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I use monster throughout my rig, patch leads, speaker cables the lot. Not had a problem yet and bought em cheap from the us when the rate was good. They are solid, sound meaty and punchy and look cool. I also have a very short elixir and a long zaolla too. Tbh I can hear differences at home for sure, but by the time I'm playing with a band, no chance! But it was all part of my quest to reduce the nightmare hum I had in one house.

I found myself reluctantly at a band comp the other day and everyone seemed to have one of the Mexican 70's basses (or an ibanez.) The 70's jazz seems very in at the mo. Hope they go out again! Lol. I was playing warwicks when they got really popular too.

My band loungefly are looking to sort some gig swaps, check us out in my sig we are sorta pop rock. A bit paramore-ish. If you live in one of those cities, or that sort of area, within a giggable radius of Cheltenham. We'd love to hook up and sortsome gigs out. Contact Suze our lovely singer through our myspace or facebook to sort. I'm especially keen to play Bristol and Leicester (weekends tho;) Oh and tell suze I sent ya, so she knows I'm trying

Here's one from our local venue the other week. Excuses now though, the audio is very weird!, I look very tubby! (eaten very poorly the last few months and too much comfort eating has porked me out!) I think the engineer didn't have the keyboard in at the start, hadn't seen each other let alone rehearsed in at least three weeks at this point but hey ho. Excuses over.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MliAfhj5d3U&feature=youtube_gdata"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MliAfhj5d3U...e=youtube_gdata[/url] hope that works I'm on my phone.

likewise, my main basses are both 75ri's, and ive settled on them after a looong journey (49 basses to date) they really are fantastic all round

I could tell you a very similar story about a few hi-fi brands, mission in particular! Where the reps have acknowledged the appaling sub standard quality and just shrugged it off. All sorts of stuff.

Brand brand new! Not on there yet

Ill sneak this in quietly here, and see who spots it before I make a thread about it but wizard now also make a pbass style split humbucker in a jazz sized casing. It's amazing and solo'd in a neck position can make a jazz sound like a big punchy p bass and if you roll back the tone a smidge... Instant 70's funk tone. In the bridge location it adds beef and punch and bite. A great pickup, called the 'Gaffer' might be worth partnering it with something the the wizard trad or even the area 51 stealth for massive snarly badness!

I found the new thunderbird very disappointing. Poorly finshed with overspray and blemishes, and the pickups had no punch or top at all. Worst of all was the substandard fret job. Some were visibly higher than others causing all sorts of issues. It went straight back!