[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='1221249' date='May 5 2011, 04:48 PM']+1
They're very different sounding basses; unlike the Custom models which all have a mahogony core, the Pro basses were Ash bodies with no multi-laminate facings. That , plus very different circuitry makes them quite different animals..
Like 4000, I prefer the Pro models but the first Custom I ever had made for me in 1983 (and which was stolen sadly in 1987), was a fabulous bass and one of the few basses i really miss today!
Gwilym: I'm still surprised I sold it on too!! Seriously, I had virtually stopped using it having moved almost exclusively to 5 string basses, I kind of fell out of love with it..
It's great to hear this story though and also, to know that it's been restored to it's former glory by Paul herman at Wal.[/quote]
WOW, it's many years since I watched that Too shy video. Probably on VHS, lol
If you pause it at 2.34, you can see the Wal headstock with that cigerette burn above the E string.
To finish off that story, I was down in London in 1989 and loved to visit the Bass Centre, in Wapping. It was a strange day, first we saw John Entwistle, in there
then I saw this black Wal bass hanging on the wall, it really stood out from all the other basses next to it. I remember seeing the cigerette burn on the head stock. I knew Nick Beggs used a pro2E because I'd seen him playing one live in 1984. But anyway on retuning home forgot about it. A couple of weeks later I was looking through some pictures in the Kajagoogoo, lyrics book and saw NB playing his black Wal and straight away noticed the cigerette burn on the headstock. So I phoned the the Bass Centre to get some info and they said they were selling some basses for him. So I spoke to Barry Moorhouse and struck up a deal, to part ex my Jaydee Roadie, so I had to go back down to London to do the deal. In those days I could only afford one bass, so had to trade one bass for another. As I mentioned in my earlier posts, after traveling on the coach for 7 hours, got to the Bass Centre to find they'd hired the Wal to Black Sabbath, who were shooting the Headless cross vid. When they eventually got it back from laurence they tried to say that the Wal case it was in, was off another bass and not included! So after a huge argument and a phone call to Barry, they gave me the case. On the side of the case was a strip of gaffa tape reading, N. Beggs - Commission sale.