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  1. Paul S
    Last year I sent a bass insured value of £1300 to the Netherlands for €49 via Eurosender, only took a couple of days too.
  2. Paul S
    Speaking of the Maritime Room, I've seen Hamish Stuart there a few times. Last time it was his 360 band which counts amongst its members Steve Pearce on bass and Steve Ferrone on drums (Molly Duncan had just died, so it was a kind of happy/sad night for the band with lots of stories). The tightest, funkiest band you could ever wish to see at a venue that holds 200 at a squeeze.
  3. Paul S
    I've just bought a new pa for my rock trio after taking advice from singer in my other band who knows things and also reading various threads on here. I got 2 x column speaker RCF Evox 8 units - B stock from Thomann that had absolutely no signs of use - and a Soundcraft Signature 16 mixer. The plan is that we will all go through the desk. None of the band, including me, have much clue about what we are doing so the idea of having a desk with everything on show rather than a digital and having to navigate through menu pages seemed appealing. Not used it in anger yet.
  4. Paul S
    Bought a Hondo Alien from Mike in the most straightforward of transaction. He didn't realise he wanted to sell it, in fact, until I ask nicely. It arrived bound and gagged - I've never received a bass so well packed - the bass had bubblewrap inside the hard case, which was itself covered in a custom trimmed cardboard layer that was glued and taped closed. No way was this little fella going to get damaged. And it is in far better nick than I imagined. Thanks Mike, its been a pleasure
  5. Paul S
    If there's nowt wrong with your back an old Trace Elliot head would sound fab. Trace amp and Supercompact my precise gigging rig for 3 or so years until my back got worse.
  6. Paul S
    Funny thing. I don't particularly like hollow bodied basses. I don't particularly like Jazz basses. Not a fan of burst finishes, hate tort plates. Not keen on bound fingerboards and don't like blocks. So why the heck do I keep looking at this in total admiration? 😁
  7. Paul S
    Mods - for some reason I posted this in the double bass forum, might it be possible to move it, please? Nurse?
  8. Paul S
    Had to look up her name - Janice-Marie Johnson.
  9. Paul S
    For sale a Delano PC5 AL/M2 5 string split coil Precision bass pickup. When I was putting my Marooschick Jake 5 together I specified this pickup and, once it had arrived, I liked it so much a bought another and fitted it into my 'back up' 5er. I am now returning the back up, Musicman Sterling 5, to stock in order to sell it so so have this pickup spare. Being fitted to my back up, it has seen very little use. Although they don't wear out, do they? For me this is the best sounding Precision pickup to give a vintage warm depth but with an edge. Warmer than a SD quarterpounder, for example, but with the same kind of penetrating bite. £65 posted to UK mainland.
  10. Paul S
    The Country 2 Country weekend at the O2 Arena, Greenwich, 2015. I think it was the third year they did the C2C festival, not sure, but there were 4 acts each night. The headline act for the second night were Lady Antebellum, a relatively new 'crossover' country band who had a couple of successful singles in the UK but needed a lot of padding, including some covers, in the set. They were supported (3rd act on) by Jason Aldean, who is one of the biggest country rock stars in the US but virtually unknown in the UK - hence his listing. He totally and completely outclassed them in every single respect.
  11. Paul S
    That settles that! 😁
  12. Paul S
    Well, a decent chunk more than I would want to pay for one is not the same as 'a decent chunk more than it is worth'. 2 different things. I guess we all have a ceiling price in our heads when we look for something. For me this is just curiosity about a type of bass I haven't bought into yet, so I don't want to pay lots. It might be that that I won't ever find one for the sort of money I am prepared to punt on one and if that's the case then fair enough.
  13. Paul S
    I was watching one on eBay that finished this morning - 70s CMI in scruffy, used condition but essentially sound. It fetched £410 which is a decent chunk more than I would want to pay for one.
  14. Paul S
    I would like an old school monster tube head with a 4x12 cab. I'd also like to play prop forward for England. Some things are simply out of reach.
  15. Paul S
    Just popped up on eBay, I had one of these for a while and it was marvellous. Pickups were fantastic and the neck was a little wider than the usual Jazz - 40mm if I recall. If I were in the market for a solid, cheap Jazz I'd be all over this. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Japan-MIJ-Squier-Jazz-Bass-91-92-Model/153818903825?hash=item23d0523511:g:S0wAAOSwfsReNs9U
  16. Paul S
    G&L do a replacement lightweight tuner as well - a direct fit on my Sterling 5 and, strangely, also a Peavey Foundation.
  17. Paul S
    Enjoyed that! thanks for posting it.
  18. Paul S
    Good stuff. Hopefully it will be a nice convenient day! Probably our nearest bash.
  19. Paul S
    Depending upon date I'd be up for it. Maybe an Essex contingent could lift share?
  20. Paul S
    Rival Sons supporting Black Sabbath on The End tour at the O2 3 years ago. I'd seen BS a couple of years earlier at Hyde PArk and they were totally on the money but not this time, turning in a pretty pedestrian performance. Rival Sons by contrast were full of energy and enthusiasm - everything you could want from a rock band.
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    As an aside, the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz passed by 'relatively' unnoticed a few days ago. Gutter press were more concerned over the machinations of an insignificant couple who quit their jobs. According to whichever statistics you care to choose somewhere between 20 and 60 percent of millennials in the USA haven't heard of Auschwitz or what it represents. How can this be? Current and future generations need to be reminded of this - as despicable an act as has taken place in terms of Man's inhumanity to his brother Man.
  22. Paul S
    I'd have to agree. I have a ceiling price in my mind for a faker and it is well short of £500. Let's see what pops up - after all it is only to satisfy curiosity on my part. 'Curiosity' is my new replacement word for 'GAS' in this new shiny independent UK. There are implied negative connotations of weakness and submission with GAS whereas curiosity is such a positive thing, so full of optimism. 🤨
  23. Paul S
    Wow! Stupidly cheap. I absolutely adore mine. So easy to play and light as a feather. I've even got used to the bridge!
  24. Paul S
    I've mostly seen Rics bottom out at around £1500 so two thirds of that is better.
  25. Paul S
    How much would you expect to pay for one of these Chushin models? I think one of these would probably represent my best inexpensive introduction to Rics.
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