Woodinblack

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.

I use a smooth hound normally, but it seems to have gone missing, so I am using my cheap chinese 5GHz dongles at the moment. They fit but awkwardly, although it isn't an issue for me as I run a short cable from the bass to the backbeat which has the wireless on it. Before the backbeat I ran a short cable to an adapter which my wireless plugged into. I don't really like having them hanging out of the bass..

don't think that they have made an iPad app that could take as much time as our guitarist tuning between every song. Not like it is ever in tune anyway. I don't understand how anyone can take so long!

Its still due in the next few weeks according to all the emails since January!

I don't know what happened as I haven't seen any of that stuff, but I know some quite big name artist have a big screen just on the floor below them. I remember watching Dolly Parton at glastonbury and as the screen panned round her lyrics were there. If it was good enough for dolly its good enough for me.

Love the red leds!

I guess management books aren't very self aware Why? I wouldn't dream of gigging without an iPad,. I have a microphone stand there anyway, so it doesn't make any difference.

I prefer a neck through or set neck, but honestly it is not something that would make much of a pull either way. So for a given bass available as a neck through and a bolt on, I would go for the former, but that is not something that generally happens.

If you can get a VR09 for £300, jump on it, I have wanted one for years. Its organs are brilliant and the others are also pretty useable.

Oh I didn't realise he was on the Isle of White, in which case he is probably the local english language expert i

Needs the money to buy some punctuation?

Maybe it is worth giving it a bit of a skip for a while to relieve the pressure, bring it back once it has lost a bit of significance?

So what you are saying is it could be likely as the Guns part was related to someone who wasn't in the band when they made it big, like if axl had been replaced by someone good?

They would have been guns and roses with someone else, as you would have never known them any different. Maybe they would be better, I doubt they would be worse and maybe they would have got nowhere, but they would have been guns and roses. Same here, best thing for me that ever happened to genesis was PG leaving, I think they were both better afterwards.

If those people had fronted Guns and Roses, yes, that would have been bad. But they were fine in their own bands. I mean, I am not a fan of the pogues or PiL, but all of those they matched the singer with the band. Guns and roses didn't.

That was always far better, see what you could do with a good singer!

For me the worst offender is the intro to the album, welcome to the jungle, it really builds up like it is going to be a flat out rock tune, then it takes a pause, and then what sounds like a character from the simpsons starts singing, and brings the energy of the track right down.

phi's voice is like nails on a blackboard, so whiney. I have seen them twice as friends like them, obviously he/they are way worse in real life but even on the record without him they could have sounded great

which would have been a reasonable album if only they got a decent singer

I thought most were made in china apart from the CTM tube ones - maybe that is why it is more expensive?

Well, yes, but I have also never paid an RRP for an amp, so I don't think the price is as important. If you look at the list price of all the amps they are quite a lot, and luckily enough there are enough forums telling people how terrible Class D amps are to keep them in business!

I dont' think it needs an upgrade does it. you use your amp until something happens where you need another one, but if you were looking for a new thing, there is the new thing. There are still plenty of 3s and 2s around.

I have often thought of drilling a hole in the front for a tuner, its something I have had on most amps I have in the last decade.

In the last 2 years, I guess since just before the pandemic, prices on vintage or desirable instruments have rocketed up. I agree overall they haven't gone up much more than inflation but something has changed again. No the amount of disposable income has plummeted among the younger demographic, but it is not them that are buying vintage fenders, it is much older people who are doing it, and that disposable income has increased. Young are doing what they always were. They are buying 5-10 year old basses like they always have, just that a 10 year old bass is now 2010, whereas a 10 year old bass when I started playing was a 68-70s. When I first started playing the one thing everyone would say is not to buy and old fender (ie, 70s) because they were terrible. They weren't, some were ok, some were bad some were great. At the moment and over the pandemic, a lot of people have got a lot better off, although the overal amount of money people earn hasn't moved at all, the top has really accelerated away from the bottom, the gap between the top 10% and the bottom 10% grew a lot.