Newfoundfreedom

I can see why you'd be annoyed. But in all honesty who wouldn't do the same thing? (assuming that the singer's email it's true) Surely, ability being comparable, anyone would go with a mate given the chance. I personally wouldn't even be interested in being in a band with strangers. Being in a band for me is all about hanging around with my mates making a noise. Although I appreciate it's a very different situation in a professional outfit.

Easily solved. Just leave the UK. Plenty more cheap Thomann goodies for me. 😁 Oh, and did I mention the cheap beer, low cost of living, borderless travel, and the right to live and work anywhere in Europe unhindered. I really miss the UK. 😋

"One of a kind. Rare oportunidade to add a unique piece of instrument to your collection" A rare OPORTUNIDADE indeed. If only I had loads of monooney and very little sensimelia.

Pretty much anything by The Cure. Can't stand their music generally, but a lot of the bass riffs are cracking. Love Cats for example. Utter dross! But I love the bass on it. https://youtu.be/mcUza_wWCfA

No mine was a much earlier and cheaper model. I think probably the aforementioned 506.

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I must admit I quite fancied one for a while, but I went with an actual 6 string bass in the end. I suspect, due to the string spacing, it would feel much more like a guitar than a bass, and playing with fingers would be difficult if not impossible. I'd still like to get my hands on one and try it fist hand though. The Squire VI looks nice too, and it's not overly expensive.

I can't comment on the science, but I just can't get over the looks. It's like one of those optical illusion puzzles. The fretboard always looks warped and bent to me, even though my conscious brain knows it's straight. So looking at them always (genuinely) makes me feel slightly nauseous.

It's not a scratch plate. It's a one piece bridge. That's the whole party piece of Trabens. They have oversized super high mass bridges. They sound superb, and sustain for days!

I have one of these with Seymour Duncan pups and preamp. It's absolutely superb! I paid about £250 for it. The one above looks a bit rough, but still a bargain.

It will be interesting to see what it goes for, but the current price is often no reflection on the final selling price. In my experience most of the bidding on eBay is done in the last 5 seconds. Anyone bidding earlier than that is just having a punt, and stand little chance of actually winning. Unless they've already bid more than the item is worth.

Well you lot have talked me into it. I think I'm gong to add one to my Thomann order on Monday.

Story of my life. The E's always wear off too quickly.

Weirdly, I love a good rock ballad. Nothing clever, nothing noodley, just the bass providing solid bottom end underneath guitar chords.

The only thing that puts me off slightly, is I'm sure I had a Zoom pedal many years ago, kind of looked like this but with a circular central display. Probably much older than this model. But I just remember everything sounding really wooley and pretty much useless.

If they run out, they're only £2.65 more on Thomann with 3 year warranty and 30 day return policy 😉 I've got an order I want to place with Thomann anyway, so I might just stick one of these in the list. I thought they were just cheap, outdated crappy plastic pedals, but the review are actually pretty good. I'm generally not a fan of "patch" driven pedals, they're way too much arsing about, and I don't really use many effects, occasionally a bit of reverb. But I need a new tuner anyway. At at that price it's probably worth it just for a tuner and reverb pedal.

That's the only theory you need.

I've heard plenty of music compiled by NI (no intelligence) No Limits by 2 Unlimited being the first track that springs to mind.

Pretty much sums up the Basschat fraternity. 😂

Sad about the band's cancelling. But it could have been worse. You could have actually gone to Butlins. Don't know about the Minehead one. But the Skegness one is like a holding pen for the Jeremy Kyle show.

I looked at it, but went with the Bugera Veyron instead with absolutely no regrets. I don't know how good the HB is, but the Veyron takes a lot of beating, and it's cheaper.

Tried Band Mule a few months ago, and it was almost perfect, except that it didn't do live push messages, which meant if any of the band members sent a message, the rest of the members didn't see it until, or unless they logged into the app, effectively making it useless. I don't know if this has been fixed since, but it's a shame as otherwise it would be pretty much perfect for a band app.

I actually thought the first series of Big Brother was ground-breaking in it it's time. It was a kind of social experiment conducted "live" on television, and was quite interesting in that respect. It all went down hill after that as people realised they could get famous doing it, pandered to the cameras, and the producers recruited more and more extreme personalities to make for perceived "better" viewing. Now i'd rather pull my own toenails out than watch any kind of reality TV. Actually i'd rather pull my own toenails out than watch any terrestrial network television at all.

I'd go as far as to say I never really rated Clapton or Hendrix. They were way before my time, and while I can appreciate they were ground-breaking in their era, I grew up listening to the likes of Steve Vai, Satriani, Malmstein, Slash, and a myriad of other rock guitarist. Who for me, far surpassed anything that Clapton or Hendrix ever did.