neepheid

Quarter Pounders vs. Regular/Hot, should be an interesting comparison

£100 will buy you quite a few top end of consumer pickups if you shop around: DiMarzio Model P EMG GZR Geezer P etc Cheaper stuff - Warman maybe? Never tried them personally, but heard good things

Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we let them do it to us? How far is "too far"? They (instrument manufacturers in general, not just Fender) seem to have a knack of extracting just the right amount of michael such that significant numbers of people don't vote with their wallets.

Yes, it's still gear. Only exceptions would be unprompted gifts or replacing broken items.

Sure, but it would limit what I could take down with me. If I'm going to this much trouble, I'd want to take the whole shebang down with me (6 basses, amp, ironmongery/leads).

I'm already making the circa 1100 mile round trip to attend the SW Bash - sorry, they got in there first! Whether or not I can face doing another circa 1100 mile round trip the following month remains to be seen. Ask me after, if I and the car survive the first one!

Paid up member here...

Heaven forbid!

Jealously reading everyone's gig reports - holidays etc. means no gigs until 1st Sept, last one was July 22nd. I'd better get a bass out and play it, lest I forget which way round to hold it or something...

Poor, misunderstood Les Paul bass It was roundly scoffed at the first time I took it to the Moffat bash. That soon stopped when people played it.

That sounds better than my usual way around the usual hotel breakfast rip-off - coffee for breakfast... Can you take payment in advance in some way? If you prefer cash on the day, no worries, I'm sure I can find some between now and then.

Well, that's my hotel/bass storage room booked for the night before. Things just got real! Any word on entrance fee yet?

Economies of scale, innit? These pickups won't be made on some assembly line, probably hand made by one person, one at a time, and time is money...

A new low.

One of the first basses I ever encountered was a friend's Ibanez Musician. Didn't know at the time what a good bass or a bad bass was, but I do remember it being a weighty beast. Pretty sure it was one of these:

To be fair, you need more than two hours to listen to those bands - not renowned for their 3 minute pop singles...

At least you've got a day between them to recover, would have sucked doing the late gig the night before the afternoon gig... It's bad enough doing two late ones back to back.

We do the fast version (from Queen's BBC Session October 1977 Maida Vale) - even has a bass "solo" in it

A big fat meh from this correspondant. Gibson haven't done anything interesting in bass for at least the last 5 years. I wouldn't be surprised if they're basically leaving bass to Epiphone now, Epi arguably make a better Thunderbird than Gibson are capable of right now. My guess is that it'll be full of Les Paul guitars and anything else other than basses that you can slap a Gibson logo on.

Fair enough. Sorry you got a Friday afternoon special

Aw boo, "tiger blood orange" isn't a what3words location

I read the "Improved my playing no end" bit as pure 100% sarcasm. Now I'm not so sure and am interested to see if I was right.

You didn't send it back and try another?

Those jeans are far too skinny for that bass

The Creamery does a repro Wide Range bass humbucker and offers CuNiFe magnets.