Newfoundfreedom

Wow! It's this standard pricing for gigs in the UK now, or is it just big acts taking the wee wee? The last gig I went to in the UK was Guns n Roses and Thin Lizzy at Nottingham arena and the tickets were about forty quid. Granted it was a good few years ago now, but still....... I don't think there's an act on the planet I'd pay more than £100 to see, and I'm probably pushing it at that.

I'll still buy smaller, low value items from the UK, pedals, cables, parts etc, because I have a good forward shipper and very rarely get stung with any extra costs. But I wouldn't buy a bass or any other mid to high value items. Also, sadly the second hand market here is absolute dross and decent music shops are very thin on the ground. Even when anything decent comes up it's always well overpriced. So now I almost always buy new. Thomann now gets pretty much all my business. I often drool at the second hand basses in the for sale section here. There are some absolute bargains, but it's just not worth the risk or hassle for me now.

That's more than I paid for most of my basses. 😆

I like Custard Creams.

Scott's Rock Lessons. Where Scott tries playing a simple 4/4 riff with no plinking and plonking and his head explodes.

Wow that's a fair chunk of change for what is possibly the uglies Rik I've ever seen, and I generally like the looks of a Rik.

Thanks. That's much clearer. 🙄

I'm glad you made that simple. 🤔

Because they run an 18 volt preamp system instead of 9 volt.

This exactly. If I didn't like the look of a bass I simply wouldn't feel motivated to pick it up and play it. Whether anyone else likes it or not isn't even an issue.

Similar to above, I played bass in my teens, then never picked one up again until I was about 44 / 45. I was extremely lucky that a lot of my friends locally just happened to be musicians in a similar situation so forming a band was easy.

2. WTF???

I used one of these for recombining bass and guitar sound ala Royal blood. It did the job perfectly with no issues whatsoever. I could easily switch between bass sound, guitar sound, or both combined.

What a shame more jazz players don't play a "metal".

I'd love to hear what one of those actually sounds like. What with there being no expensive "tonewood" and all. 😆

Yes. I absolutely agree. But no-one so far has been able to recreate "Heft". Which is impossible to digitally recreate and is almost solely owned and employed by Trace Elliott. 😆

Am from a little mining village in middle earth, in-between Doncaster, Barnsley, Wakefield and Pontefract. Although I think I've almost lived more of my life outside Yorkshire than I did in. But I reckon if you snapped me in half like a stick of rock it would still say "Yorkshire" in the middle. 😉

Ars tha doin mucka. Where abarts in God's county is tha from?

Hi Andy, from a very hot Bulgaria via Yorkshire. 😉

I hope the drummer continued playing. 😆

I don't know why this is particularly surprising. It's been all over the news for months that the price of firewood is going up.

I've taken pillo...... erm , punters outside for less. The last one got a spanking for grabbing the guitarists hat. 🤠