wateroftyne

I think you're being incredibly cynical. He's polarised audiences on this tour. And one of the albums he's just recorded with Crazy Horse has been baffling. These aren't the actions of someone selling out.

[quote name='aende' timestamp='1371742736' post='2117640'] Maybe I am being cynical, but I think that Neil Young has become a bit of a 'sell out' now....... [/quote] Wow... I couldn't disagree more.

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1371730384' post='2117429'] I actually don't know the "viewership" the site attracts in terms of page impressions per day / week / month. Does anyone here actually know that? [/quote] Based on the handy stat at the bottom of the page, I can tell you that, in the last 15 minutes, 780 users have been online, of which over 3/4 weren't logged on or don't have an account. That suggests a LOT of traffic, and presumably not-insignificant hosting bills.

Chromes are bright. As are GHS Brite Flats.

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1371655279' post='2116679'] Erm, BC's very own wateroftyne? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdDipy8MB0[/media] [/quote] This guy's intonation is laughable. What a clown. Rod Clements was always a bit influence on me. Great fretless P player. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cMMo3ZmYCE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cMMo3ZmYCE[/url]

Mixed feelings about her. She makes out like it's relatively easy (assuming it's the clip I think it is ), but she's only able to crowdsource effectively because she already had an audience to crowdsource to, thanks to time she has spent on a fairly major label.

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1371558848' post='2115460'] What makes you say that? [/quote] I imagine the bandwidth is fairly hefty, and there's development costs.

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1371495890' post='2114670'] WOT, not everybody spends more than £20 in a weekend in the pub. [/quote] Didn't say they did

I'd pay anyway, even if I wasn't selling anything. I used to donate a bit every year. How much is a subscription to a magazine? BC is a bargain in comparison.

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.