Linus27

😲 Wow, sad times indeed but understandable considering and why not, life is too short so I don't blame him wanting to retire and enjoy life. I never did get myself a Status bass but would love an all black graphite headed fretless. It also looks unlikely I will ever get an unlined fretless neck for my Stingray either. Good luck to Rob and the team and all the best for the future. They are bass legends.

Thank you sir

Well I think the first white car is a Ford Mustang convertible, then I saw a dark blue Porsche 911 (996), a Lotus Elan in the red Sprint colour scheme, blue Merc convertible, orange Ford Mustang, white MG convertible, maybe a red Ferrari 355 although it looks like an MR2 with the Ferrari body kit, silver Dolorean, blue Escort mk1, turquoise Chevy, black Subaru Impreza WRX STi hatch, white Porsche 911, red Escort mk1, green MGB GT, red Mini, white Jaguaaaaaar, gold Capri, blue Mustang or possibly a Shelby Mustang, red MG Midget, grey Jaguaaaar F Type convertible, black Porsche 997, red Ford Mustang, grey Ford Mustang convertible, brown Austin Allegro, red Marco's maybe, red Jaguaaaar convertible, white Simitar maybe, red Lotus Elise S1 160, blue Merc, Orange Morgan maybe, burgundy Merc, yellow Triumph Stag convertible maybe or a Triumph TR6 convertible maybe, red Alfa I think, green Singer Chamois, blue VW camper, old black Jaguaaaar, old blue Jaguaaaar, green Porsche Cayman R, old grey Bentley or Rolls, white old Yank tank, grey old tank tank, green Bedford pickup maybe.

Just had a listen and their standard Jazz bass pickups sound lovely, much nicer even over their B.S J-Bass pickups. Will certainly consider them. Thank you.

Interested on recommendations for some Jazz pickups for my fretless Japanese Fender Jazz. I am after a smooth, warm, rounded tone that will compliment the fretless. I was considering just upgrading to a set of Fender Custom 60's Jazz pickups which might be just fine but open to other options that might be more suitable for the tone I am after. My other fretless Jazz has Barts which do sound lovely but there again, may be other options more suited for fretless.

This is exactly what we ended up doing after the second time it had happened. Some venues did actually confirm he had contacted them to try and cancel the gigs claiming various excuses. We also backed everything up with an email so they had our new email address, band name and details.

Oh it gets worse, we then turned up at some gigs to find out he's told the landlady that we were not a 5 piece any more and only a 4 piece so we should get paid less. He also created a fake email address similar to a venue's own email to then try to make out the venue had cancelled us. When we spoke to the person who booked us at the venue, he confirmed that he had not sent the email or cancelled the band and we worked out that the email was very similar to the original with just a digit different and it was fake. Plus he tried to ban us from travelling abroad despite having accommodation and gigs booked by withholding ferry tickets and telling us we were not allowed to be in the country the same time as him 😄

9. Band member who quit the band to form a new band thinks the remaining members of the band should not be allowed to continue without him despite telling us he hopes we continue so phones up all the venues to cancel all the gigs telling them the band has split up.

In the comments, In the comments he says he actually went back to the Barts.

Bought a Fender Jazz fretless neck from Nick. As always, super communication, speedy delivery, bomb proof packaging and an absolute joy to deal with. Cheers Nick.

I believe the dots and lines are also in the same place as where they would be on a lined fretless, so technically making it a lined fretless. The Ibanez SR500F on the other hand I believe has the side dots on the lines so technically making it an unlined fretless but with lines.

Yep, mine also although I have gas for a sunburst with rosewood board and black pick guard at the moment.

Thank you very much I'm very lucky to have a beautiful and different selection of fretless basses. Two Jazzes, one with an Ebony board and one with a rosewood board, a Precision with a high gloss Maple board and the Stingray with a Pau Ferro board. All very different in playability and tone. Kind of thinking what's left, maybe one of the Ibanez fretless basses with the Panga Panga board.

Other band members who set up and leave you no room to set up where as they have enough room to not only swing a cat but to swing an entire zoo. It's like c'mon guy's, look at the stage and space yourself out so its equally balanced.

I've had similar. At a rehearsal, the drummer was complaining that my bass is too loud. I look puzzled as it wasn't very loud but I said fair enough, I turn down. Play again and he says the same so I turn down some more. Again, he complains and gets really irate so I play solo to show him its not loud but I turn down a bit more and we play again and this time I play super soft and miss bits out and yet he still complains saying the bass is way too loud. This time the singer now joins in and says yeah the bass is still really loud. So super whizzed by now, I said ok, I'll turn down some more and this time I turn my amp off and again he says I'm still way too loud. So I show him my amp is actually off. Turns out its the rhythm guitar they was hearing 😁

So a bit of an update but after stalking all the places that sell basses for the last 6 months, this little beauty turned up for sale and not only was it local to me, it was also a fellow Basschatter 😃 Just picked it up and its gorgeous and the exact bass I was after. So thank you @JamesTun for a gorgeous bass and great to meet you and chat bass. I think we could of carried on chatting for a few more hours 😆 With the whole family as well,

Sold a set of string to Chris. Instant payment, great communication throughout and super smooth transaction. Cheers Chris.

The SRF700 Portamento is supposed to be fab. It's a bass I want to get at some point as I've only read great things about them. The musician is also supposed to be superb and a lot of bassists used them in the 80's, both fretted and fretless. Meant to be heavy and the fretted version I had briefly until someone snapped the neck was heavy.

My simple pedal board.

I think I would pick Simple Minds and probably Malcolm Foster's role. Not for his bass lines although the Real Life album is a cracker but because of Derek Forbes and John Giblin's bass lines which Malcolm got to play, especially the Street Fighting Years tours.

When I was in school, probably about 9 in 1979, I wanted to play trombone and spoke to my parents and music teacher about it. Music teacher told my parents I'll never make a musician as I don't have a musical bone in my body. Quite pleased that I proved him very wrong.