NancyJohnson

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1477296085' post='3161094'] Plenty of guitars and some basses with lots of über expensive vintage gear (some questionable IMO, but too much of the same on different stalls for me, with barely any room for trying stuff out if you wanted to. The guy asking the exhibitors to turn it down over an under powered PA whilst the GB stand was giving it its usual whackety, thwackety was amusing, although I didn't find it that loud compared to some shows. I didn't go to any of the live performances as these were in a totally different building. All in all, it seemed a bit amateur and poorly organised compared to other shows I've been to over the years. [/quote] I was toying with going to it and suppose your post reinforces my reasons behind staying home with a chesty cough and watching Chelsea thump Manchester Utd. 4-0 instead.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1477302277' post='3161155'] If you can pay..the world is your lobster. [/quote] Pay? You mean there's money to be made from this gigging malarkey?

Did anyone attend that guitar show at Kempton Park yesterday (23/10)? Any good or was it just a car boot bun fight?

Blue I've known the guy for seven or eight years; we gigged several times with his old band, he depped with us a few years back, plays on another project I'm involved in and jumped at the opportunity to do this with me. We are friends, our wives likes each other etc. It's easy to say I can vouch for his character, but in this case there's just stuff going on outside of music.

No one is allowed to use the word schadenfreude in any replies! [Edit) Oh and for the record, we rehearse in Hurst, near Twyford in Berkshire.

So we gave our drummer the Spanish archer and now his replacement has bailed out due to stress and depression. We're in a bit of a mess...two gigs in November (Phoenix, High Wycombe and Fighting Cocks, Kingston); need a dep. Anyone care to loan us their drummer for a couple of weekends? Punky rocky. Easy material. 45 minute set.

Anyone remember this? Poll tax riots. Footage of Macari's getting turned over from about 6'30". [media]http://youtu.be/5o98_hia8tA[/media]

I have a Jeff Ament Lull. As I'm 6'4" it actually looks normal-sized on me.

[quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1477049943' post='3159490'] Without wishing to hijack the thread, can I ask how they balance? I had a beautiful TB a few months ago, I loved the sound and the neck felt good as well, but oh dear, massive neck dive and just so uncomfortable to play on the strap, so do these sound more or less the same, and do they hang well? Once again, sorry to go a bit off topic. [/quote] I sold my NR to Gus...if you search through my threads you'll turn up some background to the issues I had with it. That said, while tonally it didn't hit the spot with me (at the time), it did play beautifully; hung nicely on the strap, the neck was nice and fat (totally unlike reverse 'birds) and it's the only recent bass I genuinely regret selling on.

I do profess to being a little confused as to the Peach Guitars and GAK pricing as neither site is showing these basses. Remember its the non-reverse model, not the better known reverse one. You can't blame internet pricing either as the model is discontinued and unavailable. Look, I didn't go into London with the expectation of coming home with a bass, plus those who know me will know that I bought one of these basses new when they came out. It was more a case of having a punt. I'm up in London again at the end December and wouldn't be suprised if they're still on the window in two months.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1477023525' post='3159291'] I would have mentioned how long they'd had them in stock for and if they shift them on for a not unreasonable discount (say...10%) they'll be able to make room for something else that'll sell faster. [/quote] They didn't even want to start the conversation! The guy I spoke to was all flat out, 'Nah, mate, £899.'

The price alone prompted a search online. Never actually heard of the guy. Visually, the design doesn't strike me as being that different from the models in the SR range, although it carries a high gloss finish. Hardware and electrics are just Hipshot and Barts. Thing is, we live on a planet with over seven billion other people and somewhere there's someone who is thinking that the price is right for that bass. Ibanez may not even sell ten of these. Perhaps it's more a case of the company telling the world they can up their game and shouting, 'Hey, look what we've built here.'

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1476997438' post='3159200'] Fair enough, but If they have priced them at there minimum mark up rather than loading the price, then thats what they want. Where they not worth the asking price? Or do you refuse to buy anything on principal unless you can get a discount? [/quote] I just felt in the mood for a haggle more than anything else and with my wife wined-up from lunch and giving me two thumbs up, I thought, 'Why not?' I've worked in retailing, albeit in the supply chain side. From experience, if you hold onto stock for that long, you can pretty much kiss goodbye your profit and should simply cut your losses. Irrespective of whether or not I only purchase at a discounted price (I don't...I've never haggled for guitars), but taking into account the above, I just figured it was worth a punt. I'd have paid £750-800. My debit card was twitching in my pocket. Twitching!

