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Well damn it, only 5 or 6 gigs in next year's calendar and one of them is on the 20th June. Don't rearrange it just because I can't make it - majority rules!

I'm an idiot - when I first read the sentence I thought you were going to put an amp head on the raffle table and I nearly spat my tea out, lol.

Wronger than a wrong thing - as proven by the fact that they contacted the courier for you anyway. The retailer is the courier's customer, not you, so if it goes astray, it's on them to chase it up, and on them to make things right with you if it goes wrong - that's what insurance is for. It has happened to me before, not a fake "delivery" but a Sire D5 just disappeared like a fart in the wind between Thomann and myself. I contacted Thomann about it, and to give them their due they didn't wait too long before giving it up as lost and sending another one. How the retailer deals with this will determine their competence and worth. If it goes badly, I'd like to know who this retailer is so that I can avoid them in future.

Indeed, it's now going to be a bookies, taking bets on the cage fighting.

I've got a couple of effects pedals I'm happy to chuck in.

I'd back myself to emerge victorious from that cage fight.

Yes, was going to pipe up and mention the Joyo Monomyth - it has two switches on it for a treble boost and a gain boost, so you have three possibilities to quickly go beyond the base level of drive you have set using the pot. I use mine as my one stop OD/EQ/DI shop, it's good at all these things.

I thought I'd resurrect this zombie thread to offer some positive feedback about G4M. Last Tuesday, I ordered some gigbags from them. Picked the cheapest delivery option so wasn't expecting to see them until the start of the following week. Two days later, I got an email from them telling me that my order might be delayed because they did not receive stock from the supplier. I found this odd because I went to double check and the website was still merrily proclaiming that they had heaps in stock. So I queried it. Within a few hours, they got back to me, apologising as I had received that email in error and it was an internal thing (getting stock from warehouse) which had triggered it by mistake. They assured me that the gig bags would still arrive in the agreed time (indeed, reiterated that the estimated delivery date was 06/10 - 07/10). Well, colour me surprised when the doorbell rings yesterday (yes, on a Sunday) and here are my gigbags. I wasn't pushy, I didn't ask to have my delivery upgraded, they just did it off their own backs. I don't think you get a Sunday delivery from G4M through DPD unless you specifically request it (and pay for it). So I think they fast tracked my order, I guess to make up for the admin oops? I'm going to believe that, because that was very nice of them and it made me smile.

I am weakening towards the XS-1. After finally hearing some bass usage, I think it does a better job of tone preservation than my Brainwaves.

Aye, the wind was fighting me at times on the walk home (thankfully managed to get a bus half way), and today just seen that the garden took a bit of a hiding

Last night I played Drummonds in Aberdeen with The Inevitable Teaspoons. It was a good gig, not super busy but busy enough not to feel empty - Drummonds is a tough room if it's dead. We played well, and big props to the sound engineer, John - super smooth soundcheck, great FOH sound. After we finished, we got lots of nice comments, saying that we're tight and played well. A guy came up to me after we finished playing and he said (roughly paraphrasing) "You're a wizard on bass, mate, I play bass too, and you've inspired me". I was floored, that's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me after a gig. Gear was the Greco LGB-700 and the venue's Trace Elliot backline.

It's fun to see what I had to say years ago when a thread gets reanimated like this... Pleased to say that in nearly four years my attitude hasn't changed. Only the numbers...

It's possible if you provide the goods which are actually worth the asking price. Compare and contrast with Epiphone's prices ticking upward, but giving basically the same instruments they always did, as well as creating strange anomalies like a bolt on single pickup Grabber costing more than a thru neck, two pickup Thunderbird or a hollow bodied Jack Casady (which surely *must* cost more to make than a Grabber). It makes no sense at all.

Bit early to prep for the bass bash, no?

Or - get yourself to a bass bash where you know someone is bringing one? Bass bashes are a lot of fun, and you'll see a lot more crazy stuff than one pedal you want to try.

Just buy at distance, give it a try, then send it back under distance selling regs. You'll only lose the postage. Appreciate that only works if you have the slush/scratch to buy the thing in the first place...

I would be delighted if a Tribute SB-1 appeared...

In true BC fashion, this thread is going deliciously off the rails. Two mentions of G&L in 15 posts, in a thread about G&L shutting down. Don't ever change, BC...

When they resurrect the Big Al (HHH) bass, let's talk.

Happens to the best of us, Blue. I remember one time we played to a completely empty room, save for the bar staff. They told us we could go home after playing the first set. We still got paid. Epic fail. It was a football club's social club - albeit a very small team in the Highland League, but is that what supporting your team looks like? I just couldn't believe it.

Well, it gives me no pleasure to say this, but I effing knew it. I've been saying on and off that they were in bother for the past couple of years. I hope that whoever buys what's left (Fender seem to be the front runner) isn't doing it just to hoard the name.

I'm not understanding this - are you saying that a third party is able to inject dodgy stock into Amazon's stock that they sell under their name (so the listing reads "Shipper/Seller - Amazon" not "Shipper/Seller - A.N. Other") and are therefore responsible for the customer service? I can't see how they would allow this.

The last three packs I've got from Amazon have all been legit and the codes worked fine.

Honestly, the internet dogpile on G&L or Sire headstocks (or whoever has been deemed not to be flavour of the month this time) is really boring to me.

I appreciate the concern, but I'm OK if some get passed over. I'd much rather that than have someone come up to me and go "hey, you've got X bass, don't you?" and I'm "ahh yeah, sorry, I left it at home - maybe next year, if I still own it by then!" I've already decided to rein things in slightly - I'm not going to take the extra 1x12 cab. Going to take the Markbass combo and the TC Electronic BH250 head as a headphones only amp - which might be handy if things get loud in the room anyway.