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Any reports about 'em on Talkbass?

Well done!

Get something from Maruszczyk, and do something nice with your change from £1500.

I must be missing something here... why are you writing a line for a song that already has one?

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1475749593' post='3148392'] I noticed that on the SE Bass Bash videos, John Bentley's bass is "clacking" away on almost every note. I would expect extraneous noises to disappear in the mix on a gig. [/quote] Thanks my thoughts as well.

[quote name='pierreganseman' timestamp='1475747600' post='3148361'] well... [/quote] Helloooooooooo! I wonder how much something similar would be from the Fender CS? Would anyone like to hazard a guess?

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1475668513' post='3147743'] Andy Partridge isn't impressed: [url="https://twitter.com/xtcfans/status/783633659697987585"]https://twitter.com/...633659697987585[/url] [/quote] I wonder if he'd say that if he was on it..?

Interesting stuff. (WARNING - some of the accompanying muzak is dreadful). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xADoIFoKa0Q

What is this 'on the coast' thing, anyway? How is that limiting?

[quote name='Fisheth' timestamp='1475519279' post='3146597'] Take your pick: [url="https://www.public-peace.de/index.php/bass-guitars/maruszczyk/jake/4-string"]https://www.public-p...k/jake/4-string[/url] [/quote] ^^^^ This.

[quote name='CokeyW' timestamp='1475441180' post='3145979'] Why do people who live on a coast, or in a remote region, consistently put up their items for sale and refuse point blank to post them? Top tip....a lot of your potential buyers live too far away to get to you without difficulty and fish don't play bass. Sorry for pointing this out but it may help you when you're wondering why your stuff doesn't sell. [/quote] Packing stuff well, and then shipping it, is a bit of a clart on that requires a time and effort. Some people just don't have the time. Simple as that.

Leszek's just sent me some pics of the new batch of R-400 he's working on..

Is this at gig volume, or when you're jamming along in the house?

[quote name='1976fenderhead' timestamp='1475228717' post='3144147'] I don't know, just normal playing. As I said, no noise with my other bass, same strength. [/quote] Same type of strings?

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1475221773' post='3144058'] Yes, they might have been better! [/quote] Absolutely. We have no way of knowing.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1475220006' post='3144047'] If there were no Beatles, there would still have been a David Bowie and there would still have been a Frank Zappa. [/quote] Maybe, but we can only speculate as to what they would have actually been like. And I have to say, I'm with Blue on the 'You had to be there' argument. Of course it's a factor - I can listen to and appreciate their music, but I imagine it's nowt compared to hearing it for the first time, along with everyone else. If Blue believes it was a life-changer, I'm not going to argue. No new bands that broke during my lifetime have changed the world like Elvis, the Beatles or (at a push) punk did.

Yowzer!

[url="http://www.ukauctioneers.com/auction_catalogue.cfm?d&auction=21EBC80AD6"]http://www.ukauction...tion=21EBC80AD6[/url] EDIT... hmm.. you can't link to the search query. Typing 'bass' in the search box does the trick.

I should think the Sean Hurley - if you can find one - will be significantly more than a 700-800 quid premium...

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1475088457' post='3143012'] Everybody whose performing career tanked is influenced in some way by Terry Stafford. [/quote] Cool Terry Stafford fact: he wrote 'Kill the Poor', covered later by The Dead Kennedys.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1475086829' post='3142983'] I'm not sure whether you're taking the piss or not, that's an American chart, and the description you give could equally describe Buddy Holly, except he came form Texas rather than up north, if you are being sarcastic I do apologise [/quote] Absolutely not taking the pee... what on earth gave you that idea? I posted a US chart to illustrate the size of the leap from a US perspective - check out Terry Stafford singing suspicion. [url="http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19630905/7501/"]The UK chart in August '63 tells a similar story[/url]. A lot of those bands probably lost a career within weeks. Buddy Holly was fab, and deserves his place in music history, but... he wasn't a gang of scallywags. And could you imagine him tearing his throat up on I Saw Her Standing There...? 'Cos I can't.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1475083390' post='3142941'] I know what you mean in the later years, say from Rubber Soul onwards, but in the early years it wasn't that revolutionary, very good well written pop records, but not a seismic leap that the period around Sgt Peppers was [/quote] Nah, IMO it was a leap from the start for all the reasons discussed previously. From up North, writing their own tunes, harmonies, look, groove (listen to Cathy's Clown, then Love Me Do. The latter has [i]swagger.[/i]) It's all well before my time, but I know so many musicians 'of an age' who are doing it 'cos of them. This chart sums up the sea change pretty well, IMO.