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For me it'd be the infamous Roundhouse (Chalk Farm, London), the club where The Ramones and The Clash played, not to mention Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Motörhead and dozens of other icons.

Rotosound 88 TruBass will give you the black color (quite permanent) and fat, vintage tone. But they're expensive and thick (65-115). You may try other tapewounds as well, I'm very pleased with Fender Nylon Tapewounds.

I hate this tone in the descriptions: 'I have 36252839 Custom Shop Fenders and each of those are cr**p compared to this (but I'm selling this one, not those others), but this one is a master crafted gem better than anything ! Included: Original receipt, 2 oz. of Japanese craftsman epidermis, whole lot of other cool stuff and buy this cause otherwise Geddy Lee will buy this first.' Damn, seen this waaay too much times. I'm not saying this bass is poor quality or sth (it's a beauty, really), but it's just the description that p**sses me off.

I for one never use the vol knob on mine P-basses for other purposes than 'mute'. If I need to setup the volume of my playing, I use 'Preamp Level' (Gain) and 'Master Level' (Volume) on my amp.

I personally admire EHX Bass Micro Synth. Very high on my GAS list. Really good pedal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze4flWZENMA

The depressing thing my bandmates say is: 'We don't exist.'

Answering the question stated in OP - ContraBand.

One more thing from me: I love those auctions with poor pics of great stuff you can't go wrong with. I also love silly auction titles like 'Bass guitar". In cases like that one could buy cheaper some great stuff that no one else would be willing to buy because of the poor pics/description.

I was never too bothered with pictures of bass leanded against the wall, but the concrete driveway or wet grass is not too nice setting for bass. But if I was asked about the pic with the most disturbing '[i]beautyful bass vs. malicious setting[/i]' factor, this pic takes the cake: [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1327163360' post='1507288'] What really gets me is no pictures at all, or 'pictures to follow', or 'I can't upload pics at the moment', or 'my camera needs recharging,' or 'my phone camera's crap', or 'aliens stuck my camera up the dog's bottom,' and so on and so forth. [/quote] Amen. Pile of cr**p to justify the poor quality, that's what it is. But once I've found an auction like that and was sceptic, but later the pics were uploaded and my jaw dropped. I don't remember what bass it was, but I clearly remember the feeling itself

Fingerboard of every bass that on English-speaking sites is advertised to be 'rosewood' is described on Polish sites as 'palisander' as it is a Polish word for 'rosewood'.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1327099490' post='1506580'] If my good lady went to that much trouble I'd be over the moon. [/quote] +1 I think it's only the [i]slight[/i] color difference. Tell your husband about your struggle to find the 'Alpine' one and tell him you've found the thing closest to the one he wanted. I bet he'll be happy to know that you tried hard for him

This damn tiny piece of chromed metal is expensive as hell anyway, so I think I'll pass and stay with the 'default' scratchplate. In that case it'll look like this: [center][/center] But I was thinking about some alternative for the chrome plate, like an outline of this plate made with chrome sticker, engraved (down to the 2nd, white layer - that would be also a nice way to get rid of the holes made for thumbrest by previous owner obove the E string: with engraved racing stripes ) or something like that... I just wanted to have the looks of both 50's and 70's Tele balanced in one instrument.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1326926229' post='1504006'] the rest look terrible and the J and P look old hat tat. [/quote] I REALLY like the Jazz, while the P looks a bit like [url="http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7924/1993fendercustompbassmi.png"]my baby[/url], so I wouldn't wan it simply because I already have one. And she's more select than Select.

You may say whatever you want, but this baby: would look awesome on the wall as a ornament. It's just that I wouldn't keep her on the wall. I'd be playing her like crazy.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' timestamp='1326897292' post='1503359'] To let one issue past QC is unfortunate, but two is careless.[/quote] Damn right. I guess if everyone who gets his gear slightly faulty from the store would decide to send it back, the QC would have got more tight in the future.

I really dislike the rosewood fingerboards, but this one is irresistible! Probably it's the colour combination. A bit shame the logo is a bit dinted, but it's a thing of a beauty anyway!

I'll be honest - guys who do extremely simple things and still sounding awesome: mostly Paul Simonon from The Clash and Cubbie Fink from Foster the People (these two guys in one pot may seem a bit blasphemous to some, but, hey...)

I borrowed my Randall practice bass amp to my friend who recently bought 70's Aria Pro II LP guitar and didn't had any amp. A bit (tiny bit!) bluesey, dark sound, but works just fine. It's the other combination (bass+guitar amp) that brings trouble.

I'm talking to myself here, but at least I got one answer on TDPRI.com: '[i]I put a single coil SD pickup on my 78 Tele bass, pretty much like your pic. I love it! Best mod you can make to a mudbucker bass.[/i]' Anyway, bump, waiting for your feedback. Yes, yours!