal volume over the top of the acoustic drums and the hundreds on people. Just about…phew. IEMs all round took away the feedback problem the support band had wrestled with. The real problem was the arse at 11:15. Pissed, arrogant and obviously thick. We are playing, and you are gesturing that you want to speak to the singer and then me. Mouthing back that we can’t hear you, (IEMs) and that you should just gently bugger off. And what did he want of a band who’d been playing classic rock all night? Wonderwall. I must confess, I told the door staff that he’d been aggressive- he was ejected. Please forgive me. 😘

Ishibashi are excellent but having imported from Japan it almost works out at an extra 1/3 on top of the bass price.

Thank you @LukeFRC unfortunately this is all I see of the pedals and no scroll options

Good colour though

I would be wary of assuming it is 20%. I am fairly sure you'd be looking at 25%+ on the total cost, regardless of free shipping.

Good to see you again @Bilbo

The "It's certainly not a big deal and an easy fix" is a sentence I can't here anymore as I've heard it too many times when I had my own workshop (as well as my father when he was an independent mechanic, so nothing new here). At the end, my answer was always the same: "Go on, help yourself, the tools are there." And guess what the embarrassed answer always was... If it's under warranty and you know nothing about electronics, but have done all you could do, which is putting a new battery and it's still not working, do what's been proposed to you by the store: Send it back and get it fixed. This is what warranty is for. 😉

Shatamar

Earth wind and dire

I bought two Thunderbirds through Ishibashi without any issue.

Great to see some old school iron still doing the heavy lifting. I’ll always commend someone choosing the gear they want to use over the ‘convenient’ alternative. This era of Acoustic looks divine. Speaking of heavy lifting, start the beer tab early and get a few mates in to carry this bad boy up the stairs. The Lexington has quite a few!

I've been tempted many times to buy the AliExpress Lemmy signature bass. I'll certainly do it one day as I've always found it esthetically appealing and I had a lot of good surprises with these far East instruments. Of course, even if I'm a fretless player mainly into jazz, Lemmy was my first bass inspiration and I've seen Motörhead so many times: It's always been a delight as his presence was so huge and different.

I'd say 5mm looking at it. Again, never been a problem. I think they sell them differently now. When I bought mine they all had Devon names. This is pretty much 'stock' but it's how I wanted it.

And all thanks to our Rob. Dave