Big_Stu

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1394040413' post='2387289'] a friend of mine has Krell separates and sone fancy B & W speakers, it is incredible. possibly as good as you would want, sound wise. he spent £9000 i think. £350,000 is very silly.[/quote] A mate of mine has a mostly Linn system that he bought via a web-site for a fraction of the list price. At full value (taking £ as a basis which is stupid as a value of the sound it produces by hey-ho) it makes my system seem like cheap crap. In turn another mate of mine said that my cables cost more than his entire system. I gave him the offcuts of my speaker cable and a couple of good interconnects & he said he could def hear a big difference. Throw depreciation & obsolescence into the equation and it explains why I've never heard of any hi-fi deviants or elitists. Enjoying the particular sound-system you have in your home isn't exactly a "cred" thing that would be worth blowing about, unless it was to your mates at the end of the station platform while you waited for a rare train to come your way.

[quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1394024972' post='2387017'] i've managed to avoid the dreaded upgrade bug with my hifi, but i have made a few changes that are noticeable, when i got married i moved my beloved hifi out of the bedroom in my student house into the living room of our newly purchased home and suddenly it sounded a bit flat, i tried moving the speakers (kef floorstanders) around and it just didn't work, [i][b]60 quid on a pair of secondhand castle speakers[/b][/i] and 20 for some stands and suddenly it was alive again[/quote] - where's an inconsolable icon when you need one?!? (You can put another "6" in front of yours for what I paid for my "Severn"s) Well done on avoiding Hi-fi GAS though. Me too, haven't bought any new kit in over 10 years, had a pair of Senn's bought for me & a Pure DAB radio off my son but that's it. It's also rare that I buy any "new" recordings, as in new artists, as the attraction rarely lasts. Been buying a fair bit of vinyl lately, but only if it's close to or actual mint.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1394018341' post='2386894']What has always turned me off high end hi-fi is the fact that, were I in the room with the musicians who made the original music at the time they actually made it, it would not have sounded like that.[/quote] A couple or so years ago Francis & Rick from Quo were on the Simon Mayo show. During it they played the single of "Paperplane", which IIRc was from 1973. When it finished Francis Rossi says, "I have never heard that record sound so clear, that's amazing, play it again", so Mayo played a bit fo it again & after that Francis started asking about what their studio monitor speakers & set-up were etc. He was still talking about it at the end of the show.

Personally I feel it's impossible to judge or slate hi-fi preferences as it is pointless having a particular bass or guitar because it'll never sound like it did in the shop, or when you first heard one of it's kind which caused your first interest in it.

Many years ago when I first stuck a toe in the water of hi-fi I bought the usual mags to see what I should be looking for. One of the reviews was of a turntable which was based on a plinth made from the salvaged, salt-water engulfed timbers of a sunken Dutch sailing ship from a couple or so centuries ago. IIRC it cost in the region of £55k+. Based on that I often wonder how much hi-fi is based on smoke and mirrors or just good trials in a decent room.

From personal experience of very similar issues, if the room using the dehumidifier isn't pretty much airtight, not as in a sealed room but pretty much draught free I mean, you're wasting your time/electricity. In effect you'll be trying to dehumidify the atmosphere The building in question for me is built of breeze blocks, which are now filled with insulation. Inside the roof I built a dropped ceiling with loft insulation above it, but you still have to leave space for air to circulate between that & the roof. Biggest issue that I haven't overcome yet is the concrete floor, which will always be cold, which will cause condensation whenever the room is heated - even to a slight extent by people being in the room. The answer to that is to build a raised wooden floor on top of it, which tbh I can't be arsed with right now.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1393504740' post='2381081'] To echo some earlier posts... Jim Lea Colin Hodgkinson Dee Murray [/quote] The problem with Jimmy Lea's "legacy" is that here's virtually no worthwhile footage of him at his best, ie. "live". This was mostly down to Noddy Holder's refusal to do it; his reason being it would ruin the spontaneity of the set if there were hitches or retakes. By the time MTV or YT was available the Slade bubble was long burst. However, if you want to see his fingers blur, anyone remember Saturday mornings "Get Fresh"? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cIWBWunAGw[/media]

Up The Junction??? Pub landlord looking shifty paid with a dodgy fifty we felt we had to swallow Left us feeling hollow Waiting till the morning and put out a warning on a musician's forum then kicked him in the scrotum

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1393443447' post='2380446'] We're not gonna take it. The first two lines of the verse , what does that melody remind me of ??? [/quote] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOg116b5veg [size=6]?[/size]

Not casting nasturtiums, more just musing, but how else would a pub (knowingly or not) get rid of a phoney £50? Suppliers would most likely be paid by BACS, cash being banked would be spotted immediately (probably) by the cashier, any staff working a few hours paid cash wouldn't want a £50 & staff on longer hours would also be paid by BACS. edit: apart from making several investments in my local over the years, I know virtually donald-all about the workings of a pub.

Yeah, she wasn't a gimmick. IIRC she started out in one of those US family shows, like a real life Partridge Family. Her No. 1 bass was a very early Precision that her Dad gave her when he quit.

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1393366999' post='2379521'] This was a few years back though. I believe its been taken over by new management quite a few times since. I have no proof of skullduggery in this instance and shall not comment further.[/quote] So ................ ............. are you saying the only common denominator is you?

