tauzero

I sold an exploded mixer amp a few weeks ago, buyer paid up straight away, I go his phone number for the courier, then there followed a couple of rather tense weeks. Three attempted deliveries made, they said they'd carded him. I sent him a message and he said no card received, then I saw a redelivery had been arranged so spoke to UPS who told me they were redelivering to xxx House rather than xxx Point and had been given two alternative phone numbers, so I got back in touch with the buyer, gave him the UPS phone number, the reference, and my name (which of course someone posing as him wouldn't have). Then tracking said it had been refused as packaging damaged, sender would be informed. However, I wasn't, another tracking message said refused as recipient didn't want it, then it said he'd picked it up. By this time my head was spinning, and I was very glad to get a message from him saying he'd picked it up. And the feedback I'd got after my spot-on description, marathon arranging and weeks of fretting? "ok".

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Looking at what were given as the trademark bits in the relevant posting by (IIRC) Kiwi, if all that's shown is the body and there's no mention of the "R" word, there's no trademark infringement as the only trademarks JH laid claim to were the headstock and the "Rickenbacker" truss rod cover.

The "gig dates" table could do with changing - the heading "City" appears over the band names, there's an apparently useless "Tickets" column, and no indication of the venue. A possible solution, if you're not putting the venue into that table, is to make the band names clickable to take you to their event pages (which also means people can easily find out what the bands do).

The glory of this instrument is simply too great. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ibanez-Btb705dx-Bass-Guitar-/200812150387"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ibanez-Btb705dx-Bass-Guitar-/200812150387[/url]

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1346106634' post='1785488'] Funny that you should mention that. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CUSTOM-BUILT-ELECTRIC-BASS-GUITAR-or-upright-electric-bass-WOW-/180961649612"]http://www.ebay.co.u...W-/180961649612[/url] [/quote] Spotted that earlier. I think I read it quite carefully and saw no mention of the scale length this time round - did I miss it or is he carefully concealing the fact that it fundamentally won't work?

I sent him a question about it, pointing out that it would work rather better with a fretless neck. His response: [quote] yes your right ...it was designed for a fretless bass...ive played it and its in tune upto 10th fret but like i mentioned in the ad that the bridge can be moved up to the pickup to improve intonation or change the neck...for the price its an amazing piece of kit and a one off size body. [/quote] It's nice to know that there's someone out there with even worse cloth ears than me. I reckon it would be a bit over a tone out by the time you got to the 12th fret (the equivalent of fretting a 34" scale bass 15.62" from the nut, in fact, I've just worked it out).

With the decline in the fortunes of bees this year due to the heavy rain, and the market being cornered by Mark D Phillips, the price of beeswax is likely to go through the roof.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1345650833' post='1780038'] So can't be played in tune with music, or itself then. And in response to that suggestion: [quote] [size=4][color=#000000][font=arial,sans-serif]so exactly what is the scale lenght from top nut to bridge for an upright bass?[/font][/color][/size] [size=4][color=#000000][font=arial,sans-serif][/quote][/font][/color][/size] Because 20+17 = 42. [/quote] Did you point out what is noticeable about the frets on an upright bass?

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1345222278' post='1775245'] The advantages might be mainly theoretical but separately connected cabs are the better configuration, for the reasons cited above. [/quote] And also because the signal to each speaker only passes through two plug-to-socket connections, rather than one going through two and the other through four. As well as being possible points of failure (as above), they're also likely to be points of higher resistance.

Um, has no-one noticed that the scale length is 37"? With an Aria Pro II neck? So it's 17" from nut to 12th fret, 20" from 12th fret to bridge. That should make for interesting intonation.

Presumably it used to say "Fender Precision made of 18-carat gold" in the title but it's been changed (revision history shows that, but not what it used o say).

So, did it go to anyone on here?

I like the Zoom B3 approach - I would like to see the equivalent of the Zoom G3 2.0 firmware for it for added oomph. The other multifx I've used have all constrained you to a particular signal chain with a limited number of options available at each step.

[quote name='Wolverinebass' timestamp='1344864302' post='1770248'] Who gives a toss who was on bass. If it's not Entwistle, I don't want or care to see The Who. I see that they're off touring Quadrophenia, how is that going to work without the bass playing? Errr... it's not. It's quite simple. As capable as Pino or whomever is, unless you get someone who has a similar stylistic bent to Entwistle and there aren't that many people who do play anything like that, the Who will continue to be crap and I won't be interested. [/quote] I went to see The 'Oo at the NIA a couple of years ago and they were bloody great.

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1344895675' post='1770923'] All non Olympic sponsor brands were banned from any Olympic event. Any logos not covered would have been left visible as the manufacturers would have paid a handsome fee to the IOC. [/quote] Presumably that means that if anyone had used a Rickenbacker, as the shape is trademarked, it would have to be played inside a sack.

I started on guitar. It's still what I use for songwriting, and Mrs Zero and I do the odd acoustic duo gig where I play guitar and she warbles. As others have said, it's handy being able to read chord shapes as the guitarist plays them. Rather than have disdain for other instruments, it's as well to have respect for them and the contribution that they make to the music[s], pathetic though it might be[/s].

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1344608976' post='1767107'] He IS the bassist [/quote] I think he might now be the guitarist. So maybe he's sacked himself, or perhaps he's uneasy about the band dynamics and he's looking for another band before he sacks himself.

"I only play for my own pleasure." Yes, people have said that about me too. As Neil Innes once said: "I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn".

So he's sacking the current bassist by giving him another band to go to?

[quote name='JellyKnees' timestamp='1344429250' post='1764284'] if they did double ball end steels in my prefered guage I'd probably have them on my headless too, but they don't so I'm sticking with Elites on that for now as I haven't found a better dbe string. [/quote] Have you tried the Status dbe strings? I've got those on the headless and I think I'll be continuing with them. I use Elites for just about everything with a head though. Guitar - I use D'Addario 10s and because I like a nice low action I get Mark D Phillips to file my nuts.

Second-hand, EA iAmp800 plus Tech Soundsystems ND410S plus Zoom B3 came in at a little below £1000 so I'm another of the disenfranchised. I think it would be a little shy of £2k to replace it all with new.

Breathing life into an ancient thread that perhaps should have been left alone... Played at a wedding on Saturday. Most of the audience was 30ish and stuff from Ziggy Stardust to Comfortably Numb [1] via She Sells Sanctuary and Use Somebody all went down well, but at some point we played Underdog by Kasabian and the dance floor was clear by the time the guitarist played the intro riff the second time. [1] The guitarist kept saying it wasn't a wedding song and wouldn't play it, then right at the end they wanted another song and I persuaded him to do it. Went down a storm.

[quote name='oldslapper' timestamp='1344447560' post='1764733'] Lead bass? [/quote] For heavy metal, obviously.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1344421689' post='1764119'] Of course not. We brain wash all of them. [/quote] Hosepipes down their wellies?