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[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1376692484' post='2178238'] Don't think so. http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/customs/arriving/arrivingnoneu.htm [/quote] You're right. Any applicable duty and VAT are due on all goods brought in to the country from outside the EU, whether they are new or not (I've bought a few second hand cameras from the US).

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1376663519' post='2177633']Is there any mileage in it. I know some people rave about the 1960's. and it is almost sacred. But it was over 50 years ago.[/quote] Are you concerned that the people who were young in the 1960s will have all died off and won't be there to furnish you with an audience in ten or fifteen years? That's long-term thinking, I'll grant you that...

As a band I play with regularly tune a semitone flat, higher tension might be to my advantage. Noted.

Unless I'm much mistaken, won't eBay have problems with the seller stating he won't accept Paypal?

I must confess BOC are not quite my scene, but I caught them a Guilfest 2006, which I gather was one of his last gigs with the band. I ended up singing along to "Don't Fear The Reaper" with most of the rest of the crowd

My experience of Marlin acoustic guitars in the 80s was that they were not great, but a fair buy for not much money. Certainly good enough to get a start with. If you wanted to spend less than £100, it would be one of those or a bust the budget by a few pounds for cheap Yamaha.

[quote name='amewse' timestamp='1376589068' post='2176582'] My memory of Kay from the late seventies and early eighties was that they were terrible catalogue instruments and not something that anyone would want to remember! [/quote] IIRC possibly a notch above Satellite, and below Columbus, but neither is saying much for them.

for some old skool IEM action - only 58p to you, sir. [url="http://www.soundlightuk.com/shop/products/A013-%252d-Mono-Earpiece.html"]http://www.soundligh...o-Earpiece.html[/url] [and you can use it to do an impression of the baldy gangster in [i]Diva [/i]]

Oh, and here's his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MichaelPipoquinha

His name is Michael Pipoquinha. Apparently he was 13 in that video Plenty of him to be found on YouTube. This is what he's up to now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSN6QR12Hic

That is a quite a looker; I've had my eye on the fretless Jazz and Precision (and the Bass VI has certainly piqued my interest) [quote name='Josh' timestamp='1376392346' post='2173152'] I'm actually quite surprised with the pick ups, I'm not sure wether they're the same as the pick ups in the CV jazz or if they're Duncan Designed as they have no insignia, but regardless they actually have a very hot output and they sound just as good as the set of Wizard 64's in my Squier/Fender jazz. [/quote] If it's the same as the 2013 VM fretless Jazz, they've dropped the Duncan-Designed pickups that were on the 2012 model and introduced some new Fender designed ones.

I rather like that.

I umm-ed and ah-ed over a case for my MB 500 since getting it a couple of weeks ago, using my laptop's slip case in the meantime. I was in Maplin yesterday and spotted they're doing three aluminium cases for £29.99. No foam but they come with dividers and foam packing pieces a few inches long. The MB 500 will fit in both the large and medium cases. I've ended up with the amp,and all my cables and other bits in the largest one - a box that's smaller and less than half the weight of my old 200W Marshall head. Still have two other cases for use elsewhere about the house. They do a similarly sized single foam-block filled case for few pounds more. Edit: linky http://mobile.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=513879

Three YEARS?

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1376149618' post='2170273'] I stopped taking OSX updates when they started dropping features required for my 2- or 3-year-old peripherals. Very bad form. They also broke my version of ProTools with 10.7, so I'm sticking with 10.7 because I don't want anything else to stop working. [/quote] TBF, Apple give software developers plenty of warning when System APIs will be deprecated and it's up to the peripherals manufacturers to keep their drivers up to date. ProTools has been highly sensitive to system updates as long as I can remember (I'm going back to the mid 90s here).

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1376080402' post='2169620'] It's for stopping Robin Hood notes. [/quote]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1376093774' post='2169788']Is it one with the Vaccaro aluminium neck?[/quote] Do Hartke own shares in an aluminium smelting company or something; they seem to want to use it everywhere?

I'd hardly say my '79 MM Sabre is 'clanky', it's wonderfully warm - though I don't play slap, rarely use a pick and I use it most often with the neck pickup only or neck and bridge together. That said, I know other people get a much toppier sound out of a Sabre than I do.

Frank Zappa's take on the disco phenomenon from a 1978 SNL appearance (with Arthur Barrow on bass) http://youtu.be/dI0SIg4njx0

[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1375818635' post='2166183'] Ive only just learnt that OLP were a company in their own right....they made budget copies of other musical instruments. [/quote] OLP stands for 'Officially Licensed Product'

I have a blue MM3 that I bought new circa 2002-3 - it's quite playable. Edit: looks like the same bridge design as mine, but a differently shaped scratch plate.

John Etheridge *and* Jim Mullen. I'm more than a little green

I've used a Marshall IBS 3520 for most of the last 20 years and it's been very reliable. The only problem I've had was that a number of the plastic knobs have fallen off.

Well, my band had been hired to provide a couple of hours entertainment outside a café in Putney for the crowds watching the cycling event that was going on in London today. 60s and 70s covers mostly, with a few of our own numbers thrown in. In between sets a guy came up from the audience and, after a little negotiation about fees, booked us to play a party he is throwing on Saturday night.