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1393340222' post='2378957'].I'm a bit surprised they took it in the first place though. On the very few occasions that I've tried to spend a £50 note anywhere, I've been viewed with great suspicion and all manner of UV lamps and special pens have been deployed to verify its authenticity before accepting it - and even then only begrudgingly. They are almost as bad as Scottish notes![/quote] That was I was trying to infer too, but I haven't the nerve to come right out with it. There's not a pub landlord in the land that'll swallow the loss of £50, without trying to make it someone else's loss. The Scottish notes thing, yeah I get that every time I come back after a visit, so I just make a present of my "foreign currency" to my son before I go.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1393338204' post='2378905'] The Junkyard Dogs played a gig on Friday and received £200 (introductory rate), in the form of 2 x £50 notes and the balance in £20 and £10 notes. One of the £50 notes has now been discovered to be a forgery, the other was fine. There is no particular reason to think that the pub knew about this. As a band, we have joked about this situation several times but I don't think we seriously expected it to happen. We can't be the first to arrive here ... what normally happens next? [/quote] Depends on whether you want to permanently lose the gig. It's a fair wedge to chalk up to experience, but you know for sure they passed on forged money, which is a criminal offence blah de blah, old bill, might not be the first time, I've lost a £5 in a pub the same way, once got given half a tenner in my change at a service station. I photocopied another one, taped the two halves together & spent it back at the same place the week after. They must have known what they'd done, so the guy got a knowing as I pocketed the change.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1393323592' post='2378605']Fixed that for you. Not bitter at all [/quote] Surely not!!?? You mean a mate of mine who pays £60 a month for his business BB & was told it was going up after the upgrade to £98 has no reason to be hacked off?? It's a thought! Edit: Date for your diary, Steve Cropper is playing "The Lemon Tree" on 21st November this year. A rare treat to see a legend.

Apparently there's been some major outages in the that London area, so I was told yesterday. BT installing Superfast BB everywhere they can, though they're only supposed to have folk down for a max of 4 hrs at a time, so maybe you were just unlucky.

[quote name='razze06' timestamp='1392997526' post='2375110'] Not a shop, but if you fancy a trip to Edinburgh, Thornybank has got quite a collection of old trace stuff [/quote] I was his place when a buyer trialed a Hiwatt 400 through a vintage Trace stack. It was ................ [i]interesting[/i]. Pardon?? I said it was [b]INTERESTING!!![/b]

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1392972548' post='2374714'] McCartney is now underrated, but it's utterly his own fault. On 'Wings at the Speed of Sound', he played some IMHO great bass lines. Since then, he seems to have forgotten about bass apart from posing with his Hofner at concerts. When was his last great bassline?[/quote] I think he's more been over-shadowed by those who came since, many of who - knowingly or not - will have been "influenced" by him (There's that 'kin word that I hate again) Certainly even though McC's new recordings get featured on Radio 2 etc on first release I don't think they set the world on fire. hardly surprising that he ran out of ideas after writing so many hits. (Jimmy Lea suffered the same fate.) But in the same way that Chuck Berry is no longer celebrated you just can't take away their major contribution, rating or relevance. Personally I much prefer McCs Wings years rather than The Beatles. "Band On The Run" is just immense & is regularly broadcast to my neighbours on a cranked stereo.

[quote name='Lorne' timestamp='1392920055' post='2374253'] [font=Calibri][url="http://s4.photobucket.com/user/190968/media/my%20basses/1978USATJMockingbird.jpg.html"][/url][/font] [font=Calibri]The bass was bought in 1979, and put in an attic in 1982, I recovered the bass from that attic in December of 2006, I was lucky enough to be given the bass :-)[/font] [/quote] I'd love to hear the twang off that bridge pickup, that placing is tighter than a camel's doo-dah in a sandstorm.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1392730990' post='2372036'] I bought a Warwick Corvette some time back .......... but it didn't agree with me.[/quote] [quote name='Your Warwick bass' timestamp='1392730990' post='2372036']Oh yes I did!!! [/quote] Seriously glad you're going down the osteopath route rather than popping pills off a GP or looking at ops. Hope you get fixed up quick. Mine has never failed yet.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1392670356' post='2371502'] Maybe that is what he used on Never Say Die?[/quote] I would be the right era (1978) if he'd had the bass for a couple of years or so (JB's peak for copying - and selling - copies of classic basses) but the only NSD video I can find it's an actual ........... Rick.

Cadbury's Purple with metallic flecks. I saw a JImmy Moon bass with that finish once & it was truly gorgeous.

Looking at an old thread I took part in years ago on another forum there was footage of Geezer gigging a John Birch Rick in green burst. Can't find the footage on YT as yet.

[quote name='The fasting showman' timestamp='1392631738' post='2370726']Some great lines from Trevor Bolder though, I've always loved 'John, I'm only dancing' for the walking on the chorus.[/quote] +1 - and in a similar vein "Panic In Detroit" from "Aladdin Sane", one of my fave Bowie tracks of all time. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf0fmqWS-kI[/media]

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1392547863' post='2369834']I've been researching the placebo effect for 10 years and, for obvious reasons, have had to keep it pretty quiet. There's are some keen science/research minds on this forum, I'm keen to hear your thoughts? C [/quote] 10 years research and Brian Molko is still putting albums out, the Palcebo effect is obviously a tough nut to crack; I wish you every success! Seriously, very well done - I'll watch with interest!