Up in the smoke today and imagine my suprise in seeing a pair of Gibson Thunderbird NRs in their shop window. £899 a pop. Pelham Blue and Sunburst. Also imagine my surprise when my good wife said if I wanted one of them, I should go in and haggle. 'Best price?' I ask. '£899' 'Bye then.' I saunter down to Denmark Street. Dull. Walking back towards Macari's, I duck in again asking whether they're open for a bit of price-negotiation. Negative again. Thing is, if the price was right, I'd probably have bought both of them. There's probably little profit to be made on a bass they've had in stock for three years or so and they could gave covered their business rates for this month.

If I can add something else, isn't this thread just another opportunity for members to just brag about what they've got?? I'm actually a little distressed at the lack of photographic content so far.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1476916420' post='3158559'] So i know lots of people here have lots of basses but do you have an order of merit too? [/quote] Err, no; bass choice is fairly random, perhaps minutes before I leave the house. No favourites. I may choose one over another based on freshness of the strings, but they're all similarly set up, all play pretty much the same. It would be easier to list the ones that never get gigged!

[quote name='Daz39' timestamp='1476879952' post='3158013'] I have a tuner - don't need one in an amp. More to go wrong! [/quote] I've got tuners too, but the thing is, this head could truly offer (me) a one box solution; a built in tuner, irrespective of its quality, becomes of one less thing to carry.

Just to add more to this, I won a Barefaced Big One (15/6) at this years SE Bass Bash. It sounds huge compared to the Hydrives. Insofar as louder, I'd say (with the same settings applied), plugging my rack into the Barefaced, then into the Hartke units, the Barefaced is louder by a country mile.

I was thinking here. Clearly there's been a lot of thought gone into the design of these heads but there's one thing that always seems to be overlooked; put a freaking tuner in it somehow! I know the case is (quite probably) filled with all manner of amplifier and pre-stage goodiness, but how dreamy would it be to just have an [i]always on[/i] tuner on the top of it? Just a little window say 4cm x 8cm. It's not really meant to be racked, so howabout squeezing in an LCD display similar to the top half of a Boss TU3? Then it truly becomes a one box gigging unit. Call it the 900T and take my money, dammit. Christ, it would be a dream to just leave the house with just bass, couple of cables, the head and cabinet.

I've just watched a demo online - a guy called Patrick Hunter: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6M26dHCn5E[/media] - it certainly ticks my boxes tonally and from the strength of this video, it reminds me of the Tech 21 Dug Pinnick head. The only thing that worries me now are that for some time (years!) I've had my ideal tone in my head and after a lot of trial and error, I'm finally happy. I can replicate my sound with any of my basses, but now this drops, I'm looking at my rack and floorboard and I'm thinking, 'Hmmm. I can get rid of that. And that. Maybe that too.'

I've never read it (sorry!)...was put off by the disparaging comments over journalistic accuracy and editorial content a while back. (I still get (US) Bass Player, but that's turning into a catalogue with each passing month; September '16, 37 pages of adverts in a 68 page magazine!)

Friends of our band are looking for a bass player, so just trying to help out. I'd guess up to 30 years old, great chops plus a bit of attitude and aggression. They live in Woolwich, rehearse in Arch Studio (Edit: Just off Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush). Musically, punky/electronic thing, think Siouxsie and The Banshees meet Nine Inch Nails. You will be working with a very able drummer! Musically, I'd point you here, there's demos and video up: [url="http://www.dronningen.co.uk/"]http://www.dronningen.co.uk/[/url] Video here: [url="https://youtu.be/ZXqccduVZgw"]http://youtu.be/ZXqccduVZgw[/url] In my 25+ years of playing, I've never been so blown away by a band; first time we played with them we were standing their slack-jawed during the soundcheck. If you're interested, shoot me a PM and I'll forward. Cheers Paul

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1476259509' post='3152690'] Are we heading towards a situation where its all fluffy bunnies and no one can raise a protest of any kind? Some disparaging comments about bedroom warriors do surface from time to time, and I don't like the condescension. Some of us have fewer choices. I deleted my post, so now you don't need to keep coming back to it. #thereyougo [/quote] I'm not up for a fight here, but the OP was asking something fairly simple of the community here, it wasn't alluding to anything and I doubt very much that the original poster knew anything about your individual circumstances. I don't see any fingerpointing going on. Insofar as your fluffy bunny and protest quote goes, I mean, come on. If someone is going to reply on a thread with something that's both open-ended and ambiguous, which consequently leads to the OP feeling he needs to actually apologise unnecessarily, then I feel the need to ask why.