Green Alsatian

It is - someone posted the link to the auction in here at the time and I downloaded the pics. I'd love to know how much it sold for.

Here are the rest of the pics!

Aye, it's an XLR output - someone posted a link to an auction for Bruce's P-Bass in here some time ago. Here are some of the pics:

I'd never seen that 'Owner...' vid before. I can imagine when they turned up to the shoot... "Jon, we said LEATHER trousers, not LEISURE trousers!!!"

Genuine. I don't remember the last set of Fender rounds (in the black packaging) I bought having silks. I remember some people asking if they were actually D'Addario strings (also without silks) under Fender branding. https://shop.fender.com/en-GB/accessoriesstrings/7250-bass-strings/0737250405.html#rl=en_US&start=1

Hello folks - be cautious of eBay user tullythecat. I sold my Epiphone Embassy Pro around 10:15am today and received an instant message giving their 'zip' with a London address. I looked at the confirmed Paypal address and it was a mashup of a London and Aberdeen address (the London address inserted into the middle), so I asked for a contact number that I could provide to the courier. At 1:38pm, I received a mail fro Paypal informing me of a reversal as the payment was 'unauthorised'. Believing this to be a scam email, I logged into Paypal to check and found that a reversal had indeed taken place at the buyer's request due to being 'unauthorised'. As I wasn't shipping the bass until I was satisfied I was dealing with a genuine buyer, I issued a refund as per the resolution centre. I contacted the buyer via eBay to ask if the purchase had been a mistake (in the instance their eBay account hadn't been hacked) and have received no further communication since this morning's mail. As I have my bass still, no harm done other than time wasted, but a warning of caution for anyone from whom this eBay user makes a purchase - could be a hacked account.

RIP Eddie. I've liked all the incarnations of Motorhead, but loved the Lem, Phil and Eddie lineup. I love Eddie's anecdotes that are up on YouTube - particularly the one he's in a lift with the NY police after Phil did himself an injury in a hotel and Eddie was whizzing! Think he used to have a Special Brew to come down from it.

They sound like Rotosound Rotobass strings - no silks, but carry the red/white/blue ball ends of other Rotosound strings. http://www.rotosound.com/rotobass/

I've just bought Andy's Roland Cube Bass 20X and it's quite possibly the smoothest transaction I've made to date. Excellent communication and a very friendly fellow. He even took time out of his day to drop it off while I was in work. You can have absolute confidence when dealing with Andy - thank you, sir!

RIP Lemmy. The afterlife has just got a lot louder! The first time I saw Motorhead was on The Young Ones episode 'Bambi' in 1984, performing Ace of Spades and loved it! Saw them live (finally!) in 1998 and my ears were ringing for two days afterwards. This daft gag he told in Lemmy: The Movie always cracked me up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r24k22lBfNo

I had a similar issue with a bass a couple of years ago so I bought a hollow drill bit like this: http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/hollowscrewextractor516.aspx I drilled deep enough to catch the section of screw that had embedded to avoid breaching the back and then wiggled the wood containing the screw out with needle-nose pliers. I then glued in some dowel and drilled the pilot hole.

Regarding the built-in mute, two thumbscrews either side of the bridge saddles control the height of the mute but even if you removed it, along with the two thumb screws, it still isn't possible (or at least very difficult!) to palm mute over the bridge as the strings are lower than the dividers between each saddle. I took my bridge apart to replace the long-perished foam on the bridge mute and it's just a plate with a rubber/foam layer held in place by the two thumbscrews with springs. If memory serves, there was also a ground wire attached to it. You can palm mute just in front of the bridge (what I did), but depending on the size of your hands, you may find the bridge pickup cover gets in the way, but it's removeable.

Revenge of the Pink Panther theme? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp9-1qQM49M"]https://www.youtube....h?v=mp9-1qQM49M[/url]

Spector Legend Classic 5? £594 from Meteor Music: http://www.meteormusic.co.uk/spector-legend-5-classic-bass-guitar-slate-grey Contrary to the info, it's a 35" scale not a 34". Features the active Tonepump Jr. preamp.

I've owned one and I couldn't fault it (also had a fretted version a few years ago). I do think unmarked fingerboards look nicer and there were no issues with unwanted buzz across all four strings, even at the 'dusty' end. I bought mine from Gear4Music and it came setup to my liking out of the box - low enough for the 'mwah' sound. The hardware was good - tuners did what they were supposed to and operated smoothly, holding tuning. Nice chunky high mass bridge. The pickups were good too - the P sounded as you'd expect and the J did the expected burpy stuff if you're so inclined. Tone control made a noticeable top end cut - my favourite sound was with the P up full, J rolled off a little and the tone knocked down halfway. I sold it a few months ago during a monstrous clearout, but if I was in the market for another affordable fretless to embarrass myself again, I'd happily have another.