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loads of great info coming in guys cheers, Mods, can can we get a sticky to collect the info from here and add other pickup makers in the uk ? i could start to collect and do a list in the op or another post, unless someone else wants a start one off ?

thanks guys cheers for that at the mo im using gold MECs from the thumb bass, nice but just wanted to try something different. just to see if it does infact make a difference 🙂 but im not sure about spending £350 to find out. al prob wait till a 2nd hand pair pop up, no rush. be nice to have a uk list of pickup makers though.

thought i would try some lollar pickups in my jazz so a pair of dc pickups from the USA is £250 https://www.lollarguitars.com/ ...................................................................... Cart subtotal £250.70 FedEx International Economy£24.26 Duties, taxes, and feesNothing due at the door £80.46 Order total £355.42 ............................................................................ £80 tax ahhhhhhh.... i think al shop about 😞 so does anyone know of anyone selling them in uk/europe ?

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Ebay have been very underhanded here, they said funds would be released 2 days after the item has been delivered. but... they have removed the button that says "item received" so unless you use their posting and tracking service there is no way the person can say they have received their item, even when they leave feedback two days after they have bought it cus you sent an item next day delivery and sent it on the day it was paid for, you still have to wait OVER two weeks for your cash. so... ebay have a float of everyons cash for two weeks rolling, thats a sh!t load of cash that does not belong to them collecting interest FOREVERRRRRRRR. f£$&!n Robbers and here is the new one.... get ready.... "Add your tax information to your account to get compliant with UK digital sales reporting legislation, and to avoid upcoming restrictions." tax is also accountable for second hand goods being sold, so be careful selling your wal on ebay for £10K ! you might want to look into that regarding the boundaries of what is taxable and what is not !

had the old battery snap on the pre stingray behind the chrome plate for years, no problem. got the old battery snap in my wal for nearly 45 years now, no problem got the old battery snap in both my G&L L2000 Series E since 1980/81, no problem. got the newer chad valley / Ronco / K-Tell battery box on my newer stingray, and its had 2 new ones in 15 years ! problems with the contacts corroding inside, its junk, next time its getting ripped out and an old snap put in with a cover.... no problem. 🙂

100% 🙂 on the whole marketing of just that word there is a big fat book waiting to written !

Have to agree with nick. i have a 1000+ funk and related cd's from old to today. "Funk" has such a wide spectrum nowdays its hard to find a genera of music that the elements of funk has not affected. its a very personal thing on how we think of it, and all of peoples thoughts on it are valid depending on where there slide is on the ruler. if i could get a ruler and say thats the total span of "raw funk" to modern funk you could move that slide to the centre and say ok thats where i think it all began, the birth of funk, then im sure each of us cold move the slide on it one way or the other to pinpoint our fave bit. i like all music, classical soul, latin, jazz, reggae, boogaloo, organ groove acidjazz disco pop rock punk bla bla. i just take elements of all that a try and mold them into something useable that i like and can write with, where that all comes out on that ruler ? i dont know, but it sounds funky. our ideas of funk to put into a descriptive word is also very personal and will not align with someone else's idea of the word. a good example for me is, i have heard people calling "Nubiyan Twist" a funk band. yet i cant see that, its too short a descriptive label by far, i see them as a "world music" band... that has elements of lots of funk in there, but mainly i hear African/rap, but also pop jazz, (see below) their thing is so diverse its being stretched in all directions. pushing the boundaries of all we know about any genera of music. i love new cool collective for the same reasons worth checking both out to see what i mean. hope all that did not sound too boring