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I had a new bass day this week. An immaculate china white P-Bass from the Bass Centre's collection. Sold to me by our own @nickcarey , replete with Detroit Flats , it has also been upgraded with new knobs and bridge. I've hankered after one the BC precisions ever since I got my hands on my Bruce Thomas Profile and this did not disappoint. Finely balanced, clean punchy sound, lovely neck and the nicest tort guard I've ever seen. More importantly I've never owned a white bass before and was stunned how pretty it is. At the same time this arrived my Ampeg returned from having its valve job completed by @basstone who I happily recommend to any other Somerset Basschatters. Well today I had the house to myself. Set up and gave both amp and bass a good go. I have no idea what it is about the SVT but somehow it contrives to fill the air with bass without ever being too loud. I played along to music on a bluetooth speaker and never had it at high volume. I could easily follow the track and yet was enveloped in beautiful warm bass. I think the white looks rather good against the black stack too.

Ebay isn’t the problem. People are the problem, exploiting systems put in place to protect buyers and actually using them against good sellers.

Say that due to the coronavirus you’re unwilling to take it back as you can’t guarantee it will be 100% safe to accept?

For anyone thinking they've left it too late to take learning an instrument seriously, take encouragement from this: I have recently taken on a student who is 96.

"BassChatters meet for the first time at the Midlands Bass Bash 2020!"

Well...... In 1975 I was playing on the island of Jersey with the remnants of a 60's pop band called Love Affair. (Remember them?) We were doing some sort of cabaret show at a big hotel there. We'd finished our set in the main ballroom, and then picked up word that Robert Plant and John Bonham were in the bar. Went and had a discreet look, and it certainly looked like them. Plant was on crutches - I knew he'd had a car crash recently. Bonham looked completely out of it. They were surrounded by a posse of hangers on and music people by the looks of it. Next thing we know, everyones cheering, and Plant and Bonham are heading towards the stage. Plant stops and talks to our drummer briefly, and then our drummer points to myself and the guitarist, and indicates we should go up on stage with Plant and Bonham. The rest was a bit of a blur, quite honestly. Bonham was clearly more a bit worse for wear but started fiddling with the drum kit. Then someone fetched a stool for Plant to perch himself on, and Plant suggested over the mic that we played 'Red House' Sorted out the key, and we were off. I was doing my best, but was only one step back from pissing myself with fear, god only knows what it sounded like. Luckily our guitarist was an excellent player and carried things along, as Bonham was hardly able to keep time, let alone play well. We played two lengthy numbers, half drowned out by whooping and cheering from the crowd, possibly undeserved. I cannot remember for the life of me what the second number was. Most unexpected thing that's ever happened to me at a gig!

In 1963 I was hiding behind a grassy knoll as President Kennedy drove past...

And refund him through PayPal when you have your sax in hands and are sure it's really yours...

I run my own recording studio in South East London. Anybody need anything recorded or mixed and mastered? Prior to this, I was a civil servant for 17 years. I'm a pharmacologist by degree, but I haven't used that professionally for over 15 years.

The first ever paying customer to my recording studio, an old dude from Stoke, told me that he wrote Purple Rain and he had proof, but didn't want to sue Prince because he seems nice

"Woke up in the morning.... thank god for that"

'We're definitely coming to your gig on Saturday'.........

Head of design and branding for Public Health England. Been working at the same place for 30 years (although the organisation has changed a few times). I've been insanely busy with COVID-19 this year, I was producing all the early posters and info for all airports/uni's and ports (in 8 languages).

In 1981 I was living in a derelict Council block in Roffey Street on the Isle of Dogs. Things had slightly ... erm ... gone to 5h1t for various reasons and this place was like a communal Halfway House for people connected to a certain bunch of wannabe musicians & rockstars who never got anywhere. I had a mattress on the floor in what was once a large bedroom so, when Bruce Bruce (singer for local pub-rockers Samson) needed somewhere to crash for a while he threw another mattress alongside mine and we shared the room for a few months. One day he never came home. Didn't come back for his record collection or his clothes, just vanished. Until he re-surfaced a week later as the new singer for Iron Maiden.

