LukeFRC

Well today was interesting.
As well as on basschat I stuck it this bass up on gumtree (advertised for a higher price) this guy is very interested, rings up and we chat, lots of 'whats your lowest price you can do' chat, so tell him, option with a case option without a case. he drives from an adjacent town to come have a look at it. apparently as it is so damaged with dents on it (you can see them in the pictures) he doesnt want it. Goes away- then starts trying to talk me down via text, 'aw ill do it for £xxx', oh 'all do it for £xxx and throw in a squier' and that.
The fact is if he had made me towards his last offer to start with I would have taken it happily!
As it is it's just a bit annoying, maybe on gumtree folk barter more but it's just a daft, it has no concept of how much the thing is possibly worth. It seems like some wierd capitalist form of polite bullying.
Thing is I am a stubbon obstonant person, and maybe importantly don't actually need the money at the moment. I was chatting to my wee brother and think I may lend it to him. (I tell the guy 'sorry but no, my brother is going to be taking it', he still then ups his bid... scheesh, he wasnt a very good player either!)

It all makes me realise how nice and respectful of each other we are on here! The worst ive had with folk here is someone giving me a daft low offer to which I said no. It's nice we respect each other. It's been an honour to be offered a trade on some of the basses I've been offered!

Anyway, I bought this bass as warwickhunt had it for sale and i loved the look of it, sold my status shark bass (the one doing the rounds on here), saved up (working on minimum wage at that point) and then pestered him (he had decided to keep it at that point) until he sold it to me.
It is an amazing bass, the only reason I have it up for sale is as I found a natural wood one (sept 1991) which I prefer the sound too. The natural one was cheap enough that I don't need the money at the moment, and as such I'm taking ol' bluey down from sale for now. I'll hang on to it untill the time I need the cash, for a car or engagement ring or food or whatever.
However, this is basschat, and most of you are good people; so as I did to warwickhunt, feel free to pester me if you want to cross my palm with silver and take ol' bluey out for a ride every night.
Cheers
Luke

who didn't want it...
its an 18 year old bass, it's in good condition but it hasn't been sat in a museum of course it does have some wee dinks on it......

end of wednesday and on hold for a man coming to see her tonight...

good call.
i feel for you, you honestly listed an item you thought was worth a certain amount to find a load of folk question it and you find it wasn't what you thought it was. Must not have been a brill day!
Good luck with it!

[quote name='Musky' post='593223' date='Sep 8 2009, 07:53 PM']+1

Asking for offers kind of assumes that people have an idea of the value, and they're sitting waiting for an example of the bass to come up. That might be the case sometimes, but I'd imagine a lot of people are just looking for a decent bass that appeals to them within their budget.[/quote]

problem is if the seller has no real idea of value either

my warwick is for sale. untill i asked clever people I didn't know how much for, if someone had PM'ed me with an offer before i fixed a price I liked then they would have got it. That offer may have been more than the price I fixed or it could have been less.
Or someone may have wanted to say "well i have a X bass and can also add £Y" if you want. I could have said, yes please! or maybe 'thanks but no thanks'

PM sent jcburn...

oh and a big, end of work on a tuesday bump!

turn the gain down and the master up.
if your 70's style bass sounds too bright play further away from the bridge, or use the EQ on your amp, or the tone knob on the bass...
you want a bit of compression and overdrive get pedals.
Unless you're using a valve amp, in which case some kind of power soak in the effects look a la your guitarist may work?

I'm worried for your amp and more worried for your ears!

nice, you chose the right bass too.

[quote name='MB1' post='592059' date='Sep 7 2009, 01:15 PM']MB1.
...Wonder Whos Next?
BLIMEY!..That Bloke stood on top of your Amps a bit Forward! [/quote]

you gotta love art college! I was actually playing through a half broken speaker i borrowed off a reggae sound system with a laney amp i had replaced a switch on myself... it sounded interesting...

International sales would not be my first choice but it would be possible.
We would have to figure out trust worthy delivery firms and if it were actually worth it for you with the postage on top. I would guess the EU would be worth it, esp with the strong euro against the pound.

bump for a price...



and yes it is hot!

Official Biography...

First bit not really able to be verified...
1997 Rob Green makes bass for his son. He gets a bass returned from germany which his son gets. This bass goes to a local shop....

2002 Me bought it as my first bass from Music Warehouse Colchester. It's sat at the back of the basses covered in dirt and looks like it's been there for years. Most of the dinks on edges in it are from then but obviously new.
Shop keepers young assistant accidently gets out this status hiscox hard case for it instead of a cheap gigbag. Its the only status in the shop so he kinda has to give it to me. I buy for £450 which is the top of my budget and more to uni the next day. Over the years learn to play bass on it. Helped by it's high string tension and close spacing.
Eventually I started a band and the thick warm tones this bass has to offer didn't fit with electro-avant-artschool-pop so I bought a CIJ fender P bass.

2008 Having not got played for a while I sold it to 'Misterpink' in London from the statii forum for £400
It helped fund the blue warwick warwickhunt was selling at the time.

after that....

M-Bass-M (mark)...
Shambo....
GrahamD....
MB1 (martin).....
.....

It's a lovely bass. Enjoy.

some very very old pics...
Me playing at some church weekend away in the middle of the scottish borders
and a memorial gig we did in the sculpture court at edinburgh college of art for paul carter. electro pop band fun.

blue bump

Hi!

I'm sticking my warwick streamer up for sale.
I bought it about 16 months ago from Warwickhunt. I have to say I didn't grow to love it for a while, and only recently started using it over my JV P bass for some things. It sounds great and is really articulate and easy to play around on, I think this must be from the era where Warwick made small necks, compared to a P bass its narrower and similar deepness.

