PaulWarning

ah yes, I remember that description of a certain brown colour, there was an Agatha Christie book called "10 little n*****s" later retitled "and then there were none", and the less said about Guy Gibson's dog the better, although the last time I saw the Dambusters it hadn't been edited out as it had been previousley. Funny old world

perhaps I ought clarify, we, quite rightly, don't use the N word because it upsets a lot of people and has racist connections , but to the older generation the C word is just as upsetting (my 92 year old mum for a start) yet it's regularly used in public and social media, personally I'm not bothered by it unless I'm in company who are upset by it. Yet in the 70's there were comedy shows that used the N word

the story goes, which you've probably heard, when JJ broke the the green one thumping it to get feedback he had it repaired but it was never the same, he tried hundreds of P's and never found one that sounded like the one one he broke, don't know if it's true, good story though. I do know the last time I saw them live, Peaches just didn't sound right at all. Wait a minute, you said had, you mean you let it go?

not heard J J Burnel's green Precision then?

well they have too, they make a product that doesn't wear out, so the only way they can keep selling it is to try and convince bass players to buy another one by tweaking it

sounds about right

that would explain it I suppose,

you mean like a Jazz? you'd have to have a Hi Pass filter set at about 300 Hz to make it sound anything like that (if you've not guessed not impressed) perhaps something was lost in the recording

thinking about it it could be MIM, initially I thought the Standards were only made in the USA, bit of research and apparently not. I was looking for a lefty and I know they're not MIM, I think I got confused, Andertons do MIM for £500 so not such a bargain, unless it is a USA and they've cocked up

https://www.rattleanddrum.com/fender-standard-precision-bass-in-lake-placid-blue.html unfortunately I'm a lefty

It's a long way from Nottingham, I suppose Rattle and Drum at Derby might get them in, no lefty's at the moment but they do have this https://www.rattleanddrum.com/fender-standard-precision-bass-in-lake-placid-blue.html looks a bargain to me if you play the right way on

We do Jilted John and without fail everyone smiles at, she a slag, and he's a creep, she's a tart, he's very cheap, she's a slut, he thinks he's tough, she's b1tch and he's a poof, sometimes political incorrectness is amusing. I may be old fashioned but when did it become ok to say the C word and not the N word oh yeah the profanity filter is really pi*sing me off

thanks for that, I'm doing my best to resist, after all what's the point when you've already got a USA P? apart from all black with a maple finger board 😣

Can't argue with that, which is why the high street is dying, it's progress, the world moves on, I don't want to go back to having to take whatever strings they choose to stock at a higher price, and as for left handed basses, forget it

yes I was, didn't know he was closing, but like you, not surprised. Bit of a character is Jimmy, at a recent open mic he had a bandanna on his head, I said didn't know it was it was fancy dress you coming as a pirate, to which he replied "Better than coming as a c*nt" perhaps not the best at retail diplomacy though

He doesn't make much from his shop, tops it up by giving guitar lessons, I suspect that's where most of his business comes from. Having been in retail myself (newsagents) I really don't know how music shops make money, I suspect most of them are labours of love

Smallish local music stores have to cater for Mummys and Daddys coming into the shop for a guitar for little Johnny, haven't a clue what they're buying so need advice, if Johnny then progresses a little he'll know what he wants so probably won't need their advice, which is why they have mostly inexpensive stock, that's what their customers need.

find a store selling lefties? good luck with that

all merch sales go into the band pot, we did have a couple of members leave and we told them they'd get their share of any sales of the CD they played on, after a couple of (minor) payouts they told us not to bother anymore as we were selling them on the strength of the gigs with the new line up. Does help when you stay on amicable terms with ex members 😊

depends what you mean by midrange, anything from 100hz to 1000hz could be called midrange, boost around 300 to 800hz and it gets boxy, sounds awful on it's own but makes you heard in the mix.

the cat obviously thinks that Rickenbacker is a dirty word

I used to think that whenever I heard one it was clank clank clank, but recently I've heard a couple that sounded suburb, Duncan Reid (of the Boys fame) and Paul Gray on the Damned tour

yes, Trace didn't make many duds but this was one, had the misfortune to use one on a multi band gig, "Trace Elliot combo supplied" oh goody methinks

I've got an old encore, found it next to a dust bin, never bothered stringing it as a leftie, tried playing it, as @bertbass says it was like starting to play again but knowing what you're supposed to be doing, frustrating as hell and not easy, hopefully I won't have to do it, yesterday's gig went ok

Did a gig last night and for the first time arthritis in the knuckle of my fretting ring finger affected my playing, early days but got me wondering if anybody else has tried to swap left to right or vice versa after learning reasonably proficiently one way ? if so how did it go? I know the guy out of the Bootleg Beatles switched from right to left.