In and around 1976, I was having a quiet drink one evening in a local country pub in Cranleigh (Surrey).............and in walk two unassuming chaps, both with acoustic guitars. The barman tips them the nod and seems to know what the'll want to drink. They set up two stools in a corner and proceed to give an impromtu acoustic concert for the locals. Guess who?? Ronnie Lane and Eric Clapton. Gobsmacked or what !!!!!!

If it's cash then screw him, if Paypal then you'll need to accept the return I would think, give them a ring (especially if you have receipts for it to prove it's not fake etc) and see what they say. Did you offer returns in the listing? Btw never accept Paypal for collection/delivery items, you're setting yourself up to get screwed either way as they can just file an "item not received" claim and you have no proof of postage/delivery. However if you wanted you could be incredibly dishonest and collect the item from him then tell Paypal he hasn't sent it as you would have to refund that way after receiving the sax back. Obviously that would be an immoral and heinous thing to do.

Should have gone to Tesco:

Freddie Washington with 'The Dukes of September'...

Much like one of your gigs then.

I also have a law degree, a Desmond that I got part time at night. 47 people started, just 7 finished

Just sold a Sax to a chap in Redditch and hand delivered it for which he was delighted. A few hours later, I get a notification from EBay saying he wants to return it as it's faulty. It isn't but given EBay's general stance towards supporting buyers, I don't think it's worth the breath in challenging it. To add insult to injury, he has suggested that it's a cheap knockoff (after admitting prior he's never tried this particular brand before but stated "it's not what you'd expect from xxx". How would you know if you'd never tried one?) It's not. It was bought from a reputable music shop who are a main dealer for this particular brand. My thoughts are he tried it, didn't like it and wants to return it. To say I'm angry and frustrated doesn't quite do it justice. I'm done with EBay.

My first job after uni was playing rugby but I found that too exciting so became an accountant. I am currently the Operations Director for a large Law Firm (basically looking after everything that allows Lawyers to do "law stuff" and not worry about practical things). I am also a trustee of a children's theatre group (part of my "giving something back" commitment I made a few years ago).

I'm an interior designer. Restaurants, cafeterias, eateries and coffee shops for corporate clients exclusively. Exclusively because they are the clients of the design company I joined 3 years ago after taking a degree in architecture, at age fourty, following many, many years as a cook/chef/burger flipper. It's a mixed bag.

Day job these days is Software Architect for a Fintech/Regtech firm. Currently implementing a global anti terrorist funding/anti money laundering system. By the middle of this year it will be in production, and by the year after that there is a fair chance most of you will be in its databases... Pretty cool tech involved to be fair, most interesting thing I've ever been asked to design. Scales to literally global proportions, very very big data indeed.

I saw Jimi Hendrix on a Tuesday night at a half full Hounslow Ricky Tick the week Hey Joe came out. Sadly, I don't remember much about the gig, but I must have liked them cos I bought the single. I was at one of the Jeff Beck Group's first gigs at the Starlight Ballroom in Sudbury Town. I saw them a lot before they stopped playing the clubs. I saw the Yardbirds at the Crawdaddy in Richmond when both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were in the band. There was a Precision bass malfunction (no backup!) and I offered them the use of my bass for the gig. They didn't bat an eye lid (actually there might have been an anguished groan!) when I fished my Framus Star bass out of the car!! Chris Dreja was very gracious after the gig. I was at the Marquee Club when Tony Williams Lifetime played. A stunning gig and one of the loudest. I was deaf for 2 days. In MM Chris Welch wrote that 90% of the thinking musicians in London would have died if they'd dropped a bomb on the gig that night. I like to think he was including me when he wrote that, but maybe not! I was sitting on Peter Green's sofa when he told me I hadn't got the FM gig! Gotta think big! I was still at school and had answered an MM ad for a bass player required for Pro Chicago Blues Band. A very nice guy. Even said hello when I went to the gigs.

I'm back in now my wrist op has been postponed. I'll bring my Rick 4003s and my Epi vintage pro T-bird.

