Woodinblack

That is the advantage of keeping the numbers down, same with rickenbacker. There will always be a market for it. If you build more, it would be easy enough to run out of market and the price plumets. Bearing in mind the market for 'non fender like basses' is reasonably small compared to the total market, it makes sense to stay well within it.

I have that too - was discussing it with a friend that went to download. The idea of going to a festival is always better than the practicallity of going for me, some with most gigs, I have a low attention threshold. I have no idea how anyone wants to see a band play for more than an hour (our sets are about 3 hours - no idea why people stay, luckily they aren't like me!) He probably couldn't remember.

Yes, it is about 5 times too long!

Same here - the 4 headstock puts me off for the same reason as the Ric headstock above, when the middle strings veer off after the bridge (same as gibson les paul headstocks) - I like the string to visually continue straight.

Happens to us all

Indeed - I think it was a later thing when BBC started to broadcast the music that the music was the main thing that people went for. It wasn't, and I doubt it is now. when I was young I went to see the sights, hang out with my friends in a field, with food, comedy tents, art tents, lots of other fringe music and events that were spontanously made by other groups of people who were there, not organised. On top of that, if you had any time or felt like it, you could wander down to the main stage and see what was playing. Now it is huge, I would imagine it is moreso like that. It was completely different to reading or donington or something like that where you went to listen to the music, or stonehenge where you went to see the hippies get stoned and the bikers get into big fights with each other.

I went 3 years in a row in the 80s. I have no idea who was playing.

Genuinely never played with anyone who played better when they were drunk, and I play with quite a few people who drink. I have however played with many people who said they played better when they were drunk, I guess that is down to their perception! Our drummer drinks enough to limit the length of any set we can do to the size of his bladder, which is about 1:15!

is it definately the original?

Although it is not one of my favourites, I love that they have that massive pickup right by the neck and a tiny pickup 3mm from the bridge, like, we have these pickups, lets just put them somewhere!

did they solve that? I was interested in one at one point before I got an older euro on here and that was sort of a concern

No problem, I had a gig last night in Weymouth anyway. gig went ok, except when the second half started I realised the camera wasn't on and went over to turn it on, but the bass was feeding back because of the backbeat so I muted it. got back and started the next song and the sound was really down, checked leads and everything. Suddenly remembered I had just turned the volume on the bass down! really good gig, they loved us but shame there wasn't too many people. one guy came up half time as he wanted to know how the strings on the EHB attached!

I hated how rushed we were at home farm (not this year, on a previous occasion). Still, glad it went well, I know quite a few people performing there. Probably should too as it is within walking distance from here, but too expensive for me!

Yep, learned that. Got a guitarist for a soul group, he wanted to do rolling stones songs.

Gareths sales posts were closed when he left I believe. But the answer is 10lb 3ozs!

It looks very similar to my ibanez SR1000 with a through neck, even down to the colour

There wouldn't be an increase as they have more costs but have more sales. If anything, there would be a reduction based on shared useage and higher discounts on materials.

People are the same in all walks of life, because people are people. Some people have a large amount of their self image tied to brands or objects. And I guess at some level, it isn't a binary, we are probably all guilty of it to some extent, but in some it really is excessive. The further up the chain you go, the more excessive it gets. I mean if everyone is playing squiers, who cares if you come in with a squier. Unless of course you come in with a Kay - screw that guy

New moon here

Thats odd, I don't see anything in the logs, I like those things that go away before I get a chance to see them!

Yes, the spector is active into active. The benifits are that you get the sound of the pickups you like with the sound of the pre-amp you like, no more than that. It has to be said that although the spector is new, the amount it cuts through, especially on the high end is quite striking. I don't know what this benefit is down to, but it is certainly noticeable.

I don't tinker with the iPad for lyrics, I have a bluetooth footpedal. Generally I don't tend to use it much for lyrics, it does the sound. it used to do all the sound, but now I also use an X-Touch controller, so just for the initial setup, and it also runs a synth for footpedals.

Where would be their motivation to produce more instruments for less money? That really doesn't seem like a wise move. There are a lot of British luthiers out there making cheaper basses faster, go for one of those.