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All this over having to pay a measly TWENTY QUID to advertise as much as you like for a whole year. Unbelievable. I bet half the complainers spend twice as much as that on beer of a weekend.

[quote name='martthebass' timestamp='1371413852' post='2113672'] The fact is some members are now pushing gear through alternative routes to BC because of the fees. If this does not concern you then fair enough. [/quote] Any solution involving a fee would alienate a segment of users too poor / cheap-arsed (deliberate distinction) to pay up. There's no magic wand to wave.

[quote name='Ziphoblat' timestamp='1371411551' post='2113598'] It's certainly not my understanding that anybody makes their living off of the site, or intends to. Certainly, it does generate money, but that's (supposedly) to cover the costs of running a website like this. I suppose we could argue the semantics of what a 'business' actually is all day, but my point still stands that the two are worlds apart. [/quote] They both need to generate revenue. That's as complicated as it gets...

[quote name='Ziphoblat' timestamp='1371411348' post='2113593'] The key here being that eBay and Gumtree [i]were [/i]businesses where Basschat is not. [/quote] Is it not?

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1371408808' post='2113536'] When is it broken? I've seldom had a problem. [/quote] Most forums default to one notification per reply to a topic. Since the upgrade a while ago, BC sends you a notification for every single reply. So... you don't actually have to visit BC to follow a thread, which means I'm not on there as often as I used to be. And I'm constantly getting reply notifications which is irritating. I've flagged it a few times and been told it's a bug which will be fixed... sometime.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1371405454' post='2113466'] 5% of 26,000 is about 1300 over 5 years = 260 PA or 5 per week. Of the 35 lost posts, that means that - perhaps - 30 of the 35 'missing' posts were by existing members. All very speculative though. Were I Ped or Kiwi, I'd be getting my people to look at this sort of thing on a longer-term basis. [/quote] Also, because the forum is broken and sends you a notification for every response you get to a thread, I reckon the amount of traffic will have reduced in general. There's less reason to visit now. If I were them, I'd make fixing that a priority. Bums on seats is everything.

[quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1371394046' post='2113279'] I don't think the Rickenbacker aspect comes into it Kiwi. I can't remember there being too many Ricks for sale/trade at the best of times. It's a more general comment that the number of new adverts appearing daily just seems to have fallen off a cliff. CB [/quote] I think Kiwi's comment would have been accompanied by a wry smile.

The nay-sayers are right. A waste of time - save your money. Why does thr band want you to use one? It's not even as if they look traditional. The Precision pre-dates acoustic basses by decades. They're a bit 1990's MTV unplugged.

Ah, man - If it was a fretless 5 and a fretted 4 I'd be all over that! Drat.

Here's the Walnut Elite II Precision I used to have: It sounded great, but weighed three times as much as Luxembourg. So I sold it.

Having also been here about 100 years, I can't remember how I found it...

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1371136458' post='2110342'] I think the Roscoe Becks may be worth a risk... They get excellent reviews, there aren't too many around and they are no longer made, they can be bought very reasonably now. In twenty years time? Hmmmmm... [/quote] Yip - I'm hangin' on to mine.

Oh, and I went off them after they started selling a tube head for hefty money, which was a rebadged version of a cheapie.

Didn't they have a PR guy - a friend of Mr. Nordschow - who stumbled into some sort of PR calamity on Talkbass a while ago? I can't quite remember the details, but it was a proper calamity.

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1371059562' post='2109343'] My mate's a big fan and he was at the Birmingham gig last night, here's what he posted on his facebook page today: Hmmm...saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse yesterday at the LG Arena (formerly known as Birmingham NEC). First four songs made me think it was going to be the greatest gig I'd ever seen, but then he followed this with 15-20 minutes of feedback, which was very dull, and a couple of mediocre acoustic new songs, as well as a relatively pointless cover of Blowin' in the Wind. Thankfully towards the end it improved and he finished with one of his greatest songs, Powderfinger, but all in all, it was very hit and miss. Oh and the NEC are still money grabbing tossers and the venue's still a shithole [/quote] That's what we got, and I loved it. Just goes to show...

I saw him in Newcastle on Monday. I was in the seats just up on the side of the stage. He took the roof off and sang like an angel. He's 67. Astonishing. Incidentally, my pal was down by the river Tyne on Sunday afternoon at about 5pm. A tramp walked towards them, and they didn't give him a second thought until his wife noticed he was carrying a designer water bottle. It was himself. Out for a walk, all on his own. They walked and talked a while. My pal's mind is still blown.

Playing money in the bank isn't as much fun as playing a bass.

They're about to start a tour, so I think he's OK now....

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1370869149' post='2106559'] .... also play at your normal stage volume. I play loud enough to need earplugs, but not loud enough to strip paint off walls; I have [i]never[/i] been asked to turn down by a sound guy. If you have to turn up do it. You worry about your job, not his. It's the sound guy's job to keep up with what's happening on stage. [/quote] ...unless the OP genuinely was too loud. Sometimes there's just no need for it. If it's something the OP does on autopilot, how is he going to know unless someone tells him?

I'm fairly sure the post DI on that head is pre-master, so you could have turned it up without affecting the feed to the desk. However, it might have started a volume war - a spiral where everyone turns up gradually. Your guitarist was better off asking for a bit in his monitor instead...

[quote name='Bassman Sam' timestamp='1370737918' post='2105098'] I hoped you asked the bass player of the headline band if it was ok to use his rig. [/quote] I did, and I said yes :-) What a night. This moment - going back on for the encore - is burned into my brain... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0G7PuYm_o"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0G7PuYm_o[/url]

[quote name='Mickeyboro' timestamp='1370798360' post='2105685'] Has Joe had a stroke? He certainly had trouble getting his words out. [/quote] I honestly think it's because his brain is partly pickled...

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/206942-the-history-of-the-eagles-new-dvd/page__fromsearch__1"]Here's a thread from when it was first released on DVD...[/url] Strangely, in contrast to the OP, I think it's quite clear that it's Frey's band. Henley holds a veto.

Cheers, all! We've done about 2000, so it's pretty much full. Yay!