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Hi Folks Don't often do this but with this one I thought I must.. So, there I was in my local music shop in Bognor Regis (Mike's Music) buying some strings when I saw this hanging on the wall looking a bit unloved.. Being the kind chap that he is, Mike let me have a trial with the bass and after spending some time with it at home, I realised it was a must have.. As far as I can tell from the serial number, its a Made in Japan 1991/2 Fender Precision. Sounds great, beautiful Ash body and maple neck and is in brilliant condition for a 27 year old bass. Happy days, or should I say, happy NBDs! Thanks for looking.. 😊

Ive had my P34 for a week now, and love it to bits. Not had a lot of time to play it this week, but i can honestly say i had had no ‘i wish it....” moments, its the most complete bass ive ever owned. Ive struggled to take any phots that make it look interesting, its hard to photograph at home and, well, we all know what it looks like. Still, a few to prove i have it lol.

Awesome gig yesterday evening at the Farmyard Bikers rally in Helmsley, North Yorkshire. This is one of big ones at about 6-7000 punters and loads of bands over 4 stages and 2 days. Great weather and enthusiastic crowd, even had time for a beer after our spot and watched a couple of bands. Loved the backstage request.....lol

😂 Si

Milli Vanilli

Liam Gallagher in every band he's ever been in.

Just back from a local (festival) gig... now off to a pub gig. Oddly the pub gig is going to be paying way more than the festival but I reckon the festival gig might be the better experience; we shall see.

took a good bit of cleaning, was like a dusty headache. Wearing some BB knobs now too.

Woo! First one I've actually recognised. I'm nowhere near my bass at the moment so someone else should feel free to continue

“YAMAHA”

Could you please update me about everything you've posted in the last... oh, I don't know - 3 months?? 😃

Yay! 👍

Here’s some https://www.allparts.uk.com/collections/wood-horn-knobs

Female bass-player? Boogie Oogie Oogie, A Taste of Honey?

Completely disagree. He was great with AC/DC at the Olympic Stadium a few years back. Aside from nailing the songs, he looked like he was living the dream. I guess this post is about replacement singers, because (like it or not) the singer is almost always the focal point for an audience and everyone else is essentially a backing musician. A change in a high profile frontman can be hard for some fans to take, but - so what. And just for the record, I think that Adam Lambert is awesome with Queen.

Couple of good gigs this week in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury. We have a new lighting guy, so enjoying seeing what he can do to make us look better, not an easy task....

I remember when it was all fields.....

All my basses are active. Passive basses are a bit meh these days (with the exception of Hohner) They were all the rage back in the 50’s 60’s, but not so much in recent years. 🤔😆

Dear friends, after more than 4 years the first 4 String bass is ready to rock the world ! EVO-FX4

The thing is, when Gibson were going bust, everyone was saying “they need to go back to what they do best, Les Paul’s/SG’s/335’s!” And were criticised for all their “innovations” (which incidentally were poop...) Fender and Gibson do what they do, Imagine Levi’s making tracksuit bottoms or Dr Martens making tennis shoes. It just doesn’t work that way. Fender have a staple 5/10 models and have to work with that. They try stuff and it doesn’t always sell - there are 100’s of models which didn’t stay long. I sold Fenders for years as my Job, and all the weird and wonderful sat on the wall while black strats and white telecasters turned over in huge numbers. For years their best selling Telecaster was the butterscotch 52, their second biggest selling telecaster was the left handed version. After that it was a natural finish USA with a black pickguard and the Baja Tele in blackguard blonde...etc. Its about an “Icon” thing for players. Jaguars/Jazzmasters/Mustangs were sort of dead until Grunge - the artists bought them because they were reputable branded guitars but cheap. Then in the early 2000’s the 72 Custom Tele/Thinline Tele/Tele Deluxe were in vogue because of all the hip indie bands using them for that same reason - before that they couldn’t raise an eyebrow let alone a big ticket price. They have a legacy and they’re bound to it, damned if they do (by some) and damned if they don’t (by others). More stringent quality control and they’d be away - but that adds cost, and that’s why a Deluxe USA Jazz is £1800 or so and a USA Sadowsky is about £4500. Incidentally - I side by side compared a USA 2010 Deluxe, A USA sadowsky and an Alleva Coppolo (check spelling) and the Fender held its own, massively. I preferred it in sound to the other two and it felt as nice as the Sadowsky. It was just a bit heavier than the other 2. It was also about £1449 at the time. They should open up 12 month contracts to us all and see if we could do a better job. Anyhow, as someone said earlier - if you weren’t thinking of buying a Fender this year - these probably aren’t aimed at you...I’m off to play my yamaha 😂

I just think that Gibson are behaving oddly pi55ing on their own chips by behaving like a peevish gorilla at a time when they should be focused on mending fences with a sizeable slab of disaffected consumers. The time to pursue copyright infringement is when customers (and potential customers) are back onside with the company. That said, it might be that the hedge fund wonks who now run the company are attempting to enhance the value of the company by clearing up any unattractively loose ends in respect of trademarks which might excite the concerns of future investors or outright buyers. A sign that Gibson may be back up for sale sooner than expected? Who can say? If, however, Gibson's plan is simply and negligently to run high-profile lawsuits alongside their customer re-engagement strategy then that's Juskiewiecz levels of crazy.

You can create your own Glastonbury festival at home. Pitch a tent in your garden,put on radio 6 Then get whizzed and stoned out of your mind. Don't forget to steal your own shoes and urinate up the side of your tent.

