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  1. Paul S
    I am going SW first weekend in June if you can wait that long?
  2. Paul S
    Bought an orange bass terror from Will in the simplest of transactions. Nice friendly guy, great comms, amp arrived promptly, superbly packaged - exactly as described. Couldn't be happier and I wouldn't hesitate to deal with him again.
  3. Paul S
    I believe your white one was mine for a while. Fabulous bass. I had several, now down to just one - a Yamaha SB-35. I haven't taken a picture of it, but it looks this.
  4. Paul S
    I have a tatty old Peavey TKO 80 taking up space in my 'office' (spare room with loads of junk). I've been using it as my home practice amp but time to let it go. It is tatty - one of my cats has used it as a scratching post at some point and the cover is down to the wood on one side. Also the 'high' knob is missing. But it works just fine and sounds brilliant. 15" Scorpion speaker, loud enough for rehearsals and smaller gigs. Weighs as much as a small car, of course. Looks exactly like this, only tattier. Free to anyone with the enthusiasm to come and collect from SS7 in SE Essex I forget to say - it is tatty.
  5. Paul S
    [quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1487857875' post='3243594'] Or the Yamaha BB series (424 or 424X) if you'd prefer something more "traditional" than the TRBX. [/quote] This, I reckon. I bought a BB425 as a back up 5er but use it lots.
  6. Paul S
    That's confusing. Seems me all the various sub-genres of heavy metal are each based on a single Black Sabbath track. Might be wrong. What is dub-step? Like a door step but lower?
  7. Paul S
    [quote name='dood' timestamp='1487794174' post='3243057'] Of the pickguard makers advertising, how can I be sure that the types they make are exact versions for the instrument required? Or, to put it another way, who can confidently say that they will do a version of say a US Precision plate where the screws are in exactly the right place? I know that said plate does fit one of my instruments and the screw holes line up. I'd be cheesed off if I bought a new plate (in say a non-standard colour) only to find that, having been advertised as a certain type, that it wasn't a correct fit for one reason or another. [/quote] Many will offer a downloadable template, which does kind of work if you set up your printer correctly.
  8. Paul S
    Roger Glover for me. When the bass comes in at the start of Smoke on the Water... still love it after 45yrs.
  9. Paul S
    Price drop bump
  10. Paul S
    Yamaha BB5000. Anyone wanna sell?
  11. Paul S
    I think this site is fabulous - has to be one of the best behaved and well run sites on the internet (even if my addiction to the classifieds has cost me a small fortune in the past 11 years). Yes there are a tiny handful of dickheads but not many. It just that they usually make a lot of noise so make themselves known. I have the greatest respect for Ped, Kiwi and the mod team who do sterling work. About 20 years ago I stated and ran a discussion forum in what was then a fledgling internet and know exactly how difficult it is. I can only assume it is more complex to deal with trolls nowdays.
  12. Paul S
    I also always take a spare - 'just in case'. At the moment a Hohner B2V which takes up very little space or on 'stage' (= in the corner of the pub) or in the car. I also pay my house insurance premiums every year, even though I have never claimed in 40 years.
  13. Paul S
    I read a quote somewhere, something like - 'some bands rehearse until they get it right, we rehearse until we can't get it wrong'. That is my favoured place to be. Not always possible but if I feel under-rehearsed then I don't enjoy the gig as I am always waiting for the inevitable train wreck. And for me it is all about enjoyment so I begin to question what I am doing there.
  14. Paul S
    I have a Quilter and am really impressed with it. I bought it to use as back up and for rehearsals but find increasingly I'm using it for gigs.
  15. Paul S
    There - I said it was a daft idea and I was right!
  16. Paul S
    I've had a daft idea that this could possibly be a short cut to getting a BB5000 - convert it to a 5er. Depends upon whether the pickup would work ok with 5 strings, but the neck is right - just need a new nut, new 5 string bridge, I have a set of 5 Hipshot U/lite tuners already. Plus of course the hole in the headstock, which would interfere with the decal. I've read that the early BB5000 were pretty much a converted 4 string, don't know the truth behind that. But then again that all seems a shame to mess about with a perfectly decent bass.
  17. Paul S
    [quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1487511282' post='3240310'] Can't beat this in my book. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo[/media] [/quote] Good call. I've seen her sing this twice and, both times, it set the bar for vocal performances I have heard.
  18. Paul S
    The Country scene churns out saccharine ballads profusely but this is one of the best I have heard in years. 'hardy a dry eye in the house'... [media]http://youtu.be/mVGm93II-UA[/media] Another favourite - the former singer from the Illegal Eagles, Ray Brown, sings this one solo so beautifully: http://youtu.be/39HnzHlTCtA
  19. Paul S
    I had exactly the same one, too, in answer to a wanted post of mine. A recycled picture from several years ago and the exact same wording.
  20. Paul S
    [quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1487436389' post='3239815'] Always happy to talk through interesting projects [/quote] ... or even some of my boring ones....
  21. Paul S
    [quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1487153218' post='3237484'] It'd be cheaper to just go on stage wearing a t-shirt saying "Woo! I'm really mad and wacky, me!". Would give precisely the same message. [/quote] Maybe a Spongebob Squarepants T shirt, as it looks like it was made for that. Give me the Jolana any day, nice and sensible...
  22. Paul S
    I really like it. I am a 5 string sort of chap now but a couple of years ago that would have been headed to the Essex Riviera for a new life.
  23. Paul S
    [s]Hipshot BT8 detuner. [attachment=238295:hipshotBT8.jpg] Specs here [url="https://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=308"]https://store.hipsho...ct_detail&p=308[/url][/s] Bought nearly new, never fitted, excellent nick with a very feint scratch on one surface of clover leaf. No packaging, though. Bass Direct have them for £70 plus £4 postage. [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Hipshot,_Xtenders.html"]http://www.bassdirec...,_Xtenders.html[/url] [s]£50[/s] £45 posted. Muchas gracias! Ignore the strike outs above, this is a BT4. link here [url="http://www.bestbassgear.com/hipshot-bt4-bass-xtender.htm"]http://www.bestbassg...ass-xtender.htm[/url] . £70 + £4 shipping from Bass Direct, yours for [s]£45[/s] £40 posted.
  24. Paul S
    I've tried lots and the two best for me are the Minotaur Deluxe Bass or Neotech Mega. Wide, but not too wide that they cut in, and padded.
  25. Paul S
    In a search for a lightweight 5 string to use as back up for an expensive 5er I recently bought a Yamaha BB425 for something like £330 new. I don't know how they do it, frankly.
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