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    I once had a glass of Dom Perignon Champagne. It was noticeably nicer than any I had drunk before, but was it four times better? After a certain price, any improvements are incremental (or snake oil).
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    This. We have been in a race to the bottom, squeezing prices for decades. This is now unsustainable and prices are having to go up and we are going to have to get used to owning less stuff. Going with inflation, a Fender Stratocaster should cost 3,300 dollars in US ( sorry, couldn't find UK prices for 1969s).
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    With the original currently being used for one of the most awful adverts on TV, I thought this was a refreshing take, and one I'm surprised I'd never heard before: Blood Sisters.
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    Odd that they dropped the active/passive switch that was on my earlier model. I always used mine passive, couldn't find anything the pre did that I liked - which might give a clue to your question.
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    Oh, and lovely looking build @kevin_lindsay
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    Ginger rest - finally worked out what that little block is for. Mind you, the ginger will probably fall off once you start playing!
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    Summer of 69 - what an awful song.
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    Keep up 🤨
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    3 string Fender MDP anyone?
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    Fender Fretless Precision - Oxymoron Bass
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    I hope you meant aren't? Looking good. I only came across these basses in another post on here a week or so ago and now have gas for the first time in years!
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    Sorry, someone had to...
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    I remember when Under Pressure came out - 15 seconds of dead air from our radio of that time!
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    Agree about 6 Music eq (especially in the car) but astonished that you didn't know this fabulous Tommy Cogbill bass line. The story of the recording of the album is a great read.
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    No, but you should probably delete it and not post when you are under the influence.
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    Difficult one isn't it? As others have said, with MJ, there are so many others involved so when covering a song, how much of it is his? Next, where do we stop? Beatles? And while we are on the subject of domestic abuse, how do you censor Ike Turner without censoring his victim?
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    @chris_bis absolutely right - but I find it incredibly hard not to "dig in" when gigging. The whole "turn the bass up and play lighter" just seems counterintuitive to me. I saw Nick Fyffe (Jamiroquai bass player) playing a much more rock style with Temperance Movement and really got the whole concept -but I still struggle with it!
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    Do you wear gloves when labouring? I found when I was a gardener the leather gloves softened my callouses - damned nuisance.
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    He certainly was!
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    Enjoyed this on Cerys Matthews show this morning:
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    Alton Ellis- love the way the guitar gives a flavour of the original white still skanking away on the off-beat.
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    Thread revival - Youssou N'Dour has probably been posted before, but I thought this track was fabulous, with its very French flavour and Senegalese overtones:
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    Much like @Dad3353 mine is a hollow bodied 6 string. A no-name Japanese copy of the Gibson Barney Kessel guitar. Very much like this Shaftesbury - probably from the same factory. I can even forgive it the sunburst finish!
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    Yes, was very impressed with their very upfront pricing. £89 to any of that central area, a bit more inside M25, and ask for price elsewhere. Could work very nicely for my plans.
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