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looks like a 70's/early 80's Kay- as seen aplenty in the Japcrap thread. sessioner James Eller uses one as his main bass- (it's on Julian Cope's "world shut your mouth")

it's up here- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRUZWDhcFB4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRUZWDhcFB4[/url] for some reason I remembered him using a jazz on that vid maybe it was the mirror plate looking like a Jazz control plate.

it should be perfectly possible to make a monorail headless detuning bridge unit- Ibanez do a (headed basses) monorail detuner. if Status and ABM aren't doing it then maybe Hipshot should design one.

[quote name='molan' post='360098' date='Dec 21 2008, 10:49 AM']Also fun to see the opening few minutes with the truck arriving at the Rainbow & getting the gear set up.[/quote] is that the gig where he's using a Jazz? a guitarist mate had that video.

the Fender Roscoe Beck 5 and 4 have double-jazz pickups at the neck and bridge, with series/single/parallel select on each.

I put a Kent Armstrong double-jazz pickup (it has 2 J coils inside) in my Warmoth P, with a parallel/single/series toggle switch. it's placed so the bridge-most coil is where the bridge pickup would be on a Jazz, and the other coil between that and the P (an EMG select). I intended it to get a stingray-esque tone in parallel, and it does get pretty close, although a bit more brittle and middly (due to being closer to the bridge than an MM would be, and the coils & polepieces being closer together). I might swap it for a double-J with more output, as it's a bit unbalanced against the P in single-coil mode. so, I'd say the double-jazz = a fatter Jazz in series, and a scooped Jazz/MM halfway house in parallel- and the overall tone varies depending how close it's positioned to the bridge.

[quote name='bassace' post='356088' date='Dec 16 2008, 03:48 PM']What is that Vox thing in the photo?[/quote] Vox Phantom? looks seriously neck-heavy.

bakelite-cased jack plugs in the old days? what a nightmare that must have been- you'd have to play gigs like a statue for fear of breaking the plugs...

"Pickups: Standard - Music Man® humbucking with Alnico magnets" if Ernie Ball knew about this they'd issue a "cease and desist" order, as that blatantly isn't an MM-style pickup, let alone a genuine Musicman pickup. it's a double-jazz humbucker with 16 small polepieces, rather than the 8 large polepieces on an MM.

double ball end Rotosound Tru Bass? must be made to order. "A roady friend of mine was having a clear out of old stock used by the Band.Sorry cant mention the name" which name band uses double ball end Rotosound bass strings? Supergrass?

the bit where it goes to Db is a lot like the opening phrase of Jaco's Teentown.

[quote name='saibuster' post='346706' date='Dec 5 2008, 06:37 PM']Does the contract they agree on with the bass manufacture also means they have to use the specific bass for recording as well? or is it only when they are in public?[/quote] they'd insist they get a mention in the album liner notes- as for that product actually being used on the album- very difficult to tell, let alone enforce. I reckon guitar companies are satisfied with the artist being seen using the product. hence on old Skid Row, Def Leppard albums you find endorsement mentions for Hamer etc. when it was probably actually a bog-standard P bass on the recordings (eg. DL's High & Dry & Pyromania, Skid Row's slave to the grind).

apparently customs' suspicion was aroused when they noticed white powder leaking out of the scratchplate screwholes. if they'd just superglued on dummy screwheads and the scratchplate, they could have got away with it! you've gotta think these things through.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='342641' date='Dec 2 2008, 09:10 AM']Must admit, lists are dangerous territory for a mag to take... it's so so so subjective![/quote] I suspect magazines intend to stir up arguments with their list-o-ramas- "Top 10/50/100 things to argue over"- everyone posts about the lists and gets debate going on the net. Zakk Wylde's response to the Rolling Stone top 100 guitarists list was pretty funny- [url="http://www.sleazegrinder.com/jeffzakkwylde.htm"]http://www.sleazegrinder.com/jeffzakkwylde.htm[/url] ending with- ".....You’ve got to understand, the only thing Rolling Stone magazine is good for is when you take a good-ass sh*t and you wipe your ass with it. You’ve got a bunch of yuppie-ass, hack, wannabe musicians that never made it and they’re working for a punk-ass, sh*t, scumbag magazine. Their pulse on what the f*** is cool is f***ing pathetic. Eddie Van Halen is number 70? Everyone that works at that magazine is like your yuppie, dad, old, f***ing c***-ass m*****f***er that you’d like to smash in the f***ing face. Randy Rhoads 85? That’s f***ing pathetic, man. It just goes to show you that nobody at that f***ing magazine knows what the f*** is going on. I’d just like to go down to the building and burn it down, you know what I mean? Just for sh*ts and giggles.”

IIRC contoured body would be a 1954 reissue. there was also a hybrid version, the vintage custom precision, which had PJ pickups, contours, big scratchplate and tele headstock. check out the pink custom shop 55 reissue in this thread- [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5527695"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5527695[/url]

weird how it's got a skunk stripe on the back of the neck AND a separate maple fingerboard- on a real Fender if it had a separate maple fingerboard there'd be no stripe- as the trussrod would be routed from the front. also the bridge has 2 mounting screws at the front of the plate as well as the Fender-style 5 at the back.

[quote name='nick' post='335741' date='Nov 24 2008, 07:03 PM']He did some tasty playing with Bomb the Bass too! [/quote] is that him on Bug Powder Dust? I thought that was a sample off the intro to Flora Purim's "Open your eyes, you can fly". --------------------

I've seen some pics of Foxton with a black Rick with a P pickup- with a larger scratchplate to cover the routing- he mentioned in interviews that he felt something was missing from the Rick sound so they tried changing pickups.

someone on Talkbass has a hollowbody just like that with Hohner on the headstock- [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=316274"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=316274[/url]

[url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/11/journey-itunes-download"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/1...itunes-download[/url] apparently Don't stop believing has become the biggest selling back catalogue download of all time!

I remember Yamaha acoustic basses being rather expensive, ie. £600-plus. strange really, since they do lots of cheap acoustic guitars. Duran's John Taylor used them too. I think he's playing one in this clip, closeup at 2.05- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_o8VvsDZyA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_o8VvsDZyA[/url] and a fretless one here- you can just catch the Yamaha logo at 2.28- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN3ifXNrpwA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN3ifXNrpwA[/url]

Macari's on Charing Cross Rd are importing these Tenessee ,er instruments under the "Hutchins" brand- there's a 5-neck and a doubleneck banjo-guitar in the window at the moment.

that's a Kramer duke. as also seen here- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8[/url]

Bill Laswell uses fretted and fretless P basses IIRC with half-rounds for dub.

JLP, have you got a 34in lined fretless you can compare the intonation with? ie. playing above the octave at the 18in string length point?