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Just sold Ziggy some strings. Great communication, very fast payment, a pleasure to deal with. Thanks!

[quote name='TomRichards' timestamp='1378910057' post='2206380'] Try contacting Mark Stickley at Bass Direct. I am not sure if he has any, but he can probably get access as the sales team at NS Design still has some ties to Spector. (Interesting story for another time.) These basses are a perfect blend between NS Design headless innovations and the Kubicki style string in the headstock. They look great, and play well. They are especially well suited to fingerstyle players as the piezo system in these is superior. [/quote] Thanks for that - I'lll give him a call.

If (a big 'if', admittedly) the US list prices are anything to go by, it should be around £1700 over here, maybe less as it's made in the Czech Republic. House Music are listed as a distributer, but I've had no response from them so far. Are they still in business?

Anyone seen on in the UK yet, or tried one out? Looks interesting...

[quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1378758209' post='2204422'] Pino has always been my favourite player. And, unfashionable as it may be, it's his fretless playing that I love. Now, his playing alone (on Call Me, Shoot Down The Moon, NY Minute, Playhouse, Wish It Would Rain Down, Do You Remember etc etc) makes my jaw go slack. But what makes my jaw actually hang open is when I consider that, without formal theory training and whatnot, he had the maturity, at the tender age of 26, after playing bass for only 9 years, to engineer classical Stravinsky ideas into a pop song - Wherever I lay My Hat. It takes a particular type of artistic mind to do that. Whoever reckoned there are thousands like Pino Palladino - I think not. CB [/quote] Seconded.

Yorkshire blancmange? Is it strawberry or chocolate??

It's pretty much impossible to avoid all string noise, but it probably has more to do with your chosen eq settings/bass/pickups. Try rolling off some of the high mids.

I bought Mike's pedal in April, but as it turned out I didn't use it much. As luck would have it, Mike really missed it, so he bought it back off me again! A great guy to deal with, buy/sell/trade with complete confidence.

A wonderfully original, inventive, expressive bass player. The live version of 'Mr Big' is number 1 on my list of best bass solos of all time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c918A5OzRqM Quite understated playing here, but somehow always holding your attention, in spite of the camera focussing mostly on the gorgeous Ms. Paris...

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1372980378' post='2132555'] Utter bollocks. [/quote][quote name='Conan' timestamp='1373009267' post='2132644'] That's bordering on trolling man. Where is your evidence for this assertion? [/quote] [size=4]As Christopher Hitchins once said, "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." The robust language is simply proof of his belief in his [/size]position.

[quote name='fatback' timestamp='1372940129' post='2131857'] Jump-up-and-down-with-your-friends is a great term for a particular kind of folky thing that always does well. You might say it's a vacancy in folky music that's always there for the taking. What the pogues did really. [/quote] Bloody hell - we've only gone and discovered a new genre... JUADWYF. A bit like NWOBHM, but with less spandex.