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Congrats on the milestone

Yeah it’s not something I’d take out, despite them saying it’ll slip into a gig bag, it’s quite heavy

Went to an OM after my rehearsal last night. Our guitarist was on bass. Played four songs on an MM Stingray, first time ever, and it was nice. Grapevine, Paddy, McGinty's Goat(!), Crazy Little Thing and something that I can't remember.

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This was my immediate reaction to the sound on the video.

The Openhagen is beautiful, but I think a large part of the high price is due to the fold flat capability that isn't really a requirement if it stays permanently in a living room. It makes postage and transportation to other locations cheaper/easier, but I think a beautiful non collapsible design could be a lot simpler and therefore cheaper. A non collapsible design could still be shipped as a flat pack to be assembled in situ.

I drank a few beers for courage and ordered the Ibanez 😁😁

Don't place great weight on advice that tells you what to do. Focus on the advice that helps you make up your own mind.

Interesting. When I saw them there were no electronics apart from amplification. Perhaps I should check out his newer stuff a bit more, too. Haven't done so for a while. I'm glad you liked their playing.

Congrats, MrFingers Nice find for Squier money. Have you had a chance to plug it in yet?

That's what really happened. Tuesday in the afternoon, I was suffering greatly from the "post lunch digestive swoon", and the further the meeting (read: monologue from 1 person) progressed, the less I became involved, so I started playing on my phone... Opened the app from the local 2nd hands website, and typed in "Precision Bass" (as I'm still on the lookout for a sunburst/white AVRI 63, hit me up if you want to get rid of you... who am I kidding, no-one does that). And just posted was a Fender P-bass shaped object for de facto Squier money. Trying to hide my excitement (it was to be avoided they might be thinking in the meeting I suddenly became enthusiastic about a legal addendum) I instantly contacted the seller, saying I'm buying it. Got a reply back "I leave on holidays next week... would tonight work, 20h00?". As one does, one says yes first, and then look at the map where it's actually located. The benefit of this napkin of a country is... that its at maximum a 2hrs drive from the capital... where I was located. Luckily it was just a 50 minute drive, so after work I went over there, plugged it in, gave it a whirl and took it home. The seller knew what he had in parts, he just wanted to sell it. So now I have a mongrel of a P-bass. - Roger Waters signature neck & tuners (!!!) - Fender HiMass bridge. - Some sort of nondescript white EMG's - A Japanese body. It's a virtually identical neck to the American Original '60 P-bass, just with a maple fretboard. Big piece of wood, but luckily everything hangs really balanced because the body is so heavy it has developed its own gravitational field and has already caught 2 moons. But plays really nice, no deadspots, sustain for dayzzzzzzzzzzzzz. That EMG pickup sounds exactly as you would expect it to sound: like a 9V battery. The reason why I was so excited is the Roger Waters neck. Not so much for it being Roger Waters, far from it actually. Because it's a maple-cap neck with a 1.75" nut-width and a sixties "thick C" profile. Specs I absolutely adore, and which Fender AFAIK never made outside (non-CS) of this series since the original run ended in 1970. So yeah, it will likely get disassembled, and I'll build a new bass around that neck... Hmm, which famous and very limited edition Fender is famed for using a maple cap neck... and for its uniqueness... 🤔🤔🤔... Or should I go CAR... Either way, it gets full-sized Gotoh lollipops!