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"Dad-rock's dead and you're a fat forty plus year-old who dyes what's left of your hair and no-one likes the music you're trying to play so flip-off and let the DJ on." Admittedly, it's not very snappy...

This happens a lot in my experience too... sometimes willfully. I have sympathy for the staff to a degree given busy people have to speed read their e-mails. Best to focus on one point, be clear on the impact on you, and what you would like done about it. Not sure how you phrased your complaint but as a wider point in such circumstances, simply offering up the situation places an assessment, judgement and decision making process on an already attention starved, and usually junior individual. Better to do that for them with your optimal but reasonable (given the good consumer advice presented previously), outcome in mind. Love to hear how the Fendus works out! Could be a great combination...

The J in netcarlos' link is lovely...

And shapes... what's the point in 'masterpiece ageing' a modern shape? Please tell me they still offer P & J shapes?

EMG456 - thanks for the clarification. Re. Flabba - I can see a new thread being born: Bassists with matching bass/hat combinations...

Sort of Rumour at extremities - peg-head and tail-piece base area but with Spitfire horns. Anyway really nice looking bass. Looks like some tasty electronics too. Would love a go on one...

Blimey! Mr Zender's racking them up here but deservedly so... +1 Jaco's 'Havona' +1 Chris Squire's TMR and LDR Could go more fusion, pop Sting's 'Walking on the Moon' but I'll go prog again:

Hmm well if he wears it any higher it'll be up his nose! Can't tell I'm afraid despite the headstock being in shot a lot. I can't read it but perhaps a fellow BC'er will recognise the shape. P.S. The drummer mimed standing-up! What's all that about!?

Well it doesn't look like the headstock on his more recent Spellbinders either:

I remember John Wetton saying in an interview that he had a Spellbinder, and that a customs officer in an airport recognised it from Stanley who'd just been through with his.

Oh yes, Stanley's played Fender for many hours days now... To be fair, he's always dabbled with other makers and manufactured his own once (Spellbinder). At his Animal Logic gig I saw, he brought a bunch of Ken Smiths. He's had Carl Thompson's for Picolos too. Be interested to see what this 'Stratobasster' pans out like...

Well the more extreme the fan, dare I say, the "more craddock" the neck, the more extreme the distortion of hand position for chording in the upper register? So the point is that it's a compromise with different makers taking a different position - literally.

Dear god! That's like being handed Excalibur!

Agreed, that it probably does put people off especially if people playing/who like it cop an attitude. Fact is, the ear you need, rhythmic sensitivity, ability to translate that to your instrument in real-time is sophisticated. What I wouldn't do is exacerbate it with the sort of 'grand-standing' that fusion became.. I don't think playing fast is sophisticated for example but it is a by-product of the study and practice Jazz requires - looking at you Hadrien.

Anything saucy happening with electronics do we know? Need more reasons to GAS before the pricing s**ts roundly on the currently appealing fantasy...

I'm in... Miles and all of his 'children's' work: Joe Zawinul - WR, Herbie - HH, John McLauglin - MO and Chick with RTF. Terrific, super-exciting music. Still trying to learn the essence of the language - hugely sophisticated rhythmically and harmonically but satisfying...

So yes I was aware of the compound goings-on at the back of the neck but that top picture of the flock of Strandbergs looks as if there is a twist in the fretboard.... but it could be an illusion caused by the multiscale.

Nice! Let's hope the price is, ahem, 'manageable'. P.S. Do they have torzoidal necks like the LittleGuitarWorks basses as well as fanned frets (like Dingwalls) And headless like Steinberger?

This basschat thread is half a dozen posts in with no contrary views so here goes... Ed's playing to the dogma of tradition and supposition that groove-orientated music somehow has primacy. It doesn't and his approach is wrong for many situations. His wry observations on the latest YT wunderkind are spot-on but they lurch to the opposite end of the musical spectrum to the absurd, leap-froging all the 'post Stanley/Jaco' great music with active, melodic, up-front bass I love...

Reminds me of a heavily processed version of John Entwistle's later sound with his Status Buzzard. The chap in video has a Status so that may be the connection. So as the previous poster said a new set of strings, some dirt dialed in from the amp, and plenty of treble too. See about 1hr into this...

Even Stanley played one... for a little while anyway...

Isn't he. Rick whilst a guitarist/pianist composer, producer and musicologist... he does have substantial bass coverage including interviews with Victor and Jeff Berlin. Also he has a son who has perfect pitch which has got to be seen (heard?) to be believed! He just tripped 500k subscribers too!

Not seen the classic before - beautiful! Sort of merge between the current Spitfire and his earlier Goodfellow shape from the '80s. Very nice. God I hope I don't see one in a five...

Oh and it looks like Darkglass have a new one just out worth exploring... Again on the expensive side but with considerable functionality.

Compressors!? Oh not sure they've been discussed here before so may have caught us out. I'll cut to the chase - the stock answer is Spectracomp or a Cali if you can afford it.