el borracho

They lost the JV I bought last month 🤬

I will never, ever use them.

The Damned/ Naz Nomad & the Nightmares

The Bevis Frond / The Fred Bison Five

A bit of Ruthless Blues

Victory I had looked at but they all seemed to be chrome.

Explorer - didn't think of that - & sure enough

That didn't take long did it!

I got these a few years ago on a neck I bought. They are marked Gibson & are 4 in line.

I just assumed Thunderbird but when I've had a look they all seem to be closed back ones. Any ideas?

This has always been one of my favourite bass lines - bass intro as well

Pontus Snibb's latest project - From The Sky

And right on cue

https://www.musicradar.com/news/stanley-clarke-unveils-his-strat-inspired-spellcaster-short-scale-bass

1 hour ago, Bassman Sam said:

I'm on the Status Quo Live album, recorded in Glasgow, 1976. It was recorded over 3 nights and I was at 2 of them. I don't know which night they used but me and a couple of mates managed to blag our way back stage and met the guys after the second night's gig.  I met them again a few times after. Lovely guys.

I'm sure I read somewhere long ago that Rick Parfitt said they weren't happy with the first night but that the next two were worse so most of it was the first night. I think he was happy with the album but Rossi hated it - nothing new there!

I was at this one - Newcastle City Hall December 1981 

I don't listen to many live albums but the two that have stuck with me were

Status Quo Live! (the 1977 one from Glasgow Apollo)

The Playn Jayn - Friday the 13th (mid eighties recorded at the Marquee)

Kiss at Newcastle City Hall in 1983. I was actually in pain. 

Allen Lanier's of Blue Oyster Cult - acquired mid 80s. I think I still have it.

2 hours ago, rushbo said:

I went to a Motley Crue gig in Brum specifically to see the support act- Cheap Trick. I enjoyed Crue more than I thought I would. 

I did exactly the same in Newcastle - 1986ish? I left when Tommy Lee's kit tilted up. 

A couple of years ago we repeated the experience by going to see Cheap Trick support Def Leppard. This time however we left straight after Cheap Trick finished. It caused major confusion with the door staff who had no facility for anyone leaving before the main event. We had to go out through the in door & the wrong way down the queue waiting to go through the scanner.

Got tickets to see them again but it's been put back to 2022 now - their own gig this time!

Haven't seen Russ Abbot mentioned. Household name for his comedy shows in the 80s but he was a seriously good drummer. Good enough to pull off this Gene Krupa song

1 hour ago, Paul S said:

A Fender Precision Lyte has a Strat sized and shaped body if you still fancy one.

That's a good shout & something that never occurred to me! Maybe a future project.

Springsteen again - 57 Channels & nothing on.

57? Is that all? There's still nothing on though!

It could have been yours!

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/276995-sold-neil-murrays-stratocaster-bass-by-roger-giffin-pricedrop-1979-2-tone-sunburst/?tab=comments#comment-2956932

Pictures on the ad are long gone unfortunately but this is it

I saw it in Guitarist magazine in the early 90s & always had an idea to make a sort of copy based on a Precision. I even drew up scale plans for it but it never happened.

I've still got a Saxon 7" picture disc which is a mispressing. It has the A side, The Bands Played On, on both sides (it's not supposed to). Whether it has any rarity I have no idea, but I doubt it has much value as I cant see Saxon singles being in great demand. At the time I did go back to the shop. They said they hadn't come across any others so I kept it.

A year or two back I saved one of those early 70s MIJ Epiphone EA260 hollow body basses from going in a skip. I thought it would make an interesting project but it was an absolute dog. It was almost unplayable whatever I tried. Additionally half the binding was missing and the body was split & warped.

I stuck it on ebay for a £20 start price, spares or repairs thinking it might make £20-£30 I didn't have before.

It sold for nearly £300 😲

To update, the Ibanez was a no go - arrived damaged so went straight back. Shame as it played quite nicely.

After spending hours looking at all sorts of options - not much S/H was available with postage & I was by then leaning towards the smaller bodies - I went for a new Vintage Statesboro Parlour guitar. It's not bad at all - it played OK straight out of the box - with lowish action and the only things I did were to change the strings, polish the frets & tidy the fret ends up. I spent a couple of days playing it myself & it's now away to it's happy new owner.

Cheers for advice & ideas

The search has rekindled my interest in acoustic guitar & made me dig out my APX after what has to be 12+ years languishing unloved in it's case. I was probably gigging it last time it saw the light of day & it needs work, not to mention a good clean!

11 minutes ago, ped said:

Many couriers exclude musical instruments from insurance cover in the small print (but still let you buy it)

Royal Mail being one of those. Happy to take your insurance money but it's not covered!

I was watching this on ebay and was amazed to see it sell at more than new price (£165 with free postage). I suppose it's got some copper tape in it & the original is admittedly not currently in stock but still...

2 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

The best 115 cab I’ve had was a Peavey that had a Black Widow speaker. Just that cab and my Trace Elliot AH300 was plenty enough to fill a venue with bass, the kind you felt as well as heard.

At the time living on a second floor flat with a 90lb cab and no lifts in my 30s it was manageable, wouldn’t be anywhere near capable of that now.

I played hundreds of gigs with one of those through the 90s but I used a Peavey Mark VI. It didn't seem heavy at the time - it wasn't compared to the 139lb Hisys 4 cabs 😱

Already got an Ibanez AW10 on order. See what it's like when it arrives although before that I was veering towards the smaller body Parlour type guitars. He's not that big so might have been a help.

It's going to be hard work with him though - yesterday he was telling me about a mnemonic to remember the tuning & insisting it was EADGEB & that I was wrong...I suppose you could but don't expect me to help!!🤨

I started on a pick then after about 8/9 years switched to fingers when I joined a new band. I couldn't actually play with my fingers at that point but just persevered & nobody noticed in the meantime!

About 10 years ago I started to use a pick again for the odd song & now I am almost entirely back to using a pick.

Herco Gold or Silver - I alternate between the two every so often.