tauzero

I use a Sei fretless 5 as my main bass and take along another one too as backup. The others are all fretted 5s except for a Sei 6 and I just take whichever one I fancy. Everything's pretty ding-free which is helped by not having any painted ones.

I think the Mackie is still Apple only whereas the more enlightened manufacturers cater for both iOS and Android.

Ooooh, cake! And basses! I should be there: tauzero, Sei Original fretless 5, Sei Flamboyant 6, Antoniotsai 5, maybe something else interesting, and possibly Mrs Zero.

[quote name='IanA' timestamp='1452008061' post='2945439'] From the email that I received from Mark Stickley read the price should be similar to the CN series [/quote] Bergantino say that the HDN is more expensive than the HD, and at the moment Mark's doing the CN cheaper than the HD (it was £50 more expensive, now it's £50 cheaper). So it might be the same price as the pre-discount CN series.

I did a Google search on "Richard Bona Thomas Eich" and there was an article in German on www.gearnews.de that, when translated by Google translate, made interesting reading - Thomas Eich's version of events between himself and Richard Bona (to be found at the end, in an update from 23/12/15). You can find it directly on www.gearnews.de with a little hunting.

The timing of Thomas Eich's announcement (New Year's Day) does make me wonder if there was some sort of agreement in place that prevented him doing anything until the end of 2015, much like there's gardening leave for F1 engineers when they move from one team to another.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1451945391' post='2944967'] There are some corkers here, but the frogs in the rehearsal room is my favourite. [/quote] We couldn't rehearse for a week or so because our lockup, in the basement of Robannas in Birmingham, was flooded. No frogs though.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1451941149' post='2944917'] I can maybe see why he lied to be honest. I've seen adverts that stipulate that musicians applying must be under 30. This is just for function/party type bands. What has age got to do with anything ? He maybe got fed up of not even getting to the audition stage because of his advancing years. The one jazz band I play for, I must be the youngest by about 35 years. [/quote] He told me he'd never done an audition, just got offered jobs - he's been pro since (presumably) the early 60s and is stepping back from that to treat it more as a hobby. Also didn't push it, said to put his name at the bottom of the list and, if we'd not got anyone, to get him along for a play.

"Giving the Pumas away"? When they're considerably more expensive than they were when they were made in Germany?

We're in the process of doing this at the moment. We have had a fair few responses now, and actually had a couple along to an audition - we didn't think either was suitable and the second one accepted an offer from another band anyway the next day, and another one we had lined up accepted an offer before we actually saw him. We have a couple coming in this week. But anyway, another one rang me up for a chat. Told me he was mid-fifties, like we are (stretching the definition of mid a little in my case), and to check him out with Google - and the first hit revealed him to have been born in 1946, 11 years before me. Now, some of my best friends are superannuated drummers, and I wouldn't object to someone being in a band on the grounds of age (after all, in the other covers band I was in which is now hibernating, I was 25 years older than the rest of the band) but it would be nice for them to be honest about it. I also noticed that 99% of the drummers looking for bands want to join functions bands. I'm not sure that there are enough function bands to go round.

Incidentally, Puma 900 at Thomann (get 'em while they're hot) is about £650 inc VAT. Puma 900 from TecAmp USA is about £680 + VAT + duty + shipping, so they've jacked the price up by 25% (£30 + VAT). A Puma 900 will now cost a UK buyer about £835 plus postage. That should help destroy Tecamp's European market.

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Mein Puma ist ein berliner.[/font] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]And Thomas helped me out with instructions on fitting a fan to it, as the later Puma 900s have (I'm not sure it's necessary after all that, I think that I misdiagnosed a speaker issue).[/font]

I use a Puma 900 through two Berg AE112s, the first one daisy-chained to the second.

Yes, VAT and duty to add to the price. Still, I'm happy with my Puma 900 so I'll stick with that, unless Thomas Eich starts up another company and comes up with something else interesting.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1451039981' post='2937942'] When's the 5-string version coming out? [/quote] +1.

Is the log still in trouble? I'm a little worried.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1450913076' post='2937077'] There are countless occupations which entail one or other (sometimes both..?) partners being absent for long periods. It can be dealt with, given the willingness to do so on the part of all concerned. Family is, I would agree, important; perhaps primordial, but that doesn't preclude absences. High seas fishermen..? Soldiers on active service..? Road haulage drivers..? Touring musicians..? Mountaineers..? Round-the-world yachtsmen..? The list is long... [/quote] My brother works on a dive ship - he does one month on, one month off. Seems to work for him and his wife and their two children.

[quote name='funkyjimbob' timestamp='1450702226' post='2934953'] [/quote] From those pictures it looks to me as if there's been some cracking and slippage of the truss rod anchor point, where that brass piece sits in the two cutouts. Hopefully Martin will also have done something about that.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1450373653' post='2932190'] For comparison at the price they are going for 3000 euros would buy you a Streamer Stage 1[u][b]and[/b][/u] thumb from the late 80's early 90's.. and probably a Streamer $$ from a more recent period... [/quote] I bought a new Thumb in the late 80s for £900. I was earning a lot less money than I do now, and my old house was worth £30k, not the £120k or so it would fetch now. It's called inflation. The price of a Thumb now is probably on a par with the price then, allowing for inflation. However, touches like the sculpted headstock rear that took a little weight off it have gone.

Glam. Consider the bass lines of Trevor Bolder, Jim Lea, Dennis Dunaway and the like.

[quote name='SaxyBassist' timestamp='1450803726' post='2936052'] My late hubby put up with me commandeering a whole room for my music and a whole room for my art! .... but then I had put up with 30 years of bike bits all around the house and cylinder heads in the oven on many occasions I never complained, that was just part of who he was [/quote] I've got the basses all round the house and the bike bits all round the house too (though I haven't had to replace a valve guide for years so no heads in the oven and valve guides in the freezer). Mrs Zero is a very tolerant woman, fortunately.

I'm probably in fairly clear territory with[list] [*]Overdrawn at the memory bank [*]1805 [*]Save the Slug [*]Ghoti (but it's pronounced "Fish") [/list] However, to paraphrase a famous quote that never happened, Love Lies Bleeding is not only not the only Love Lies Bleeding in the world, it isn't even the only Love Lies Bleeding in Tamworth.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1450716265' post='2935162'] One of those has already been done ... [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Other%20music%20related/Great%20Album%20Covers/Bestiality_zpsxh2kmxyw.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] I'm pretty sure that was just the album title. Sadly, "You're on your own" isn't on that album. A fine band, and Flabby was a fine figure of a singer until his untimely death. There's not many singers who use their bellies as percussion instruments for a solo.

Hang on - there's something important that we seem to have missed. It'll come to me. Ah yes. Cookies. See what you miss if you're not concentrating? Personally, I like the white chocolate ones. Right, back to logs. Or was it angles, and if so, what about Saxons, eh? Or Iron Maidens, come to that?

Have you got many gigs lined up? (Covers) Does everyone get a bit of a say in the songs? (Originals) Does everybody get a bit of a hand in the songwriting process, or even bring other songs in? Who on earth did your website? That bassist you're sacking, is he a Beatles obsessive who likes asking essay questions?