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[quote name='beerdragon' post='94011' date='Nov 25 2007, 12:46 AM']Your right, i dont know how that happened. looks like its back on. thanks.[/quote] Well if that MM is as good as my Jazz you'll have a bargain, even at £140 ..

[quote name='beerdragon' post='93778' date='Nov 24 2007, 03:11 PM']Ok. my daughter said she would buy a bass for xmas from Rondo music,. the one i fancied is a Stingray copy. not that struck on the colour. but i just wanted it for practising at home. sounded ok for what works out at todays exchange rate at £45, but when i clicked on the total it came to over $300, plus whatever i have to pay over here. i wont bother. didn't think it would be that much. [url="http://www.rondomusic.com/cgi-rondomusic/sb/order.cgi?rd=1&storeid=*12c43475e5d91c6c61419a&sbid=SSMSB1195915527.18544&prevlocation=http://www.rondomusic.com/bassguitars4.html"]http://www.rondomusic.com/cgi-rondomusic/s...ssguitars4.html[/url][/quote] Looks like you've got two basses on that order sheet ... That might explain it .. I removed one and the total is 180 dollars .. about 90 quid, plus £35 or so tax this end... Shouldn't come to more than £140, all in

[quote name='Dusty' post='93620' date='Nov 24 2007, 03:48 AM']Wonderd what happend to the bass, I had a snipe bid already lined up !! Still, glad it went to a fellow Bass Chatter, Enjoy, If not CALL ME [/quote] Ha ha looks like you could have an auction of your own on here, mate ....

[quote name='Tinman' post='93419' date='Nov 23 2007, 05:06 PM']Looking forward to seeing the pics Si. It's looking lovely.[/quote] Yeah me too

[quote name='NJE' post='92735' date='Nov 22 2007, 01:30 PM']Im selling a Schaller bass bridge on the bay if anyone is interested. A bass build that never happened. Item number: 190176839659 or just search bass bridge. Also Selling a Bass Clef Baseball Cap that is too small, but never worn, Item number: 190176845108. Thanks.[/quote] Is this a direct Fender replacement? Cheers

[quote name='eubassix' post='93336' date='Nov 23 2007, 02:24 PM']I'd be inclined agree with 'Foxen' and WOT, depending upon how far you've progressed: whilst I was based in Tianjin, I bought a 'Precision' bass from one of the better music shops there. It didn't have a Fender logo (...that's easy to add of course) .. but the build quality and playability was excellent; the thing is, it was the only one (of about eight) that was playable (although the shop owner kept telling me that they were 'all the same' .. well, to look at, from a distance they were!...). BQ is the major problem there - as I think it was initally in Japan, and later Korea. So, if it's a good example then it'll play fine. But - and I have no idea how they can do it, other than the generally LOW cost of living there - these were very cheap.. and I'm taking about <£50 !![/quote] Yeah The SX Jazzes sell for $120 (thats dollars) in the states - and they are perfectly fine. Most of that will be transport tax and profit. They must make them for about 20 dollars ...

[quote name='colda' post='93334' date='Nov 23 2007, 02:19 PM']The Ovipostors - now there's a band name with meaning [/quote] Egg-zactly

[quote name='colda' post='93328' date='Nov 23 2007, 02:07 PM']+273 - 'tis even more fishy than a kipper's c*nt ....hmmm, did I just cross the line into bad taste with that one? [/quote] Yup and anyway they have ovipositors

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='93319' date='Nov 23 2007, 01:51 PM']To go back to Linus27's original question of "What's a good bass for my wife" I would think that any of the ones posted would be great from a practical point of view, however the best bass will be the one that has something about it that makes you want to pick it up when you enter the room. This is why my daughter loves her daisyrock heartbreaker and '71 musicmaster and has been after a violetburst pearloid-top daisy rock elite (as shown in pics earlier in the thread) since she first saw it. As its such a personal thing I'd take her shopping for basses & show her pics of the basses and different colours available to see what floats her boat on aesthetics. If the bass was meant to be a surprise, losing that element of surprise should hopefully be outweighed by getting an instrument that she can't resist picking up & playing several times a day as opposed to one that is just a good an instrument but sits on its stand unplayed.[/quote] +1 yeah I'd not let my wife choose my bass .. Pay for it? well that's different Why not give her a nice card at Christmas with "I O U One Bass" in it then go shopping together in teh New Year .. probably get a bargain then ...

