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Sounds very nice but somewhat more expensive than the Squier. I can understand that the Squier isn't really perfect for proper gigging even though people have done it and are doing it. I sold mine as it wasn't getting any real use.

That sounds like an excellent plan ... but how long and how much ... and what colour?

McCartney wanders up there on occasion.

Those Eastwood pickups do look like soapbar P90s.

With Paul Page on bass.

Thanks for that, very good.

Strangely, I can't find a wall pic of any of my own bands but here's my son's old band (with two members missing) ...

and also ... All Gates Open: The Story of Can by Rob Young and Irmin Schmidt – review

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Correct.

'I grew up in total ruins': Irmin Schmidt of Can on LSD, mourning and musical adventures Should be of interest to a few of you.

I have some sympathy becasue I'd like to think I rarely if ever listen to 'rock' but four of that list I would listen to thinking it not to be 'rock'. 'Rock' is pretty much a contested yet meaningless concept until someone defines or explains what they mean by 'rock'. And then one finds that the definition or explanation given includes examples which one feels have very little to do with 'rock'.

Overlooking 1971, some people have claimed February 3, 1959 as the turning point.

There was a red Smoked Bass on ebay recently ...

I don't really believe in 'tonewood' but the neck pickup on my mahogany Lakland Decade is creamy and thick.

Very nice.

Thanks for boxing me off but, no, I don't have a pedal board and I don't play in a bedroom. I do have a compressor. I have had other rather different sounding compressors in the past. Sometimes I use a compressor, but sometimes I don't'. More likely I'd use a compressor at a gig or in a studio than at a rehearsal and more likely I'd use a compressor when I am less familiar with the material rather than know it well. None of the four categories apply to me. But it's not important, I'll keep out of it.

I woudl probably tick 'sometimes I use a compressor, but sometimes I don't'.

None of the above.

I have been led to believe, although I don't know for sure, that Peerless make most of a Duesenberg in Korea and then the electrics etc are added in Germany for a German price. The Retromatic is the Peerless version of a Duesenberg. Peerless made the Jack Casady and still do a Peerless version called the Bassmaster ...

Peerless Retromatic B2 ... 34" scale, available in six colours, and also sounds great:

... you forgot 'playing musical instruments while standing on a pile of oversize books'.

I've been very lucky in seeing excellent bands, musically and visually, with music stands, and also very unlucky in seeing poor bands, musically and visually, without music stands.

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Here's the antidote ...