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Had one, sold it. It did not elicit this emotional attachment in me that it seems to in others. It was a 1975 Gibson Ripper which I restored (apart from the refinishing) from a shell. Nice bass - was one of the ones they did with an alder body rather than maple so didn't weigh as much as a house. But I went through some tough times and suddenly it stopped being a bass and had to become an amount of money. C'est la vie. It's just stuff.

Tainted Love? We do an unholy alliance of three versions - the pace of the Gloria Jones, the structure and "rockness" of the Scorpions, and the "*emphasised double hit* run away"ness of the Soft Cell. As long as the people at the gig like it, I don't really care what anyone else thinks about it.

Backlash relates to looseness in the teeth of meshing gears (in this case the interaction between the worm attached to the button and the worm gear at 90 degrees on the baseplate of the tuner which is attached to the capstan) - most noticeable when you change direction, there's this moment where the turning does nothing, is usually easier than normal and it's quite disconcerting until the teeth mesh properly in the opposite direction then work as expected. Change direction again and the same thing happens in reverse.

I know what it means in that context, but I enjoy a good fnar as much as the next punter

There's an echo in here...

Mystery resolved - yes, they're real, but they're a zzounds exclusive in the US and they don't ship internationally, so tough! https://www.zzounds.com/item--EPIEITB6PRSNH3 https://www.zzounds.com/item--EPIEITB6BBSNH3

I have nothing to add to this conversation, except Holy zombie thread resurrection, Batman!

So sorry to hear this. Condolences to you and your family. Can't begin to imagine what you're all going through. Thanks for posting this, must have been hard to write.

It's a no here - EBMM prices long since disappeared over a horizon I'm not willing (or frankly able) to follow. Had a quick play with the configurator though, that was fun.

Are you being serious? It was clearly a parody of the very rude user from earlier today telling me to wind my neck in. I took zero offence to it.

That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it

That looks lovely - your photos look way better than the ones I've seen online. How can they sell instruments if they're set up like that? Oh well, money off for you! Yes, please document what you do with this in a thread, I'd be interested for one.

Thank goodness Dad doesn't check spelling also...

I walk away all the time, but it was made personal and that I will not tolerate without reply.

I will have the last word, thanks. How f'n dare you cast aspersions about me. Please find and quote me where I have ever "diss(ed) all those classic tunes". "People like me"? That would require some knowledge of the kind of person I am, of which you have none. You know the square root of hee haw about me, my music or how it is/was made, but thanks for telling me how crap it is and to pack it in because there's no point. In fact, everyone go home - all valid music has been already created, you're wasting your time, because @diskwave, the arbiter of taste has decreed it thus. Have you any idea how stupid you sound? Read it back - you're being a complete moron, running around in this thread like a bull in a china shop, accusing people of all sorts, argumentatively disagreeing with anyone who has a different opinion to you. You're forum poison right now. Why can't you just accept that people having a different opinion to you is not an attempt to invalidate your opinion, which you are more than entitled to have BTW. You like the old days. Good for you, I like 'em too. There are people who disagree with you, and guess what - they're not wrong either.

It might do. WTF has gotten into you? Go take your rose tinted specs off and have a wee snooze, maybe you'll feel better later.

Even the police get days off.

Better discussing this than yet another effing tonewood bitchfest, which is what I feared when I saw the thread title.

I got my end away with three groupies, did a few lines of marching powder, drank the bar dry, beat up the bouncer and spent the night in jail... Nah, but I did stay after getting off the stage to see the band on after us and have a few jars with my bandmates as it was a local gig so no car. Most times it is just a case of pack up, get the money then head home because we're driving. We call the trip to the bar for pints of water the "walk of shame"...

We're back, baby! It's taken a few months but we have a new singer and our first gig with Jac is on Friday, at the Balaclava Bar in Fraserburgh.

Yeah, thanks pals. Stand by and do nothing why don't you?

Nah, I'm walking away. It's a frivolity, and if I'm going down, I'd rather it was for something special instead of a curiosity killed the abstinence type situation.

Where's that electric triangle I had lying around for this precise eventuality?

I think it's the version the audience would want that's the most important, regardless of whether or not my preference correlates with that.

Nice pair. The bass is a Sire D5, an interpretation of a '51/'54 Precision bass.