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Well our postie is a funny old bloke... I must ask him what music he likes..

Unfortunately I've ended up just binning at least two cabs over the years, tho I did mostly re use the speakers for other things... I'd suggest you offer it as free to take away on your local Freecycle type thing, there's a number of similar "stuff for free" sites too..... I've acquired good stuff like that and indeed donated unwanted things that have been of use to others. Alternatively you could knock the front off and cut 2 or 3 shelves to fit, screw em in, and it'd be a handy tool / oddments shelf unit for utility room, shed or garage.. Ps If you did the make it into the shelves thing, you might be able to ebay ( or whatever) the speaker alone a bit easier than a whole big cab ?

They'd sound horrible whichever way round...

Could you post a couple of boxes to me please...

Indeed....the one I tried was a headless version of a thing like that, unfortunately I can't recall what make it was, the body was in black and darkish RW or whatever fingerboards, the fretless neck was plain unlined The op ebay one is on about 100 quid+ loose change at the mo.. be fun to see what it sells for in the end !

Bet you can't still get into the cool stripey shirt either....

Dunno, but most accomplished keyboard / piano players seem to be very adept with the left hand doing complex stuff, I guess it comes with the territory... The very best I can do LH wise on the Jo-anna is go donk-dink- donk-dink in octaves.. ( on the white keys natch. ! )

I kind of imagined you'd have more hair than that....

Something like that would be good, but personally I've absolutely no use for a git!.....a fretted and fretless like the OP but with a body like the one above was (as I recall) the type of thing I tried and thought was cool !

Frederick was apparently a very good player ( tho you'd possibly not want to criticise his playing to his face ! ) and also was a composer in his own right.

I've pretty much covered in the other thread my 3 piece example...of course there are as many different band "sounds" as there are breakfast options, from sparse to wall of noise....but as Len Derby alludes to above, why desperately feel the need to change anything ?

Like the blurb alludes to, a lot of composers had wealthy patrons who they'd write stuff for, these were often "amateur" players of a particular instrument, so commissioned pieces for that. The well known Mozart K191 was I believe created for a nobleman who was an amateur bassoon player. Vivaldi was also a priest if I remember rightly, and had a pool of very accomplished young players from a girls orphanage who he wrote a lot of stuff for.

I really do like this guy's vocals...

They'd be coming off for a start..

I always thought they were a bunch of bastards for that !

I tried a similar thing out ( second hand used I think) in one of the London guitar shops many years ago ( when they still existed) it was the same configuration but had a proper "body" ...it was quite good in fact and had it been a bargain I would've been tempted....headless I don't mind at all, I had one of those "The Jack" basses and used it for gigs, it sounded decent and stayed in tune so all good. The thing I'm not keen on with your one here is the lack of a body really, interesting find tho 👍

They'd turn him back at the border...

That could backfire on you if they agreed and his Mrs wasn't quite as advertised...

Me too ! I was wondering if any early stuff , Ska or Rocksteady might have been plundered but not really come across anything

Luckily our 3 piece didn't do guitar solos !.. It functioned very much along the lines that chris_b was talking about above, with the bass and drums being the main "thing" and the guitar selectively on top. It was doubtless helped by the fact the guitarist was also the singer and didn't feel the need to indulge himself needlessly... Plus we all recognised the important thing in all this was that the music just worked... I can see how it is no doubt extremely difficult to find a guitarist who can resit the urge to play absurdly loud just because they can, and know when to shut up and leave some Space !

Didn't realise C Hynde actually wrote it !.... Oh well we can't have that one as "was a Reggae first" then, pity ! Still, Grace's version beats it by miles !

Sly and Robbie were on it with her I'm sure... I always thought of Grace's version as the original but probably I'm wrong there !

Did Grace Jones do Private Life before the Pretenders version ?

I hadn't really thought about what the bass player was using in all this.. In my 3 piece malarkey I was using a Rickenbacker or a P bass at different times. I was using a fairly randomly acquired Orange guitar head and anonymous 4x12 cab at this time as I recall