BassTractor

Yup, though it might depend on the platform. In my laptop browser, I just go to the Feedback in Marketplace, and do a search for that someone's log-in name in the Search field in the top right. That has worked perfectly for me lately, without a need for specifying that the search must only be in thread titles. On my phone, in the Feedback, I have to click the magnifying glass (top right too) to get a search page, and on that page can specify to search in thread titles only. Dunno whether the latter bit is necessary, but it hardly hurts.

Bloody amateur! I bought a bloody white Van Halen bass from the off! 😁

This is what I would do: go one album forward and two albums backward at a time, and see where it ends. Now, I haven't listened to the albums today to check my impressions of them, but I think you can do worse than following this proposal. So first: - "Oranges & Lemons" for much of the same, and it's arguably a demn fine album in its own right - "Mummer" for a softer or mellower, maybe even slightly contemplative approach. If both are to your liking, you can then safely invest in "The Big Express" and start listening to: - "Nonsuch", which to me seems a bit like a more developed, less '60s Beat, continuation from "Oranges & Lemons" - either "Black Sea" or "Drums and Wires". Can't tell right now. What I can tell right now though is that D&W contains glorious and single-worthy, more poppy songs like "Making Plans for Nigel" and "Life Begins at the Hop" as well as the quite less poppy "Roads Girdle the Globe" and "Complicated Game". Whilst I love "Black Sea", it seems a bit less pronounced to me, and it has fewer Coiin Moulding songs, which normally complement Andy Partridge's ones. If you like "Nonsuch" muchly, then I think "Apple Venus" and "Wasp Star" are very safe, and I believe they are great. The ones I'd be most wary about from your experience are "White Music" and Go 2", as they are the earliest and most new wave ones. Now I love them, but I gather not everybody does. All IMHO of course, and from hazy memory.

IMHO, XTC are a fantastic band, and I'd expect you (with your Schubert and Magma sensitivities, a.o.) to to be more positive. 'That said, Roads Girdle the Globe', with its angularity and dissonance, may not be the best first song to hear - what do I know. How about a prettier song like 'The Loving' off 'Oranges & Lemons', which is a later album? or 'River of Orchids' off one of their last albums, 'Apple Venus Volume 1' ?

Aren't the stolen bits just the originals, then, run through some electronics? To which he mimics - sometimes badly? Must admit I haven't listened closely at all, but that was my initial impression.

In Holland they have or had a cultural heritage project in which they digitise(d) people's rare vinyl and up(ped) the quality through several processes and also through combining the best bits from different copies if available. You'd order a CD-R of a rare album, and would then receive their latest, best version. Methinks that if a tiny country can do it, so can a commonwealth.

Good, good. BTW, are you gonna keep a bass? For that noodle? (Me, I have only one bass right now, and am happy to have it available.)

Couldn't care less. Whether you play piano or bass, just make sure you keep the same telephone number, my friend. 😁

I found one yesterday that still seems to work - - a warning against him by Rockers Reunited: https://www.facebook.com/100057087835235/posts/dear-sir-madamsee-below-email-going-out-to-his-theatres-maybe-they-will-take-no-/1328868242359424/

Yeah, that seems fair too. Of course I'm aware that what went for me not necessarily goes for everybody else, and I don't want to make general laws out of my personal experiences, but I do still wish to show possible readers one of the different sides of the coin. In this, I thought my experiences could well resemble the experiences of similar niche shops. As to the offering of email as a method, indeed if it doesn't work for the shop, they shouldn't offer it. Also in this respect there is another side to the coin: if nearly everyone gets a good answer and a few do not, you can be sure that those few make a lot of noise about it. BTW, I've never blamed people for using email, and I'm sure neither do Bass Bros. As I said earlier: IME email has seen little in the way of revenue despite my quality answers. People talking with me, me analysing their needs and them "sittin' in that bote" has seen revenue. Me telling on BC that email is inefficient is not the same as my shop not offering it or me blaming people for using it. But yeah, after some years I did ask people to avoid it if possible.

Fair comment.

