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I'm just glad I missed this, for all sorts of reasons...

To be fair, the bodies are Alder and Maple, so the seams would be more apparent. Still a bit odd to have that under a translucent finish...

Yeah, they're much more about the limited edition - strange PMT aren't making more of this... ...and Hooky doesn't even appear on the Yamaha site...

Is it a limited edition? I'm not seeing anywhere that it is, apart from Hooky signing 5 of them.

If they ever do one in Vintage White, I'm buying it. Which is a bit giddy for me, but there you go...

We do a couple of Smiths songs (This Charming Man and There Is A Light), and they're two of my favourite songs to play; the bass lines are great fun, and they always go down a storm. People like to think they're singing along ironically, but they're really not... 🙂 Sadly, Morrisey himself has personal opinions I'd rather not contemplate, although that can be said of quite a few people in the business. That's where the phrase 'Never meet your heroes' comes from... Musically and lyrically, The Smiths were an important band, and yeah, they were very Marmite - at the time, I, like some people in the thread, couldn't get past Morrisey's schtick, but in later years I've come to like the tongue-in-cheek lyrics, some of which are genuinely brilliant. Oh, and it's a measure of the 'love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it' nature of Morrisey's delivery that any time someone sings a Smiths song, they're irresistibly drawn into a Morrisey impression...our singist tries very hard; he starts off in his own voice, and three lines in he's hooting and parping... 😁

Where's the Jaw-Dropping Performances thread? 😁

Oh boy, this is firmly in 'small treat for Xmas' territory... Hang on tho; the pup on this one is in a verrrry strange position...

That's just a bit sad, really; 'Look how crazy and wild and untamed I am, I'm spontaneously smashing my gear...hang on...just a sec...let me get the right bass...' 😁 If you're gonna do it, this is how it's done: 'Keith Moon was known for destroying his drum set. The most famous episode of this occurred during the Who's debut on U.S. television on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967. Moon overloaded his bass drum with explosive charges which were detonated during the finale of the song, "My Generation." The explosion caused guest Bette Davis to faint, set Pete Townshend's hair on fire and Moon was also injured in the explosion when shrapnel from the cymbals cut his arm.'

PH's Hondo was in a glass case in PMT Manchester for a while, I think they might have been selling it for charity or summat...I've seen recurve archery bows with less of a gap between string and wood... 😕 😁

I've just looked at that, and I can't tell what 'Softness' means - is it that the Ultimate is highest tension and the Vintage is the lowest?

The bridge on an original Thunderbird is very close to the rear edge of the bass (and therefore the strap button), that one looks like it's been designed, like the Warmoth bodies of old, by looking at the bridge placement for a Firebird (and, as I said, with an eye to upper fret access), which on a bass pushes everything too far to the player's left. The forward strap button on the Thunderbird is place on the recessed (kinda) top horn, which puts it too far back for easy balance. I've always immediately moved it to the neck plate (on my bolt-on Frankenbirds), which can cause some 'flop forward' (fixed by the strap over the rear horn - oh, and no buckle rash unless you use straps with metal buckles, which I've always thought were stooopid things) or better still by a button on the left hand edge of the body directly behind the neck. Trickier on thru-necks, but some Hipshot Ultralites make all the difference to neck dive tendencies. On a side issue, why they changed from the original two-part bridge to the three-point thing has always eluded me...I've just this week had to re-seat and epoxy in the push-fit collars on my Fenderbird, which had started to lift out of the body...

The only thing I've bought this year has been a set of those new Markbass strings...whether they'll be the best or worst* remains to be seen, as my Elixirs on every bass aren't getting much wear; at this rate, it could be 2025 before I get to use them... 😕 * I know, I know; philosophically they'll be both...let's not split hairs...

Ahhh, the catchily-named ABM-112H-EVO IV-PRO NEO...can't think why I missed it...😁 The description is peppered with terrible grammar and looks like it's the same as the 210, but the 12" cab is apparently 'sealed to deliver powerful attack and clear definition as well as lower bass frequencies.', which seems...interesting...hmmmm...

I've just looked on the Ashdown site, and the Neo cabs are discontinued?

Could've been worse: you could have had a tattoo... 😕😀

Ohhhhh...I'd forgotten those...

You forgot those big flappy-paddle Fodera ones, too...

And this random scattering of...stuff... That toggle switch directly below the jack socket is the worst bit, tho... I tell a lie; it's the 70s rectangular socket above it with the two cross-heads; you'd think for a billion pounds* they'd get a round one that looked slightly more in keeping... * I'm guessing here, but I don't think I'm far off...

This hot nonsense...just one of the reasons I'll never own a Ritter...looks more like the result of a South Central drive-by...

Same here, mine are sitting in the packet. With things as they are, they could be there a while...

I've got a BigMan in one of my Shukers (with a Parallel/Series/split switch), and it sounds fantastic... 👍

Yep, worst part of the bass IMO

Yep, I agree - I had a bit of a thing a couple of years ago when I revisited some songs after I realised I'd been playing them wrong all along, so I learnt them right. The next gig the guitarist said 'What are you playing? That sounded rubbish...' 😕🙂