AndyTravis

I hope I never end up in a band with this guy. Absolute clown - makes me angry on your behalf.

Go with message beforehand. experts in bellendery love an audience - and I fear you may not have much in the way of support in the room if it comes to a you vs him situation.

The Jack custom is a headless b bass, angled j bridge pickup etc.

Love that!

Sad to say - it really was a great company once. but it lost its way about 2015

I have messaged, had a response and got Alex an alternative email.

I have replied - not sure if my contact will be able to help, going off his last message

I really enjoyed this

They don’t exist mate - think of a hens tooth and divide by 5

The long and short of it as I understand (as a former employee 2003-2014) soon after my time was done there, the company started to go wrong - The head guy who’d run it as a successful business for years had retired and the people left to run it didn’t have a clue. They went under, a private equity firm jumped in and sold a load of assets (the head office building in Warrington, for example). A guy who owns a brass and woodwind business in Manchester took over about 12/18 months ago. Distributors and brands, burned by the behaviour of the private equity company, unpaid bills and retained stock were reluctant to get involved with the ‘new’ Dawsons and things never really recovered to the point where they could trade effectively. The reviews on Google all tell the same story - all from 2 years ago up until today, there is no way a company in this day and age can turn around that tarnished a reputation. A real shame, not least for the 65/70 staff who were let go. The only remaining store is Chester, there are 4 shop staff (2 former colleagues and 2 who came after my time). I don’t know what they’re stocking, or what the deal is with orders…I’d love to say something more positive. But I won’t.

@gyruscan you PM me your order number, see if I can do something.

I had a 4 in natural. Shouldn't have sold it… I have a neck/body sanded back to nothing as the finish was all scratched… The electronics were all goosed too; I keep meaning to finish it. It is in a mates house currently as he was going to spray it - think he got some primer on it.

Bridge isn’t original either.

Yup. Love a good knob. they’re legit - 2 dome (vol/tone) and 3 mini plastic - they look damaged though and are a pain in the crack to find in that smaller size…

I got told to step back my bass part on a track tonight - just to try something different. I almost protested. And this thread sprang to mind. i did as requested - I’m not the biggest fan of the track as it is, but it made the other guys happier so…

Yeah was a bit odd.

If you’re going to approach it, next rehearsal. do it before you start playing, before Captain ego is all fired up. see if it makes any difference at all… if not, I’d call it at the end of the session. I didn’t like dreading meeting up with the band. Singer is much more alpha male type than the rest of us - and as I provide most of the starting points for song ideas, I got a bit precious about them. And his ideas were generally pants - and he brought very little to the table, creatively, Coupled with Captain nitpicker guitarist… I just wanted to walk. I challenged their behaviour, and they both quit. Drummer and I carried on without them. It was fine - just not as good with the new guys, and we went around in a random cycle of 5 half finished tunes. Made me think about my behaviour towards them. I had to take some truths on the chin… So we invited the old guys back. Singer came back, he’d worked on lyrics, styles and skills - much improved. Guitarist…no change. Nothing. Constant fuss. Invited his replacement back and it has been a “Goldilocks” combination since, and we have 12 songs ready to go - studio booked on the 19th. So some people (myself and singer) will listen and adapt. Some people…just won’t learn. But everyone needs to be challenged if they’re creating problems.

I’ve been told that particular guitar is a bit of a pig… Also stood with Peter Green as he chortled at the Collectors Choice recreation we had on the wall in a shop… ah well.

Yeah. You’re so much more succinct than me.

Eeeeeh. Absolutely cannot abide folk who can’t read the room. The original 602 guitarist who left and came back (never go backwards) was all about allotted solo time and paining over ridiculous details like how much “space, sonically speaking” he had in which to solo. He was like a fun sponge, as well as relentlessly loud, obnoxiously so…we’d all had enough second time round and he got upset that the drums and bass “overshadowed the nuance in the guitar parts” He sounds like a headache of a slightly different ilk, but equally as irksome. It you have to ask - and you don’t seem over the moon with it, put the feelers out for another band. There’s creative tension, which can be good - and friction which basically will make you want to boil your own head. And the aggression when challenged, having to be taken outside to calm down? preposterous.

@WinterMute I love Ringo - the suggestions get punched in and he replicated it with feel and like you say, precision.

I attempted part 3 when we got home from my brothers 40th. don’t know how far into it I got, so I’m glad I didn’t spoil it for myself…🤣