Clarky

maybe its not the cost but the bureaucracy and paperwork? in any case, Francis Deck has made his design openly available for people to copy. Perhaps Orchid/A.N.Other are missing a trick here?

fdeck don't have a CE mark (or whatever the European official designation is for a tested instrument) and its proprietor Francis Deck can't afford to spend the money to get one. As a consequence he sells to the US market only. Hence you need a middle-man to get one outside the US

A big thank you from me too - Gareth (walbassist) had a trial of my Fender A/E fretless and it developed an electrical problem. Dave re-soldered and tidied up all the electrics, all at no charge as we were both BC'ers. What an absolute gent and a star!

In case anyone interested, Vicente Amigo is playing at UNion Chapel, Islington on 24th September. He will be playing his flamenco/celtic fusion project Tierra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06o459Z59zE

takes 2-3 weeks as Francis Deck is a one-man band who has to send his pedal to caeman first, who will then send on by the always-slow US postal service. But a very useful preamp and - as I mentioned - caeman is a friendly guy. I f you can't get hold of him I believe bassace (Roger) got his via Talkbass' drurb as middle man (his real name is Les and he seems to be one of the more senior/respected DB players there)

To add on the Heritage, they do a pretty fair imitation of gut, considering they are steels. Witness the amazing Phil Palombi playing the reconstructed bass of the late great Scott LaFaro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fqQ9dCk9oU

It's a guy called caeman http://www.talkbass.com/forum/member.php?u=126759 very friendly, you PayPal, he orders and posts on

Statistically speaking it must have been one of Milty's posts

haha the manageress (Laura) is the singer in my band. Its where we recorded our retro video, Aura Negra. Small but good vibe

Kev bought a set of Velvet double bass strings off me. Friendly comms, fast payment, all good. Cheers!

Keith and I continued our BC pass-the-parcel (of double bass strings) game. Ever the gent, our Keith

[quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1371677795' post='2116979'] That is a wicked tune mate! Right up my street - even Mrs.'tone liked it. She said ,"Ooo that's good, who's that?" I told her and she said,"That's much nicer than that other rubbish you've been listening too!" Needless to say the Brand X hasn't been going down too well! Cracking tone there Clarky, really smooth. What strings are you using? [/quote]cheers for that! The strings are Rotosound Tru Bass, the big fat black nylon strings as used by Herbie Flowers, Jah Wobble and Macca

and finally, errr, here's me playng a fretless P [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4PAaY7XU4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4PAaY7XU4[/url]

Bad Company's Boz Burrell also extensively used a fretless P [attachment=137232:boz.jpg]

Erm, BC's very own wateroftyne? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdDipy8MB0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdDipy8MB0[/url]

Haven't played there for a few years but the Underworld in Camden certainly used to be a focal point for the heavy rock/metal/thrash scene Also could try The Purple Turtle in Camden?