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Good for playing 'Sex on Fire'?

Aldi or Lidl have one this week or next

and the Markbass logo on the pickups is not on the full size photos either...

I played a wedding gig once where the waiting staff were opera- type singers incognito and the whole premise was to make them appear if they were just regular guys/girls and they suddenly started singing (after the meal had been served). It was quite effective and went on for about 30 minutes: they did all the old hits like Nesum Dorma......

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit on Tiny Desk gets a play from me most weeks

Just worked out the 'CBA' being used in some the posts in this thread is not a chord sequence...

TMI......headstock chipped -cymbal

My first bass was a Gibson EB2 which was the same instrument. Got it in 1974 for £50! I remember inside it had a 'made in kalamazoo' sticker was made in 62 or 64 and the Epiphones were made there too. Incidentally I was told the body was exactly the same size as the 335 guitar equivalent. It came with flats and I struggled to get a decent sound from it as I knew nothing about Basses or backline then. My rig was a Truevoice (Selmer T&B) 50 watt valve amp and a homemade 1x15 cabinet the size of a small house....

Here's my list for the next Open Mic in early February: Instrumental - Ghost riders in the Sky - Duane Eddy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMz8XRGxZdY The Way it is - Nicole Atkins - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NVsPM87eI Me and Bobby McGee - Pink - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwmUMvhy-lY Fall At Your Feet - Boy And Bear - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-1vQ7sf7VE Chaos and Clothes - Jason Isbell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkCI19vfVIc Johnny Got A Boom Boom - Imelda may - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhogVvwbwkw Touch Feel Lose - Ryan Adams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CRs-4CEcZg Always Remember us This Way - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vheNbQlsyU Most are a key change apart from Mr Eddy

I've experienced a similar feeling when a band who asked me to audition for sent me their setlist and my heart sunk. I got back to them and said 'really its not for me' and they said 'well come along anyway and see if you like us' I did and they were nice guys but the material was not inspiring enough for me to join them however.

FWIW the Jeff Berlin signature combo does not have a tweeter.

Here's my Buttercream Player, born earlier this year.

There will be a Tutorial on YouTube, should you wish to view it..!

Traded cases ( not places) with Pawel. Excellent comms. and I've never seen a hard case so well packed! Buy/sell/trade with Pawel with utter confidence!☺️

Is that by So Solid Crew?

There is a story to the BS template post, a search may reveal it...!

I'd love to see the shape of the gig bag it is supplied with......😏

I hear Flock of Seagulls got plopped on...

Not true, I painstakingly researched this by tracking down members of Gilbert Grigg's family and interviewing them in person. Actually taken from the Wharfedale website.

Don't want to rain on your parade but Rocco did not Tour with them earlier this year....

Lots of brotherly love on display (I only caught the ending)

Gilbert Briggs built his very first loudspeaker in the cellar of his home in Ilkley, Yorkshire. This sleepy little market town was located in the valley of the river “Wharfe” - an area known to this day as ‘Wharfedale’. This unlikely location would see the birth of a brand that was to become recognized all over the world, synonymous with quality in high-fidelity reproduction. Gilbert Briggs is still much admired and respected throughout the world for his pioneering work in hi-fi reproduction and his endless pursuit of better sound quality – driven by his love of live music. Gilbert setup a small factory near Bradford to build his new loudspeaker drive units. Radio was an exciting technology and word of the new transducers had spread quickly around the area. Demand was growing quickly. Initially, the true spirit of the cottage industry, his wife, Doris Edna Briggs was the production department, spending many late nights soldering wires and winding coils. In the same year, he entered the Bradford Radio Society’s annual competition and won first and second place, earning the company their first major order. From this point, the Wharfedale Wireless Works never looked back, going from strength to strength, producing up to 9000 units per year until the outbreak of World War II. Gilbert’s company had outgrown their small premises and moved to a larger factory, again in Bradford. When the war came, the factory continued. During the second half of the war, the Wharfedale Wireless Works were commissioned to make transformers for Marconi. Some 40,000 units were completed by an expert team of just 20 staff before the war finally came to an end. Gilbert embarked on an ambitious collaboration with a close friend and colleague, Quad’s ‘Peter Walker’. With Quad supplying the amplification and Wharfedale building the loudspeaker systems, they embarked on what was to become an industry-defining series of concerts wherein audiences were invited to experience live versus recorded music first hand. Touring UK and the USA and playing at venues as auspicious as the Royal Festival Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York. Wharfedale Wireless Works was sold to the Rank Organisation, a controversial move at the time, but one which led to rapid development and expansion of the brand into areas such as electronics. Gilbert Briggs, then 68 years old, continued to manage the day-to-day running of the company until his well-earned retirement in 1965. Demand for Wharfedale products continued to grow at an ever increasing speed and the existing factory in Bradford Road was limiting growth. In 1967, a decision was made to develop a new, more efficient factory on a green field site in Highfield Road, Bradford, just over a mile away. The factory took some seven year to complete. When finished, it comprised over 170,000 sq. ft. of production with additional office space and large scale research and development facilities

Wharedale used to manufacture in and around Bradford in the 70's and 80's, I remember factories in Idle and a TV? one in Shipley. Not sure if they went bust and the brand name was bought and or just transfered all production to China some years ago.

Looks like upgraded CTS pots, push back wiring and solderless connectors (standard squiers use soldered alpha minis) and as someone said earlier it's a 2009.