Yeah love Bruce doing SantaClause ... Here's him and the E Street band in their full early glory (and black and white!) [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErhglOXIxM"]YouTube Vid[/url]

Merry Chrismas Baby by Charles Brown .. Loose Windscreen covered this one too but this is great. Earl May playing left handed on a stand up bass too ... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zq7gCJZoA&feature=related"]YouTube live vid.[/url]

[quote name='Steve Lawson' post='93282' date='Nov 23 2007, 12:51 PM']My bass teacher at college had a thing that was called a bass banjo, made out of a Precision neck and a kick drum! Sounded pretty amazing, I seem to remember... Steve [url="http://www.stevelawson.net"]<a href="http://www.stevelawson.net" target="_blank">http://www.stevelawson.net[/url]</a>[/quote] I kinda like that [url="http://www.jobass.com/"]http://www.jobass.com/[/url] Blige! Vic even plays one

[quote name='dood' post='93068' date='Nov 22 2007, 11:33 PM']OMG!!!! Where's my.... you know..... it's been replaced with ... with.... a heatsink!!![/quote] Yeah .. She insisted ...

[quote name='rohan' post='93130' date='Nov 23 2007, 02:19 AM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200174315533&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=010"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...N:IT&ih=010[/url][/quote] Hummmmmmmmmm I think I'd want some close up pics of the headstock before paying, if you can .... The words "China" and "jazz bass" mostly mean replica these days .. nowt wrong with that, I have a fine SX Jazz Bass from China myself, but you can get them for a lot less than that ...

I've got a P Lyte for sale .. White pearl and gold (well orginally, heavy play has worn it through on the bridge ), some mojo marks .. But very light weight and with a good range of active bass sounds... Thin jazz style neck .. as played by Carole Kaye, or so she claims (I don't mean this one, just in general) Lots of fans of them on TB and Harmony Central and regulars on eBay too if you fancy a different colour ...

[quote name='dood' post='93003' date='Nov 22 2007, 09:08 PM']Well, you've never seen the two together have you??? hmmmmmmmmmm[/quote] Or Nigella ....

[quote name='dood' post='93045' date='Nov 22 2007, 11:05 PM']<----- But mostly I wear one of those cos I'm a space cadet.[/quote] You're a Bionicle! That explains it

Ah the Dame Shirley Footwear approach!

[quote name='wotnwhy' post='92829' date='Nov 22 2007, 04:08 PM']yummy! i can't wait for tuseday either! though i'd guess your probably just a [i]bit[/i] more excited than me... [/quote] Ha ha .. Hey do you want me to take yours up for a fettle?

I nominate Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses. Excellent bass by Tracy Wormworth. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_WH4heId4&feature=related"]YouTube: no vid but good sound[/url]

If I go to bed now will Tuesday come faster?

[quote name='gilmour' post='88323' date='Nov 14 2007, 11:40 AM']Not entirley on topic, but almost; Cobra beer used to be called Panther Beer, but it didn't sell, so they changed the name to Cobra, and sales rocketed. Ex-Pats said that they could remember Cobra from before the war (which they couldn;t because it didn't exist)![/quote] Ah yes like Werther's orginals

[quote name='stewblack' post='92514' date='Nov 22 2007, 07:40 AM']At least you were good enough to say you suspect, not know as most people would. Of course everyone here told me the Eden amp and later the Epiphani cab I bought were better than the Behringer equivalents I already had.. Guess what? They're not. The amp is less well made (the knobs are all losing their coloured ends for instance) but still quite good, the cab simply isn't any different. Blindfold anyone and they wouldn't know which I was playing through. I use it all in a stupid ott stereo set up and get people creaming over the sound I get.[/quote] Ha ha well having never used either I can't say for sure ... I only say for sure when I know things .. Like the Schroeder 1212L is totally different to anything else I've ever used and Peavey BW 1x15's are great for the money ...

[quote name='andy67' post='91334' date='Nov 20 2007, 11:16 AM']apparently the 'HM' stands for heavey metal! my source also tells me that they are not very good! also the jp90...is the jp bit not japan?[/quote] Pretty good - a US made Fender Lyte-alike for £220 .. but I'd fit a different scratchplate. Something that went down onto the lower horn.