Heartbreaker

The 73 Jazz is unfortunatly now up for sale £1300.

Sorry Jebo 1, you were not the first.
It was the first pm that I'm currently selling too.

Thanks for all the offers, The bass is now [b]sold[/b][u][/u] pending payment.

The Wal in the add below is back up foir sale unfortunatly due to financial circumstances. Check out the details & pictures at the bottom of the thread below. Rob.

[quote name='WalMan' post='244223' date='Jul 21 2008, 07:39 AM']Don't torture yourself!!! I have been since I posted it and it went faster than a fast thing going extremely fast. What the hell was I thinking!!![/quote]

Unfortunatly due to my current financial circumstance I have to sell this superb rare Wal. Its an August 1982 Wal Mk1 Custom, sighned inside by 'Fish' & has a rare nicely grained Ash body in a teal sunburst. There are a few lacquer cracks around the edge of the body from over 26 years of use but not in the wood & the front, back & neck are nearly perfect. It plays superbly & all the electronics again are in A1 condition. There are no issues with the bass at all & I have bought a Hiscox flight case for it & is fitted with a new set of Overwater strings. I need to get my money back on this otherwise I'll be keeping it but at £1260 this a a very cheep Wal. If you are interesrted I can send you more pictures idealy by email as thats a lot easier for me to attach picks. Rob.
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[quote name='EBS_freak' date='Oct 9 2008, 04:06 PM' post='303110']
I have to agree - the all-black Mark Bass stuff looks miles better.

I take it you don't run all the cabs at the same time? (does the Ampeg do 2 ohm?)
I do run all 4 cabs together at some gigs. The SVT4 pro head is a bi amp & can do 8, 4 & 2 ohms. I never bridge the amps but use each channel in full range mode. All the cabs are 8 ohm cabs so they can run at 4 ohms per channel with 2 cabs a side, 8 ohms per channel with one cab a side. Sometimes I use the 4x10 through one channel @ 8ohms & the 1x15 & 2x10 through the other channel @ 4 ohms. The volume ballance per channel is spot on. I dont know of any other head that has this versatility & power that also gives me the clarity & headroom I need. I tried many different cab combinations with this head & nothing gives the punch & clarity like the MB's, nice n light too. I agree too that Yellow might be ideal for some but not me. Its taken me a while to get these black Mk 1's. I did contact Markbass Italy when I first was looking for cabs regarding black ones but they were adament that yellow is all they now wanted to do. I'd be intersted to see how many more cabs they might sell if the re introduced black as an option.

I'm currently not using my WAl much so its up for sale. £1300. Anyone intersted?

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Rig.
Ampeg SVT4 Pro head
2 x Markbass 4x10hlf Mk1 cabs
1 x Markbass 1x15hlf Mk1 cab
1 x Markbass 2x10hlf Mk1 cab

Basses.
1996 Fender Custom Shop Jazz delux
1973 Fender Jazz
1982 Wal Mk1 Custom
1962 Gibson EB3

Band - HEARTBREAKER
Area - Portsmouth.
Music - Zepplin & Free mainly.

Thanks for the info, top man. Been looking for a nice Wal for quite a long time so went & had a good play on it today, its now mine, thanks again. Inside the back plate it's dated 1982 & sighned by 'Fish' (Pete Stevens). One happy Wal'er.

