Rich

Tsk. Those aren't notes, it's the model name. He already has body shapes called 'Scarab', 'Ambrosia', 'Lobe' and 'Peanut', and now there's this one, the 'Guhcuffbuhbuh'.

Yew din't ask for one o' them noo-fangled truss rawd thangs, did yuh boy? Hot damn. Yew'll be wantin' frets next.

My initial reaction was "ah feck it, I'm probably going to catch the bloody thing sooner or later anyway, let's do it"... but with my boringly sensible and slightly less rock'n'roll head on, I think postponement may be the thing to do. As others have said, I will gladly contribute if you're going to end up out of pocket.

Oh yes, how I remember that awesome thing. It sounded like god clearing his throat. If you look up 'aggressive' in the dictionary, it's got a picture of that bass followed by an exclamation mark.

At one time many years back I had a 'bassist available' ad up in a Swindon music shop. I gave a list of my preferred styles, which were jazz, progressive (not metal), funk. Had a call from a guy who said the "band"'s style was 'jazzy with a contemporary edge' or some such. Taking him at his word, I turned up to see what they were about. Two guys with acoustic guitars, playing singer-songwriter stuff that was about as jazzy as Ann Widdecombe and just as interesting. They had no intention of getting a drummer or keys, or ever picking up electric guitars, or it seemed writing anything half decent. The only line I can remember from any of their songs is "red cars take me home". My silver car couldn't take me home quick enough.

I love my V7's preamp, so my answer to the question 'what do you think?' would be along the lines of 'that you are clinically insane' But seriously, I would definitely consider a John East unit.

'The Mahavishnu of bass guitars'..?? I think he misspelled 'Coco the clown'. I love the way this guy almost promotes the non-existent sanding and finishing, the construction flaws and poor electrics as positive design features.

Yup, and '0 bids' is how it'll stay, at that price.

But this is how he always sounds to me

Surely if you're a manager, it's more like...

To compensate for their very very tiny willies.

I design railway signalling. I've been in the rail industry since 1983, originally with British Rail in Reading where I started off in the S&T design office and then spent four wonderful years as a mechanical design draughtsman (engineering drawing was my first love), back in pre-CAD days when it was still all 0.5mm click-pencils and Rotring pens. Absolutely and utterly loved it. Unfortunately, BR decided to listen to some management consultants who told them that they could lose a load of staff, and I was one of them... I spent a year out of the industry as a draughtsman with a quarry equipment design company, and then moved to Swindon. Re-joined the rail industry by starting work with the Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co. in Chippenham, this time as a signalling designer. Mainly writing data for the newer computerised systems, but also involved with older relay-driven stuff and even some mechanical. I spent 14 years with them, working on a wide variety of projects for the UK and overseas, and was lucky enough to see some of the world... Portugal, Hong Kong, Slovenia, Japan, and quite a few months in Indonesia. Had some great times on those overseas trips... we worked bloody hard (my longest ever working week was 109 hours) and we played hard too. What happened in Jakarta stayed in Jakarta Left Wes in 2003 rather than be permanently transferred to an LUL contract (metro signalling does not appeal to me at all, in the slightest) and joined Mott MacDonald in Bristol for 4 years. Enjoyed the work, but unfortunately MM were a very small fish compared to Wes and the work dried up. Luckily I was headhunted by Wes (or Invensys as they had become by this time) and rejoined in 2007, and have been there ever since. Invensys were bought by Siemens a few years back, so now I work for Ze Chermans. They are good people to work for, I have to say, good Ts & Cs and as much training as I could wish for. But I have grown to dislike the UK rail industry -- years ago I was proud to be a railwayman and would defend it to the death in an argument, but not these days. More often than not, it embarrasses and angers me. Far too much political bullpoo.

Excellent. Wishing you the very best o' british 👍

You know you're in trouble if this happens during Simple Minds' 'Waterfront'... Seriously though... yes, this has happened to me with the ska band. I remember Too Much Pressure going completely off-piste one night, for no apparent reason

If it was a Gibson fence, the top 6" would keep falling off.

This was all the comment you needed really, the rest was superfluous

Right now I'm more worried about my Italian holiday in June.

If you want a fretless with a crisp slap attack, then I reckon a slap plate at the end of the neck is the way to go (as mentioned by uk_lefty above).

Remarkably, not everyone shares your opinion of Ms Guðmundsdóttir

4'33"

There is no prosecution, just personal choice

That was quick

Genius

For those of you who have just joined the thread, here is a quick summary of the story so far: "I really don't like Aja. It's crap." "No it's not." "Yes it is." "No it's not." "Yes it is." "No it's not." "Yes it is." "No it's not." "Yes it is." "No it's not." "Yes it is." "No it's not. Steely Dan are brilliant." "No they aren't." "Yes they are." "No they aren't." "Yes they are." "No they aren't." "Yes they are." "No they aren't." "Yes they are." "No they aren't." "Yes they are." (cont'd p.94)