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Beedster

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  1. Technology making things easier but not better
  2. Having said the above, there are rumours of live music at The Old City Bar tomorrow https://www.oldcitybar.co.uk/whats. Personally, that's about 2 miles too close to TfF for me, so I'd be looking to fill up on some decent Turkish at Al La Turka (Westgate, there's two of them) http://www.ala-turka.co.uk/westgate.php followed by a few pints of Bishops Finger in the pub of the same name next door https://www.bishopsfingercanterbury.co.uk/. It's my birthday tomorrow and Mrs Beedster is taking me for a quiet drink somewhere, or I'd join you! C
  3. No one I know is gigging here, I have no basses for sale, and being at a certain stage in life rarely eat out (kids eat all of my money), I have to concede I can't be much help mate. Given the TfF event, Canterbury will be bustling with the sort of people who liked TfF back in the day, i.e., a bunch of middle-aged middle-class urbanites wearing clothes they shouldn't even have worn in '83 let alone now. Which reminds me: I used to play in a nice little bluegrass outfit, sort of thing that wouldn't offend anyone on a late summer Sunday afternoon down the Dog & Duck but which also allowed the aficionados to nod approvingly. We were booked to do a Friday night at a pub opposite the cricket ground. We didn't do our due diligence, and walked in to find a pub quite literally rammed with 55 year old skinheads - DMs, Harringtons, jeans rolled up to just below the knees, a certain 'atmosphere if you get my meaning. They had flocked to Canterbury that night to see Madness. So there's me and my three bluegrass buddies facing 200+ whizzed skinheads. IIRC we played four songs and did a runner; the landlord however was kind enough to pay us for the full set. So these days I tend to stay out of town when the big gigs are on, although I doubt the TfF bunch will cause too much aggro Have a great time mate C
  4. Exactly, he’s living in a world that doesn’t exist any more
  5. The list of corporates with leadership who a) know what they're doing, and b) give a f**k about their market is sadly getting shorter every day
  6. Fender and Gibson are really not endearing themselves to their market are they?
  7. Wow, now seen the video, how could anyone have thought that was a good idea?
  8. I'll see if any of my lot are gigging, what sort of music do you like? Food-wise, there's a lot of choice, again will depend what you're after really?
  9. I love stories like that, brilliant! I've twice been asked for my autograph at airports, first time by a rather excitable and attractive 20-ish Scandinavian girl (I was about 22 at the time so this was good news, but not sufficiently good for me to blow my superstar cover by talking to her). The second time was lovely though, a young girl with her family came running up to me, autograph book in her hand. I looked at her parents, and to my amusement they both shrugged and smiled; I've no idea who the girl thought I was, but her parents clearly knew I wasn't. Both times I left a big scribbly scrawl in their book. Seemed a shame to disappoint.
  10. Yes, it's a rather lovely thing, and now sold I'm afraid
  11. Thanks guys, not a great time to be old-aged in this country is it
  12. Lovely bass, not the equal of an upright but not a bad impression. Good EQ, good core tone. Hard case included. Will add more pics and details once the site lets me!
  13. Thanks guys, it's lovely. Greg, as you know, smaller and far more fiddly instruments have stolen my heart recently, or this would be going nowhere (it's actually only a project because I was going to replace the circuit with a more versatile circuit from John/Kiogon with series/parallel options on both PUPs, in short given that those nice guys at Dimarzio have provide lots of wiring options, with that I circuit I was going to be able to do P/J, J/J, P,P and J/P, but I simply haven't got around to it. Happy to include that circuit in sale also to be honest). As I'm sure is the case for many, I'm also trying to support my mothers nursing care costs at the moment, so am going to sell the stuff I have that doesn't get regularly used and put the proceeds into that. God bless the complete failure of successive governments to provide decent care for our parent's generation when things go wrong. Anyway, woods? Funnily enough, in both case I'm not 100% sure, both were bought used, one from the US last year, and one IIRC from Europe a while back. I don;t think they're Paduak, but I'm not sure. The look and feel of both in the flesh are outstanding, and both Nik and Greg, being Wal-heads, will know what I mean by this bass having more than a passing resemblance in looks and feel, and whilst it would be daft to say in tone, the core tone of the instrument, i.e., unplugged, has a gorgeous nasal quality, think Song From Under the Floorboards. If anyone wants this as an intact, fully working instrument, with the new circuit, I'm happy to sell it on that basis but it's going to take a few weeks to do and it will cost around £150 more, trust me, it's worth every penny, it's glorious. Cheers C
  14. For sale is a bass project I'm simply not going to have time to finish, and would probably have sold even if I did as I'm not even getting the time to play bass these days! A stunning 1980's Warmoth body and a more recent beck. Both are finished in very light oil and are both beautiful to look at and, more importantly, absolutely lovely to play. I recognise that it sounds a bit daft, but having owned three Wal fretless basses during what I loosely call my career, there is something very Wal-like about this bass. Tone wise the sustain is noticeable, and the action will go very low without any board issues (in short, the neck is very well made and the ebony board has not been worn by play). Goes without saying that the heel/pocket fit is outstanding. PUPs are a matched pair of DiMarzios bought new late last year. Circuit is generic I assume. I will sell it with both the full Precision pickguard seen in the first photo and the cut down version with the circuit in the second. Please note that I am selling this as a project. Everything works, and it's a seriously good instrument for the money, seriously good. But please note the following: 1. The circuit will need to be reconnected to the PUPs, and a jack output socket added 2. Excess tuner holes in the rear of the headstock will need filling if they annoy you (they never annoyed me) 3. There's probably a few screws need adding replacing And yes, that is an original Badass II bridge, not a copy Tuners not actually screwed onto headstock yet, hence slight alignment issue!
  15. Wanted to watch that, but get message that it's been removed by user?
  16. And some interesting day-to-day human activities going on, very USA music, very French scene
  17. Lovely gig with a lovely bunch of people (most of whom can really play their instruments and sing) in a lovely music bar. I walked in (sans bass), and the lady behind the bar looked at me and said "You must be the bass player, would you like a beer?" My kind of bar
  18. Not just a function of Rics though, I've owned two Rics which had quite literally thunderous E-strings and one that really didn't. I've owned more than one vintage/contemporary Fender Precisions with exactly the same problem, and I wasn't always able to resolve it with set-up, EQ or string/bridge selection (i.e., it was a whole instrument thing down to the way the neck/body resonated). The absence of bottom end on one of the Precisions was to my mind more a fault than an idiosyncrasy, although given it had been built in 1972 and I was about the 8th owner, returning it to Fender wasn't really an option!
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