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[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1335878315' post='1637385'] Maybe but did you really want to be in a band with people who think that sort of thing is OK? worse still, hold it against you for not wanting to blow their PA? [/quote] No, you're quite right and I didn't want the gig anyway as it turned out. However I would have preferred to be offered it so I could have turned it down.

Didn't do it for me.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1335816211' post='1636574'] I read somewhere that people have the bridge ashtray this way round to negate the effects of the integral rubber mute, but I don't know if it's true. [/quote] That could be true, I guess. When I say the right way around, I mean how they left the factory.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1335791866' post='1636048'] Also, its a big thing to show a bit of initiative. I once had a gig, depping for someone. I had been told there was a bass amp at the venue. When i walked in the place with just my bass and leads the first thing the bandleader said to me was "where is your amp?" to which i replied, "I was told there was one here, but it's in the car if you need me to get it" - he said "nah its ok, you're good" apparently other deps had been through the same 'test' in the past and told to go home and get their amp. They were never booked again. I was. [/quote] I auditioned for an originals band. I walked in with my bass and bag of bits, put them down and said, 'I'll just go and get my combo from the car'. They said 'Why don't you just go through the PA?' I didn't accept the PA offer and quickly got my combo. While there were other reasons I didn't get the gig, I felt sure that wanting to use my own gear rather than their PA was held against me.

[quote name='rednose200' timestamp='1325288201' post='1481917'] I absolutely hate signature guitars. Its only a sales gimmick for dummies who think that by buying a sig bass will make them play like the person its named after. Funny old world [/quote] This is ridiculous. If that's the only reason you can think of that someone would buy a signature bass then you're hanging aorund with some very sad people and missing some great basses. As already mentioned, the Geddy Lee Jazz is an excellent example of a great and good value bass. The recently renamed Laklands Glaub, Osborne, and Dunn and their discontinued Scheff were and are all excellent basses. The Fender Tony Franklin Fretless Precision is a fantastic fretless even if, like me, you've never knowingly heard or even heard of Tony Franklin. Funny old world.

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1335813889' post='1636529'] Yes, it's that red-burst colouration that I like and hence wondered about the "year". Although, thinking about it for a bit, I've seen this picture a lot of times before as a black + white so I wonder if the colour could be due to the photo being "colour tinted" a bit later in it's life and thus the "wrong" colour sunburst? Re the ashtray, I've seen them mounted both ways round and I asked the question of a guy who had one "the wrong way round". His answer was that it was easier to re- string without taking off the ashtray - I thinking he might have been telling porkies to a young'n. [/quote] I think you might be correct about the colouring (the suits too). The bridge cover is the wrong way round because it's easier to restring with it the right way round.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1335811318' post='1636457'] ... Make sure the seller insures the instrument properly and don't try to avoid import duties by getting them to mark down the value. If anything goes wrong with the delivery you'll find yourself far more out of pocket then any potential saving you might have made. [/quote] This is good advice. Particularly so when you realise that HMRC are not stupid and know the value of items and that an attempt to falsify the value in order to avoid paying duty can, in the extreme case, lead to full duty being charged and/or the item being confiscated.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1335810630' post='1636440'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI844RAJo58[/media] [/quote] Excellent.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1335810384' post='1636435'] His seems to be f ar more of a red-burst than mine. Interesting that he has the bridge ashtray mounted what I would describe as "the wrong way round", though I have seen a fair few done like that. [/quote] It is the wrong way around.

There are several threads about this including a pinned thread: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/139-importing-guitars/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/139-importing-guitars/[/url] You can calculate the cost here: [url="http://www.dutycalculator.com/new-import-duty-and-tax-calculation/"]http://www.dutycalculator.com/new-import-duty-and-tax-calculation/[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1335655964' post='1634389'] Probably to generate a bit of interest - he's got a reserve on it. It looks remarkably well-preserved for a 1969 bass... I wonder if it's been in his uncle's loft? [/quote] It must have been a painting of it in the loft.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1335710181' post='1634824'] Yes, but I happen to think 'technique technique' is vastly overrated. [/quote] Usually vastly overrated by people who don't have it.

[quote name='MrTaff' timestamp='1335735077' post='1635311'] They all sound good, no idea which is which though. [/quote] Yep.

I've no idea which is which.

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1335732431' post='1635236'] I'm jealous! If you haven't been there before the gardens of the Alcazar are wonderful and there's several great flamenco venues. Touristy I know, but a horse-driven buggy trip round the old centre is fab! [/quote] Mrs ET is on a course with her Spanish flamenco teacher so I'm hoping to see some non-touristy stuff as well as the Alcazar.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1335732258' post='1635234'] I can't see where to report it. He/she seems to be very greedy with the reserve [/quote] Right hand side, not far down.

I love a bit of flamenco and Mrs ET herself is a bit of a flamenco dancer. Visiting Seville in the autumn.

[quote name='SidVicious1978' timestamp='1335729750' post='1635190'] should't we all report it before it ends [/quote] I have, have you?

[quote name='q_of_doom' timestamp='1335715785' post='1634912'] ... unless you're playing in a Violent Femmes cover band. [/quote] But then you'll need an Earthwood.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1335713166' post='1634863'] What I'm drawing for this entire thread, is that there's a lot more [i]crap[/i] - for want of a better term - associated with joining a covers band, than there has ever been, from my experience, in joining an originals band. [/quote] Last audition I had with an originals band was no different to auditioning for a covers band (except that I didn't know the songs). I was sent chord sheets and demos of several songs and was asked to learn them for the audition. It was no more or less crap than any other audtition.

I asked for pics of the neck date and the potcodes - I'm not expecting a reply.

I only ever played through TE gear a few times but didn't particularly like it. Besides which I always felt it looked slightly radioactive.

Check out the Branford Marsalis album [i]Trio Jeepy[/i] with Milt Hinton and Jeff Watts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9vicYoVsg0&

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1335648932' post='1634322'] He does seem like a nice guy and a great musician... I hope I can play that well in my dotage... [/quote] You probably couldn't play that well in your nonage. Anyway, dotage is putting it rather too strongly as he's clearly neither mentally infirm nor feeble of mind.