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I miss my G3

Bog off Amazon! Take your siren song elsewhere please!

LOL BWBWB FTW IMHO

Good job, and I also think that's a mighty fine looking bass - liking the trans blue over the quilted top - looks like water.

I do the wristband trick. I look like a craddock but at least I'm a craddock without red marks on my forearm. The feedback can be fun to play with if you mean to do it. Otherwise, some extra diligence with string muting while playing is sometimes required if you can't avoid being close to your amp.

Sure, let's have a 10 day update. I'm still in FWIW.

Please document the reason for your disqualification

You're talking about this fairly regular, rounded off body shape like it's a BC Rich Warlock or something! I wouldn't bat an eyelid at this bass turning up at any gig regardless of the genre because it's pretty conventional but modern to my eyes. Is it the name that bothers you enough to pigeonhole it? Is it the slightly gothic/churchy inlays? Genuinely interested to know where other people's lines are drawn on these things.

I'm no wood expert, but I must commend you on your Gibson Ripper knowledge. When they weren't maple, they were alder, and it was mid 70s that happened - 75/76. I had a 1975 alder bodied Ripper and it was pretty light

Up in Scotland, we'll batter and deep fry anything!

That's goddamn right!

I know, I used to watch the Dukes of Hazzard too and just think it was a cool pattern on the roof of the General Lee (which was also just a cool, made up name for a car). Oh dear.

Proud of you for reaching your bass nirvana, but be prepared for a lot of tutting and eye contact avoidance at the pearly gates!

Vote for no. I don't believe there is such a thing. I keep changing, not the basses. Right now I'm going through a "death to bridge pickups" phase. I'd like to think that I'm more evolution than revolution so maybe some time when my fingers are too arthritic to play I'll have defined what my "perfect" bass is. And if everything else comes true, much like my appetite for finding new music has all but dried up like I swore blind it never would, it'll be a P bass, the bass of choice in heaven/hell's waiting room.

There's only a tuner and an overdrive pedal at most, so even when I'm having to Bill Wyman it every 5 minutes because I've ended up on the route to the bog again, I still manage to have the pedals on the floor in front of me.

Scotland has a long and distinguished history of not knowing what's good for it. The M-2000 is a fine bass with a lovely neck profile, slightly dialed back MFD pickups for those who find regular MFDs a bit too rorty and those 18V electronics will give active boffins that headroom that they keep banging on about that's so damn important I would, but I'm going through a no actives, no bridge pickups type phase, or whatever I'm telling myself this week to keep my participation in this year's gear abstinence thread alive...

Well, if you're going to bow out, do it with some style and panache

Lol at "riled bee"

Seek and ye shall find (in the third place you look ) That do you, @Jonesy?

The Gibson three point bridge. Some people replace 'em, some people hide 'em I'll have a look and see if I have one. I can't remember if the Ripper I sold a few years ago went out the door with it attached or the buyer didn't want to bother with it.

I'm in two bands with the same drummer. I think it helps that one of them is an originals band and the other is a covers band so they operate in different spheres, different venues and occupy different spaces in my head. Also the covers band gigs more frequently than the originals band. You have to be upfront about it, I think that's the only way it'll work. If not then a clash will occur at some point. Everyone's aware of the situation. The covers band even let the originals band borrow the PA for the odd occasions that they're not playing a venue with house PA/backline. Everything is open and honest. As far as the logistics go, both bands have google calendars and I cross post between both calendars when either band has a gig so availability is clear.

For me, the sounds of 2022 will probably be the start of The Inevitable Teaspoons taking another 6 years to release something

Aberdeen: Annie Lennox The Shamen The Needles Geneva Aberdeenshire: Evelyn Glennie Emeli Sandé Sandi Thom

While we decide upon that, here's my Tribute LB-100 next to my CLF L-1000...