wateroftyne

Dunno what you’re taking about 😄

Perhaps they have a house…?

I bought a set of flats in 2002, and I've since bought a villa in the Algarve with the money I saved on not buying rounds.

I’ll give you D&C, but Black Mountain Side is basically Trigger’s broom.

Well.. Stairway, I guess. Any others?

As an aside, I'm not sure how 'original' the original is. The words, aye, but apart from that iIt's a pretty standard country blues. When people (not you, granted) have a go at Page / Plant pinching from old blues legends, it tends to be conveniently overlooked that said blues legend probably nicked the song from someone else.

It's canny, I like it. But - as it's Basschat - I'm going to nit-pick. The "Don't it make you feel bad / When you're tryin' to find your way home / You don't know which way to go?" verse was always the money shot on the original. But on this, it's... anticlimatctic. Consider that nit picked.

It's definitely a different flavour to the R-400 - it's quicker and tighter, but it's not 'dry'.

Cheers! It's a Maruszczyk Basstank, built by Handbox. Solid state, two channels - one of which is geared to DB use. I don't use that channel. It's a lovely head.

A strange one for me today... A gig with band I regularly dep with, who specialise in playing Eagles / CSNY stuff. In a pub. In a Newcastle suburb. ...at 3:30pm. On a Thursday afternoon. Yep, just a normal midweek afternoon pub gig. And there were people there to watch us, too. So confusing. I was home with a Chinese for 6:30pm. Wouldn't mind doing it again sometime, actually. Anyway, this is what I used:

Thank you. It's my '71.

Are you expecting people to buy it on your say-so?

I gave my Handbox / Maruszczyk BassTank a run out tonight for the first time in - my God - a few years at tonight's gig. Tell you what, it's a blummin' lovely amp. I should use it more often.

Right. Where's the A/B showing tonal improvement against a 'standard' bridge? I'm not being deliberately argumentative, but if you're going to sell any of these, you need to demonstrate why people should buy 'em, without getting all defensive.

50 quid's nowt for a repair. Must have been something pretty straightforward. Glad it's sorted!

The proof is in the pudding… get it out there and let’s hear it.

I guess the question is - how much better would Peaches have sounded if JJ had used one of these?

I don't agree, especially in bass world. Any number of smaller / boutique manufacturers have come from nowhere and made a splash. Sincerely, good luck with your project.

It’s up to the manufacturer to win these people over. If they can’t, maybe there’s a reason for it.

FWIW neither of mine give me that impression.

Try it in an incognito window.

It's still on the iPlayer, tho 🙂

Sure is! North East and Cumbria only, tho.

If the bass was a keeper, I'd just sort it myself. I wouldn't risk sending it back and getting a dud in return.