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Do my eyes deceive me here?

Just saw Chas & Dave in Brighton. It's been said on here before as I remember, but Dave Peacock is a fantastic player. Beautiful lines & effortless execution. That is all.

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We’ve never had a single issue in over 10 years. There will be no policy change. Thank you for playing ped

Perhaps the Christmas break has impaired your recollection of events during the course of this year. For indeed, you have form for jumping into sales threads to point out logo transgressions: Prior to the 'triggering' incident of a week or two ago, you commented in a sales thread in October: Ped replied to you saying: On June 18th you replied to an ad for a bitsa Jazz saying: Then on Jan 17th you expatiated in a more general sense on logos: THAT! There are so many fake/counterfeit "Fender"s around, selling with a "Fender" logo is dishonest, just waiting for some poor mug to buy one thinking they've got the real thing. (I also think Fender have muddied the waters a bit by branding Squiers as "Squier by Fender", so that people can advertise them as Fenders. Funnily enough, only three days before you had described taking delivery of a Rickenfaker with a fake Ric logo. Fair play for removing it as you did. But surely in buying it you were party to a transaction where intellectual copyright was infringed. So basically, you want to stop people selling basses with fake logos but it's OK for you to buy one? I put it to you that your unhappiness with fake logos in sales ads is nothing new. You have repeatedly broken forum rules by posting in sales threads where you should have PM'd. You have already had a discussion about fake logos with one of the forum's owners who has made his position clear. I suggest that far from being a spontaneous expression of concern you started this thread in an attempt to change forum policy. You want to stop people selling items with fake logos but you're happy to buy them. Shall I go on?

I found some yellow LEDs lying around in my toolbox and was a bit bored this afternoon so.....

Yes! Let's hope 1967 is a good one!

LSD in the punch.

Limelight 62-ish Jazz. Bought from someone who knew it wasn't a real Fender, sold to me who knew it wasn't a real Fender, then sold it on to someone who kew it wasn't a real Fender. Such a trail of destruction.. so many suffering kittens and puppies. I'm going to hell.

How about something like a Sandberg VM? I can cover a lot of ground with this one. A pre-loved one would be within your budget.

But not good for jazz. I’ve only recently been forgiven for wearing a red jacket.

Must be some new meaning of the word 'microscopic' I wasn't aware of. Mods are busy enough as it is. One item per day? Is that the number of 'misdemeanours' you're expecting? How did you arrive at this number? There is no significant gain in not providing a platform for the sale of illegal goods, because no illegal goods are sold here. I have a great idea about how to make 'this' a better place to be, but forum rules preclude my posting it.

How am I supposed to look at my fretting hand and a music stand at the same time?

And it's finished...holy fecking crap!

I sold this because I don't 'do' relic'd basses. Big mistake. A Fender? No.

Welcome SnakeEyes.

Played a taylor while in PMT too. Was pleasantly surprised by it - the first videos really didn’t Make me want one at all...playing one did.

Good evening, SE, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Hey I was shopping this week for a shortscale, but instead of splurging on something classier I decided on a Jackson Minion... It’s awesome.

I'm sure I'll agree with you if I can ever get out of this damn mirror...

Standard up/down sweep, and step filter/auto-wah all in one box. Really squelchy too.

Lovely work and some beautiful attention to detail that takes it to another level!

In which case you could put a behringer model D in there, and we would be back to the start!

Any genre, any style. Just share the album which stood out to you this year (edit: which was released in 2017) For me, it was unexpectedly The Desaturating Seven by Primus. I didn't like the prerelease songs much but the record as a whole has sucked me in completely. Claypool always does the unexpected but this one really took me by surprise and won me over in a big way. Over to you guys. Hopefully this will introduce some people to some gems!

When you go to Hell can I have the Lindisfarne gig?

G&L L2000. Probably the only bass that can do its own thing as well as a very passable P and Jazz bass sound.

I'm with SteveK in principle. But if I were a jazz guy I'd use a stand, if only to let the audience know that what I'm playing isn't just a load of random old crap I'm making up as I go along.

Maybe a Gibson SG, or a SWB-1 Pro? - http://chownybass.com/product/swb-pro/

Spent an hour mulling over various things and just bought two sets of strings, including the tapewounds I've always wanted to try but couldn't justify the cost. Not too exciting. My guitarist got over excited, bought a pedal from the US and saved his 20%. He then has to pay VAT at 20% when it gets here, plus import duty, plus handling fee. Hard not to laugh.

@thegummyon sweetwater in the US they are retailing at about $1100. I haven’t found any info on their proprietary pick ups yet

I play and sing in an acoustic duo. Mainly indie pop stuff and I use a stand just in the corner for lyrics. I used to be really against them when I was younger but now I prefer to have them there rather than forget the words (I’m useless at remembering lyrics no matter how much I practice). We also have quite a lot of songs that we don’t play regular but pop up as requests from time to time so handy to have them in a folder. never seems to put any punters off. It’s usually the music that does that 😂

GPPH_2 - Full Score.pdf Here you go.

They are 'allegedly' passive with active EQ but if you have a dead battery out you should find they don't work at all hence they are active (needing power for the preamp in them). I don't think MEC had the silver logo models back in 91 so they will defo be the gold as fitted to the top of the range basses at the time. My bass is stock and doesn't have a push/pull pot as the Pro I basses have.

Thunderbolt 2 and 3 use different connections. TB 2 is over Apple display port, and TB3 is over USB-C. As such, the current TB2 to FW800 won't work for you on its own. Si

I am a big fan of Schecter (well, at least the C4 that is my main bass). These new ones look very cool, will be interested to see how they go down.

GAK were showing expected mid Feb, a mere 7 months after supposed launch.

Ooh. It would surely be possible to get LEDs with a colour changing remote and just switch it depending on your mood, no?

It took me a long time to memorise our 14 originals, but that was mainly because our songwriter uses lots of different chords and chord types in each song. Whilst I was trying to come up with good basslines, it helped to have the chords in front of me so I could play the right chord tones for each chord. Once I had come up with a bassline I was happy with it became easier to memorise them. I still improvise a lot at gigs, keeps it interesting and I memorised the structure, and so far so good, no mistakes after 3 gigs.

Jaco only needed a Diesel.

My music stand holds my IEM mixer, my iPad (which could also be an IEM mixer at times), my Zoom H2n for recording, my Ambient mics and sometimes my glasses. It may or may not be on stage. It rarely actually holds music - unless I was doing a Dep gig then the iPad would be there to help with changes etc.

Fixed

How cool is that! We do cover versions with our year 9s and I use that as an example- always turn that bit up.

My current er... pedal.. Not tried it yet as I'm still waiting for new bass to arrive... I dread to think what will happen when I plug this thing in...

I think you`ve made a sound decision there, Andy, sometimes things can just not develop the way we want, and walking away isn`t failure, it`s progress - progression to what`s new. All the best with both your new musical venture, and with your soon to be arriving daughter.