Meant to add that there's been some heavyweight lobbying by the global music industry to obtain an exemption from CITES for all musical instruments. This has been very effective and chances are that it would have been in place now if the last CITES meeting (scheduled for May in Malaysia IIRC) hadn't been cancelled due to a terrorist incident!

I don’t press buttons to ignore you...I just do it 😂😂😂

Update on the whole "Alexandra Palace to Waterloo" drama - left the gig before the encore, caught the W3 bus from stop R to Finsbury Park, Victoria line to Green Park, Jubilee line to Waterloo. Arrived in Waterloo at about 2322, and the 2320 train was delayed so I got on that. So, no need to sleep in the station. Hooray! S.P.

Nice playing too

Sorry no vintage tone selector on this, (unless that's what the 'Treble Tone (PIP)' switch is also called?), but I know it works! If that's any help 😊 Actually I think it might be!!!!!!

Other than me cousin George, anybody who tried to replace Freddie in Queen.

I knows what it is but I ain't no snitch!

Its in unbelievable nick for 27 ish years of age

Agree with this. I have a Nordstrand in my 5-string which is also a big improvement on the standard. I've used the Artecs too and they're OK until the pots start crackling.

Yeah I think "singer" was pushing the description a bit. Even his own brother can't stand him.

Do ya know, I was kinda thinking the same 😂. Now I get that little breather to get back on that low F. I used to actually just play the octave F on the D string followed by the lower A and C notes of that riff but it'll be nice to hit back to the low F

That would seem a bit of a generalisation from the fact that your basses are all passive? I have two purely passive basses (Yamaha BBs), but the rest are all active, most with a combined active / passive ability and I love them all - which is why I still have them and have not moved them on. I suspect if you ran a poll you'd find folk split between whether they prefer active or passive circuits on their bass EQs.

Alright, I know Neil's bassline, but I've been up half the night recording, and the other half the night trying to export a bit of a track out of Reaper as an mp3. So that if I'm right, I can take a turn. Aaaaaargh!

Hey all, names Chris. I used to play bass back in my younger years, my brother on drums, my bestie on the guitar. Those where the days. But my musical tastes changed from rock and metal which we played, to dance and dubstep so I bought some decks and kind of stopped playing bass, at the time I found it hard to learn because of the lack of being able to get proper tuition. But now with the vast communities of musicians and youtube (plus money), I thought I would start playing again. I owned a fair few basses over the 6 years I played, even a custom bass which had the name 'deville' printed on it (if anyone knows the whereabouts of this bass please get in touch). Best bass i owned was a Cort curbow 4 in blue which I am currently trying to hunt down so if anyone has one for sale please get in touch. Thats me in a nutshell, see you all on the forums

Sage advice above regarding amps. I’ve found a useable live tone with my 4003 a bit of a moving target, however having disabled the tweeter in my cab (Genz Benz NeoX 2x12) things are much better. Incidentally, I used my 4003 on some home recordings recently. Plugged straight into Cubase 10 through my Focusrite interface with a bit of gain the tone is absolutely killer, exactly what I want. No amp involved, just the bass’s inherent tone. Wonderful.

Your amp shocks someone. Your PA system falls on someone. One of your bandmates throws a guitar in the air and pink torpedos up the catch and it hits someone in the mouth. Someone trips on a cable you put there. Someone trips on a cable you say the Venue put there but the Venue say you put there! Seriously - the opportunities for a flip up are endless! The Venue is only liable for their own negligence - not yours as well. And they will try to make any problem your problem. Or rather the insurers of the Venue will try to blame shift to the band if they can. If you both have insurance the insurers will carve it up between them to avoid a fight. There is also something REALLY scary now. It's called Qualified One Way Costs Shifting, or QOCS. If you sue someone for an injury and you win the opponent pays a lot of your legal fees. Not all, hence the percentage deduction that a law firm can make from your award. Now flip it - you are the band. Someone claims you have injured them. You are the defendant instead. The claimant sues you. You do not have insurance so you have to pay for a lawyer yourself... You manage to win. You don't owe the claimant a penny. You'd think the claimant would then have to pay your legal fees, wouldn't you? After all, you won. You successfully defended the claim. Not anymore. QOCS means that even if you have bankrupted yourself defending the claim the losing claimant does not have to make any contribution to your legal fees. You might have spent £25,000 defending a reasonably heavy claim. And you won't get a penny back. It's gone. There are some VERY limited exceptions of course, but generally speaking if you successfully defend an injury claim you don't get your legal fees back. So don't think "I will never cause injury to a punter" - think "Even though it won't be my fault if a punter is injured, can I afford to defend a claim properly?" And don't think about "No win, no fee" for DEFENDING a claim. The lawyers don't offer it, because due to QOCS there is no other party to get their fees from even when successfully defending an injury claim. So you'll get billed monthly like any regular client. If you ever get a letter of claim for an injury (QOCS doesn't apply to non-injury claims) and you are not insured you are effectively forced into working out whether it's cheaper to settle quickly compared to the fees you could pay defending the action.

Jazz pickups with a lot of mids. I found Seymour Duncan SJB2's to have the most mids of any pickup of tried so far. They should come in under your budget with a bit to spare. I'm seriously considering going back to them. I've tried stock Japan ones, SJB2 and SJB3, Model J's and I have to say the SJB2's got me to where I wanted. If anything they were more dark sounding than my P-basses.

You're welcome to borrow my 1025 Dave (and you're right it's not for sale!). Love my 1025 but the P35, for me anyway, is better still. Make sure to play your P34 through a rig, not just headphones this weekend though!