bassbloke

Depends on item and shop. One of the footswitches failed on my HX Stomp 2 weeks after buying it. GuitarGuitar swapped it with zero fuss. Would have been far more hassle 2nd hand.

Ebay disputes are heavily weighed in buyer's favour. If you didn't like it, he could refuse the return, but if it arrived damaged or faulty, you would have no issue raising a dispute and getting your money back.

You should watch the SBL where he adds his own bass part to Iron Maiden's The Trooper. It's brilliant.

Some of that is hard work. To save basschat viewers of a nervous disposition, the only solos of note were Flea, first half of Bunny Brunel and Jimmy Johnson. The rest are pointless.

Robert Trujillo. When I say I don't get him, what I mean is that I struggle with the fact that someone whose career includes excellent work in Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves and Black Label Society and stints with Jerry Cantrell and Ozzy Osbourne seems to have regressed so much as a player. I'd say it's even more apparent than Lars Ulrich. Whenever you see footage of him, he's playing some crappy wah, fuzz drenched 'solo' or smacking seven bells of sh*t out of a custom shop Warwick. That said, I doubt he'd want to swap places with me.

3rd rehearsal with new vocalist. All original material (heavy metal) and we're tweaking the songs and tuning to best fit his voice and range. We've gone from Eb with our original vocalist (Bruce Dickinson esque tenor) to C# with current vocalist who is a baritone into lower tenor territory. We detuned mid rehearsal as an experiment. I have a pretty light touch anyway, but can't remember the last time I played that softly. I turned my amp up and let it do the hard work. The opening 15 minutes of the Gary Willis instruction video came flooding back. I have to re-work quite a few bass parts to make them less busy. Low tunings require space to stop them sounding mushy.