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A good bass is a good bass, expensive or not so expensive. It's just that if a brand loses it's aspirational dimension then it has no direction. It becomes like trying to sell replica kits for a mid-table Sunday League football team. Why would people want them? G&L is such a loss to the market because they have unique features and sounds that no one else has to offer. The L1000 and L2000 are inimitable, nothing else sounds like them.

I can see that’s a faker from the one photo, without taking the TRC off. The faker truss-rods had different adjusters, so having two wasn’t necessarily the tell anyway.

Back in the 80’s and 90’s when I used to sign the receipt for the gig money at the end of the night, I used a different stage name for every signature 🤔

Sorry for persisting, but Aria was one of several brands produced at the Matsumoku factory and without the original, sellers often choose the most advantageous brand to go with when offering on the item without specific bonafides. It’s especially prevalent with Grecos.

Have you already bought? If so it's too late but looking at this makes me ask the question is a cheap 10" speaker actually going to be 'better' than the two good quality 8's you have in the QSC's? My thinking is that this cab is made of MDF which is excellent for cabs but just about the heaviest material you could use so that it means the speaker has a reasonably lightweight magnet. To get decent efficiency and low frequency extension you kind of need a big magnet. I haven't got time at the moment but could look at the QSC's to see if they might not do the job alone without the subs. I've used them at open mics for bass and been surprised at how capable they are. My thinking is that these tiny pubs (and I have my own in mind, The Green Dragon) often are pretty awful spaces and deep bass is unwanted. Cramped spaces means you are up against walls and low ceilings which reinforce the bass as well as turning it to mush. Basically I can put in some specs for a decent 8 and a cheap 10 into winISD and speculate upon which might do best with bass. If you've already bought then just trying them out would be better of course.

Mine is Mick St Michael, a pseudonym I invented in 1984 when editing a short lived music paper, Soundcheck. It inflated the number of writers under my control! Alvin Stardust once bought me a coffee. Amazingly, that was what appeared on his Mastercard rather than Bernard Jewry…

The Greco & Fernandes Ric clones have, their name in the Rickenbacker style script. The one annoying thing that the clones do as good as the real 4001 & 4003 basses, is the dreaded tail lift.

Yup. To avoid identity theft. But also Macdaddy sounds more showbiz than my real name which is Brett Starshine.

I know what you mean. It's just funny that I've ended up with the Fallout ( wish I still had my USA one) being such a useful bass to me. A great mid way point sonically between Fender's greatest hit designs, it covers a lot of that ground, but being short scale it's good for my dodgy left arm and shoulder. Incredible note balance too. If those G&L designs work for you, they do really offer something.

I’ve just always used Lozz - with records/publishing etc that’s what I’m listed as for credits.

All sorted now thanks for your help guys

I have a Guitarist friend who I have known for years. For a very long time he has been known as 'Dank Foreskins'. It's actually an anagram of his name.

For me, for G&L to continue as a brand they have to keep making premium quality guitars and basses in the USA. I know the Tribute range has its fans, but without the USA range and it's heritage they have nothing to be a tribute to. What I want is top quality American-made instruments. It's so depressing when prestige brands become a hollowed-out shell of themselves churning out budget fare which bears little or no relation to what garnered their reputation in the first place except the name . It's happened too many times already. If G&L go the same way then it's another brand might as well have gone completely as far as I'm concerned.L

My main bass now is a Tribute Fallout, so much of the basic wood working seems identical, along with the paint job ( colour notwithstanding, blue versus red metallic), to my Son's Squier Bullet Mustang guitar. Both made in Indonesia...I'm guessing the Cort factory? Fender can carry on the Tribute line as it was at the stroke of a pen if that's the case.

Because the previous owner took the Aria one off 😁. But I know what you mean. I've considered a 'Matsumoku' one in the Rickenbacker style but that's wrong as well. I've got no reason not to believe it wasn't badged as an Aria originally.

Left my bass at a mates for a few weeks and got it back today and noticed the skunk stripe is slightly raised - doesn't affect how it plays really but I'd love to get it sorted. Is it gonna be an expensive luthier job? Or something I can sort myself. Cheers.

Fancy that, you live 1 minute down the road from my aunt, who doesn't play the bass.

And on rhythm guitar we have

After a lot of research, I went uber-cheap. https://cpc.farnell.com/citronic/casa-10ba/active-10-sub-300w-rms/dp/LS06176 I don't actually need 'capable' and I already own more high-quality PA kit than is good for a man; what I need is 'suitable for tiny playing areas, usually in venues with lousy acoustics' where all that matters is form factor and (above all) light weight. I'd never take a Citronic 1x10 sub to a serious gig, given that I already own two 2x10 subs and a 1x15 sub, and more importantly most of my gigs have no need for a sub-woofer at all. But I always have a benchmark tiny pub in mind, the sort of place where there's nowhere near enough room for the band / there's a 5'7" ceiling / the bar is five feet in front of the band / the load-in is a complete nightmare. My benchmark used to be The Red Lion in Leighton Buzzard, then it was The White Hart in Chalfont St Peter, and now it's The Load Of Hay in Bushey Heath. Places like this need tiny speakers for all sorts of reasons, so I can use my QSC CP8 monitor wedges as PA tops instead but obvs they really don't handle bass very well. A tiny, lightweight, lowish-quality sub is exactly what I need to re-balance the system. @Chienmortbb suggested the Wharfdale and I'm actually a fan of their stuff but it weighs 21Kg so is only marginally lighter than the 23Kg MarkAudio units I already have. Where the Citronix scores is that it weighs just over 16Kg. Because of the handle placement it's still a 2-handed lift, but a very easy one. I can still manage the Mark Audio units but it's getting harder every year to lift those buggers into the back of the car and then manoevre them around. 🙄