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  1. neepheid
    If you don't mind naming names - which local establishment have you been going to at which you have noted the price rise?
  2. neepheid
    I find a good old wireless walkabout goes down well. I also get up to no good during songs which have long, bassless sections - I pretend to sleep, or I naff off for a sit down and pretend to be on strike. Just clowning around basically. People seem to like it. Plus the basics - engagement with the audience - making eye contact with folk and nodded along with them bopping around - sometimes my hat gets borrowed - let 'em - I don't get precious. And for the final coup de gras - if the police come in for a venue check, be ready to play something like Breaking The Law or I Fought The Law etc...
  3. neepheid
    Well it is in stock now, so I'm just waiting for them to get around to where I am in the backlog. If they ever do.
  4. neepheid
    Happy to share a bill with you - there's only 2-3 duplicates on your set list vs. ours
  5. neepheid
    Also - hello!
  6. neepheid
    https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/83-bassists-wanted/ - is the correct forum for this kind of thing - this one's just for saying hello
  7. neepheid
    I should clarify - they sold out of the thing I wanted when I ordered it. Getting new batches of instruments can take months to get manufactured, not super bothered about it. I'm impressed that the idea that pre-bankruptcy orders would be honoured by the newco has even been floated - had written it off in all honesty. But it might still all come to nothing - that's what I mean by the wait and see.
  8. neepheid
    Tell you when/if they fulfil my order from September last year...
  9. neepheid
    The shelf! I had an Explorer bass, am well acquainted with the shelf. It's surprisingly comfortable.
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  11. neepheid
    Or they could have been replaced?
  12. neepheid
    I say bring your most mental one. Vive la difference!
  13. neepheid
    They've been using the H-expander truss rod since their original Swedish days... http://hagstrom.org.uk/expander_stretcher.htm
  14. neepheid
    I see what you did there...
  15. neepheid
    Mate, I'm coming down from Aberdeen - there aren't any regional eligibility rules, the only rule as far as I'm aware is "don't be a d!ck" - actually, they bend that one for me a little
  16. neepheid
    Also, the notion that a gear list from March would stay current until October was frankly laughable. In my defence, I was attempting to do gear abstinence, but a white whale appeared which I had been chasing on and off for 12 years put paid to that but I've gone on a bit of a bender since. To balance things out, 2 off that initial list have been sold, got another one up for sale. TL:DR I'll let you know what's coming about a week before the bash - I think I can make it a week without buying or selling a bass...
  17. neepheid
    Current plan is to stay over Sat night, location TBC.
  18. neepheid
    Ach, book the Monday off - I will be. Let's scheme this out. I can feel a plan forming. I'll be in touch...
  19. neepheid
    Ahh, mine's 2015 (if it wasn't obvious from the serial number). So, they mess with the programme whenever they feel like it, I guess - including changing which tuners they use.
  20. neepheid
    That's the thing I don't get - those Wilkinsons were a straight swap for the tuners in my Epiphone Les Paul Standard which were a straight swap for the tuners which replaced the Gotoh GB7 in my Burny (serious downgrade - dunno what the previous person was thinking). 1mm is enough to cause you bother. Perhaps the tuners vary from year to year. TL:DR - drop in replacement is never guaranteed. Have or learn the skills to recover the situation.
  21. neepheid
    Wilkinson WJB750, and no, not a straight swap - had to fill and redrill the screwholes.
  22. neepheid
    Told you I wasn't digging the black tuners... So, that's it all in matching chrome RE: hardware. Took the opportunity to give the fretboard a drink of lemon oil and restrung with a fresh set of D'addario XL nickel rounds. Think I'm done here.
  23. neepheid
    Ah, fair dos - if you've got no existing drill holes then fit what pleases you most! The advantage of the Hipshot is that all three string are quick release, at the expense of taking up a little more real estate. The Sire one is more compact, but the middle string is captive. Pick your poison...
  24. neepheid
    Time to move this on. This is a Gear4Music LA Select bass. It is a P bass, with a bound body, 21 fret lightly roasted maple neck. Comes with the originally supplied gig bag (not a fantastic bag, but it's better than nothing). Yes, new, they are £150. But, hear me out - this one comes with the following: A Lace Aluma P pickup Grover mini tuners (the stock tuners were garbage - I wouldn't inflict that on anyone - they went straight in the bin) A triple string retainer The ratty fret ends taken care of I'll even throw in a generic split P pickup if you want to steal the Lace for something else. Would prefer a local sale (ha, Aberdeen, good luck with that), but can post at buyer's expense.
  25. neepheid
    This guy - https://northwestguitars.co.uk/products/hipshot-style-string-retainer-for-bass-guitars (odd that they refer to it as "Hipshot style" when it's nothing like a Hipshot string retainer, but let's gloss over that). Just thought I'd throw this in there in case you had pre-existing screw holes - this should drop right in...
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