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Ooh, sneaky. Surely you ‘need’ a new pedal or amp 😉.

Yep, your days are numbered 😉

Ah well, it was fun while it lasted (details to follow in an NBD). To be fair, it's been a good while since I bought any bass hardware at all. Good luck to those still standing.

Bassfreaks is in Brussels, although I don’t know if it’s a shop in the classic sense as viewing is by appointment only. https://bassfreaks.net/pages/about-us @pierreganseman who runs it is a member here.

Another Budgie fan here too. It puzzles me that they never really became huge, given the success of Rush (the Canadian Budgie).

My inner Finbar Saunders is sniggering uncontrollably right now. I need to grow up (nah, not going to happen). 😂

Dog house for a few days, but a new bass for much longer; a price worth paying.

Keep an eye out for the 'off the shelf' Maruszczyks in the shop, as the same spec on the configurator tends to be more expensive. Some other BCers are having fun on the Sandberg configurator, maybe check that out too.

Couldn't get it to play on BC but found it on FB. That sounded really good with good, if gushing, technical info. Thanks for posting.

I had that album on vinyl, it’s great.

Very true, perhaps the very nature of discussion - it evolves. Now then, grapefruit, is that overrated? Discuss 😂.

Ah, well that makes even more sense. You even feel, to this day, that Ronnie Wood is not a real ‘part of the gang’ which is sad as he’s been there for decades.

I’m neither a Beatles or Stones fan (in fact, a lot of the 60s output leaves me cold and I’m old enough to have been around). However, Gimme Shelter is a great song song and a high water mark for me. Start Me Up is also rather fine, but I feel that this song rather defined the Stones’ sound from that point onwards. I think their fame is down to being around (and staying around) at a point when music and pop culture in general was going through a major upheaval. I know I’m in a minority here. As to there being just the three members, according to BW, perhaps that’s down to him having left and Brian Jones being dead. I wonder if he really felt the same way in the 60s and early 70s? I guess that’s the problem writing in hindsight. I bet it’s a good read though (unlike Keef, which I gave up on, despite having a lot of time for him).

Some like it high, but for some that’s a battle, so they set it low and try to avoid rattle. 😁 Having tried a few Fender Ps in my local GG the other day, I suspect the highness of the Fender specs is to allow for poor ex-factory set ups; some of them seemed ridiculously high to me.

Noooooo! 😱

Is it me or did @ped just ask how big someone’s knob is? 😂

Congrats to Fleabag on getting this bass and to Andyjr for yet another build. However, I must voice what I feel others might be thinking, what’s next? 🙂

Tried a Lakland PJ today that had a jazz width neck, absolutely formidable P pickup and played really smoothly. The J added a bit more upper mids, but the P soloed was ‘that’ sound. Nicer than the Fender Ps I tried.

That's 3 months under my belt, but it's starting to look very dodgy for April (once you start looking, buying doesn't tend to be far behind).

Excellent, no clash with the guitar show at the BDC. Nice planning folks.

Ye gods, that bottom end is monstrous! Me likey.

Step right this way, sir. First up, I agree that PP’s playing on I, Assassin does seem to channel the mighty Karn. Being stupid as a teenager is in the job description, man alive I did some stupid things that make me shudder now, but it’s a rite of passage. Anyway, the first 2 Paul Young albums (No Parlez and The Secret of Association) are pretty much obligatory, No Parlez is one the main reasons I picked up a bass in the first place. David Gilmour’s About Face features Pino, the track Murder certainly. Don Henley’s Sunset Grill from Building the Perfect Beast is another good one, as is New York Minute from End of the Innocence. Joan Armatrading’s The Shouting Stage is all Pino. He is on the first Go West album at least (Call Me is just brilliant). Sowing The Seeds Of Love by Tears For Fears is Pino again. Then you have his fretted playing with John Mayer (Continuum is my favourite), D’Angelo (Voodoo is meant to be brilliant if you like that genre) and of course The Who (not that I feel it suits him really, but those are some boots to fill). There are plenty of other artists who have employed his bass stylings, here’s a link to the Wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pino_Palladino . Hope this gives you something to pick from.