leftybassman392

Greetings! Any friend of @lurksalot is welcome here. As a fellow guitarist-turned-bassist, you may like to know that membership here gets you a free pass to Guitarchat

Does this mean you think you might need to learn but don't fancy doing so? Understanding how keys and scales work is a cornerstone of music theory, so the short answer to your question is 'yes, if you want to do it properly'.

https://www.guitarchat.co.uk/topic/143-stratocasters/ https://www.guitarchat.co.uk/topic/45-telecasters/

'90 Black USA Std. Strat, much-gigged, much-modified and available to view over on guitarchat '93 Eggle Berlin Plus, much-gigged and looks it! '97 (I think) Takamine EN10L acoustic. Also much-gigged, and also looks it. Bought in preference to a Fylde acoustic that I could have had instead. For many years my favourite guitar Late '90's Ibanez RG470L. Bit of a one-trick pony soundwise but a lovely guitar to play. Cost me around £450 and paid me back many times over . '84 Gibson 335 dot. Cherry red. Fabulous guitar, made at a time when Gibson were the ones to beat. Pretty sure I've never actually played 'Johnny B. Goode' on it... '13 Custom Tele set neck, made for me by Rob Williams. Also available to view over on Guitarchat. '18 Faith Mercury parlour guitar. Quality and tone out of all proportion to its relatively modest price (I think I paid a little over £700 for it). My current favourite guitar. Ca. '00 Epiphone Les Paul set neck (project). Currently in a state of disassembly. I keep promising myself I'll get round to putting it together and getting it working. With the time I now have on my hands I don't think I'll have a better opportunity...

Crikey! I don't buy and sell a huge amount of stuff on here these days (although there was a time...), but to me it really is childishly simple: On every item I sell, I impose sale conditions. For example, for big and/or heavy items I don't do couriers. For anybody. Ever. If that makes it harder to sell the item in question then so be it. My sale, my rules. I try always to provide a link to my feedback so that potential buyers can see how I've conducted myself in previous transactions, and am more than happy to be judged by those comments. If folks don't like the conditions I set, they are welcome to look elsewhere. When buying, I'm expecting to see sale conditions for the item I'm interested in. If I want the item and am prepared to work with the sale conditions I make an offer. As has been said already, these are transactions between private individuals. Expecting commercial conditions on private sales is unrealistic. It doesn't work that way. No reason why it should. Getting all marmalade sandwich about it cuts no ice with me I'm afraid. What's hard to understand, really?

Couple of things that folk might be interested in... First up, Noam Pikelny showing that there’s more to the banjo than Duelling Banjos: Second, a demonstration that a bunch of guitarists gathered together is not necessarily a bad thing:

I notice nobody's mentioned Banjo. That's ok though. No offence taken.

I tried this route with Guitar Guitar and PMT when trying to sell my Cornford Hurricane guitar amp. I was told by GG that their normal procedure was to offer around a third of what they thought they could sell it for, "...perhaps a bit more for a prestige item like your Cornford...". PMT couched it differently but made essentially the same offer. PMT weren't interested in a commission sale, and although I didn't ask GG I imagine their stance would be the same. This would suggest that it's the way the large retail outlets are going. I can't decide whether it's an active disincentive to trade up in that way ('why use up floor space with old gear when you can get more by selling new stuff' kind of argument), or whether they're taking the p*ss just to see how desperate people are to offload their gear and/or buy the item they're after. P.S. The amp is still for sale if anybody's interested...

Glad you said this first, but yes. If it works like it should and sounds like it should then what, really, is the problem? Without wishing to sound unduly immodest I have very good spatial awareness and can spot minor misalignments a mile off. Being bothered about them is an extra step that I don't feel the need to pursue unless they materially affect the sound or playability of the instrument. No names no pack drill, but at the risk of incurring the wrath of my fellow Basschatters I can't help thinking that there are one or two people around here who really should get out more.

I've been watching Stuart Copeland's excellent Adventures in Music series on BBC4, and heard part of this piece by Caroline Shaw. I should say right away that this won't be everybody's cuppa (and as I said in the title there is no bass guitar - or indeed bass equipment - content whatsoever). If you're looking for bass content, you won't find any in this post. I found it fascinating though, and am planning to have a look at some of her other work. Curious to know what others think.

Now retired so I play what I like playing and have no need to use techniques that don't interest me. Having said that, a good chunk of my income in my 'proper playing' days came from teaching. While I'm aware there are people out there who teach on the basis of 'this is what I do; if you want something else then get another tutor', most musos who teach across the spectrum don't have much choice but to be able to play in a wide variety of styles and be familiar with a wide range of techniques.

Pics or it didn't happen.

I've occasionally had the suspicion that an individual, having opened an account, made a complete Richard of themselves and basically either been shown the door by the collective or banned by the mods, has opened another account with different details. It's unfortunately very easy to do if you have access to multiple email accounts. Nothing concrete of course, but all the same...

...and to you. 👍 However... No reflection on you guys of course, but this is what I'll most likely be doing...

Update: The decision has been made to commit to a Blues Junior IV. More power than I really need, but hey! As you may... Ahem... recall, the plan was to sell the Cornford to fund the purchase at the local outlet of a certain UK music megastore chain. However, recent events have caused me to rethink some of the details. I'm still buying the BJ, but the trade-in offer from said megastore was pretty miserly and their asking price for the BJ is frankly a bit steep, which always made that route something of a second-best option even with a degree of negotiation. However, and despite my best efforts (not to mention a substantial drop in the asking price), the Cornford remains unsold (although in fairness I have what I believe is a properly serious expression of interest). In the absence of a confirmed sale, I had been planning to withdraw it on Monday and go with the second option just to get it done (so to speak). However, in the aftermath of a recent major national event that we don't need to discuss any further here, the Pound has shot up in value (relatively speaking of course) against the Euro, so that the same Blues Junior is now trading from a certain well-known online retailer of German origin at under £500, making over £70 cheaper than the local asking price. This is a fact I cannot ignore since - among other things - I now have the flexibility to be more, er, flexible in regard to what I will accept for the Cornford. Discussions with Mrs. LBM over to how to proceed are now underway in full earnest, and I am hopeful of a positive outcome.