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[quote name='Prostheta' timestamp='1464029643' post='3055947'] Would that be Jason by any chance? [/quote] No, not Jason, but this gentleman sounds very keen and has some ideas for expanding the site. I will let everyone know soon what's happening.

[quote name='ped' timestamp='1463996617' post='3055566'] If you haven't sorted something already, we'd be happy to do this for you via the BC server and rescue it for you. I'm just talking to the others about the details so I'll give you a point of contact in due course. [/quote] Hi Ped, and thank you to everyone who has replied on here. I am interested in your suggestion of hosting it on BC. Is there anything similar on here already? How would you see it working? Do you have in mind someone with editorial control, I mean rather than just threads where anyone can chip in? A bass player from the USA has been in touch, he sounds very keen and well qualified, and I was just about to give him the nod when I saw this.

Hi guys, Trevor & Eric, and that must be you Carl! How are you all doing? It would be easy to transfer the site over to a free host. However I am really looking for someone full of youthful enthusiasm to take over the site; someone who has the time to deal with new contributions and maybe track down some of the "missing" models? Uploading files to a host server is easy. Creating pages takes longer. I learned basic html source code, but these days hosts tend to have their own creating programs which are easy to use. I'll stick an advert on the site itself. Meanwhile if anyone out there feels like giving it a go please PM me.

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]For years I have been running a [url="http://www.gfyfe.com/aria.htm"]website[/url] about Aria SB basses. I've been thinking about packing it in for a while now. My domain hosting is due for renewal in a month, and with other interests these days I can no longer be bothered maintaining the website. Plus I can't afford it right now![/font][/size] [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]I would like the resource to keep running though, it has given me and some others a lot of pleasure over the years. Is there any fellow BCer who would be willing to take over the reins? You would have complete control over future content.[/font][/size] [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Graeme[/font][/size]

Check this [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOONSTONE-ECLIPSE-DELUXE-1980-MADE-IN-USA-VERY-RARE-AND-COLLECTABLE-/282003216581?hash=item41a8b398c5:g:vGQAAOSwX~dWmgAQ"]Moonstone[/url] on eBay. Gorgeous. There's a Moonstone bass, albeit not this model, featured in an old book which I bought in 1983 called The Complete Guitar Guide. The photo is black & white and I've never even seen one "in the flesh" before. I still feel slightly stunned ... The reviewer in the book was worried the wood in the neck might want to move but be prevented by the graphite. He says "the consequences hardly bear thinking about" and hopes Moonstone pre-empted that one.

Lol, so the strings are A and D then? Jon, what you don't know isn't worth knowing! Correction - it sounds like they are probably E & A. The band's name is an abbreviation of "Disneyland After Dark" not a possible bassline. The man in the photo is Stig Pedersen and according to Wikipedia [color=#0000ff]Stig's bass guitars only have two strings or three strings. He found out in the late 1980s that he only used the E and A string when he played, and made it his mark, to have funny, good looking basses. He is also seen using a one string bass at gigs (only one string away from an air guitar). Stig designs his own bass guitars based on his own ideas and imagination.[/color]

[quote name='Geester' timestamp='1387576322' post='2313637'] That particular seller appears to have over 2.5 million items for sale, check out some of the books for nearly £3K.........late Christmas present for that special person? [/quote] ROFL

Jaw drops ... Someone somewhere must be getting paid to come up with ideas like this. Do you think they cost so much due to the high cost of radioactive material?!

I'd not pay over £250 for [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/aria-pro-i-bass-guitar-not-ii-mark-1-not-mark-2-SB-ELITE-i-PB-super-rare-/171187192314?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item27db8d41fa"]this[/url]. That's one sixth of his asking price!! Does the owner know something I don't?

Wow, that takes the biscuit. Does the neck have a cover which comes off? If not you'd certainly have fun inventing bass lines on that. Uh, let me see. Maybe E, E, E, E, A. Or A, E, A, E, A, E, .... Come to think of it there are a lot of songs like that

Here's my winner - the Washburn B-20. An amazingly beautiful shape from any angle.

[quote name='yepmop' timestamp='1386875373' post='2305872'] Anything by [b]Budgie[/b] the most underrated rock band of all time. [/quote] +1 for "Squawk" Best live album Motorhead "No Sleep 'til Hammersmith"

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acoustic-Bass-Guitar-/261351893224?"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acoustic-Bass-Guitar-/261351893224?[/url] It looks like it's pregnant.