Doctor J

We don't stop until we have 2025 threads about this announcement. Deal?

I thought explicitly soliciting for trades wasn't allowed in the marketplace? The items wanted section is fairly clear on the "no trades" aspect. I was thinking there was room for a forum exclusively for trades : "have one of these - want one of those" as people have alluded to in the linked thread. Say what you want, say what you have in return, no?

Right-angled jack = Fixed.

I'm watching DVD #2 of The Old Grey Whistle Test box set. Just gone from Blondie to Meatloaf via Val Doonican

Easy. It's the same colour has his custom jacket.

I hope that's not a euphemism.

Shaking imaginary hair is never a good look, just like air guitar.

It's not so daft when you've seen bald lads try to headbang 😄

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It is very old but told each time as if the teller was Oscar Wilde reborn. If I may offer perspective on this one, having been vegetarian for almost 30 years - dare I say, before it was cool - and knowing quite a lot of vegans, I find vegans tend to have to speak up when they're innocently offered (or asked about why they won't have) milk in their tea, butter on their toast, cheese on their bread, milk chocolate on their digestives, etc, any of the animal products they choose not to consume which are a mundane part of everyday life. Then they're castigated (not to their face, of course) for telling everyone they're vegan in the stereotypical way and we all have a laugh at them for vegan signalling, having usually been forced into speaking up or asked about it in the first place. For the meat eaters, just FYI they're making jokes about you in the same way when you're boring the tits off people insisting on telling then about your barbecue, how you slow roast your lamb shanks, your overnight marinades and how they don't know what they're missing (hint, many of them do and moved on). Sneaky vegans are everywhere, conspiring against you. Now, could someone tell me again how great their last rare steak was, it has been so long since someone insisted on telling me. Oh wow, I've just veggie-signalled. Ooops!

Just finishing my second run-through. Paul has just spotted the coppers behind him on the roof and turns around with the most mischievous and joyous grin. Knowing the jig is up, they barrel straight into Get Back as Don't Let Me Down ends. Class. Yeah, it's tedious at times, but that's the story. It wasn't just "Tell me what you want me to play and I'll play it" -> Roof. It probably helps that rural living affords me the opportunity to watch it all at close to concert volume 😂

They're aiming to have a vegan singer, no?

Going on this thread which, I think you'll agree, is more than enough research, it appears there are many lost souls out there in a state of turmoil. P owners wishing for a J neck, J owners desperate for a P. Would the humane thing not be to create a Necksie Swapsie forum where these deviants can get together in a consentual safe-space and right what they see as a wrong? Like Swap Shop but without the beard guy?

Those people just need to find the P-body J-neck people and do some swapsies.

None at all. I'm putting together a 54 style P with a roasted maple J neck. Fender spilt-coil P and J necks are interchangeable. The single-coil p P and Tele bass, on the other hand, had square heels which makes swapping over require sawdust.

Are you saying Leo didn't get it right first (third) time, brah?

Of course he was out of tune, he didn't have a tonepros bridge, Buzz Feiten compensated nut, locking tuners, carbon stiffening rods in the neck or a tuning pedal on his pedalboard. He was lucky not to have dropped that guitar without straplocks. To be honest, he probably thought intonation was a Polynesian colony. Disgraceful carry on, altogether.

Surprisingly, not each 20 minute segment is exactly the same across the 9 or so hours of content. Prepare to experience mild emotional fluctuations as the story told follows something of a gentle arc, thematically.

What's new? In 77 and 78, you were taking a chance on a 77/78 neck anyway, even when you bought it new 😉

Calculate how much the new parts will cost. Sell the Affinity as is. Combine the money and spend it all on a bass which is the bass you actually want.

Sell both. If you really wanted either you wouldn't be asking the question.

No. I don't think so. I'm much the same, where ensemble music captivates me but solo pieces tend to bore me to tears, especially on clanky instruments not entirely suitable to solo performances. People performing these solo pieces tend to have been doing it long before lockdown. It has never been easier to remotely collaborate. If you're not doing it now, being able to be in a room with someone won't change that.

Never forget, it looks like two instruments were sacrificed so the monster could live. That glued-on headstock appendage probably lived a noble life on a different instrument before the decapitation.

Hand made with a router location hole, of course 😂 It's about as Irish as as bowl of Lucky Charms but the Americans do love some shillelaghs, shamrocks and top o' the mornin' shenanigans. Even so, they'll want to have the luck o' the quare fella to get a grand for a bitsa P, to be sure, to be sure.