Woodinblack

Because everyone knows bass players only play fender shaped basses.

That would depend entirely on what note you are playing, your type of strings and how you played the note.

I have bought from Poland, Holland and the US, back when the exchange rate was better. Never had an issue. Probably not worth it now unless it's something you can't get elsewhere

I think my original 5p pickup was delano, before I changed it.

Obviously this depends on what you were used to. I would call 16.5 normal string spacing and 20mm extra wide, unless you are embedded in the fender world, where these sort of widths would be more common.

Mine doesn't - its one of those ones with an orange LED for additional heft.

I have a nordstrand P5 on my Maruszczyk and it seems to cut through fine.

Oh yes they do!!

Just to ruin that, preamp valves usually do glow!

That's unfair, some rickenbackers sound ok!

Nope but I have two devices that do it on my bench at the moment!

No - but the valves in the OP aren't power valves, they are preamp valves.

I phoned andertons about it, he said, oh yes, its a namm product, that generally stands for 'not available, maybe march?' Turns out they are now showing availability in march!

I ordered one of the mustang squiers that were announced last year, but then after a few months cancelled my order, just as well, they are still not out!

Looks great. One thing for sure, I will never have a room as tidy as that!

Orange leds are common, I have a Vox effects pedal with a valve and an orange led under it. It has nothing to do with how much power it is using, the heater of a valve works about 6v. Valves can be run without the heater, (cold plate), which is I assume what is done here. But as every fool knows, a valve that doesn't have an visible orange glow doesn't sound anywhere near as good!

We play that sometimes, our guitarist normally puts an extra 1 or 2 bars in the intro, makes it very difficult to work out where to come in, so I leave it to the drummer to interpret how he wants and come in with him.

Is there no 'not buying a rickenbacker' emoji?

I don't play that (I used to do pump it up by elvis costello, which is a good bass line), but if I did it I wouldn't tend to use the open strings. No idea why, I just don't do it much, so I tend to be more round the 5th-8th rather than 0-3rd.

Most of mine have 24. I am happy with that, don't need any more.

I have had an HB (jazz) and it was great apart from the weight. It had some cheap parts as you would expect but it really was above its price level in playability. I am one of those people who has had many 5s (mostly 5s) and never really noticed a huge difference between cheap ones and expensive ones. My favourite 5 string is a sub £1k bass.

Yes, i guess there are differences, and I am sure there are some that have an attention span that long, I guess I am from a later generation Can't really say about the grateful dead, I couldn't name one of their songs and I have seen several groups that have done 3 hours+ - Jethro tull springs to mind as quite long, I guess hawkwind might have been too, but I doubt I was in a state of mind able to perceive time during their gigs (doubt they were either). Don't get me wrong, we have people who watch our entire sets, in fact at one gig a few weeks back there was a woman who started dancing at our first song and carried on until we finished. I just don't understand it!

I am not suprirsed. I am always saying to the group that I don't think that doing 3 hour / longer sets are a positive. People don't want that. There is no group I would want to see for that long.

I knew what the concha was but I was always wondering where the Craniofacial team of texas part of my ear was!

Am so glad there is only one more gig before christmas