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discussion on ROTD about it- [url="http://www.recordoftheday.com/cgi-bin/rotd-mb/rotd_config.pl?frames;read=151522&expand=1"]http://www.recordoftheday.com/cgi-bin/rotd...22&expand=1[/url] does sound like another Sandi Thom-style PR stunt.

speaking of Clapton sig strats- 12 grand, anyone? [url="http://petercooks.blogspot.com/2008/07/fender-custom-shop-relic-clapton.html"]http://petercooks.blogspot.com/2008/07/fen...ic-clapton.html[/url]

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which Clapton guitar is/was white? aren't his strats either black or grey?

I've got that on a cheap DVD "Mega hits of the 70's and 80's". Neil Murray copped the bassline (inc. the bit during the guitar solo) pretty well on the Guitar Legends Seville show in 1992.

loads of Talkbassers have that 6 string- it's sold in the US by Rondomusic as the Douglas WEB846 [url="http://www.rondomusic.com/product1197.html"]http://www.rondomusic.com/product1197.html[/url] [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264570"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264570[/url]

is it just the way the pic looks, or is the nut scalloped in some way? maybe a Buzz Feiten compensating nut?

I've just re-uploaded my musofinder music clip i did 2 yrs ago, after finding the multitrack files for it and doing another mix- [url="http://www.musofinder.co.uk/SJA/58195"]http://www.musofinder.co.uk/SJA/58195[/url] Hohner B2A for the fuzz bassline, Yamaha RBX270 fretless and Warmoth P for the melody parts.

my Hohner's the only one of its kind- with 3 pickups, switches instead of vol pots, and a DIY-lacquered back of the neck- ultra-rare!

[quote name='Jezyorkshire' post='238742' date='Jul 13 2008, 08:39 PM']so what am i paying for when i buy a mia fender?[/quote] the status of "top of the range", (and some US fender features eg. graphite rods in the neck, strings through the body- but it's arguable whether they actually make much of a difference). see Veblen goods- [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good[/url]

ps. check out the header on his myspace - "BASS GUITAR MAGAZINE IS RUBBISH!" ouch! have to say i haven't bought it in a long time. too many recurring topics and interview subjects.

he's less than complimentary about this interview on his myspace blog- [url="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=62717976&blogID=413882144"]http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...logID=413882144[/url]

hmmm, are those round marks by the bridge due to holes being filled in and sprayed over, perhaps? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300240159251&indexURL=6&photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohosting"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...bayphotohosting[/url]

I think it might just be that the mirror plate's screwholes don't line up properly with the holes in the body- the one on vintage & rare (and the 70's style WD plate on my Warmoth) has screws in different places (and more of them). - yep, looking at my Warmoth's plate the holes for the pickup cover are further above and below the pickup than on that mirror one. so the holes are probably there in that 76's body, but the plate's don't line up with them.

the bass he links to at vintage & rare has a black plate, not mirror!

I'll go for string bass (or maybe keyboard bass) playing the root-note part, Fender bass for the high part.

um, a 24 fret neck going on a T-bird body set up for 20frets...are you planning to move the bridge forward, or rout out the neck pocket to move it into the body?

you can get an idea of how low he's got his action from the string-fret contact noise in quiet sections of 'Maiden songs- ie. when he's obviously playing softer (and usually near the bridge), but still getting a bit of that clanking sound. I used those 50-110 Rotosound Jazz flats for a bit (by mistake- I was after an old-school sound, but discovered they were almost as bright as rounds, and then read an interview with Harris where he said he uses them). they're quite bright, but don't have the zing and fretbuzz of rounds. also that brightness dies very quickly in a gig- Steve Harris says he often changes basses in a set because the strings die. also he says he started using them because he doesn't like the noise rounds make when you shift hand position.

he has a very low action, and uses compression on his signal, so he can play lightly. there's a story that some hapless roadie once tried his bass, plucked the strings with normal force and blew the speakers.

ps. the bit about being in "a crap punk band with NME journalists" before Jamiroquai is a surprise- in the Jamiroquai-era interviews he said he was touring playing with a circus, Archaos or something! I guess you have to bend the truth sometimes..........

back in Jamiroquai days he might have had a bit of an ego- in a Bassist interview from back then he said that "Bernard Edwards wasn't the tightest player", which surprised me as I've never thought of 'Nard as a sloppy player.

the bassist/singer for All american rejects plays one. I think he uses a p-bass in the studio though.

interesting- he played on Lou Reed's Magic & Loss album and toured with him as the sole bassist- strange that LR would have 2 bassists. Magic & loss has some pretty good playing on it- eg. "Power and the glory", "cremation".

here's a maple neck one- [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=343293"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=343293[/url] note that unusually for an old maple-neck Fender it's got no skunk stripe- it's got a separate maple fingerboard.

[quote name='Clive Thorne' post='229959' date='Jun 30 2008, 07:23 PM']I suppose that what I'm really getting around to that if a 34" scale 4 string bass, drop tuned to a D on the Estring, still produces an acceptable E tone at the second fret, then why shouldn't a 32" scale bass, using the same string gauge produce an equally acceptable E on the open string?[/quote] true, I drop my E string to D when a D or E flat is needed, but I prefer the sound of the open E in standard tuning to the E at the 2nd fret in drop D tuning (and all other notes on the E string)- more definition and clarity the extra low notes in drop-tuning are at the expense of tone on the notes available in standard tuning on the E string. which is why I like detuner devices to switch quickly- sometimes in the same song for only when the extra low notes are needed.