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It took me a while - but I got the bassline! Nicely as well - it's my new favourite! Just wanted to tell someone.

[quote name='jonnyj' post='1077074' date='Jan 4 2011, 10:05 AM']Seriously. Is it just me or have people lost the abilty to post in correct place lately.... And youve got to state a price .[/quote] This hasn't been moved has it? It's an Ebay link, in the Ebay Links section. Stating a price is for the 'For Sale' section.

Just bought a bass floorpod from bythesea. Delivered as quick as the weather would allow and a good deal too! +1

Got a really nice Delta amp ata ridiculous price from Patch - he sorted out a cheap courier too! Good chap will buy from him again when funds allow.

Did an excellent swap on the M4. Good chap and sorted me out with a nice cab.

From the PRS AGM 2010 "And total PRS for Music revenue (that is combined figures for PRS and MCPS) reached £623million. This translated into £553m royalties paid out to our members." So that's operating costs of £70 million pounds a year, can't tell if that's a lot or not. :-)

[quote name='arthurhenry' post='1069974' date='Dec 27 2010, 10:41 AM']I have never illegally downloaded music and would be uncomfortable doing so, but what if you're downloading a song for your band to learn and play live potentially hundreds of times? In theory at least, the artists would still receive royalties via the PRS, so does that make it OK? The other aspect of this is; how exact a science is the distribution of royalties from live performance by cover bands. I've done a few gigs where the PRS have turned up (usually when the club owner says "just two half hour sets tonight lads, hush, hush") I think we may have given them a setlist, but what if we chuck in Pride O' the farm by Dixie Dregs? Do they recognise it and make sure Mr. Morse gets his money? Unlikely. What about snippets of 007 and superman theme that we sneak into a song?[/quote] I'm pretty sure that someone here will prove me wrong, but it seems to me that the PRS take much more money than they can give out. As the OP says, how do they know which songs are being played by cover bands? I've never been asked for a set list. At festivals, PRS take 3% of ticket sales and this is set to double to 6%! (http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jul/04/festivals-fear-royalties-hike-tickets) As a rough guide, from Glastonbury alone, that would be over £1million! For what? Glastonbury are paying all the acts that play there, every stall that does business at Glastonbury has to have a PRS licence. So the only thing this million quid is paying for is the music that's played on stage between the acts. Extrapolate that to include all the other festivals.........PRS are getting shedloads! As I said, I fully expect someone to come along and point out where I'm wrong :-) Ps. I do think the PRS do good work and are necessary, just that rather more goes in than than I can see coming out.

A Thunder II or III, both if they're not too outrageously priced!

I think I'm going to buy a load of [b][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230566344648&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123#ht_882wt_936"]Westones[/url][/b] and sell them in Germany...

That's the oddest topic title I've posted I think [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es2DxzDWMyM"]Link[/url] Must learn how to embed!

In this song I'm starting with 4th finger on C# on the E string but lordy it's hard on the hand! Anyone know this track and play it in a different position? Cheers! EDIT: That's Jingo - the band name rather than "By Jingo!"

[quote name='Rich' post='1032058' date='Nov 21 2010, 11:09 PM']Belting night at The Globe in Cardiff. Top quality skanking support from Tattsyrup, an excellent FOH sound from the house engineers, good crowd up and dancing from the 'g' of go, went mental for everything we played. Fresh strings on the Shuker, played through the full Genz+Nemesis rig, sounded utterly beautiful.[/quote] Was about to post about my gig last night when I saw this. I played in a Ska musical with Jenny, the sax player from Tattsyrup. It was the 4th show and the band are really getting it now, difficult dialogue cues and all. AND I get do some fight scenes! Ace. EDIT: [b]AND[/b] I get to do a 5 - 10 min improvised bass thing interacting with dialogue. [b]AND[/b][u][/u] I'm playing in a ska band! Thanks Santa!

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1057329' date='Dec 13 2010, 02:25 PM']How much??? Have to say I've been aghast, dumbfounded and in stitches over that particular Ebayer's spectacularly misinformed listings for a good few years now. I think he might well be that German fella's Scouser cousin. Jon.[/quote] Have you noticed him sell any though? Or do you think he puts the price up high to take the nearest offer?

[quote name='Hobbayne' post='1055251' date='Dec 11 2010, 06:43 PM']I remember reading somewhere when Sade first appeared that she was related to Michael Caine somewhere along. I think it was 1983 but I could be wrong. There was a big surge in bassists playing Stingrays back then, Pino's fretless on Whereever I Lay My hat, this fella on Smooth Operator and Mikey Craig from culture club all played one. Me? I had a Westone Thunder 1 [/quote] Thunder 1? - Good man! :- )

I like this [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Westone-Quantum-bass-X850-black-/330506572418?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4cf3ba1282#ht_500wt_951"][b]Westone[/b][/url] - little too pricey for me, people seem to be asking a lot for westones recently.

[quote name='risingson' post='1047007' date='Dec 4 2010, 01:03 AM']Sorry Mike, none of those clips are my thing at all, but each to their own. If I'm going to listen to slap bass I'd prefer to hear this. Sick tone that doesn't sound like every other player with an active preamp in their bass, memorable playing, tight and very musical. On the whole the kind of slap I like to see. Maybe I just don't buy into the showboating slap technique as much as some.[/quote] +1 A lot more musical, to my ears.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='1042848' date='Nov 30 2010, 08:04 PM']In the UK, but fretted. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WESTONE-THUNDER-3-BASS-1984-ACTIVE-WALNUT-/230557530716?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item35ae4cba5c"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WESTONE-THUNDER-3-BA...=item35ae4cba5c[/url][/quote] Nice! I never understand though why basses are "becoming rare and collectable"? Is someone burning a load of them?

Count me in please good sir!

SEXY [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Westone-Thunder-III-Bass-/140484052530?pt=Guitar&hash=item20b5808632#ht_686wt_936"]Thunder III[/url] I want I want I want!

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1040404' date='Nov 28 2010, 08:35 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/westone-concord-II-bass-guitar-loyal-blue-/250734317434?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3a60ee0f7a"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/westone-concord-II-b...=item3a60ee0f7a[/url] I know that the Westone Concord was made in Japan, but I struggle to believe that there really is a colour called Loyal Blue. Except in a Benny Hill sketch. [i]Why you no [u][b]rissen[/b][/u]?[/i][/quote] This was my first ever bass! Hated the colour and promptly did a respray job on it. Doesn't look too bad in retrospect.

Thunder 1A just went for £67! Couldn't buy as he wouldn't deliver! Arghhhhhhhhhh! Very weird - I put a bid on it the other day, and now the bass has disappeared from my watch lists and bid history - I s that because the seller has deleted it because it didn't go for enough???? EDIT: now found it through my sent messages [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230551990040&ssPageName=ADME:X:AAQ:GB:1123#ht_500wt_951"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...23#ht_500wt_951[/url]

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