Woodinblack

Its a pain, they used to be really easy to replace just contacting TC. For the shaft you can either replace the pot, which I would imagine isn't an unusual one, or just get some plastic shaft material, try and match the end and glue a new one on. Or like some I have seen, put a screw through it!

I had an ATK305 and it was pretty good - sounded good, played well, but its neck was too wide for me so it never became a favourite. However, it was a very solid bass to play and the pickup was great. I am surprised they don't do them any more, but I guess they know the sales figures!

I do too, but it is in a different price / size category. The B1-4 is cheap and can fit in your gigbag withough you knowing where it is (litterally, I couldn't find mine the other day, it was in a gig bag which I am sure I looked in once) it has next to no competition at that price, the B2 is more a substantial full cost thing and it is in a much more crowded market, it doesn't really seem that competative..

Yes, bought my electronic piano from a seller who was a smoker, it took over 5 years before I could play it across the full range without some sudden smell of smoke.

I must admit that I never use the compressor on my ABM - seems to take the life out of it (as well as the volume). The one on the TC450 seems a lot easier to manage, a lot more progressive.

Pretty delighted I would say!

Its nicked! "I don't know what it is, its from my dad, it says fender or something and it he bought it in 1964" Its an encore.

Good to see you have the brown sound patched in there!

Anyone have any luck contacting music tribe?

Of course it isn't - I won't eat sprouts, I don't like them. I am not cancelling them even though I am not prepared to come to an agreement. However, If Oasis came to me and promised they would be less sh*t I am sure I could find a way to play their music. If Amazon decided not to take over the worlds shopping markets maybe I would use them. But this isn't going to happen - I am a little person and have no power. As has always been the way, the big people crush the little people as they have more power - 'cancel culture' is the shock reaction from big people to little people suddently being able to get an equal power to fight back, and them not being able to get their way. Say for instance, I choose not to play Oasis at a gig (and believe me, I do), noone from Oasis suffers, and I would say the audience gains. So there is no cancelation there. If JK Rowling (as you brought her up) wants to campain to restrict the rights of trans women, then she has the power to make a lot of trans women suffer. This is regardless of whether you agree or disagree on the rights of certain groups of people. If a group of trans women and people who support them want to not support her, that is their right - if they get together and make a campain to not get rid of their rights, then it can appear to be a 'mob mentality', but is she suffering? Of course she isn't - she is still writing, still getting money from films and series. She seems to be doing fine other than she isn't able to get away with what she wants unopposed, and to the outside, as someone with a lot of power that might seem bad because things didn't used to be like that. If she is right in her opinion then presumably she will have a lot of people supporting her. Like John Cleese - has been on basically every media, news report and paper going saying he is cancelled and he isn't allowed to do his humour any more. Like you can't even shut him up, let alone cancel him. If he wants to do his humour he can, but it isn't a right just because he is someone big that people are going to find it funny. Indeed people will say he will be cancelled because he can't do his series, but he really can, just that isn't going to appeal to as large a group of people any more, basically some humour has a time and a place, and his has gone. But when it comes down to songs - if (for instance), someone doesn't want to play sweet home alabama because they think it is racist (which I have already said I disagree with), then there is no harm being done to anyway - there are thousands of other songs to do, and lots of other groups that can do them, so I don't see why there is an issue. Why should someone have to do a song they don't want to do. There are lots of song by people who I totally agree with what they say that I don't want to do,because they aren't songs I have an interest in - is that cancellation? Not a boycot, a choice. But a mob never really does damage to people with power, it only does damage to people with not much power, and has always been such.

Well, I didn't see any of that. I don't play anything I don't want to play, but that isnt' 'cancelling' anyone, that is choosing not to play something.

Apart from robbie williams doing a very bad advert for cat food - I guess that is a money thing more than anything else. Rod Stewart, well, I heard him doing the rounds on the last album on chat shows and his voice (which I never liked) seems to be completely gone.

I don't know, it can work. I love 'This guys in love with you' by Faith No More, and obviously when it comes to crooners, you can't beat Richard Cheese..

Probably brought a tear to his eye, thinking how much he makes each day from andy summers riff!

I wouldn't - I would say it was wrong and move on, if that is how I felt. Doesn't matter about 'cancelling' - that is just something the media go on about, if people liked you before they still will, if they didn't they won't, the people that go on about cancelling were never listening in the first place.

Yes, unless they did another one as they thought they would take some more soul out of it? Well, I assume it is, I wouldn't subject myself to listening to it again. I get that. Strangely I like disturbed (when they are singing not talking), and I am not bothered either way about S&G, but that is an abomination. Basically conatins the same sort of emotional content as the cover of hallelujah that people were posting about.

Cerainly a lot more there than when i did the gibson tour!

I had to take the pickguard off and file out the pickup holes before i could get any moverment, although i mainly did that as it was microphonic

I think i would reserve my judgement for the quantity and quality of their output, not whether they talked while doing it or looked like they were working, that seems to smack more of the presenteeism that is common in lot of UK management styles i have seen - doesnt matter how much someone does as long as they do longer hours and appears to work

STILL better than sound of silence

Sadly it is a random thing where sometimes they will have these things, and sometimes they won't. The stock changes every wednesday or thursday, one week it is angle grinders and flip flops, then next week it is lawn mowers and car mats. Then one week it will be different types of mains adapters. I do however get all my rechargable batteries for my gigging stuff there, they last longer than all the others.

I am guessing it is a fender special - just not one made by fender!

Someone was going to dig it out 12 years ago, but doesn't seem they did!