miles'tone

Sold a set of strings to Chris and he was very nice to deal with. He bought them and was then patient enough to wait until I returned from hols before I could post them. Super easy deal.. Thanks!

http://youtu.be/PkVkLwpsZDU

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1439237816' post='2841230'] Have really had a good clear-out over the last few months. Now just two basses left, my Fender bitsa and the Squier P5. Everything I need, nothing I don't. [/quote] Ditto. Squier P5 and a Harley Benton HB550fl deko - amazing bass for 38 quid 😵 (couldn't bring myself to defret the Squier!)

Pure, unadulterated filth. http://youtu.be/hyMeKrtUHc0

I can't do pickups that have blank covers. I need to see the polepieces for a bass to look "right".

I ordered one from Warmoth. Their's are great as it comes down a little bit more south (towards the bridge), so you can get the P pup in the same place as on a Precision. I had a regular jazz with P rout guard before that but the P pup was too far north and sounded too wooly. The Warmoth pickguard was the only one that I could find that actually has the P rout in the sweetspot, basically.

BOOM!! 🙋

Gawd knows then!

In 1976 a Fender bass wouldn't have 'made in USA'on the headstock because all Fenders were made in the USA still at that point, so with no cheaper Fender imports around to confuse things, it was just a given that they were all made stateside.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1438371329' post='2834108'] But you had to be there..... [/quote] ..and if you can remember being there, you weren't really there.

I had a Lindy Fralin P complemented with a set of Fender CL flats. Best tone I've ever had. As soon as Fralin makes a P5 pickup I'll be on it like a very on thing!

..has left me speechless 😶 http://youtu.be/0IqcmhkfJRE

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1438087373' post='2831508'] It's not a 'real piece of history', it's just a 25 year old bass. [/quote] OK then grumpy drawers, it's a real piece of Warwick's history. 😜

Sorry that you're disappointed, I can understand how you must feel. But looking at the positive side of things, you have an absolutely gorgeous handcrafted bass there which is a real piece of history (even if only for it's age). OK, your fretless is a quarter of a century old and it's fingerboard needs some TLC - no biggie. Spend the extra little bit more to have it sorted properly and it will play like new and all this will soon be forgotten. You'll have a fretless for life there and the price you paid for such an instrument will end up seeming quite reasonable I reckon. Good luck and hang in there!

Rock n roll is a rite of passage for teenagers/early twenty-somethings. A time for dancing, Sha**ing and getting off one's face with your mates who are just as free as you. There's plenty of young bands around having their rock and roll time. They just don't want to party with their dads. The only people who moan that RnR is dead now seems to be the older dad rockers. It might be dead for them..

My wife listens to soundtracks (War Of The Worlds, Lost Boys, Les Mis') and audio books. We've been to loads of gigs together and she usually thinks the acts aren't very good. Except the James Taylor Quartet, she was amazed how they made the whole room dance! I guess standing and watching musicians just isn't her bag. Although she was always the first one up to dance (and get everyone else up there) when I was in my last band. She really does not care one F**k about what anyone else thinks of her. She now has a love of Billie Holiday, Bill Evans, David Gilmour and The Smiths thanks to me though, so at least I'm getting somewhere now!

Really glad you've sorted it out, congrats for doing it yourself. It's a lovely looking bass, gorgeous colour and that fingerboard... Would have been a shame to let it go. 👏👏👏

Yup. It's a 2004 USA Deluxe.

Classic! 😝

http://youtu.be/BBsazIACpYM