I wouldn't trust this bottom feeder to post it back. By Ebays own rules, it must be returned by a trackable method, but who knows if he'll use decent packaging. PP will refund him after you sign for it. They wont give a hoot if it comes back dented , covered in cow dung, or missing and a telephone directory in its place. Mind you, he'd be a brave bloke to do anything daft like that. You know exactly how to find him I would collect in person, as he's proved what he's like, and then give him a taste of his own medicine. Buyers think they can feck sellers around on a whim on Ebay.

Does this count..? First Isle Of Wight Festival, Godshill ... An unforgettable line-up of acts which went on to shake the world (or so I still like to believe...). Happy daze (very much pre-dope...). That festival changed my life forever, and I'm darned glad it did..!

You are the 3 TSB Precision of jobs...

I suppose that makes mine a Damien, then 😎. The most interesting / worthwhile job I ever had was teaching philosophy to undergrads at Cambridge University - not full time, just did a few hours a week whilst a graduate student. After that there was about 35 years spent as a computer programmer, mostly in the city, which depending how you look at it was either a tedious waste of a lifetime or a dead cushy way of earning decent money which left enough time and energy to pursue other interests (mostly musical) in my spare time. These have included working as a composer in a very modest way for theatre, film, contemporary dance and TV - never getting anywhere near being able to make a living out of it - I'm really not very good - but making a nice bit of cash here and there from the best jobs (though many were unpaid). Retired last summer at 59. Hoorah! Now combining looking after our three geriatric cats (this takes more time and energy than I could ever have imagined) with playing nyckelharpa for a bizarre and theatrical 2-man morris side and also in Scandinavian music sessions, a bit of home recording for my own amusement and trying to learn Finnish.

You took a risk him paying with PayPal and you not posting it using a trackable service.

I would be very careful that he’s returning the one you sold to him.

Dear bass players, here is the new Harley Benton PB20 in satin black (new release coloring!) https://youtu.be/O5zpyFUCJEU I made this video to show the potential of this new HB from 89 euros useful for those looking for a forklift truck at a bargain price ... as a song I chose a classic by Maiden so that it can help to compare the sound of this bass with the typical Precision sound ... In the next few days I will publish other covers played with this HB, so I invite you to follow my channel to keep you updated! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCejObQAoQRdV7DoYNR0Qsdw PS: it is the first time that I officially approach the recording of a cover of Maiden (although Harris is one of my reference bassists I am mainly a new wave bassist!) So have clemency for the performance of the performance

Stew Black, clearly an alias for Walter White

What a stonking performance by all

'Here's our set list. Choose any of them you like for the audition because we all know them really well'. 'We're really committed'. 'We rehearse every week and start at 7 o'clock prompt' 'We've got lots of gigs booked in' 'I'll go away and learn these new songs for next week' 'I can't come this week because the wife / kiddie / mother-in-law feels ill'. 'This is the only band I'm in'. 'You won't mind if Carl watches the rehearsal. He's just a friend of the band'.

Get a Kiogon loom from off here. Pickups? Fender custom shop '62 P bass or a Lindy Fralin.

If he paid cash then take the negative and put a link to this thread in all subsequent listings to explain his twattery

Harsh, but fair...

Ouch! Thanks for the information Dave. I'm lucky I live in the MidWest, specifically in the Milwaukee WI region. The fair and festival market here is unbelievable, if a band wants to gig there's more than enough opportunities over here. Daryl

Cut the excess off the necks then tidies up using my neck templates and a router. The scarf joints have turned out okay. Now time to start shaping the necks. I'm going to leave one or both of the board flat - will save a job with a radius block but I'm also interested in how a flat board feels.

@nickcarey @Leonard Smalls @lurksalot @Teebs stand up and take a bow! The Basschat Underground Railway rides again. A beautiful operation expertly carried out.

1979 Alembic Series 1 graphite, one of maybe 50 in total, less in long scale. Each neck was custom made and it proved to be such a ball ache that Alembic stopped offering the option in the early 80's. The neck on this one is nothing short of magical - the action is a gnats wing above the frets and there's no buzz. Sounds just like an Alembic but maybe with a little more attack.