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Beedster

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  1. This thread is probably but going where the OP hoped but man it’s making me smile:)
  2. My point was to do with them describing it as a US Fender
  3. Good advice. If the but will drop out, try putting a capo between the tuners and where the nut was ( to keep the strings aligned) and seeing how it plays, nut on a FL needs to be cut much lower, strings are pretty much on the board in my two
  4. ...and if it’s a custom body, which I’d read as having been made for the neck or it’s simply ‘an aftermarket body’, the exposed pocket in the treble side doesn’t suggest much effort went into it. As said above, a bitsa, and whilst it might sound amazing and play well, the poor fit of the neck would bug the hell out of me
  5. Yep, comments regarding the value of individual components mean little when those components have been so poorly put together. The whole in this case is less than the sum of the parts, although at used prices they were already stretching it. Seems someone’s trying to get a good return on a decent neck by bolting it to a few other bits and proclaiming it a US instrument. I find Bass Direct are generally OK on these things, this one must have slipped through I guess
  6. He’s not widely recognised as an FL player because a) he was in tune and b) his playing didn’t rely on signposting the absence of frets, unlike that of so many FL players
  7. You could post a picture of the map and sofa on their own and we'd still all be here drooling and checking our Paypal accounts
  8. Post of the year to date, and probably true (apart from the Hermes bit of course, we all know that was a step too far) I had a Mesa 15 that we dropped during a load in, it broke my car but the cab was no worse off for it. Ah the good old days, when cabs were cabs
  9. So, for those of you who do not understand what Walshy's up to, it borrows strongly to the work on classical conditioning of Ivan Pavlov, but is perhaps more in keeping of the methods used by the Soviet block in the 60's and 70's to 'encourage' certain behaviours of their agents. In short, for a few years now Paul has been putting beautiful instruments in front of that map and sofa, which, you will have noticed, are always arranged identically in each listing. The prices, because these are beautiful instruments, are high, but rightly so, many would say below market value. But you watch this space, suddenly there will be Satellites, Columbi, even some of those awful Russian things, and we're all going to be so conditioned by the map and the sofa, that we'll just carry on buying at the same high prices. Do not stare at the map. Repeat, do not stare at the map.
  10. Completely agree, looks really bad but could be the angle. Either way, how a USA neck makes this a USA Fender is beyond me
  11. A story that resonates widely on this form
  12. Funnily enough I was going to mention my old BW loaded Peavey as well, and like your TE, paired with an SVT the tone was huge and visceral
  13. Yep, love Mesa 15s. Sign of the time however that as soon as ‘best’ is mentioned in terms of amplification the word ‘weight’ soon follows. Most of the lightweight gear I’ve owned has lacked something tonally to my ear and has also been quite fragile by comparison, which means I get more anxious about damage at rehearsal/gigs (I’ve never damaged a Boogie cab despite trying quite hard). And it might just be me, but I’ve not always found light gear a whole lot easier to move around; Mesa Powerhouse 15s certainly weigh a ton, but on wheels are really no great challenge. OK, 1516EV in a road ready flight case is a different issue Talking of 1516s Greg..............?
  14. I think that used to be mine, if so it's a cracker
  15. Damn, there was I thinking I might do some bass playing this weekend and along comes this bloody thread, the watching of which is clearly going to become the BC equivalent of painting the Forth Bridge
  16. Thanks so much for posting this, I hadn't come across him previously but am now hooked. Rare example of extraordinary groove, creativity and technical skill working so well in and complimenting the track
  17. Odd, I had the opposite problem, tried to remove it, wasn’t easy
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