Al Krow

Well I love the marketing strategy going on here! Building up a little pre-ad excitement! @Eldon Tyrell's impressive Spector collection vs my humble solitary NT Euro LX5 is a good predictor of who is going to triumph in the ensuing bidding war as he Donald J's my initial derisory low ball offer...

Oi get in the queue 😁

You do know I was joking about that, Woody?! Honour amongst thieves...and musos and all that? 😉

"Tesco to repay £585m in business rates relief" BBC news today. Good on them! Not all big business are even close to evil are they?

Looks like I could be about blow a hole in my net spend of £130 on bass gear this year then...😁

Oooh I would be very temped to set aside my embargo on getting 4 strings to get my hands on a BB1200S (particularly if the condition is v good)!

Haha OK. I'll leave you to name and shame. I certainly wouldn't entertain the idea of ever breaking or bending the law to gig in relation to Covid, although I confess to not always having kept below the speed limit on public roads!

That's very harsh to suggest bands who were playing were in breach of "the rules". Quite a slur on your fellow musicians in fact. And how come all those so called rule breakers have not played at all for a couple of months? I'm not aware of any of my fellow BC'ers who would break the law to play a gig. I certainly won't be and the publicans I deal with are very keen not to lose their licences either.

Happy to take wagers - £10 says I'll have played at least 2 gigs with my bands by mid May 2021. PM me if any Cassandras want to take me up on this. I'll donate any winnings to charity 😉

Thanks for confirming - always good to get a second opinion! Btw the selection of frequencies was not random - I found that the Tech 21 VTDI was amazingly good at "lifting the blanket" from all my rigs and particularly made a difference to my MB Combo. Its bite switch boosts in the high mids and treble (and also uses an HPF to tighten the low end). The key clue, though, was from the new range of Berg Forte amps which has a "presence" switch and very helpfully disclosed that this boosted by +6DB at 6.5KHz. It was just a case of putting it all together after that.

First vaccine approved for use this morning. Roll out should start next week. I'm sticking to by May 2021 for many of us being back to gigging.

+1^^ Ignore the one on the left, next two are: 735A, and 1025:

That's a really helpful steer. I started a similar journey on here a few years back: Best 5 string bass you've ever owned and why? - Bass Guitars - Basschat I actually ended up getting a Yamaha BB 1025, partly based on lots of positive recommendations from other BC'ers. I've ended up with several other 5ers, but despite getting regularly asked whether I might be thinking of moving it on, my 1025 is firmly entrenched in my herd. A used one in very good condition should be within your budget. The Yammy has 18mm string spacing but a very comfortable neck. It's a purely passive bass but nevertheless a just lovely PJ and will easily go toe to toe with basses costing several times as much. The other 5er I would heartily recommend, which might be just above your price bracket used, is an Ibby SR Premium with big single Nord pups. Light (< 9lbs), immensely playable fast neck - partly due to the narrower 16.5mm string spacing. The Ibby SRs are active with a very decent 3 band EQ including selectable mid centres, but with a passive switch setting too (which is always a nice back up if the battery dies mid gig!). The model I have is an Ibanez SR 1825 which is the middle one:

Socialism, social democracy, liberalism, one-nation Toryism are, indeed, all valid alternatives to a purely free market approach (and it would be ridiculous to suggest any W European nation had an unbridled free market approach). I guess your comment above implied you were completely against private commerce. (And if you were then the only model that sought to abolish private enterprise entirely was a Marxist-Leninist one - and there is perhaps only Cuba now following that model?). But if what you're saying is that utilities etc should be nationalised and the rest delivered by private enterprise - that's not communism and it would be very unfair to apply that label, totally agree. Btw your statement about large successful businesses is very inaccurate - there are plenty of businesses who pay very well indeed and are not being subsidised by the taxpayer, in fact the complete opposite - they are generating the wealth that pays for our public services (e.g. tech companies, financial services, energy, media, sport etc. and not forgetting our world leading pharmaceutical industry to tie it back into this thread!). Whilst a minority of firms that are private equity owned may siphon profits offshore, our largest public listed companies often have very significant pension fund shareholders and their profits are both subject to UK tax and, when paid up as dividends, provide many pensioners with their retirement income.

What budget should we be limiting ourselves to, and you okay buying used?

Lockdown is absolutely crushing hospitality and the national treasures that are our local pubs.

Of course there's no question there are plenty of better bands out there, but these guys are at least making music rather than sitting on their ars*es doing f-all and have managed to pull together a multi-track recording during lockdown. Which is more than a lot of us have managed - including my two bands! So if you happen to be reading this Cabana Room - good for you! Keep making music! 😎👍

Sounds like a multitude of compressors let loose on the real world 😁

Welcome - do let us know what you think?

I think it's Boris, but it could be the Battle of Hastings (Saxons 0 - France 1)...

You've certainly got one of the biggest hearts.

I know, I was thrilled to hear that from him. Have to 'fess I'm missing playing live, HUGELY!

Careful! Wasn't that dude associated with Spitfires? Apparently according to some on here that was a shameful part of our national history that should never ever be mentioned and, even better, forgotten! 😂

Yup one of my favourite BCers has 22 gigs in the diary for next year already!

Nah all fine as long as we don't mention the "B" word 😁 Absolutely! All that together with the Barnett back-of-the-fag-packet formula 😉