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A total bust. Booked to play at a football club out in the sticks. Not one person turned up. Played most of the first set to two staff, then they came up and told us they were just going to close up. Paid us anyway, and for what it's worth said they liked us. Weird limbo-like feeling on the way home having played half a gig and getting home 2.5 hours earlier than expected. Seems that there isn't more to supporting your local wee football team than attending matches Oh well, these things happen.

Pre-hiring firing!

+1 for Roqsolid. I've had one of their covers for my Redsub 1x10 combo for almost a decade now. It has survived all this time, 100s of gigs, velcro in the retaining flap is still great after being opened and closed several times a week and even survived a car crash. That last part is not a joke - the impact did make a slight tear where the amp corner tried to burst through but it held firm and continues to protect my amp wearing its war wound with pride.

Surely it should be on the end for poking errant guitarists in the ribs?

What surprises me about this thread is that it took until page 2 for someone to have a moan about the G&L headstock

Ha, I see what you did there

I am 5'8" (or 9, I care not - a career in basketball was not on the cards for me, put it that way). Pretty average/short bloke. Here's me being dwarfed by an Epi Jack Casady and not giving two hoots about it... What's going on with that left hand? What kind of noodly crap am I playing? Look at that pained look of concentration!

Sorry, I seem to have wandered into sockchat.co.uk by mistake

Intentional or not, I appreciate the subtle misspelling in the title I generally play 100% sober as we often have to drive to gigs out in the sticks. When I'm in a situation where I can have alcohol I only like to have one drink before I go on. Two doesn't work for me, feels too loose.

If a person can be snobby about something, that snobbery will exist. Not from this writer, mind. I don't like playing short scales, and it's not from a want of trying (Squier Bronco, Epiphone EB-0, DeArmond Starfire, Fender Starcaster are the ones I remember) and I just can't shake that toy-like feeling when I play them and I don't get the fun element of that some people report, it just feels off to me. But I won't look down my nose at someone playing one of them, if they're grooving then I'm happy to listen.

I had a taste for the, shall we say, less well known/regarded/remembered of Gibson's outputs - G-3, Ripper, RD, Victory, SG-Z, Les Paul Double Cut, Non-Reverse Thunderbird, etc. The regular reverse body Thunderbird is grudgingly accepted into the bass pantheon, I think

I have to put the light on in the afternoon to be able to see what I'm doing in winter?

Maybe that's why I've been left alone for much of my playing career: "He's playing a Gibson bass - he isn't even worth engaging in conversation, even I can't talk that far down to someone" or more recently "G&L?" - followed by the sound of the obnoxious Fenderhead's brain melting under the strain of processing the visible proof that even Leo didn't think that Leo got it right the first (second) time

You idiot! Forget the Police, the Army's coming now!

17k posts - 15k of them must have been the gif of this car

'Mon the "budget" basses! Come to think of it, what does "budget" even mean? Everyone's got a budget, some are bigger than others but why is this moniker only applied to less expensive instruments? When I wanted to treat myself post lockdown and bought a G&L L-1000, I had a budget in mind (around £1500) - does that make my G&L L-1000 a "budget" bass? Maybe to a serial Fodera purchaser it does! Ballcocks, as I saw mentioned earlier and will now steal and use in future.

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From a Glarry maybe? Not tried any of these instruments so I'm merely commenting on the increase in cost from Glarry -> HB

What you doing up there anyway?

Only 10 seconds worth out of a proper schooling? You're hard to please

Headstock chat detected End of thread

Well I'll get the stock stupid answer out of the way (because I have no idea what this bass is worth). It's worth a fiver, which I am more than happy to give you in exchange for the bass

It's everywhere online, less prevalent in person (where it actually takes some bravery/bravado to be mean to someone). Do I do it? No. Let the playing to do the talking. I know fantastic players who play Squiers. I would also say that the quality gap between the bottom and the top has been shrinking for some time now. I would happily gig a Squier - if I found one that tickled my fancy. F'n hate whisky snobs too. "How dare you put ice in that Glenwhatsitsface!" - p!$$ off.

LOL what? I don't think that's the reason I'm unprofessional!

Ahh, but if you spread the notion that bolt on is best... I am, of course, semi-joking around - just taking the paranoid side of life as per usual...