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That's stunningly bad.

There are Tokais and Tokais.... Japanese made Tokai stuff from the 80s (ish) was very well respected. More recent Chinese-made Tokai stuff is altogether more low-budget.

My Taiwanese-made Yamaha BB604 cost me £200 s/h on here. Bought it as a cheapy spare, but it punches well above its weight. Really good build quality, high output and versatile range of sounds. In terms of value for money it's the best bass I've got and it's not going anywhere.

Ginger Wildheart in Leicester in March. I don't get out much...

Two great ones that spring to mind. Depping on bass for a cool blues guitarist/singer called Aynsley Lister at the Suwalki Blues Festival, in Poland, in 2016 - big stage in a park, awesome onstage sound, probably 1,500 to 2,000 people turned out to watch us, and we got treated like royalty all weekend by the promoters, which was amazing ha ha! Also remember doing a lovely wedding gig at a farm in Mid Wales with my band in summer 2015 - a sort of marquee made from interconnected teepees in a field, with cocktail bar etc in it, which was all lit up and night and had a real little festival atmosphere on a hot summer night. I was on lead guitar and vocals, and everyone was right up for it as the climax of the day's celebrations. The energy was incredible, as was the hog roast and real ale on tap, and the band played brilliantly. Remember utterly buzzing listening to Tom Petty on the long night drive home back to the East Midlands afterwards.

I'm mainly gigging solo at the moment, so I try to add in between 4-6 new songs every set (though don't always succeed!) But I also make sure i mix up the order of the remaining ones too, so i'm not always using the same opening song etc. One of the bands I was in seemed to play the same set for years and it bored me silly. I imagine punters felt the same!

Sounds like a good price. I had a E Series 57 reissue strat a long time ago and it was a great guitar.

Basses: Sunburst 1970 P bass, red Yamaha BB604 or gold Epi Jack Casady (an older Peerless-made Korean one) Strings - La Bellas (P) TI flats (Epi) and currently D'Addario NYXLs on the Yamaha. Amps - Markbass LM3 running either a Schroeder 1210 or an Aguilar GS410. Pedals - just a Korg Pitchblack tuner and a pair of leads. Sennheiser or Shure SM58 mics, and a pair of Earpeace rubber earplugs. Good to go!

Wow those Bill Lawrence ones sound cool! Nice one.

Can I just say I think your butterfly wallpaper is awesome too!

Happy owner of a Yamaha BB604 from this very forum. Bought it winter 2016 as a back up bass but it's turned into a regular gigging bass as it's so good. I keep toying with the idea of giving a crazy art makeover but haven't settled on a suitably cool design yet. Here it is alongside my Jack Casady.

I think the white one looks amazing - I prefer it to the black to be honest. Looks very Gretschy - the cream and white together work well for me. Kind of attention grabbing without being flashy. All good.

I have only one these days. A 1969-70 P bass.

I had an old Ashdown Mag300 head, and a GK backline 1x15 cab, the speaker of which had been swapped for an Eminence driver. It sounded huge and was really portable too - did loads of gigs with that. Good shout on the old Peavey TNT too - i had a TNT130 for a long time and thrashed it, but it always sounded good.

Holiday for sure, probably in a villa on a Greek Island. Would do more good for my rain-soaked, wind-beaten British winter soul than just another bass.

Yep, i can't stand Oasis (their songs or the band) but fair play to them, they are probably the last genuine working class band to have made it from the bottom up.