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The dynamic pricing thing is outrageous. £150 face price standard standing tickets being trebled in price by Ticketmaster due to being ' in demand'. Says a lot both about the brazenly mercenary business model of Ticketmaster and Oasis themselves for allowing their fan's devotion to the band to be exploited in a such a cynical fashion. https://www.nme.com/news/music/oasis-fans-react-to-ticketmasters-dynamic-pricing-3789361

I seem to recall there were only 2 or 3 years between the Pro replacing the Standard and the Pro ii replacing the Pro.

Andertons are doing a Fender Pro ii sale as well. Makes me think there may be a new range launching, unless it's linked to the over production issues they were having a while back

Noel Gallagher has since said that his single biggest influence was actually Slade and I'd say you can hear a lot of more Slade in the music of Oasis than you can hear the Beatles. Of course in the 90s it was a lot cooler to claim the Beatles as your biggest influence than Slade who at that point had about as much indie street cred as Status Quo.

I saw them a couple of times at Glastonbury. The first time was in an afternoon slot on the NME stage just before they got massive, the next year they were headlining the Pyramid. They didn't blow me away either time, they played the songs well enough, but there wasn't a lot of energy or movement on stage and pretty much zero crowd interaction. Having said that I'll always have a bit of a soft spot for them, they were a big part of the soudtrack the 90s back when I was in my teens and 20s so I generally associate them with good memories. Though, even with that nostalia I have no interest in the reunion gigs.

Pricing aside I'm slightly confused about the thinking behind this. Is there that much demand for a passive Ray? If you want the classic Ray sound on a budget surely you'd look at the active options like the Sub or the new Sires for not much more. G&L did the Kiloton tribute a few years ago, which was a budget passive Ray type affair and while personally I thought it was a very good looking instrument, neither that or it's full fat US made sibling seem to have set the world alight.

I've never played anything that retails for more than about £2-3k at today's prices. I'd love to try a Ritter or an Alembic just to experience what a bass at that end of the price spectrum feels and sounds like. Also never played an Ibanez, absolutely nothing against them, various models have been on the 'possibles' list when I've been thinking about getting a new bass at various moments over the years, I've just always ended up choosing something else.

Just had my confirmation email.

When I picture a 'Ray that's exactly the bass I'm thinking of. Natural with a black guard, absolute classic.

My Embassy is 7.2lbs. It's lighter than my solid body skinny stringers let alone my other basses.

This is the laurel board on my Gretsch skinny stringer next to the rosewood on my Precision Deluxe. The board on the Gretsch is completely untreated btw, I've never even oiled it. I don't think they're vastly different. I have seen some laurel that has a less attractive greyish hue to it but it's far from universal. I imagine the new Casady basses will have a fair bit of variation in the boards from bass to bass.

I didn't get the error, I got 'thank you for your order' or some such after the payment page but I haven't had a confirmation email yet either. Money has left my account too. Hopefully it's just an administrative IT oversight.

For me this is a relatively inexpensive toy (certainly relative to some of the instruments I've bought over the years) that I'm getting to scratch a long held itch. If I find a practical application for it that's a bonus.

Managed to get my order in this morning. The website is still glitchy but I'm reasonably confident it's gone through. Currently saying delivery in 8 weeks, though as a first run, I wouldn't be too suprised if that changes.

The Stylophone Theramin is theoretically available for pre-order as of today. Theoretically because the pre order page on the website has crashed and they've sent out an email to apologise but there should be a chance in the next day or so for anyone interested to put a pre order in. https://stylophone.com/product/theremin/

Just been watching this. I don't need either another fretless or an acoustic bass but these still have me very interested.

Saw them in 1989 on the Pump/Permanent Vacation tour during what was probably their best period. Tyler and Perry had been clean for a few years, their back catalogue was outstanding, the two albums they were touring were amongst their strongest and they hadn't yet started churning out all the shmaltzy 'paint by numbers' ballads that pretty much stopped me listening to them a couple of years later. Tyler is probably the most energetic front man I've ever seen, spinning all over the stage, doing sommersaults and backflips. The whole band were spot on. I imagine all the gymnastics got toned down a while ago, but that's how I'll always remember them. Definitely think they're doing rhe right thing by calling it a day now rather than attempting to to limp on or trying to replace Tyler for the remaining gigs. That would have been an awful end to a (mostly) fantastic career.

I bought my 72 thinline tele reissue new in 2000. Over the intervening years I've added a few other skinny stringers, some are theoretically a bit more valuable, but that's the one I'd save in a fire. This is the only pic I have on this phone

If it had had the moving pickup I wouldn't have been able to resist. Yes I'd probably have found the 'sweet spot' and never moved it again, but that's not the point. As it is I reckon I'll wait for the G3.

Worth remembering that the Fender group includes Charvel, Jackson, Gretch and EVH. They don't need to radically shake up their Fender range because they've already got most of the rest of the market covered by their other brands.

I'm the same, I know it's just because I've been used to seeing Rosewood used for dark boards for most of my life but Pau Ferro never looked quite 'right' to me. Weirdly I don't mind Indian Laurel though as long as it doesn't have that greyish tint you see sometimes.

Sounds like Fender have finally run down their stocks of Pau Ferro.

+1 for talking bass. I've never done a whole course with them but I found Mark's free videos the absolute pick of the YouTube crop when I finaly got round to learning how to slap a few years back. His teaching style really clicked with me.

Little bit surprised they got it on before the watershed, but I suppose it's not really any more fruity than the Carry On films I watched as a kid where I was completely oblivious to even the single entendres.

It's been doing the rounds on social media for a few days. Are they showing it on the telly?