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I've just sold my Boss BR600 so there must be a market for them.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1481557294' post='3193257'] Nigel Harrison [/quote] That's him, the pube headed bass player.

The difference is 4.

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Why not phone them. You're assuming your emails are reaching them

[quote name='Bownose' timestamp='1481543598' post='3193044'] [/quote] Best photo on Basschat ever.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1478984927' post='3173193'] I'll let the artist know. Thanks! I love them for many reasons. No trouble with the bar. The upper lenses are distance lenses and thus the "main" glasses. One looks "through the middle" of these lenses, and the bar becomes just like the frame of other glasses: it lets you know where the effect of the lenses stops. The lower lenses are "reading" lenses, but the ultra-genius is they're adapted to objects farther away than a book - more like a laptop screen or, importantly, the car dashboard. Absolutely brilliant. So with these, without nodding or adapting one's eyes, one can keep track of the traffic as well as the dashboard, or watch tv whilst posting nonsense on BC. At the same time one saves money, as no expensive bi-focal or vari-focal lenses are needed, and one pays for one frame only. Plus, one doesn't need to carry reading glasses when leaving the house, as the dashboard/laptop lenses are good enough for that. Absolutely bloody brilliant specs in every respect, and highly recommended. [/quote] Interesting. I've recently got a pair of varifocals & I can't get on with them at all. They do three things really badly instead of one thing well.

The role in my last two bands seems to have been to develop an intense (& mutual) hatred of the keyboard player & then leave.

King Crimson's best ever line-up (IMO) was half British half American.

Wasn't a British bloke a member of Blondie at one point?

[quote name='Barking Spiders' timestamp='1481545531' post='3193075'] No love for The Monkees then? [/quote] See post #11

Some of the dodgiest, most untrustworthy people I've ever had the misfortune to meet have been musicians.

I think Supertramp had/has an American or two.

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1481543831' post='3193047'] Stray Cats [/quote] No British members of The Stray Cats, they're all American.

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Paganini apparently used a two handed tapping technique on the violin.

There was a guy who worked for Gretsch called Jimmie Webster that published a book on his tapping technique (he called it his "Touch System) in 1952.

I've had a hanger come away from the wall & damage a bass (and the guitar it landed on) due to a problem with the brickwork I was unaware of. I used much longer screws & better plugs than the ones supplied with the hanger too (a Hercules one). I wouldn't use wall hangers again, there's just no way of knowing how securely they are attached to the wall.

The sunburst finish would be the deal breaker for me, not the grain of the wood.

The best five string I've owned was my Spector Euro 5LX. Worst was a Musicman Stingray 5. Went back to playing four strings as I never felt really comfortable on a five & didn't need the extra low notes for anything I was doing.

You're not the drummer from my old band by any chance?

[quote name='tonyquipment' timestamp='1481233881' post='3190925'] Yes exactly but electronic Really good instrument and lovely sound - I've had some good evenings with this and a bottle of brandy [/quote] Hmm, looks interesting. There's a couple on EBay...

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1481233219' post='3190916'] It looks like I've finally made a decent post then? [/quote] Don't get cocky...