stingrayPete1977

Maybe time machines will be built after your gone blue then that generation will be able enjoy past,present and future bands!?

[quote name='darkandrew' timestamp='1475262983' post='3144604'] Are "Luther built" basses any better than those produced by larger manufacturers? I wouldn't necessarily expect a guy in a backstreet garage to build a better car than a well known manuacturer in a multimillion pound factory. [/quote] Why do people always skew these sort of statements one way? Why compare them against a back street garage rather than a well equipped workshop with experienced craftsmen (women, my last repair was done by a lady luthier a few weeks ago)?

I'm definitely guilty of being in one of the bands this conjures up, lol.

Of course you must remember that Cort also have one of the worst reputations in the world for poor working conditions whilst you are suggesting we find a better whipping boy.

My Cort comments aren't snooty at all, I actually like the look of the Curbow, but I wouldn't spend USA Gibson money on one.

Can you not see that the younger person will at least be able to enjoy a fraction of the Beatles that you did yet being dead will completely stop someone enjoying anything after their demise?

I dont mind the look of it but it's not exactly wow is it?

[quote name='Raggy' timestamp='1475164151' post='3143656'] Almost every gig, what is it with drunk punters and doors!!! [/quote] Loading the van after a posh wedding gig a few years ago I pleasantly shouted "Gangway!" as I approached with a large speaker cab to the usual clump of folk in the corridor after everyone else has left, I'm not sure if they were not familiar with the term I used, I thought it was a common one? or in their drunken state they may have thought I shouted "get out the way!", either way it ended with a toe to toe confrontation in the car park!

I've done some house keeping 1. Bassace. Bryant Solo DB, Kolstein travel bass, Felix preamp, Puma 500 amp, OneTen cab. Some 'fix your pickup jack to the tailpiece' devices 2. Happy Jack. Andreas Zeller DB and a KK BabyBass (plus, if I'm feeling mischievous, a Takamine TB20) 3. Bluejay. Cameras, video equipment, and lots of DB GAS! 4. Owen. Late 19C Saxony DB with new 5 string neck,TC preamp/Berg IP310 or whatever I have by then. You know how it is. Howlett 5 string bass Uke. NS5 string EUB.German Carbon bow. 5. StingrayPete1977. Gedo DB half carved and stagg eub both with Spiro weichs. Yita carbon bow. 6. TheRev. East German ply workhorse with Krivo magnetic pickup, EA Doubler amp, Fishman Platinum Analogue pre and BigE/MAS45 double bass cab; I can also bring my other preamps (Fishman Plat Pro and Fdeck series 3) if anyone wants me to. 7. Rosscoebones. Thomann DB with some entry level combis, all set up for slapabilly 8. AndyBass [?]. Left handed Duke or Strunal 50/4 9. invicta59 [?]. Zeller Bass, K&K pickup, GK amp and Fearless F112. Maybe also Tricky Audio 'Greenboy' cabs, and possibly a Tricky Audio builder (Guy) 10. SpondonBassed [?]. A fretless electric? Vantage and Ashdown combo. 11. Burg. Either the family, or a Boosey, a Stagg and a Yita Carbon bow. 12. Keeponehandloose. Kay twins, and maybe Barefaced Bb2 cab 13. PhilB. Thomann Strunal. Genz Benz Shuttle Max 9.2/ 2x10 shuttle cab and Mark Bass cmd112. 14. Geoffbassist

Being born 25 later allows you to enjoy everything someone born in 1952 has plus an extra 25 years worth of new music, there might be a much better band than the Beatles in 30 years time!

Looks like a Cort to me, Gibson and basses don't work for me other than the ripper/grabber, make a ripper 5 string and we'll talk.

And five strings!

Warwick Jazzman, went to buy one and the preamp was broken straight out of the box! Bought a Stingray instead because the money was burning a hole in my pocket.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1475087385' post='3142993'] £1850 and the previously considered alternative was a £729 Martin DRS. I suspect the shop probably made more out of the deal. Anyway, I wasn't [i]actually[/i] looking for thanks; experience has taught me to expect very little from guitar shops [/quote] But the shop doesn't just buy them all in for £500 each and earn more off more expensive sales, it's quite possible sometimes that the cheaper version has more in it for the shop, less so for the same brand granted but a known brand that sells like Squier can force a better deal for themselves than the shop, lots of £50 cuts from lots of Squier basses is better than a £100 cut from a bass that doesn't sell. The chinese P bass deal with an amp and strap could be bought in for say £100 and sold for £199 many times over coming up to christmas, the no doubt much nicer and better value for money Squier deal selling for lets say £249 might be costing the shop £175, that expert advice has got the buyer a better bass and a useable amp but you've cost the shop £25! Stack 'em high sell 'em cheap!

Bass Direct in the uk might be worth an email, Mark Stikley is the boss there and must have a contact at BSX as a dealer for their (lovely!) basses.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1475082373' post='3142929'] And there's the reason why the shop boy should have zipped it. You were quite right. It's happened to me before now. Last time, this obviously well-heeled guy was buying an acoustic for his son and I talked him up to a Martin D18. The assistant didn't even thank me, the shonky bastard. [/quote] As with the Squier story above though this is looking at it as both an outsider and an enthusiast, the cheap package deal the assistant was trying to sell to the lady probably had twice as much profit available for the store than the Fender (squier) one, possibly more, same goes for the Martin D18, its possible that a ticketed £250 acoustic has more margin for the store than a £1250 acoustic.

1988- music in the charts was awful, stock, aitken and waterman. I was into radio controlled cars and push bikes mainly, I'd been playing acoustic guitar for two years,started jamming with an Avon SG bass around January 1990 after a mate bought a whole load of kit for Christmas just before. Shake your money maker by The Black Crows was our jam for a while iirc.

Good work :-)

That's a lot of kit now!

I had a 2002 teal Stingray 4 brand new and an Ashdown EVO 1x10 combo and 1x15 matching extension cab about a year later, everything after that has been frivolous really, and there's been a lot, lol. The item least likely to ever be used as designed would be my carbon fibre double bass bow, having heard JakeNewmanbass use it on my own upright I know what it can do, it won't be repeating that performance at by hand!

Sterling is the brand, like Squier is to Fender, bit daft as it's also a model made by Ernie Ball Musicman. As for fitment I'd check with Status direct.

From the horse's mouth, can't beat that can you? Nice to see you here Dave, welcome

Got to be 5SSS,I really want one!

How can it be contemporary when it looks 80's? Looks like one of those self build kits for around £80 to me.

Dull