tauzero

I've got the Herc grabber ones too - worth looking at the various prices available as when buying in bulk the postage costs can fall as a proportion of the whole.

I think you do need the ability to veto songs, but that should be very sparingly used. For instance, "Dakota" is pretty dull, but I don't see that as a reason to refuse to play it - it goes down well with the audience and the others like playing it.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1338071945' post='1669395'] They have a letter from Larry Taylor, and videos are available on youtube etc for all to see. I've seen those videos though, and I think its a different bass, there is a distinctive mark on the one at Woody, and it ain't on the bass listed?? [/quote] It doesn't say that the bass was played at Woodstock, just that the owner played there.

Well, the actual description is "ex Black Dyke Mills Band owner, old and rare", although whether it's the banjo or the owner that's old and rare is open to creative interpretation. I thought pete.young must be making some reference to political correctness, as I'm sure that there would be great exception taken to a Black Dyke band these days if it didn't contain a significant number of Afro-Caribbean lesbians.

You could always buy their CD: [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Years-Black-Dyke-Mills-Band/dp/B000000A77"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Years-Black-Dyke-Mills-Band/dp/B000000A77[/url]

I bought a PA a while back and three of the bands I'm in use it. Couldn't be arsed with working out who should pay what. Mind you, it's not exactly expensive - a mixer that I'd already got and a brace of Skytec 15" active speakers that cost me about £200.

Many years ago, a guitarist and I were looking for a drummer for our originals band. The first one was called George (three decades on and I still remember that). We hadn't got any recordings so we were just playing the material to the drummers and getting them to join in. So George joined in, with a straight boom-tish-boom-tish beat which was at a completely different tempo to what we were playing. So we tried another song, with the same result. By that point, we'd worked out that he was not the one for us.

No regrets about the very first one I owned, a truly awful Rosetti 7 semi-acoustic. However, the first bass I bought to actually have a serious go at playing bass with was a Hayman 40/40, and I do have fond memories of that. If one came up at the right price (somewhere around the £70 I paid for mine brand new in bits), I'd be very tempted.

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1337183068' post='1656825'] No because there were no Mondeos in '54 [/quote] Damndamndamn. '04 as any fule kno.

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1336819992' post='1651476'] And Squier is a Fender brand [/quote] Ford owned the Volvo brand from 1999 to 2008, so presumably by your logic I have a '54 Volvo Mondeo.

At the moment, there is an Ebay links subforum which is intended for discussion of Ebay auctions or flagging up interesting ones, and isn't intended for links to members' own auctions, and a multiplicity of For Sale subforums which Ebay auctions (generally) can't go into because they don't have stated prices. Is there any support for a "For sale: Ebay" or similar subforum which members could stick their own auctions into?

There is a subforum dedicated to ebay listings, just not your own ebay listings.

Why oh why oh why do people stick their own auctions on in here when the forum is specifically not for their own auctions?

Friday night - Spiral Six, rock covers band. One gig, two significant points in the band's life. First, it was our first wedding reception, so the first time that people weren't there for us (in either a specific "us" sense or an "any band will do" sense). Second, it was our drummer's last gig with us. This has been a long-drawn-out farewell, and it's down to geography and jobs - he's working for the MoD as a meteorologist and has been posted to North Yorkshire. If anyone around the Darlington area needs a drummer, I can put you in touch - having done both originals and covers with him, I know he's got great scope and skill. We're breaking another one in at the moment who is coming on pretty well. Anyroadup, all went well (the odd mistakes were recovered, even one that might easily have become a train wreck). The groom even insisted on giving us a bit more money (this was after providing us with drinks for the night - we were all driving so couldn't take full advantage). And we got a fair few up and dancing. "Sex on fire" was our penultimate number and that really go them up and going - this century's "Mustang Sally". Our singer thought it was the best gig he's had, I thought it was good, and the DJ thought we were good too and name-checked us on his Facebook radio show (well, that's how it's described). Saturday night - barn dance with Mrs Zero calling and me stepping in on bass with an ad hoc band. Last year, we did the same thing with an ad hoc band put together by the same chap for the Birmingham City Mission. We'll be repeating that in a month, this one was for a toddler's group for a Birmingham church. The band that was assembled last time was high quality, and the same applied this time round, though the only member in common was the band leader. Had a really good time, managed to pick up the tunes through a combination of ears, chord charts, and the guitarist's fingers. Mrs Zero also had a great time, and there was a plentiful supply of willing dancers.

I've got an '87 JD Thumb (very shallow neck, NT, one piece bridge/tailpiece) and a 2000 Thumb, originally with the fat neck, that I've had reprofiled to JD proportions and defretted. I'm not parting with them, but I'm not using them much as I mainly use 5-strings these days.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1335628263' post='1633972']It'd be like me going to an interview prepared to discuss vmware and discovering they were judging technical ability by tie colour... [/quote] I've met that manager. He used to work for CEGB, and according to him you could tell a good programmer because he'd have his top button done up.

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1336663585' post='1649153'] Anyway, no-ones going to put beer on an amp head with open vents. [/quote] You're not getting out enough, you know. That's something I see pretty regularly. I use my instruments and gear, and avoid abusing them without (I hope) being too precious about them. Since starting to play, I've always had at least a gig bag for carrying them in. I find it astonishing that perhaps 20% of the guitarists and bassist that use the rehearsal studio that I frequent have either no protection at all or just a bin-bag for their instruments.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1336727659' post='1649958'] In my house if an instrument is not being played then it is sold. I have sold my first bass, and recently my first Gibson bass - the G-3 set me off on a noble path but it just wasn't getting played like it used to. There's no room for sentimentality, it's expensive. Same goes for my wife [/quote] I hope she's not reading that over your shoulder...

Just bought some Status Hotwires from Kevin. Very easy to deal with, slight hiccup in delivery which he sorted out. Thanks.

[quote name='jackhammer' timestamp='1336484866' post='1646240'] Actually it's not my own, I've only just bought my VM and have no plans of selling, also my eBay account is the same name as on here, jackhammer1010, I thought this thread was for posting eBay links, no need to jump down my throat was simply a misunderstanding [/quote] Sorry for any offence, there was no additional text in the post to give a clue as to what it was about, and if everybody posted up links to every bass that someone on BC might be interested in then this subforum would quite rapidly become unusable. There have been a few people putting their own auctions up here recently, I'm glad you're not one of them.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1336337112' post='1644258'] If you've followed any of my other posts you'll know that I am very keen on having the right instruments visually for a band, but I can't help thinking that if I was the person insisting on having a traditional look neither of these Avenger basses would make the grade. It's a good idea, but the execution is nowhere near right. [/quote] Rather off at a tangent, I wondered what the Avenger and Cannon looked like, and I must say that it's a triumph of website design that a google search on "enfield cannon avenger bass -royal -india" doesn't find either the Enfield site or even the Sims Guitars site.

Once upon a time, on a ferry to France, I was witness to the entertainment provided by Sid and Doris Bonkers, who, with the aid of their trusty drum machine, and apparently entirely intentionally, managed to play 'Delilah' in 4/4 time

That's not very exciting. It's not your own is it by any chance? "This forum is for the discussion of Ebay auctions. Please do not promote your own auctions. If you have something to sell, please use the For Sale forums."