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Very nice, nice price too. If I'm looking at the right model it looks like they went for £700 in the UK, although it looks like they've now been discontinued.

I've got to stop reading this thread. I keep telling myself that £30-40 for something that might turn out to be piece of junk is not a bargain, especially for someone with my very limited technical skills. I'm not going to be able to repair even minor defects. Then the devil on my shoulder starts speaking -'You'll probably have some spare cash after Christmas, you want to try playing classic Motown lines on a p bass with flats, you know you do, one more bass won't take up that much room'. Must stay strong (at least until after Christmas).

[quote name='mr zed' timestamp='1449011658' post='2920153'] There are some really good deals on Reflex's on the gear4music website at the moment. You can thank me later! [/quote] Just had a look, cheers, looks like they've got a few Stingrays in the best of the old colours too. Unfortunately I still need a few more months of paying into my 'premier league bass fund' before I'm going to be able to satisfy my Music Man craving.

[quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1448831374' post='2918514'] Ive spent a fortune in pmt bham over the years. Great staff but still wish musical exchanges was still open (where most of the pmt staff worked) just for nostalgia [/quote] It's probably mainly just nostalgia but no other guitar shop has ever given me the same sense of excitement and wonderment I used to get walking into Musical Exchanges on a Saturday afternoon as a teenager. It was just the epitome of how a guitar shop is supposed to look.

Hasn't there always been an element of 'boys night out' with bands? My first couple of bands were definitely like that, a group of mates playing music together, partially because we enjoyed making music but also because we enjoyed socialising together. Trying to impress girls (with the emphasis on 'trying') was a pretty big motivator as well. I probably wouldn't want to join a band that mentioned beers and chuckles in the ad these days but then I'm no longer a drinker, as long as the band isn't awful I don't think there's any harm in taking that approach. It's probably more healthy than the guys who get stressed because they take it far too seriously.

Pretty much everything that's been discontinued from the Music Man bass range, especially the Reflex. Can't believe how boring the colour options are now on the Stingrays.

[quote name='bluesparky' timestamp='1448626567' post='2916939'] This t shirt caught my eye earlier and it's going on the list. Not too in your face but obvious to us. http://www.zazzle.co.uk/eadg_bass_guitar_tuning_t_shirt-235305239544153062 [/quote] That was an expensive link. I could have resisted if I hadn't seen the custom colours options on the bass clef t shirt.

For me she's one of those artists who has a blinding and undeniable talent but who's material is just not my kind of thing. I'm pretty sure that's my loss.

I've got loads in 'near mint' condition from the early 90 s, when I was a kid I used to buy a t-shirt at every gig I went to,wear them at that gig, then in most cases never again. There's a drawer full of them at my mum's house. The one that got worn the most, and still gets worn occasionally is the Ramones shirt from the Birmingham Hummingbird leg of the Mondo Bizarro tour in, I think , 1992. One of the best gigs ever.

I've got a few signed picture discs, the most notable of which would be WASPs 'Animal .... Like a Beast' which in its own way is a little bit of heavy metal history. The only thing I've got which is worth remotely more than I paid for it is Arctic Monkeys first limited 7 inch release 'Fake Tales of San Francisco/Ritz to the Rubble only 500(I think) were printed. I ordered it after I went to see them play in the Little Civic in Wolverhampton with around 100 people about 15 months before they started getting massive. The only really big band I can claim to have seen before they were famous.

Graham Central Station. I love it so much I've just ordered the first 5 Sly & the Family Stone albums. I just can't get enough late 60s/70s soul/funk in the last few months,having spent most of my life completely ignorant of the genre.

No harm at all in playing both bass and drums, at least a couple of people here do it.I suspect the majority of bassists play more than one instrument (to some extent), from what I've read in the comments since I've been on here I'd guess a majority probably own at least one skinny string guitar as well as the basses. Try and make practices fun, play along to your favourite music, doesnt matter if you can't play it like the record, concentrate on the root notes and rhythms and in time the rest will come.

