Woodinblack

Which makes their reviews completely worthless

Oh I am too, interested to see what happens, and yes unusual (I have never seen that in anything) but is still something which made me hesitate a bit

They are - my favourite looking bass is still one of the Shukers from last year. They are in my 'maybe one day I will get' list, although waiting to see what the outcome of that broken one is.

Surely that is only a build quality issue if you were aiming for a lightweight?

We play all right now. I am not one for getting 'the exact sound' (which I couldn't, it is way thumpier than any bass I would own), but the one that does it closest is the thunderbird, aided by the fact it is the only one that you can the high bit without looking as you just smash your hand into the body and you are at the right fret!

Well, that would be normal Long scale bass, fender scale guitar, so unless it is a really elaborate optical illusion, I can't see how that is true. That guitar bridge is only a tiny bit higher than the.. err... groin I guess!

Might be a bit late on that one! I can confirm it is 16.5mm as nature intended I was already looking. I just looked at it every day on Dawsons and every day was kind of hoping their sale had gone, then though, well, why not!

I have been fighting the GAS on that since it came out last year. I even tried to avoid playing it when it came into PMT as it doesn't give me anything I didn't have. But GAS is a cruel master, and I failed. It was (actually is) the most expensive premium (maybe the new 2405 has matched it, haven't seen the price on that yet). But at christmas, everyone put it down by £180, which was very tempting. Now GuitarGuitar and PMT have put it back up to their original price, Andertons kept it at that price. Then Dawsons just went crazy, had a sale and put it down £330 and I caved! I love it. And I didn't even realise it had luminays

This came with the normal semi hard case. Maybe it is what they called a gig bag

Guess it has to be short scale, as there isn't that much in it.

And doing very badly it would seem

hehe - yes maybe. I don't forced cheerful people in the morning!

Nope - for me sport would be the same as listening to a program on religion. As it is I have to turn the TV off before I leave for work as they get to the sport bit. She is awful for what I want in the morning, she is bright and cheerful and tries really hard to be funny. I don't want her interviewing people, the last thing I want to hear is interviews with musicians, frankly, I don't care what their song means to them, that is irrelevant to me. If I cared I would look it up. Its before 8.00am. I don't want bright and cheerful, I don't find her good to listen to, she is professional and she seems like she is trying really hard (and I am sure she is) and I find her kind of shrill. She is kind of a perfect radio DJ. The previous guy was brilliant. He was subdued, grumpy, moaned a bit, completely random, not even vaguely enthusiastic and played a variety of music. He is not a perfect radio DJ and as a result he was perfect.

I had no real opinion on her when you posted this, but now she is on 6 music morning show, I now need something else to listen to in the morning. I used to listen to radio 4, but it got too depressing, then i got 6 music as I got a car with DAB, and all has been good in the last year. Now she has taken over the breakfast show I can't listen to it, I have been going back to see if radio 4 is any less depressing, it seems it isn't. Local radio is dire, I am not yet old enough to listen to radio 2 so I guess it is down to listening to my own recordings.

I do like 5 string and that has too many for me But the 5 string version of that he made was good too

Actually, no, when i have conversations about music, it tends to be the irritating one that goes like: Them: Oh you play instruments, I would love to do that, but I have no talent. Me: You just need to get an instrument, learn it and practice Them: Oh but I am not good at that sort of stuff, it must be nice to have talent so you can do it. Me: Its just practice, you just keep practicing and you get better. Them: No, I tried it once, I couldn't get a decent sound, but its easy of you have talent isn't it

That sounds pretty bad, but if I had gone somewhere expecting slade to be repeat and they were having an Aqua barbie girl party, I would still think I was up on the deal!

Why pay over £n for anything? because the thing is worth over £n to you.

Good luck to them. However, I just bought a new bass from dawsons, as it was £340 cheaper than PMT and Guitar Guitar, and £150 less than Andertons (I don't think andertons got the price fixing memo!). I am happy to support whatever shops, but I am not paying £340 for it, and dawsons were in stock.

I would say it is like a democratised public service thing. Where you get 'talent' on the BBC getting millions for doing very little just because you have your foot in the door, with youtube, you get paid per view, so if you get millions it is because a lot of people think you are worth listening to. This is a lot fairer system then broadcast television has ever had. You can go and get a camera, plug it into a computer, get a free youtube acount and start making your millions from doing very little today.

Ahh - reading round the web, this is probably something to do with the new buying consortium GAP, which is Guitar Guitar, Andertons and PMT, which is designed to raise the prices of guitars and making exclusive deals (hence all the new G&Ls) to protect them from internet undercutting and protect them from going out of business. There are a few things on the net about it. http://www.musicinstrumentnews.co.uk/2018/08/02/is-it-time-to-start-showing-some-of-the-big-brands-the-door/

Actually, the keyboards had prices on them because I was looking at the nords.