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That thread's a bit worrying, the only vintage fender one I've seen so far was over a grand! I've got my eye's peeled for a 2nd hand spitfire on reverb and talkbass

Cheers Steve

I'm a massive fender geek and I love the old 60s tort guards to the point where anything else looks instantly all wrong to me I've got a surf green CS P with a gold anodised guard which is cool but for me it's a 60s looking bass with a 50s guard so a fancy a tort one Spitfire guards look amazing but are insanely expensive ( although I wouldn't say overpriced considering he's making a bespoke sheet of celluloid to your spec) I've got a mate in America who comes over a lot so I could dodge duty etc but £230 odd quid for pickguard , am I going mad? Anyone got one? What do you reckon?

Annoying isn't it, don't buy from him

Yeah think he was briefly in whitesnake in the mid 80s

Huge fan of Colin and backdoor, he does get talked about on here from time to time

I played an old one and it was great and really light, were the previous ones basswood?

How about a pair of barefaced 210s and a Mesa d800 I've got a svt cl that I love but I rarely take out cos it's so bloody heavy , no class D will sound the same but I find the Mesa D has a wide open clarity that has a similarity to a valve head Or a Walkabout if you want a grittier old school midrange?

I see Bassdirect has got them in stock, anyone on here got one yet?

Wow, I was expecting a fusion bass shred up, loved that , I'm hearing the 90s Soundgarden AIC thing too

One of my biggest influences when I started , just watched a fender vid of him playing Maggot Brain that popped up on YouTube, Absolute rubbish!

Mark Sandman on 2 string slide bass

I like it, bit different isn't it Are the strings cobalt flats?

Pick one song ( how about Pressure Drop, Toots and the Maytals) and play it over and over , harmonically it's simple , just major triads but the magic is in the articulation , really try to mimic the note length and rythmic placement feeling how the bass relates to the drums and guitar Tone down volume up

Luthier definitely is a real thing and pre dates the term guitar tech by 100s of years!( I know what you mean, bit pretentious isn't it)

I totally agree , I just thought I'd mention incase the OP didn't know you could get small loud amps these days, I love big Peavey combos

Just keep buying P basses , I've got 6 and I still lust after the next

I've got a avri and a CS and the CS definitely has a bit more low end and is a touch smoother ( although I think the avri pup is actually closer to a real 60s fender in some ways) Overwound sounds like what you're after imo

Those Peavey's are great for the money but do bare in mind they're huge and heavy and if you wanted to spend more you could get something way lighter and smaller

A lot of my rythmic approach has come from these Tommy Cogbill on Elvis in Memphis album ( especially Gentle on my mind, you gotta check this out) Jameson on Bernadette Rainey on Peg Steely Dan Willie Weeks solo on Donny Hathaway live

That's Alison Brown on banjo who was in the first lineup of Alison Krauss Union Station and I think that's the amazing Trey Hensley on guitar

Make an effort to dig in when you practice and play soft and relax when you gig, you'll still probably play harder on the gig than at home but thinking of it like this helps me