I quite like the song, but having recently gone through a (largely basschat inspired) phase of listening to early-mid 70s funk & soul it does feel a bit like a lightweight remake of the genuine article. Especially the horn section, which seems rather thin by comparison.

It's beautiful as it is, but I can't help trying to imagine it with a gold pick guard. I reckon it would look tremendous.

The Eagles at Birmingham NIA about 15 years ago. It was partly the venue,the NIA isn't great & there was a distinct lack of atmosphere at the back of the back tier where we were. It wasn't helped by the band stopping after every song to change guitars, or by the fact there was a bit of band politics in the set list - every member had to perform a number from their solo career whether anyone had ever heard it or not. Don Henley did a song he'd written for an episode of Miami Vice and there just generally seemed to be a lack of passion from the band. Years later I saw a documentary where it was mentioned that there were a few tensions in the band during that European tour,so maybe that was a part of the problem,

I saw a documentary a few years ago about a similar incident at a high school prom in the US. The landlord is lucky that none of the girls used their psychokinetic powers to slaughter everyone in the building then burn it to the ground.

[quote name='Linus27' timestamp='1446893454' post='2903224'] Haha I nearly said sixteenth a but thought, just in case it was only eighths, it might confuse people more I love it, really catchy [/quote] I only heard of Tower of Power a couple of months ago after someone posted something on here. I got a box set of the first 5 albums & I can't recommend them highly enough. Superb songs with some of the best bass I've ever heard. Between ToP and Herbie Hancock (who I also 'discovered' on basschat) I'm starting to think that the early seventies were some sort of golden era both for the playing styles and the recording of the bass guitar.

[quote name='acidbass' timestamp='1446634509' post='2900930'] Going to see a band called Slaves tonight - 2pc electro sort of stuff. Never heard them before but apparently they are good! [/quote] I saw them at the Godiva festival this summer. I thought they were excellent, even though they've embraced the dangerous trend of not having a bass player.

[quote name='bagsieblue' timestamp='1446584373' post='2900650'] Its only been posted up today: http://www.koko.uk.com/listings/tower-power-29-11-2015 Thanks to this thread from louisthebass: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/272463-tower-of-power-in-london/page__pid__2900605#entry2900605 [/quote] Massive cheers for that. I bought a box set of the first 5 albums a couple of months ago after someone posted some of their stuff on basschat, I've been listening to them solidly since they arrived.

[quote name='bagsieblue' timestamp='1446582697' post='2900626'] Before the end of this year: New Order - Liverpool Tower Of Power - London (hopefully, just seen this posted up now!!!) Duran Duran - Liverpool Next year: Muse..... [/quote] When/where are Tower of Power playing? I couldn't find any UK dates on their website.

I've never loved the album's that much. I've seen them live twice. The first time supporting the Chilis at Slaine Castle, the second headlining at Hyde Park. Both times I thought they were brilliant, but when I went back and listened to the album's I still wasn't blown away. For me, personally, they're a top live band and a better than average (but not outstanding) album one, if that makes any sense.

The Bohicas about a month a go at the Birmingham Institute. Very good young indie band. In an attempt to prove we're not past it me and a few friends try to see a live band in Brum or Coventry at least once a month. Who we go to see depends more on whoever happens to be playing on a date when we can all make it out rather than whether any of us have actually heard of the band. Still,we've seen some cracking young bands over the last few years.

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=RQJjUbMrt8w[/media] And a forgotten 90s classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4lZgDAn4tI

My first bass was an Axe in around 1990. They used to advertise them on the back of Kerrang and Metal Hammer, I think the guitars went for £99 and the basses £125. It was fine to learn on, but, in hindsight it wasn't great build quality and the J pickup on mine managed to be really noisy (buzzing wise) and far too quiet at the same time, but I played my first gigs with it and it was perfectly usable.

The smartphone thing only deals with the problem of third parties reselling tickets for profit. Ticketmaster will still be able to keep back part of the ticket allocation for any given event to resell at a premium through one of its subsidiaries.