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Could be anything between £250 and £400 depending upon how far we have to travel. I know it wasn't asked for, but up here originals bands have been paid £50 for a 45 min set for as long as I can remember. Inflation is something that happens to other goods and services, it would seem

Best not bring up the "Final" Fantasy series then...

I think sales of delay pedals are going to take a hit. It sounds like we've found a way to delay (musical) output indefinitely.

Who bloody knows anymore, and they've sucked all the motivation to find out, out of me. Sorry.

I've just finished watching the programme and here are my rambling thoughts about it. I enjoyed it and thought it was very well done in that assured, calm, analytic without being anaemic, BBC4 style. It made me remember where I was when I heard that Kurt had died - I was with my dad at a scrappie's yard getting bits for a car when the news came over the radio. I don't remember what kind of car it was and I'm usually pretty particular about those kind of details so it definitely threw me off my game that day. It made me feel angry that I felt like that much of an an outsider at the time that I considered Nirvana to be something the cool kids listened to - I didn't get into Nirvana until I left school in 1993 and even then I went In Utero, early stuff then Nevermind last. It's given me an idea for a song. Finally, it was a Gibson bass fest, which tickled me greatly. Krist is a giant - he makes that RD Artist (which I considered to be a big bass when I had one) look like a toy TL:DR, I enjoyed it.

I had a TMB100 a while back - pretty good bass considering how inexpensive it was. I can only imagine it would get better with those nice pickups and a bit more fettling befitting a mid-range bass that it purports to be.

Even that fact could knock a riff out of there, sorry

Does it matter what I think? To be awkward, I'd say it depends. I've nothing against the principle. I don't think any finish is off the table until I see it in context on a bass. To answer the OP's question - I don't think those look bad at all. I'd be happy to play and be seen playing the P. I'd refinish the J in somewhereelseburst, personally.

No, same bridge/tailpiece. Some people said that they thought the bridge was mounted too far forward, making intonation impossible. I would be very surprised if this was the case and if it was then there should have been a recall. Sounds like user error to me.

Could you maybe source one of these single bass bridges then butcher it for the insert? https://www.northwestguitars.co.uk/individual-bridge-saddle-for-bass-guitar/?sku=BB114-CR

Jack Casady and his Epiphone signature bass. But you knew I'd say that

If I reserve a space in my memory for Airdrie's location, I'll probably forget part of a song I'm trying to play during a gig. Can't take that risk, sorry, Airdrie

No, there was a regular scale version of the Embassy with alleged bridge issues.

Tort pickguard is correct for an early Gibson Ripper. Corroded, unpotted pickup windings are also common in early Rippers when the pickguard decomposes. Noice. This is/was a pretty competent copy, I'm especially impressed with the pickups - that is how earlier Ripper pickups mount with the two screws through the pickup into the body. Later ones had a three screw arrangement which were on lugs sticking out from the pickup body and attached to the pickguard instead.

One day I'll have a picture like that but with Epiphone Jack Casady Signature basses instead of Performers

I wouldn't be able to accurately pinpoint Airdrie on a map, and I've lived in Scotland my entire life...

I would have heartily supported a reissue more faithful to the original, or at least with a pickguard which doesn't look like "that'll do".

I know there's a whole thread started up about these but I think it's worthy of discussion in the context of this thread too... I'm all for reissues, but that pickguard is a mistake imo. Looks ill-thought out and home made and especially out of place seeing as the originals had no guard and rear routed controls. Don't worry though, it's currently only available in Japan.

Yeah, why is the pickguard rounded when everything else about this bass isn't? Doesn't really work for me. EDIT: I know why I'm finding it so weird - the originals didn't have pickguards and controls were rear routed. Cost saving to front rout it, done in a really clumsy way?

Fit like?

The BC Rich Eagle is positively mundane compared to some of their output though. I think it would fit in anywhere in the sense of someone who's dressed a little out of the ordinary but you have a pint and a yap with them and they turn out to be sound as a pound.

You're a bit too late, BRX has been and gone - couldn't even be bothered posting pics (mic drop)

No, a production model from the mid 80s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Performer_Bass

I don't want to see anyone complain about the titchy little pointy bit on G&L headstocks now that we've seen that, thanks

For someone who finds aesthetics "kind of irrelevant" to them, you sure kick up a big stink about it in a thread that's purely about aesthetics. You like Fenders, and people slagging them off irks you, I get it and it's OK.