Woodinblack

I meant portsmouth guildhall in 83, but I was also in reading in 83. Probably didn't get a chance after spending all our time in Thames Valley police station waiting to identify all our stuff that was nicked!

it would be the 1600, but they only did it for a very short period of time and then withdrew it, I think probably because it was a bit head heavy (or body light). Or maybe because it was a limited edition. It would look like this: https://reverb.com/item/3462485-ibanez-sr1600-2013-poplar-burl-limited which is a bit like if the 1700 wasn't varnished. Maybe that is light too. My SRs seem to go in weight based on how much wenge they have on them, vs how much poplar, so by the time you get full wenge, stuff gets heavy.

My painting is done, so the last coat is just drying. I intend to put everything on it tomorrow. I have everything but the grill, but obviously that can go on later. I really like how it looks. Just remember I need to get whatever that stuff on the handle is.

Yep, my number one bass is still my 1605, which is so light I had to change the machineheads to hipshots because it was a bit neck heavy. The 2605 is a bit heavier (probably normal SR weight, same as the SR505), and the prestige 505 is about the weight of a small sun.

Strange on the website, you can select one of its two colours, a brown and the other colour which doesn't seem particularly green to me. Wouldn't be possible for me to have that. Partly because of the string spacing, but if I got the non brown one and someone asked me what colour it was, I would have to call it ' Caribbean Green (no more love on the run) " - which is too long.

I never saw this thread before, but yes, it was easy to tell them apart. But as you say, if you have an 8 string maybe it is easier?

Oh I saw them there a while back. Googles.. oh yes, 1983! They were pretty good.

Makes for an adventure!

Thanks - me too, so now there are 8

I really like that pickguard!

Not a bad idea!

Me too!

No tattoo emoji 😮 Don't have pictures here. I also forgot my bee, which I shouldn't, as I got an award for that one

Not on a school night, no. Not sure I would have been that tempted on a weekend TBH, I hate faffy gigs, but I would have less of an argument for it (and we don't use deps).

Probably not to someone as clueless as this in the first place

I guess it depends where you work! But if someone had said it to me, I wouldn't have been offended, I would have just wondered what they were talking about!

Maybe explains it then. My wife hadn't heard it either

Dealing with the groupies is the singers job. Dealing with the drunks is the singers job. Hes the front man, we are just the eye candy.

THanks. I think so, esp when it gets the black speaker, tweeter and black grid.

We have that problem, but to be fair, he is the singer, so we just let him get away with it. I often get that -- i have IEMs, I really can't here, and odds on I don't care. And TBH, even without IEMs my hearing isn't great for drunk audience members in the middle of a song. But the worst thing, in this little bar, this woman who had insisted on standing right to the side of me where I had been having to lean backwards to not hit her with the bass (and failed to avoid her a couple of times), she had wandered off, then came back later and yelled something in the middle a song I was both singing and playing bass to, so I ignored her, then she tried again in the instrumental part, so I yelled I couldn't hear her as I had earphones in, so she went behind me and pulled my earphone out of my ear to tell me that the woman the other side of the bar had been nasty to her. I am sure it wasn't anywhere near as nasty as I got at that. I have never heard that expression before in my life, if someone said that to me I would just be looking at them blankly wondering what they meant!

On friday I played at our normal every month end pub. It was blowing a gale and p'ing down, so wasn't expecting many people so was quite surprised that quite a few people were there. My sound sounded great out front but I couldn't get any level in my earphones. Took me 3 songs to work out I had turned the volume down on the bass. Still wasn't a great sound to me, seemed lifeless. Guess I need new strings. Also forgot the intro of one of the songs, but everyone else forgot something too, so not so bad - the guitarist forgot how to play sex on fire (which I would call a good thing). Then just after the half time my bass died completely, After a quite look around seemed like the batteries had gone flat in the smoothhound, the ones I thought before the gig 'oh better change the batteries' and completely forgot. After the gig everyone was saying how great it was. You can really never tell.

Mine is too - its a '78 No headstock repair on mine though. I don't play guitar much these days, but when I was 14/15, I really wanted a les paul 'the paul' that was in telecoms, but my dad wouldn't lend me the money (which annoyed me at the time but he was totally right). Was sitting at a multi band birthday party with the guitarist and the guitarist in the band playing was playing a 'the paul' reissue, and he said 'oh I have one of the originals of those' and I mentioned how I wanted one as a kid, turned out he wanted to sell it, and didn't want much for it. Thats why I have one. Irony being I paid 30 quid more for it than it was priced at in 79/80.

That must itch like a b'start

Hate it when that happens.

True, but you aren't taking your kitchen table to different dodgy pubs!