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[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1424347508' post='2695348'] Hell, forget the trussrod, why would you buy a Chinese fake with a huge West Ham sticker on it? [/quote] That's always my second question, 'Has it got any stupid stickers on it?' Mind you, if it's good enough for Steve Harris... Actually no - balls to it - Steve Harris has NO taste!

OMG, I've found a track on there by a band I was in in the early 90s! Thirteen years later it appears on a compilation that was released eight years ago! Talk about your life being online... please play it - I'll get 0.05 percent of $0.007. Then off to Antigua for me! [url="https://play.spotify.com/artist/4m1cs1JF78z6Bs8zeqYKjx"]https://play.spotify.com/artist/4m1cs1JF78z6Bs8zeqYKjx[/url]

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1424345867' post='2695325'] Average payment to artist per play on Spotify $0.007 [/quote] Well you don't want to pay musicians too much - it only encourages them.

The Glorious Om Riff!!

'Very playable', but 'unable to adjust truss rod'. Would you? I wouldn't. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/fender-precision-copy-/281603093043?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/fender-precision-copy-/281603093043?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276[/url] That's my first question these days... 'is the truss rod working OK?' If the answer is anything other than 'Yes, fine' then I move on, and you should too!

Yes, mine too. Only three things in life are certain: Death, taxes and the quality of Dave's cables.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1424335670' post='2695159'] Me too, I can never understand the downer so many people have against them. [/quote] Whenever Ashdown are mentioned I always makes comments about how they sound as if they have a blanket over them and you'd better have a fire extinguisher handy because they're always bursting into flames, but seriously there's nothing wrong with Ashdown gear. If you're looking for a hi-fi sound they're probably not best at that, but if the sound they make is close you what's in your head then there's nothing better. Obviously you could say that about any manufacturer, but you know what I mean!

Yes, sell the one you have and buy the right one. Don't 'modify' your Euro!

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1424298435' post='2695003'] NBD; Euro 4LX TW. Beautiful! [/quote] [quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1424338799' post='2695202'] Awesome [/quote] It really is. NBD thread? I'd like to see more pics of this.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1424334071' post='2695143'] I'm still wrestling with colour choices for the P I have in mind. I've narrowed it down to LPB and Charcoal Frost. [/quote] If you go with LPB will you specify parchment or mint pickguard and rosewood board?

[quote name='colleya' timestamp='1424338570' post='2695196'] Yep, suppose I've just got too much thinking time on my hands as it's half term! [/quote] You are obviously childless!

Hearing The Four Tops [i]Reach Out (I'll Be There)[/i] in 1966.

[quote name='Dave_the_bass' timestamp='1424297859' post='2694990'] Planning on posting pics of the twins tomorrow. [/quote] Yay!

So today's not actually your New Bass Day then, is it? But as your new bass is apparently much the same as your old bass, could we see some pictures of that, instead?

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1424288427' post='2694840'] Another shot of the flame inlays on my old bass in all its glory [/quote] Don't usually like such fripperies, but this looks pretty good. Inlays look like they belong there.

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1424289755' post='2694862'] Get an Ariston RD11 - essentially the same thing only much cheaper, to buy nowadays that is. There was some controversy over who actually invented the Sondek, with the founder of Ariston having originally gone to Ivor Tiffanbraun (sp?) to manufacture them. I had the Sondek, my brother had the RD11 ('S' version I think) and they sounded very, very similar with the Ariston sounding a bit more exciting for rock. Though maybe that was the arm - we weren't bothered enough to swap the tonearms. [/quote] Well that's very interesting, thanks for the info.

[quote name='colleya' timestamp='1424267381' post='2694528'] Soooooo..... How long is long enough to leave it between placing your order and following up with a casual 'how's it going' email? Put mine in at the start of January so it should be working its way up the queue but all these pics are giving me itchy fingers! [/quote] I'd say six weeks is a bit hopeful. If Mark said 12 weeks, it could very well be eight weeks, so I'd hold off and see if you hear anything in two weeks. If not, then a polite enquiry [i]may [/i]be in order. But even then I'd give him a bit longer. Most builders would quote you 12 weeks and if they delivered your bass six months later, you would think yourself lucky!

[quote name='Drax' timestamp='1424260547' post='2694425'] Surely a Linn Sondek. Eternal GAS for one of those [/quote] Yes, only since about 1972! But due to financial constraints it may have to be a Thorens TD or similar.

Amp/speakers for me every time. But then I do have a Linn system, so a dock or soundbar isn't going to cut it. Yes I know, I'm an arse. Art is a completely subjective thing, if you want to hang it on your wall then do so! I do miss vinyl, though and everything that went with it. I might invest in a 70s turntable this year and start collecting again. The smell! The sound! The nostalgia! The artwork! Good to know you're out of that madhouse, by the way. Get some rest!

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1424258561' post='2694399'] I can't believe you had passed up on a film that has 'pussy' in the title and this was the theme for 'Octopussy'. [/quote] I [i]am [/i]getting through them, slowly. I'm only up to 'M', though.

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1424255918' post='2694343'] Its a shame, especially as there are at least two very good guitar magazines and decent magazines on pretty much everything and anything else. [/quote] I wonder why that is. Bass magazines just don't seem to go into enough detail, such as we see on this forum. So when you read one it just seems very superficial - there's not enough technical information on the one hand and not enough of an insight into the non-theory side of music on the other to hold my interest for very long. I do have a couple of copies in the bog, mainly so I can look at the pictures while I'm pushing out a log. You don't want [i]reality [/i]rushing in when you're taking the kids to the pool, do you?

Have you got it yet?

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1424255219' post='2694320'] Sir, I disagree. Yours was a re-fin job, not a relic job. [/quote] I know it's not a relic job! That's what I'm saying, it's an 'un-relic', i.e. NOT a relic. Put your bloody glasses on. [quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1424255219' post='2694320'] What your Hayman is is a re-re-fin. And another thing, you were bloody lucky to get it back finished and dry! [/quote] Yes, I know... if the madness had set in earlier it could have been a nightmare, much as you experienced. But in that case I would have set up camp outside his door and stayed there until I got a result. I'm very glad it didn't come to that.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1424255228' post='2694321'] Fixed [/quote] Fair comment. I've been possessed by the GAS demon pretty badly so far this month!

Have you got it yet? Come on, we need to see pics!