Woodinblack

Well, to me not so, I thought his bass was a different colour. I just recognised him by the trousers. Some people you need a clue. I recognised Jamerson by the finger. Probably Jacos bass is quite distinctive Seems they missed a few tricks though as some of the other options they give you you could actually recognise by the bass, such as Les Claypool, Chris Squire, Nikki Sixx, etc.

I would say that thundercats bass is actually fairly distinctive.

Aint no mountain high enough - just because I got it in my head Peg - because I had to learn Josie for my new band and that is the track that always plays after it.

Yeh, that would rule us out too, we are a band to dance and sing to, without that what is the point? Hmm.. maybe time to start a new prog band..

I got 14, but I had never heard of the woman with the thunderbird.

I don't even see that hahah From my point of view all I see is the scratch on the back and a bit of stuff on the neck. I will say in a positive vein that it has one of the nicest necks, its like clouds. I would like something with a neck like that. Well, not a 4 string P neck but that finish!

Seems you really can!

3 transistors, 5 capacitors, 5 resistors, 2 pots, a battery and a metal case - £500 - srsly??

People who pay that for a fivers worth of componants in a metal box probably do deserve it

Exactly how I use mine, I have 3 boards, 2 for my main group and one for my other group. Mostly it is 1, but there are 2 songs that use the second board.

half price. But ebay often has a £1 weekend, so I just list things when that is on.

Problem is that whole area is being gentrified really so you don't want downmarket things like musical instruments there where you can have big branches of fashion stores.

Yeh, when we were kids (ie, late teens, early 20s) we used to go up to london and look at all the amazing shops and spend hours in the music / record shops. It hasn't been like that for a while. Last time we went up we wondered really why we were there, it is just basically just more of the same that you can get in any town. For me there is still wunjos, but hardly worth the trip to london considering the time it takes to get clean when you get back!

I read back objectively and don't see it, but it doesn't matter. I think the OP is getting his issue sorted and I hope he can put it behind him and it won't affect his love of the bass. I love my maruszczyk, its one of my favourites (and my wifes favourite colour), but the QC issues I had with it still soured it a little.

This. This would get an immediate F* right off, I paid 2k for this instrument, you can shove it with that attitude.

In which case, as I have argued before, he should get someone else to do the public face then, as I have spent £2000 on custom instruments and had no idea of this as an issue and it wouldnt have occured to me to look into it. There is a difference between thinking 'I want nitro' because I like the way it ages and softens over time to, I want nitro and I am going to do research into the effects and drawback of a particular finish to the level required to do it myself. I have two nitro guitars, neither of them have cracks. But then frankly, if nitro is this bad, how come old time manufacturers like gibson ever managed to sell guitars before the internet? You walk into the store, there are 10 les pauls, I will have the new one with the crack please. There are - neither in this case are with the purchaser. And clearly in this case, you also believe that for every option that someone takes, they should have spent an hour on the internet researching the positives and negatives of the options. If you are the sort of person who does that research then yes, maybe that would seem obvious. If you have time looking into those issues, maybe that would be obvious. Some people buy something because they like the look of it. Can you belive if you go into the electric car thread, there is absolutely no discussion about the chemical composition of the batteries of the electric cars and people are spending 10 times the amount on that? idiots eh? I bet that would be obvious to someone manufacturing them. Yes, so andertons actually put some info on the web about it even though they don't manufacture it. However I think the phrase " Apart from the above, small cracks can appear in a nitro finish after several years too " implies that will be there from day one. Sorry, but you really are saying you must do this research before buying it and its your fault if you don't find info on it.

Pah, you dream of playing the Nempnett Thrubwell circuit, following the greats like Acker Bilk

I am not sure why should the purchaser have a concept of nitro finishes cracking on purchase? I didn't know this. The nitro finish is an option on the configurator, if you select it it doesn't appear to inform you that selecting that type of finish can produce cracks and blemishes from new, which obviously if that is the case it should. Or when you check out it should say 'note you have selected a nitro-celulous finish, this type of finish can arrive with cracks or imperfections' No, you *shouldn't* complain that John Lewis are awful, but they are responsible for getting it to you, so if it arrives broken that is their fault not yours, they didn't select the courier. If you did complain that they were awful, they would still replace it for you in a friendly and professional manner because that is the job of a supplier. As the husband of someone who runs and online business I have lost count of the number of abusive, downright rude, or passive agressive messages that get sent. Some people aren't nice, but you still need to reply politely, because that is customer service and that will get you far further than having a go.

Maybe playing every fortnight is just too much and it has become too job like? Also I presume some places are better than others. Why not reduce the level of gigging and pick and choose the places you want to play, rather than doing the ones that are bad?

Thats what I was thinking, when that came out everyone went out and got one. Then there was a rash of selling them, however most people still sold them for quite a bit, and as it was just before Br*xit, shortly afterwards people were selling them for quite a bit more. Still waiting for them to get down to geddy lee jazz prices, although that has been going up too.

Although obviously some things get repeated in time, and you often miss something in the many pages a thread runs, but that was litterally the original post

Just to be the one to ask the really dumb questions but.. why does the tone knob being stuck on stop you getting to the wiring? The tone pot is bolted to the scratchplate(*) so when you undo the screws holding the scratchplate to the bass, you can just turn the scratchplate over and there is the wiring. You don't need to take either pot off. Or am I missing something? * official BC determined term

There is a difference. Playing is ok, but can't wait until it is safe to get back to gigging.

True, I always thought the title of their song "Killed by death" was inspired.