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Is the drive still fizzy?

Boutique basses - especially multi-string are definitely out of kilter with the visual and sound aesthetic at the moment. In these days of rock, funk and jazz now all minority or specialist music forms creates a perfect storm of redundancy for these old world tools of exploration and growth. The UMG music fire, mainstream adoption of urban and dance music and the Spotify/iTunes industry shift is creating a mass extinction event for rock music and bass within that. Shorter less pretentious answer is boutique not fashionable - sell but at high price to recoup loss whilst Fender has the mojo at the moment so sell opportunistically at a high price. Any way, it's a buyers market for boutique basses...

I could be quite wrong but haven't I heard Sam Li's name in connection with Yes and Steve Howe?

Had a GB for 8 years now... Haven't changed the strings for 3-years... (You can boost the treble quite a lot on them...)

Well he made some odd choices...

Well it's all a bit rich... Does the 'Gibson' below ring any bells? https://www.guitar-list.com/gibson/electric-guitars/gibson-u-2 I think they're mooching off Fender and Kramer with this one...

Obvs Mr Squire and his gloriously rambunctious tone but I'll add another Progger in Tony Levin - Stick or Music Man - can usually point him out when he crops up on non-Crimson situations such as: Robbie Robertson or Bowie's 'Where are we now?".

Don't think it's Tim Finn either but don't recognise him. I do however recognise Alf Garnett in the second photo, bottom-left.

Thought there were no selfies? Congrats on meeting him.

Very envious of all you Ric owners... the OP's new bass looks Geddylicious...

A jazz will always 'do it'...

We're all silently judging you for your puny bass.

Hmm... for this price you can get a genuine Streamer. I'm going to call it and say, 'pass!'.

It'll be the other way round... If they (capital investors) have looked, they'll have said get your business is shape with robust operations before you see our investment. But frankly I doubt they would invest: online training possibly but for an atrophying music and ageing customer base possibly not. Unless its a precursor to a sale to a larger online music lesson provider or retailer.Possibly Fender or Thomann. Cue big focus on the female Taylor Swift inspired demographic (fair enough) and shudder our new guitar school! Gasp.

Lot in that... together with how the market size interacts with his licence model. Not to mention, with a bit of diligence, you can put together a free educational package on YouTube that would rival any paid college/music schools. Yes it would lack interaction and feedback from a tutor but in most other aspects its all there. You'd be a pretty competent bass player if you learnt and applied all of Scott's free lessons alone. I agree the ad is badly worded but at its core is a commercial Ops Director role so hopefully the remuneration is commensurate - sorry, the pay is appropriate.

He also did an endorsement briefly for Guild... Not sure he played them beyond the ad's...

Rithimic in action recently....

I know. I'm the same. But you'd go there, buy another copy of the book, and get your 90 seconds and think, "OMG! I'm with Geddy Lee!" and then you'd blurt some crap about 'Moving Pictures' then be moved on. Probably good for all of us and Geddy it's sold out.

Not sure you've linked the vid properly but I've seen it before. It's the Musicians Institute 'throwback' series. I don't believe it's his but a 'volunteer' for the event - probably procured from the audience or staff. I've seen Jaco's (written) responses to questions about boutique basses, i.e. "why don't you play an Alembic?" before and they go along the lines that he's all about a straight ahead Fender Jazz. Sting tried to get him hipped to Steinbergers but it didn't stick...

He had a killer tone circa, 'Going Underground'. Great lines too but heightened within the structure of brilliant songs.