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    You have £300 and you HAVE to buy a new bass today…..

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    2 hours ago, ezbass said:

    £300 doesn’t get much from a physical store, otherwise Thomann and an HB of some sort would be in play. It would need to playable and reliable straight out of the box and that shouts Yamaha to me, so a TRBX of some description, probably this one…

     

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    At £259 I reckon that’d do very nicely.

    This exactly the bass that came to mind!

    I played one in a shop and it was a good bass. The mango wood looks nicer again in real life.

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    How old were you when you did your first gig?

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    11 hours ago, Waddo Soqable said:

    Now that I'd like to see pics / footage of... 

    Me too. Unfortunately it was 1993 so no smart phones and everyone was too poor to own a camera. 

    Also it was in the roughest pub in Rhyl that was full of all the types that were barred from everywhere else. I remember thinking at the time that we could actually die tonight!

    We opened with a fast cocktail jazz rendition of the Star Wars theme and everyone rushed towards the stage. I was actually shocked that they didn't attack us but instead, everyone stated cheering and freaky dancing with huge grins and laughter. They got it.

    It was right there that the power of music and spectacle was revealed to me.

    We quickly followed with our turbo flamenco number,

    El Gringo - Master Of The Bingo.

     

    I also realise that some things are best remembered simply in our memories! 😂

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    How old were you when you did your first gig?

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    21. 2 years after I first started learning.

    The Magnificent Flying Sorcerers - original band playing Welsh flamenco cocktail jazz with a reggae twist. Dressed as little grey aliens in boiler suits. Except we were all tall and painted blue. With halved ping pong ball eyes held on with elastic that slowly tried to suck out our eyeballs as the set progressed.

     

    I still can't fathom why we didn't make it.

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    GASsed but skint

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    15 minutes ago, Rayman said:

    Just a little heads up really for the skint among us, and maybe some younger players who can't afford the expensive gear, but still suffer from THE FEVER that curses us all..... the need for more stuff.

     

    You don't have to have a healthy bank account, all you need is a healthy love for the bass and the music.

     

    I've spent the weekend playing my basses, doing some tweaking and just basically having time with them.

     

    As much as I adore my Reverend for its perfect tone and playability and my Warwick for how comfortable it is, I would still argue that my two Sunn Mustangs are still my favourite basses. One of them was 50 quid, the other, I really pushed the boat out and spent a ton, Admittedly, I dropped a new loom into each at an additional cost of about £30 each, but other than that they're stock.... tuners, bridge, pickup etc are absolutely fine as they are, and these were budget basses when they were new. In my experience, of having many P basses, you won't find better ones at any price IMO. The "cheap" pickups in these (the original cream coloured ones) are really awesome, especially with a decent loom in there. Don't waste your hard earned on "upgrades" (schmupgrades)

     

    My point..... you can have GAS, and you can find great and very competent instruments for affordable prices. Your Squiers, Yamahas, Ibanez' etc that cost a hundred quid on Ebay are absolutely awesome as they are. Make them your own, set them up (or get it set up) to how you like them and get going. Don't get depressed dreaming about that Dingwall, the funk's in the fingers not the lump of wood they're holding. Don't get depressed watching Scott Devine teaching his students on silly expensive instruments that many of us can't afford, just love the gear you can afford, and have fun. 

     

     

     

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    Vintage Fenders

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    4 hours ago, SurroundedByManatees said:

     

     

    Maybe it's a quality control stamp, that they'd like to have tracable after the instrument had been finished. Funny that none seems to know for sure..

     

     

    Only Eduardo Sanchez knew what he was thinking at the time 🤔 🤷‍♂️

    Vintage Fenders

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    1 minute ago, Belka said:

    Those tuners are normal for a '66. Lollipops started appearing on Jazz basses in 1965 and were standard for '66-67, but they showed up on P basses later, '67-68. I have no idea about the seller but that bass looks like a genuine '66 P bass in all respects. Nothing looks dodgy/fake at all.

    The bass looks fabulous and legit to me. Not sure I trust the seller though. As always, I could be completely wrong!

    Vintage Fenders

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    8 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

    So…In about 2013, I had this in my hands for appraisal via an auction house.

     

    It was an asset liquidation sale - there was a custom shop Marvin strat, and a Hofner 500/1 of some vintage too. A couple of old Wurlitzer jukeboxes and “Americana” stuff like that.

     

    The rest was Rolex’s etc and gaudy expensive furniture.

     

    It was a 61, with gold hardware.

     

    Unsure at the time if it had been one of the refin fiesta reds done by the UK importer…I didn’t know much about gold hardware being an option either.

     

    I offered to buy it for £2k (what I had saved up).

     

    The guy (rightly…) said “I know it’s worth more.”

     

    I later found out that it only fetched £1500 and someone got very lucky…something rings a bell about it being a Fender GBI employee who got it.

     

    Never played anything near it since.

     

    I had a 77p at the time and this had so much more to it.

     

    Talk about the one that got away.

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    At least it getting away was through no fault of your own 👊

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    What's in a name?

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    Posted · Edited by miles'tone

    1 hour ago, bass_dinger said:

     

    I am already there.....

     

    "Do you have a bass guitar that is 58 years old, but lack the authentic longevity to play it?

     

    Then you need the Memory Aging Service. With it, you can:

    Forget whether you are playing the album or the live version of the song 

    Struggle to recall if this band include all the key changes in Think!

    Be totally oblivious that you fitted, and engaged a Drop D tuner 

     

    You have an old bass - now you can play it like an old man"

     

    😆 love it!

     

    Appropriately, I've just sold my actual 58 year old bass and currently on the search for the right new one. 

    Any chance this could work in reverse? Hoping my mental faculties might undergo a spot of 'tasteful restoration'?

     

    Not holding my breath...

     

     

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    What's in a name?

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    Mine comes from the username I thought up when I joined Talkbass many years ago. My middle name is actually Miles and I was really into the Miles Davis album Milestones when I started learning upright.

    So, miles'tone = tone of Miles (me, not him) because no matter what kind of bass guitar I play, I always sound inescapably like me.

     

    Saying that, this hasn't stopped me from spending a small fortune by ignoring the evidence whilst trying unsuccessfully to disprove the theory! 😂

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    What's in a name?

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    7 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

    My real name is actually Rumplestiltskin, but you try telling that to some smart arsed copper when you get a tug in your battered BMW 3 series... 

    Some mysteries are best left to the imagination I suppose...

    What's in a name?

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    1 hour ago, Waddo Soqable said:

    There's often confusion with who's in The Plank, Eric Sykes swapped his role in a subsequent version with Arthur Lowe, Sykes taking the Cooper part (  I think! ) 

    I'm dying to know why you're Waddo Soqable...spill the beans! (please)

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