Beedster

Some great advice in this thread, @Dad3353 and @BigRedX wish I’d had similar advice 20 years back 👍

Ironically of course you're probably one of the very few of us in a domestic situation that's welcoming of new basses. Seems almost a waste of such extraordinary cunning.....? Unless of course it's s coded message to the rest of us 🤔

So, with apologies if this has already been pointed out, I haven't read the whole thread, but Jack has basically had a new neck built for a body for which he already had a neck, and then decided to get a new body built for the spare neck? Genius, getting another bass into the house without actually ever buying another bass 👍

Bought back memories that did! I bought a bass on eBay from the US years ago, and the seller indicated a valuation of around twice what I paid on the basis that in his opinion that's what the bass was worth should it be lost or damaged. Can almost see his logic but didn't do me any favours when it came to import duty, VAT etc.

Hold fire, someone here will help out 👍

Great review @fretless, many thanks. Are you finding that battery life isn't in fact a problem, or at least no more than with an active electric bass?

My interest in the 300 will be revised once they appear for sale again. Having checked when I sold my SLB-100, most of the retailers who suggested that they have the SLB-300 in stock are, to use a well worn phrase, actually 'awaiting delivery'..... There also seem to be some serious issues around battery life, so I'm wondering whether there's some post-Covid component availability issues preventing more units coming off the production lines, it's odd for Yamaha to have gone to market with a unit with (alleged) performance issue and to then offer such poor availability, especially as it seems that not many players have taken the plunge and bought one yet? The shame is that I bet it's a cracking instrument and had there been one available a month or so ago it would be sitting in my studio now 👍

On reflection looking like you’ll be loud should be taken as a positive Clarky, better than looking like you’ll be crap 🤔

‘Looked too loud’ is a new one, glad you had the balls to walk. Some flipping idiots running venues these days 😟 Please play Kent soon 👍

Have a good one Clarky, will catch you in this band one day 👍

There's more 80's stars in that audience than are currently on the road in 80's reunion tours, they must have recorded that at a TOTP recording 👍

You'd have thought that knowing that video was out there would have prohibited the guilty parties from ever wanting to become sufficiently famous for it to be unearthed 🤔

Lovely 👍

All joking aside never realised he was in EWB and how many classic songs he wrote 👍