OK, I'll bite. So, I get up at 7AM and start my work for the day. It's gonna be a busy day, and, trying to cater for the customers' perceived (or preferably real) needs, I hardly have time for a coffee or lunch break, so my wife shoves food down my throat with a goose stick - at every opportunity. Customers even come from the extreme North of Norway to the extreme South where I live, specifically to talk with me and to try my boats. I sell hundreds of boats and do not have the capacity to sell even more, as that would detract from the level of quality that my customers wish for and that I think they need. After 7 or 8PM, the shop now closed, I'm having a few hours of administration. At 11PM, I start answering emails, and am not done before 2AM, after which I'll get five hours of sleep. Then, just as I'm to shut down the computer, an email arrives from someone who knows better, the email telling me for example that my website isn't good enough, to which I reply: "If my website had been any better, I could have sold even more kayaks, and that would mean less time spent with each individual customer. I don't wanna do that." That same email could also have been about my lacking email response. IOW: please do not curtly say that "ignoring your clientele is not a sensible way to do business". It's not certain that you're a better judge on this than the shop is. As I said: IME and IMHO, email is the least sensible way of communicating. It's detrimental to the customers' interests, whatever those customers might believe (of course depending on the nature of the emails).

Allow me to once again look at the email thing from the shop's side: IME as a former shop owner (mainly high-end sea kayaks), email is the least efficient way of really helping customers and also the least efficient way of surviving as a shop. Of course, there's a huge difference between the email: - "Could I visit the store on Sunday when it's officially closed? " and the email (of which I've had more than enough) : - "Your kayak "Greenlander" vs. competitor's kayak "Transporter". Discuss. " There are many aspects to this, but among those: - It starts with half-interested customers firing short emails at several shops at a time, demanding lengthy answers. - It's incredibly time consuming to answer well, especially when you do not know the customer in question, and do not know their aims or their needs. - Even when you decide to answer well, there's no impressive revenue as a result. Revenue comes from people phoning in and especially from people actually visiting the shop and trying out the kayaks that might fit. I could go on and on. A quick, live, exchange of thoughts, the shop asking the right questions and responding well to the answers (and in my case: seeing the customer on the water) helps the customer best and at the same time helps keep the shop afloat. My website specifically asked people to avoid email because of its inefficiency.

Aye, and to help us elderly, they should from now on be called Cardi G. This here is Cardi A, and who knows: there might even be more of these.

... and here's the third. Glorious once more, and (again) it reminds me of Stereolab and also a bit of The Free Design.

Here's the first single from LSD. Glorious!

Thanks for posting this, @steve-bbb. I had no lsdea whatsoever that they were being active. Whilst sounding very nice, Woodeneye, to me, is far from the most innersting song they've made. Still: what a treat with those rows of chords, and what a promise. I'm sure to purchase LSD on CD.

Hehehe. I fondly remember how I played for funerals and weddings on the same day - playing the same pieces twice: in minor and slow at the funeral, and of course in major and up-tempo at the wedding. 😀

Could that be Isaiah Brown by any chance? In a YT vid, he plays a lefty Sire Marcus Miller M5.

To really, really, really ruin the band's name: Ye

I've just looked it up, and indeed his 2020 conviction was suspended with a two-year time frame. This guy has been at it for more than 35 years, spent six months in prison in '89, and already in 2020 had roughly ten convictions - maybe more in the mean time. He's not gonna stop.

Aye, "within the time frame". I'd be surprised if our man Mick's suspended sentence, from years back, hasn't passed its Sell-By date. One can only hope the prosecutor knows their stuff, and can draw the complete picture for the judge.

My sister and I both had similar experiences: You don't wanna shove these people right into the arms of the other racists, homophobes etc, and you try to talk to them. Then you don't make this a full-time job, and you see that nothing happens. Then you give up and walk away. My sister stopped giving work to such a person; I stopped having contact with such a neighbour. The latter lost about eight friends in just two years. 😱 I see the user manuals online that teach you how to deal with these people, and it's always about keeping the communication open and about asking them questions and about letting them talk until they understand something isn't quite right in what they say. I've not seen that happen, and do feel I've not tried hard enough. That said, when I worked in child protection services, we saw the sweetest boy in town being shaped by a politically extreme group, and we did manage to get him out of there. Sometimes your work comes with a positive achievement.

Dunno how much the Hohners differ, but in the case of my B2B, I found that the length of the strap was essential - and the B2B has been the only bass I've had that was that particular about it. With that bit out of the way, however, the B2B worked perfectly for my body. Of course different bodies have different measurements, angles etc. I'm guessing maybe the L2 likewise is particular. As to sitting, I missed that Steinberger fold-out thingie, but even better solutions should be easy fixes.