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    There is hope.
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    Tuner provisionally sold. Come on lads, buy up. You can sound like me*. What's not to like? *Not strictly true.
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    I'll be there on Saturday. It's unboxed.
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    I watched a video yesterday, three blokes discussing Gibson. There were a lot of great comments and an interesting commentary about woodstocks used in 1980s Gibsons, but most of all this came down to a handful of things; Gibson need(ed) to stick to ten guitars, make them well and make them cheaper. One of the guys commented that although the custom shop do great things, they are selling models that only lawyers and doctors can afford and that Gibson had lost the real musicians when prices went north of $1,500.
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    OK, GT2 is sold, board is on hold. PSU, the Boss stuff and the ABY are still available.
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    I'll be there Saturday. Come say hello.
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    Same here.
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    I'd take that with a pinch of salt. I read a cracker of a quote recently. It went along the lines that while Gibson's official numbers cite that they made something like 500 Les Paul Customs during 1958/59, there's apparently more than three times that in circulation. I doubt they really know what left the plant to be honest. Ridiculous serial numbering/poor record keeping etc.
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    I hadn't realised that they stopped making them, but now I think about it, I never really questioned why I'd never seen a 1965 Les Paul advertised. Give Gibson enough time and they'll probably find some blueprints somewhere detailing the spec for the never made mystery '63 Les Paul and charge £10K for it.
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    I just did a little bit of jizz.
  12. NancyJohnson
    Hmmm. Do you have the stand for this?
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    I know there's probably not a right or wrong way to use BDDIs or VTBASS type stompboxes, but personally I've never had the desire to simply lump one into the front of any head. I played with a guitarist one time who got a pretty acceptable tone by playing a Les Paul into a Fender Twin Reverb. For some insane reason he started building this huuuuge pedalboard with several distortion/fuzz pedals on it...he just couldn't grasp the concept of how coloured his tone became when he piled output from a distortion pedal on top of an already distorted amp tone; he'd look at you like a lost puppy. 'Clean? Wny would I want to have my amp running clean?' He threw thousands at gear and eventually wised up that the Les Paul/Twin Reverb was the best tone he'd ever had. Sigh.
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    I just read a thread elsewhere that Ibanez are rumoured to be buying Gibson. Brilliant.
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    GT2 on hold now.
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    Up.
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    I'm a little late to this thread, but last November I quit a band I started about seven years ago now. We were gigging too much, rehearsing too much, travelling hundreds of miles playing to 10 unappreciative people, arguing, the singer was a control freak and asshat (I think Andy/Wolverine sussed him out reasonably quickly when he travelled with us to a gig in Kent). The link to the thread is here if you're interested. [HERE] Notwithstanding the fact that we were a really decent band (sometimes great) band...on point, acerbic, clever at times...ultimately it came down to a few things; was it still fun (no), did you like the people you were playing with (honestly, no, not really), do you like what you're playing (at the end, not so much), does it affect your band/work/home lives (yes, totally), so I walked. I enjoy reading the singers ridiculous posts on Facebook big-upping their recent activities and took an immense amount of pleasure at calling the replacements in my band 'The Imposters' and hearing that the singer, rattled, nearly popped a vein at one gig, barking out, 'We are not the imposters!' between songs. Interestingly, don't be too qualmed about being a man of a certain age and not being able to get a band. Three months on, while still harbouring a tang of bitterness, I have three new projects going on, but they're all sensibly planned and unpressurised. I'm done with plans for musical world domination. It's just not worth it.
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    No, no it didn't.
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    The ivory one with the tortie guard looks dreamy.
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    Here's the FBIV; a fortuitous early Sunday morning eBay purchase. I just think I was very lucky to bag it for less than £400.00. I remember seeing it, doing a panicky double take and thinking, 'No, it can't be. Noooooo, it can't be.' There was scant information online, so I eventually trawled through Ross Halfin's Motley Crue book and found some mid-80s pictures of Nikki Sixx playing one and did a Buy It Now about five minutes after first seeing it. It plays beautifully and the only maintenance required is a periodic truss rod tweak. I've no idea what the pickups are, but concensus appears to be they're unbranded DiMarzio. Irrespective, they do sound great. I was considering swapping them out for a set of those large-pole Delano sets, but there's no point really; it would only have been for aesthetic reasons.
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    Here's the Scarab I bought at The Bass Centre, Wapping some time in the 1990s. It sounded great, piano like tone, beautiful neck, it balanced quite nicely. The only thing I'd criticise was the finish...for such a new bass, there was a ton of crackage. At one point, I considered having the body worked to make it a little more contemporary, but finally just moved it on. What a stack that Laney was as well.
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    The series one Cruise was as different as a mk1 Precision to the Precision bass we know now. They had different body/headstock shapes, the series one had pointier horns, a P/J pickup configuration and a Hamer badged Schaller high-mass bridge. There was also two headstock variants. US made. Designwise, the series two was just softer all round...the 2Tek bridge involved a major body rout to accomodate it. Generally J/J pickup config. Produced in the US and Korea (the Korean one had a BBOT bridge). I'd take a solid colour series one any day of the week. It's uber-cool and they don't go for much either...sub 500 English pounds. I post up in the Wanted section for on every so often. No joy yet.
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    I'm curious. For a company that was synonymous with production of high quality instruments out of their Chicago shop (and some decent far-east made guitars), there's barely a whisper on here or Talkbass. I still have one and am still trying to track down a series one Cruisebass. I've owned three...they all played great.
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    @Tech21NYC You have a lot of love over this side of the pond. We'd love to know what's going in in your R&D rather than the odd comment!
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    Sorry, just so to avoid a little confusion (I've had a load of PMs). 1) The Tech 21 VTBASS DI is not for sale...it went a while back. The photos are representative as to what the board looks like; the VTBASS isn't listed in the advert. 2) One member here has first dibs on the board & bag, end mix panel and speakon powercon socketry. I have made it clear (and we have agreement) that in the unlikely event that none of the stomps sell, I will hold onto the board until most of them do as I don't want a load of pedals and no board (because that would just be stupid!). Paul
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