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Lots of Basses, amps & cabs over the past 44 years & still going strong.
Throughout the many years I have had many basses, amps & cab changes giving so much more potential to the overall sound & also my ear for what I like changing. I started in bands in the mid 60's with an Egmond Bass followed by a Burns London Bass. As money came in I moved up to a Hofner Violin & Fender P basses. Amps were Vox AC30 heads with various cabs, Selmer T&B 60 & Marshall 50. Music style varied from John Mayhall, Duster Bennett etc style blues. Late 60's was probable the best moving era I've lived through, I had a Gibson EB3 (ie Andy Frazer, Free & Jack Bruce, Cream) style music, I also had my first Jazz & loved playing early Zep & other new Rock with much more clarity & power. My Amp & cab was then upgraded to an Acoustic. To my mind, this amp (at the time) moved the bar a lot higher regarding sound potential & quality, the first amp I ever had with a good eq & I could realy move air & hear what I was playing for a change. As the 60's moved into the 70's, prog rock was huge & everyone seemed to be using Rick basses, me too. I got my first s/h Rick 4001 from Top Gear in Denmark St, London which cost £350. It was black, had a checker board binding on the body, had a toaster neck pickup & gave the purcussive clang that Squire made popular, looking back I wish I'd kept her but these were just the norm at the time. The likes of Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash, Genesis, Floyd, Yes & Rush were all getting into the Rick sound & clarity, at the time I thought there could never be anything better. Despite my feelings for the Acoustic gear, it was a time that I moved through many amps & cabs to look for the holy grail of sound in my head or so I thought. Using Sound City, Hi Watt, more Marshall, Carsboro, even had a go with Wem but that didn't last long. Through the late 70's to early 90's I gave up playing live but kept my faithfull old P bass & had various small cobo's from H&H to Peavy TNT150's just to keep my hand in. The bug got hold of me again at the begining of the 90's when I got another old 4001 Rick, just for the hell of it. Unfortunatly my ear & style had changed a lot so moved the Rick on for a Musicman. That was ok but way too much middle & not enough bottom end for me so then came my first Warwick. It was a Streamer std, certainly had a new crisp (round wound) sound & I stayed with this untill I tried a Stage 1 out so moved up to that. I kept this beautiful AAAAA flame, French Violet Stage 1 up untill a few years ago, cracking bass & certainly the best Warwick I've owned. I also had a Stage 2 5 & Thumb 5, too absorbed tone but nice neck. Also a stunning Infinity Limited Eddition 5 string with bur maple top & flame maple body, again in French Violet. This instrament was absolutly stunning in fell & build but with all the body wood removed with the F holes & the big Musiman style pick up had way too much body mass removed & therfore had very little sustain, such a shame for such a beautifully crafted instrament. Now I'm back playing live again in a Free & Zep tribute band & have gone back to a mint 62 Gibson EB3 for the Free stuff & a Fender Custom Shop Jazz with a realy powerfull EQ & a pair of special 4 pole (Mark King style pickups) that realy punches the tone. I had a superb Lakland 55-94 American Delux 5 string that I wish I had kept but moved that on for a realy tasty 73 Jazz but this hardly gets a look in. I was using a Hartke 5000 bi-amp with a 1x15 & 4x10 trace cabs a few years ago but I now need a lot more power so have been using an Ampeg SVT4 pro head with 4 Markbass cabs for the past 2 years & yet again cant think of anything better to give me the tone & volume I now require. So whats next? Munk, (Heartbreaker).

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Duuuuu! soory, I now notice the Z4****** serial number is on the Jazz pick not P bass picture. Well I've had a hard day!

Just another BIG query, I notice the serial number Z4145649 on the headstock, this relates to a 2004 instrament not 77/78 as you stated, can you explain, ta, Munk.

Cant see any price for the P bass? How much. Whats the serial no & where do you live, ta Munk.

I might be interested if the deal is fair. I have a 73 Jazz, rosewood block & bound neck , sunbust, all original apart from a pro refin on the body only in 05 by top UK luthier Robbie Gladwell (Dr Rob who writes his articles in Bassist & Guitar Mags). This is a Sunbust 3 colour in nito finish, you cant get anything better. The body, pups, pots, m/heads, neck, tort shell guard etc are all original & in superb condition, playes & sounds like a top vintage jazz should. Nice n lite too. Can send pictures. I had a 55-02 & recently sold my 55-94 which I now regret. What weight is your 55-02 (accurarte please). If your interested email me for more details, cheers, Munk. ([email protected]).