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I sincerely hope so 👍
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We can have both, nothing they do now will undermine Hybrid Theory for me
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There you go again, is commenting on a bands musical direction really hate?
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BTW the post you responded to was not hate by a long stretch. You seem to have started this thread looking for a fight by drawing attention to the issue in your first post and then overreacting when people pretty much expand on your first post. Why don’t you stick to writing about the music?
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I love the original LP, but something tells me that this will not go well for them. I read a lot about the case in questiom at the time and the thoroughly horrible tactics us by Scientology to blame, intimidate, and threaten the victims and witnesses. Only the person in question will know how far she actually went, and none of us can speak to that. But if this grows as we’ve seen in previous digging up of past misdemeanours, I think it could be bad for LP. Which is what I meant when I wrote ‘Of all the people they could have chosen’ 👍
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Of all the people they could have chosen….. 😕
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Nicely done, and yes a bargain. Hope you have a string winder 👍
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Recommend me some modern (or not) music with upright bass
Beedster replied to Dazed's topic in General Discussion
The remarkable Chris Wood -
Ha, my source gets it wrong again
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Is August a horrible month for bass sales?
Beedster replied to Paolo85's topic in General Discussion
Thanks mate, that's much appreciated, what a joy it is to look at the FS forums and not see..... -
Nice one, when they arrive check that a) they're not fake and b) that they're not B-stock or similar, sorry to put a downer on what is most likely a bit of good fortune but I bought a lovely set of tapewounds on Amazon a few years back to find that despite them all being in the correct sleves there were two Es and no A, and that the D was from a different set (and shortscale FFS). It was quite an impressive clusterf*** to be honest. No great stress as I saw the problem before I'd even taken the other strings off and when I pressed return I received a refund pretty much immediately. Nonetheless I'd not buy strings from Amazon again, especially not DB strings, and advise you to check your's pretty thoroughly. Restringing a DB only to find the strings ain't 100% as advertised is a time consuming and frustrating process 👍
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There's a Geordie-based tradesperson who cements usually square pieces of ceramic onto bathroom walls and does a decent job by his own account, he calls himself called the Bonnie Tiler 👍
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Is August a horrible month for bass sales?
Beedster replied to Paolo85's topic in General Discussion
That’s a level of effort and organisation that has to date been beyond me but which from now is how I roll 🙏 -
That’s proper band naming 👍
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Buy used on BC Rich, most DB strings that are cheap in real terms are also shit in real terms. Put a post in Items Wanted and someone will come up with some, hell I've got about 15 sets here just no idea where they are at present or I'd have offered myself 👍
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Is August a horrible month for bass sales?
Beedster replied to Paolo85's topic in General Discussion
One of the forums I've sold through, might be Gearspace, only allows FS posts for a fixed period at which point they have to be re-listed. Sad, but perusing the FS forums used to be a mix of joy, excitement, and pain, like listening to a new Tom Waits album. it's now a mix of boredom and despair, more like listening to Morrissey. I'm getting to the point of suggesting to the owners that we double the length of time between bumping FS ads? -
Oh Arses
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Yes, I used some Gamuts on my Yamaha SLB-100 and it was horrible. I suspect guts, in order to resonate and breath in the beautiful way they do, require the slow acoustic swell of the large wooden body. Note also that guts will not work with a magnetic PUP and tend to have lower output than steels or synthetics so the quality of pickup on your EUB wil also be a factor (on my SLB I was using an high quality underfoot and wing PUPs) But you'll only know if you try it for yourself. If you go for it I suggest that you do not buy new gut strings however, decent ones are bloosy expensive and they will halve in resale value the moment you put them on your instrument. Good luck 👍
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Is August a horrible month for bass sales?
Beedster replied to Paolo85's topic in General Discussion
Yep, looking at the disparity between the broad economic situation and prices being asked here I totally agree. There seems to be a trend on sites such as eBay and Reverb to price at market value + 25% in the anticipation that the seller will receive offers at around market value. The problem is that this seems to have resulted in rapid inflation here as people price in line with what they're seeing elsewhere, and low sales as the result (frankly I'm bored shitless of seeing the same sellers bumping the same items every three days). I've always said, if a bass or bass amp doesn't sell here within a week or so it's either a niche item or overpriced; some of the people selling for example MIJ Fenders, which are highly regarded here and alway have been, need to reflect on this. The fact that they're listed routinely now at £1250 on eBay or Reverb doesn't mean that's what people will pay. And really, while I'll tolerate the word 'Rare' on eBay listings, used here it means nothing - because we all know the reality - and probably reduces eventual sale value, especially when it's a Squier 🤔