Seasoned observers may have seen me stick this up for sale along with a Jap Fender a while back so I could get my JV. The Fender went and I kept this. The only reason I'm selling it now is that I managed to find a september 1991 streamer in natural. There's not much to choose between them, this blue one is in a lot better condition and my head thinks its probably actually better, but my heart prefers the natural one so here we are.

Blue warwick streamer (stage one) bass, made in Germany in march 1991. Evverything works as you would expect it to, brass just-a-nut, 2 band active electronics, MEC pickups, new set of status hotwires... Not sure what else to say, it's in good condition with very little fret ware. I'm guessing most folk will know what this bass is and how it sounds. Oh yeah, its a pretty blue colour.
Warwick's website tell me a new one will cost you £3000! I would prefer an old one over a new one any day.


I'm in edinburgh, you're welcome to come have a play if you're near. If you're not I can sell you a decent hardcase to ship it in if you need, or if theres some element of a swap going on ill lend you a hard case!
oh and I'll throw in a set of schaller strap locks for free too.

I would prefer a sale to a swap, I just paid for the other streamer I have! However if you have a cheap (or interesting) bass you want to add to some money, try me.
not including a case or postage...
If you want to offer a swap and money try me.

Anyway PM me any offers,

thanks

Luke

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='587864' date='Sep 2 2009, 07:47 PM']Come on, be fair, surely it looks more like a big purple arse than a pair of balls!

Hang on, I'm not doing a very good job of selling it am I?

It does balance a lot better using the extra strap button I added where the bottom horn would be.[/quote]

i think it sells itself on the noise it makes, really it does sound rather good!

wow its strange to see my old bass come up again. It was my first ever bass! Good price, it sounds great too.

does the case still have the 'arran is for lovers' sticker on it?

i went into guitar guitar in edinburgh. Fantastic shop, tried the 1990 warwick thumb 5string they have... i dont think they make smaller amps than the one he stuck it through, not the way to make it sound good!

err, I've actually played one of them... friends...

they are top heavy, unbalanced shortscale wierdos, you cant play sat down and it sounds surprisingly good. Ballsy even.

Surely for 50's amplification and music styles it would make sense to have the deep notes fat and deep and the higher strings with more attack so they can be heard better.
The other way would be more 'balanced' on modern amplification but if you are sticking it into more or less a guitar amp I think it possibly makes sense.

they do look rather nice.
having seen the price (about 800) for the 1x15 version I wonder if i would go for that or a 70's bassman 100 head and cab for the same price....
best amp i think ive ever played through was a fender bassman which belonged to the nice man from glasvegas. sounded lovely.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='583707' date='Aug 28 2009, 04:18 PM']I have mixed feelings about jam sessions. I started out playing jazz at jam sessions at the Four Bars Inn in Cardiff and got my first jazz gigs off the guy who ran it (Dick Hamer) so to complain would be disingenuous.

I guess we have a real problem in this country with telling people who have not repertoire that this is a problem and they should deal with it. In fact, we have a problem telling people who are crap to go home and practice some more before they do it in public (trust me, the Yanks would tell you ). We are actually letting people make fools of themselves. I also think people should be told (shown?) how to prepare charts (not dots, just a grid/list of the chords) so that people have a chance of nailing something more sophisticated than a 12-bar. Most good rhythm section players can play almost any popular song if you just give them the chords.

At the same time, I sometimes like it that people who are never going to play in a proper band get to 'have a go'. Maybe some of us (including me sometimes) should get off our high horses and let beginners be beginners. Its as if we want to show ourselves in the best possible light and are aggrieved that others stop us from doing so. Is it really that important to look that good to a crowd of punters in the Grinning Rat in Ipswich?[/quote]

see i cant play jazz (yet, i've not tried) and I can't think of a better way to learn than just playing with folk.
but jazz is different to blues/rock, and I would think works better (?)

i stopped my self on my drummers rant there.
how is it some drummers dont realise they are there to keep time and a beat? everything else is a bonus.
it would be like us bassists... actually i can't think of a comparison, playing a detuned one string slowed down version of teen town to EVERY song we play, just cos we can..... (or actually cant, but think we can, hense the problem with cack drummers)

spice girls

[quote name='gafbass02' post='578998' date='Aug 24 2009, 01:01 PM'][/quote]

um right, I may differ here in the approach to choosing to most folk. Your best bet would be to send this photo to the director and let him/her choose.
The question is not 'what is the coolest looking bass' or 'which will stand out most' but which bass will make my band look good.

Approach it purely visually.

1 What colour is the background. What is the style and image of the scenery? What is the concept of the video? How are you lit? Coloured gels will affect the way your bass's colours look.

2 What are you and the rest of the band wearing? all black like the photos in your myspace? dressed up like cowboys? spacemen? I dunno but visually it will affect it.

3 How does your band wish to come across? How do you (collectively) want to bass player to come across? Do you think you will be leaping around the front of the shot like Flea or standing looking cool in the shadows? That will affect choise.

4 also remember, however brilliant you may be, 90% of folk who see your video dont care about the bass. Or even possibly the bassist. I disagree with the idea to 'stand out', or if you're in black use the white bass. (very Hives) Only stand out if you actually think that makes the band look better.
Also the fender bass shapes are recognisable and classic, making you look classic in your styling. The aria is a lovely but very very 80's visually.
It shouldn't matter but it does, Fender over Squier, it could be picked up in a shot. You're not going for the grunge/punk look so avoid squier. Its all about looking good.

All said I would go for the '57 P bass (without the mute and cover- unless you are standing stock still at the back in a '50's style) or the blue one. Mark Hoppus plays a random custom P- J thing. The bloc party bass player's bass is the same colour and you don't see him and think hes a bit mark hoppus do you.

any way thats my 2p