prowla

I guess that's why my 5-string Warwicks don't have fret markers.

1 hour ago, Maude said:

Cheapo plywood or multi laminate? 

It's all in the wording. 

Oh, I think that the motivation was definitely the price.

https://www.growlerstore.co.uk/collections/glass-beer-growlers

1 hour ago, cetera said:

ignore

That was ignorant! 🙂

8 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I have Kay basses and a Kay guitar. Curiously they are all cheap construction but sound great!

Those cheapo plywood guitars can sound really good.

37 minutes ago, redd said:

People who name their guitars and then ask me to participate. What's she called? 'Well I haven't assigned a gender and it's a @&#£?!# fender jazz'. (BB King gets a pass).

 

I think that assigning gender to an instrument is the irrational thing.

So I'd classify your item as a rational prejudice against an irrational trend!

22 minutes ago, tegs07 said:

Most decent building contractors have a waiting list of at least 6 months. 

 

A tax on property over £500K may sort this out though particularly in London and the South East.

Hi: We've just moved in to a house; I need you to build an extension within a month, starting with planning permission.

-or-

Hi: We've an offer on a house and if it's accepted I'll need you to commit to building an extension within a month of moving in, but we don't have a date for that and since we don't own the property we don't yet have planning permission.

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

Not seeing anything in the logs here that relates to that. The 'Sorry there was a problem reacting to this content' is an error caused by mixing http and https, but I can't see why you would be doing that. if you force reload the page and click does it do the same?

Thanks - will check tomorrow. 

If I click on the notifications bell the pull-down appears but spins and shows no conent, but if I click on "View all notifications" it takes me to a page of links which works.

I tried clicking on a "Like" (annoyingly in the "Daily Annoyances" thread) and it said "Sorry, there was a problem reacting to this content.".

3 hours ago, TimR said:

Wasps in jam jars.

 

More specificly wasps in marmalade jars. 

And wasps in lager.

 

Actually...

 

...just wasps. 

Tell them to buzz off!

I have one of those; it's very good.

It has the option of 0-127 or 1-128 mode.

"Squire"

1 hour ago, HeadlessBassist said:

 

No Prowla, sadly, yours looks like an early model Mexican Standard. (MX Serial Number on the front of the neck), so the BadAss II is probably an addition by a previous owner. Nicely cracked and aging, though. I wonder how it lost its paint finish on top of the neck block? 🤔

 

Highway One's had the "Made in USA" on the front of the headstock. 

Thanks - yes, it's got the MX serial, so I wasn't thinking it was a Highway but rather if they did some things at the Mexican factory too.

It cost me £100; I reckon it's been chucked about a bit.

It is a good bass though; I may strip it at some point, but there's a risk as to what the underlying wood looks like.

1 hour ago, zonular said:

God no, it's making travelling as easy as possible, the bus is cramped and I wouldn't dare bring my normal gig bag / j bass with me on it

🙂
In that case, the Spirit.

Alternatively, you could go for a (Steinberger Spirit) guitar and learn come complimentary skills.

On 05/09/2025 at 11:00, HeadlessBassist said:

Highway One Fender basses - Y'know, the Mexico made and painted bodies sent for final build in Corona with Grease Bucket tone circuit and Nitro finish with BadAss II bridges. Rare as hen's teeth, and people obviously tend to keep hold of them.

 

 

 

 

Hmmm - I've got a Fender MIM Precision; it's badly beaten up and the finish is cracked and even chunks split off.

I took a risk buying it, as the damage might've been structural, but it's been fine.

The thing is it's got a Badass bridge; I assumed it was an upgrade but you've got me wondering now if it was an original fit.

(I did the Straplock buttons.)

Ah, sorry: mis-read...

You want to play it on the bus/train/tram.

That could be annoying for the other passengers.

I have an Ashbory (Fender) and I find it a completely different instrument to a bass, so I'm not sure how practicing on it would be particularly beneficial.

I'd suggest a Steinberger Spirit or Hohner full-scale headless bass.

(My Rickenberger.)

22 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

A very specific one. The electric mountain bike club who yesterday passed me twice while I was riding my non electric bike up hill and then hold me up at walking pace on a downhill trail where I should have been enjoying the reward of the uphill slog by enjoying the high speed jumps, drops, twisties and rocks.

Just electric bikes in general.

And even worse electric scooters.

Mind you, I con't consider disliking them irrational.

There's someone near me who rides his e-scooter on the road at night; yesterday evening around 10 they were going along the road, parallel with an e-bike.

1 hour ago, Jackroadkill said:

Can we just agree that punching downwards isn't a good thing?

I've not heard that term before - every day's an education (to someone with an open mind).

13 minutes ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

I can see the sense in this. Unfortunately the oft-misunderstood adage that "wisdom comes with age" leads a lot of people to calcify their views and positions and expect people to respect their "wisdom" just because they're older.

 

I much prefer Frank Zappa's adage that "your mind is like a parachute. It's no good if you don't open it."

But an open mind shouldn't be an empty mind.

1 hour ago, WinterMute said:

Not everyone whose planning on voting Reform is a racist bigot, but all the racist bigots will likely vote Reform.

 

I don't care if it is cuddly Uncle Albert, if he's a racist bigot who is incapable of changing his mind, he can f*ck off.

So long as it's not Uncle Ernie!

2 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

 

I think his opinion would be based on whether the definition and indeed those who were defining it had the intent to protect downtrodden groups or protect those doing the treading.

And whether they had two or four legs.

On 02/08/2022 at 10:29, BassBod said:

From your photo, it could originally have been either the AH150 or AH250?  If the power amp section is taller than 2u, then I guess it was the 250…

I don't think it was an AH150, as that had quite a shallow depth.

Ah - the pics show it has a UV tube too, so that rules it out anyway.

42 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

They are rarer than the "look another Fender copy" threads, just saying...

 

In fact, musicians are very very very conservative persons and don't like new ideas, when it's not the usual debate "play the root only, if you play bass" or the "Jaco only needed four" argument...

 

It's a bit disappointing to refuse to evolve, and don't tell me that "Leo got it right the first time" as the G&L are very far away from his first designs.

 

That said, I like an old original Fender the way I like tube based amps, but don't own any for the obvious reason that we now have way better designed and sounding instruments and amps.

 

I like them for what they are : stepstones.

Some musicians...

(OK - I am a beginner on the Stick.)

3 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

I'm sure we're all agreed that all grooming gangs are evil! My point was that the fear of being labelled "racist" was a reason cited for police not looking into the Bradford gangs.

 

In terms of small boat numbers perhaps closer to half a million coming to the UK since the crossings started, once you include dependents who subsequently come over to join them? Does people objecting to the impact on their communities of these significant number of arrivals make them racist? If so, we're going to be labelling a huge chunk of the UK population racist, which I just don't think is true? 

 

And if it is true, we ain't going to have too many "non racist" bandmates to choose from! 

 

Well, at least 52% of the UK population are! 🙂