Doctor J

He first fitted a Bigass bridge during the recording of Fat Bottomed Girls. There's the door, I'm going, I'm going!

I get that asking price and selling price are different things, but there has been a fairly steep increase in asking prices over the last year, maybe two. Even if the stuff doesn't sell, it does filter out to other sites and people checking the percieved going rate before posting ads of their own.

It's not an extended version of Let It Be, they've stressed that quite forcefully. There was a narrative pushed on Let It Be but the full footage revealed a different story to Jackson, which is what he wants to tell with the new effort.

Ah crap. I'd love to support but I'm just not engaged with the social media shite. If he gets money from ads on the podcast, happy days.

Cos I already feel I'm going to be listening to every back episode 🙂

I don't have a youtube account. When I said podcast subscription, I meant it. Does he get any kind of royalties through ads on the podcast?

You have had a good year.

Thanks for that. I have just subscribed to the podcast.

It seems like there are quite a few of us on the site who play drums but I can't find a thread which just covers drum... ehhh.... chat. Who out there is also a drummer? What are you playing?

or have asking prices gone absolutely f**cking mental? I've been doing a bit of browsing recently on Reverb and Ebay, as well as some local sites over here in Ireland, and everything is at least 50% over where it should be, I would say. I'm all for profit and such, free economy and all that, but some of these asking prices just beggar belief. Old Squiers ad Mexican Fenders hovering around the 1k mark. I feel like I have been in a coma and missed something important.

I will keep you in mind if an affordable, white 2024x ever crosses my path 👍

I live in a place where you'd get battered by import duties and VAT. I actually took it personally that no-one wanted this bass so it has been transferred back to the "keep it and f**k the non-believers" pile. I dream of a white 2024x but, in the meantime, the 1100S is a good placeholder 😃

It's almost pelham blue, no? You could spray brussels sprouts pelham blue and they'd be desirable. Spray a foxy bass like this that colour and... wow. Very, very nice.

They're a fantastic bass. Desirable? I have no idea what that is anymore now that I live in a world where Squiers and Mexican Fenders regularly graze 1k asking prices. I had my 85 MIJ 1100S up for sale and didn't get an offer above €350. It's a crazy, crazy world. They're a proper, proper bass. Fashionable? No idea. Pro quality bass? 100%.

Billy calls his battered old Precision his "wife"

The oul DVDs never let me down 😁

My missus is not too familiar with the Beatles minutiae, being Italian and raised on opera etc, so we have been watching the Anthology series in preparation for the release of this. I am now ridiculously excited about this being released 🙂

If you've got a Japanese 70's Jazz in Lake Placid Blue with matching headstock, blocks and binding and it doesn't work out... you are the problem.

Brentford Bees?

My old 924 had an additional hole, on top of those drilled in the factory. Rather than try to hide it, they always look terrible, I installed a series/parallel switch which added a useful tonal option.

The red diminishes with exposure to light over a long period of time. You can see it's still visible on the back.

And nowhere near enough fire.

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They're owned by Fender and are adopting the Fender design philosophy from the last 20+ years, namely jumble up a load of existing parts and give it a name to pretend it's something new. That Fender are now trying to cash in on Ric aesthetics is a very interesting development. That thing is a very ugly mess, it must be said.

At one gig I played back in the early 90s, the band I was playing very raw and heavy doom stuff so, not wanting to be tempted by any fancy notes, I removed all but the biggest string, which was tuned down a long, long way. The bassist from one of the other bands came in looking to borrow a bass but wasn't desperate enough to rock a one-stringer. Quite ungrateful, I thought.