BigRedX

You would hope so if it was a one-off custom build.

What do you want it for?

Some people don't spend all their time buying and selling on eBay. Also IME people don't seem to bother quite so much with feedback for private sales these days as they did in the past. I only joined eBay because I'd seen something I wanted to buy and it wasn't available elsewhere. After that I didn't buy anything else for almost a year. I didn't start selling for another 3 or 4 years after that, and I don't think I've bought or sold anything on eBay for at least a year now. If I wanted to pull a scam I'd sign up and build myself a decent history (and feedback score) buying small cheap items from commercial sellers first.

It's a jazz bass copy being played by a badly dressed bloke with a beard. It doesn't got much less interesting than that.

Have they got lots of negative or neutral feedback, or just not bought or sold many items? How long have they been an eBay member? Everyone has to start somewhere.

In almost 40 years of gigging (around 1000 gigs) I have had catastrophic equipment failures on just 3 occasions. I've probably had another 10 instances where equipment has played up at the gig but behaved perfectly fine once back at home and at the next rehearsal or gig. IME the vast majority of equipment failures I see at gigs for is for old gear that has been inadequately maintained/looked after.

A "Rick" for someone who really wants a Fender Jazz...

For me the actual music comes first and the musicians who play it it a long way down the order certainly behind the songwriting/composition, production and image. I don't care how "good" a musician you are if I don't like the music that you play, you are IMO using your powers for evil and consequently of no interest to me.

I have got to agree. The one Hohner guitar I have owned also isn't on there - TE Custom XII. Although there is a TE Custom XII listed it's the black version which is simply a 12 string neck on the standard TE telecaster shape in black. Mine was a Jaguar/Jazzmaster shape with 3 lipstick pickups and in a castle green/blue colour. The only other one the same I have seen was owned by Captain Sensible.

Surely all the good Joe Walsh material was written and recorded before he joined The Eagles?

IME somewhere between 10 and 25% of people who say they will "attend" on Facebook actually show up at the gig. However it works the other way too. If you sell advance tickets on-line for a gig, 10-25% of those who buy tickets won't be there, but you'll still get paid for the sales.

As I suspected. IMO Mojave is still far too new for anything other than beta testers and early adaptors with no "mission critical" requirements for their computer. I have never understood the need to update at the first opportunity especially something like the OS. My advice is always to wait until the .4 update by which time Apple will have eliminated the worst bugs in the OS and software writers will have had time to come up with workable updates to their applications and drivers. I never update the OS on any of my Macs unless I need to run a newer version of a program that requires a newer version of the OS, and even then I'll only update to the oldest stable version of the OS that supports the newer program. HTH.

True. Unfortunately that's not a good bit of 70s rock. I'd have disliked them as much in the 70s as I do now.

Who actually watches music channels? When I first heard about MTV I thought it was a fantastic idea and couldn't wait to get it myself. When I finally did through cable in the late 90s the whole experience was completely underwhelming.

Tedious 70s influenced rock of the worst kind.

I would suggest that your update to Mojave might be the culprit, as the drivers may no longer be compatible. Has the interface worked at all since the update? Unless you absolutely require the capabilities of Mojave for something else I suggest that you go back to your previous version of Mac OS.

Did the band have any merch to sell at these gigs?

No it won't. It will filter out some of the "noise" elements in the supply and do its best to smooth out any fluctuations in voltage. However all the commonly sold power conditioners for musical equipment are designed to overcome problems in countries like the US where the overall standard of the mains supplies is rather poor compared with what we are are used to here in the UK. In fact in the UK if you are having mains supply problems they are nearly always more serious than a standard power conditioner can cope with, and in these instances only a well specified UPS will do. The UPS will completely isolate your equipment from the standard mains supply and uses batteries to compensate for fluctuations and blackouts in the supply. You specify them using the current draw of all your connected equipment and the length of time they need to provide power in the case of a complete mains supply failure. Because they contain both isolating transformers and batteries they are big and heavy. I suspect that following the electrical work at the venue the "stage" power is inadvertently sharing it's supply with something that requires a large startup current and when this comes on it is causing fluctuations in voltage and current to the rest of the devices on the same circuit. It might be possible to find another set of sockets in the venue to power your equipment off that are not on the same circuit as whatever is causing the problems.

It's not uncommon for foreign bands to come to the UK and play to minuscule audiences, I've been some of these audiences. The Terrortones were even the support band on one of those tours. We landed a support with German Rockabilly band Boppin' B. In their home country they are pretty well known - my more musically-inclined German relatives had all heard of them and were impressed that we had got the gigs. The reality was that apart form the final date of the tour at The Underworld in Camden where The Meteors were also on the bill and had consequently sold out, we spent a week travelling up and down the country playing to tiny audiences most of whom had come specifically to see us. For some reason that didn't make the front page of the Gruaniad.

Well then they're stupid and they'll die (or go out of business).

But is it actually a con if no-one has lost any money other than the band and the centre of all of this? IME venues will want enough money up front to cover their costs. Maybe they could have let the night go to a band that would have actually brought in some punters and made more money, but they shouldn't have actually made a loss putting Threatin on. Also AFAICS the support bands don't appear to have done a lot of promotion if they are playing to near empty venues as well. If it had been one of my bands we'd have promoted the flip out of this gig and got a decent sized audience even if they had all left after we'd finished playing. I don't think this affair reflects well on any of the other "players" either.

That will count as a new song. Are your band or the songwriters involved from the other band PRS/MCPS members?

I think there is more to this story than is being reported. Anyone other than Threatin who is out of pocket as a result of this, then it's down to them not doing their due diligence and they have IMO no-one but themselves to blame. I have a feeling it will come out as some sort of "stunt" to show how easily it is to manipulate things via social media, which is why the rest of the tour has been cancelled. No doubt all will be revealed at some point in the future.

IIRC, if the "original" has not been released then you can't release a cover of it. However... does your new version with lyrics have the same name as the instrumental, and are the two compositions easily recognisable as being the same piece of music? If the answer to either of these is no then there will be a case for counting your version as a new composition, and so long as you also include the people from the other band who wrote the original version as songwriters you can register the this piece as a new composition with the PRS under one of your writer members accounts and then technically no licence will be required.

I bought my first 5-string bass back in 1989, and apart from a couple of years when I was playing fretless and hand't yet been able to find a suitably good fretless 5-string I've stuck with 5-string basses. I really can't see the point of going back to 4-string. There's nothing I could do on one that can't do just as easily on a five string. Having said that I've recently started playing Bass VI in one of my bands, but I don't really have any problem switching between the two because I'm playing completely different songs on the different types of basses. Being also a Guitar, mandolin and balalaika player helps as its the actual notes and not the string/fret position that is important.