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There are fans of his tuners.

Oh, I haven't got to the end! 🙂

"Rare" doesn't necessarily mean valuable.

Yep - I think I've managed to work it out! TBH I've not played along to it at all, but there might be a 4th chord in there for the chorus!

I'm due to have a get-together with some pals for a jam. The last one we did Carry On Wayward Son, Jailbreak, Born To Be Wild, and one or two others; we were supposed to do Money, but nobody else learned it! Upcoming are: Get Back, Come Together, Purple Haze, Badge, Sunshine Of Your Love, Let's Dance, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Teenage Kicks, and a few more; there's quite a few styles to be covered there, which is quite fun.

I bought one new back in the 80s, because I couldn't afford a real Status. I got a real one in the 90s and it was in a totally different league to the Washburn. I sold the Washburn. The (asking) prices of the copies now are ridiculous and £1k is double what would be a lot. I've still got the Status. (But Status prices have gone up a lot too.)

I saw a Steve Hackett's "Genesis Revisited" gig a few years back and it was rather good; it wasn't purporting to be Genesis though. I saw Deep Purple, but Ian Paice is the only original member - they were good (and Europe were the support, so that was a bonus). Journey with the alternative singer were pretty awful though.

Guy Pratt & Gary Kemp do the Rockonteurs YT channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz902KiwFM9FthzFVd-WUlQ

I haven't sold anything on ebay for some years now but occasionally buy. They started upping their T&Cs, enforcing their own finance option, restricting allowed items, and finding nothing wrong with obviously counterfeit items. TBH I couldn't be doing with the hassle selling, and buying ain't what it used to be. It's offputting when a company takes it upon itself to start dictating to its customer base.

Jeff Beck - hardly a great singer.

The older pedals themselves are plastic copies of Boss, but the internals of both are cheap components. I've got a Behringer Model D and an El Toro; they are both very good. I go with the cheap but not nasty opinion.

Not quite so numptyish, as TE used to use XLRs for speakers. Also, some cabs have combo Speakon/jack sockets; my Markbass ones do.

Interestingly, I did that yesterday too!

That is a Speakon, not XLR, right? A few years back I went to a (now defunct) Maplins and asked if they had any Speakon connectors: the assistant gave me a quizzical look told me he could show me where the "speaker" cables were and took me across, where I picked a Speakon off the display.

I don't think it's that Ric-like. It could be fun to play one!

Shirley not!

Parking needs to be sorted; I went 2 years ago and it was rammed; I gave it a miss this year.

People complained that Rics did this/that/whatever, so RIC produced a model which addressed it all. Everybody carried on buying the ones that they'd been complaining about anyway. The 4004 isno longer in production.

Looks like a great day out.

There's nothing innovative about that: it's a P-bass with a vaguely Ric(ish) pickguard and a Hipshit (ripoff of a Hipshot) bridge slapped on it. Other companies have done it.

I’ve got some on other basses too, plus some waiting for basses (no more Ric ones, though).

I have them on 3 of my Rics. But they won't fit a 70s one.