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[quote name='cycrowave' post='1208835' date='Apr 23 2011, 01:08 AM']pick up a westone thunder! in your price range, and in terms of materials, build quality and tone nothing even comes close for under £200. the neck through models are rarer, but worth looking out for. not sure if its your bag but heres a very nice fretless one, wont be around for long trust me [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WESTONE-THUNDER-11-ACTIVE-FRETLESS-BASS-/220773790950?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item336724b4e6"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WESTONE-THUNDER-11-A...=item336724b4e6[/url][/quote] Oh wow it's gone! Someone got a massive bargain! I'm quite sad now actually... ......Back to topic - get a Westone! You can have my Thunder 1A for a mere £120 smackers (I do love 'em, I just have my Thunder III now)

a big [font="Arial Black"][size=7]Hello![/size][/font] back!

Chas'n'Dave tribute surely?!

I've never heard of[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kenneth-Lawrence-Privete-Stock-Brase-II-Quetzalcoatl-/270636820808?pt=Guitar&hash=item3f03362948#ht_3884wt_1012"] Ken Lawrence[/url], have you?

Now posted to Mickeyboro - great read!

Bassassin - you may already know about this site but I just found it and, WOW it has a lot of gorgeous Matsumoku basses on there! [url="http://www.matsumoku.org/ggboard/index.php"]http://www.matsumoku.org/ggboard/index.php[/url]

Thanks to a new acquisition, I will now be bringing my Westone Superheadless AND my lovely new Thunder III !

Great bloke, kept me informed all the way through on a great deal and sent the best packaged bass I've ever seen!

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1191471' date='Apr 7 2011, 10:16 AM']Thank you for the recognition - but the flaw inherent in that solution is that much of my massive, gushing fountain of hot & sticky but ultimately useless information is backed up by a library of links to websites such as Westone.info! To be honest this seems incomprehensible and somewhat spiteful to me - even if he didn't want to continue maintaining the site, he could have left it up - or alternatively there are plenty of people with spare web space who could have hosted it. If I'd known I would've offered, I run a couple of other sites & the Westone one wasn't a physically big resource. Bollocks. Jon.[/quote] Some of the guys at the Westone forums have conatcted him to see if they can do just that, it only seems fair when you think he received a lot of the catalogue scans from contribrutors on there in the first place!

[quote name='stevie' post='1190426' date='Apr 6 2011, 12:57 PM']Pull yourself together man! [/quote] Unfortunately westone.info was the only site with decent info on these great basses.

Westone.info was a great site for information about Westone's range of guitars and basses. Including pretty much all the catalogues and a section for spares. I used to like going on there and just looking at the Thunder II's and III's as well as getting useful info. for years etc when I was buying. Can't believe I'm saying WAS!

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1984-FENDER-JAZZ-POWER-BASS-SPECIAL-MIJ-D-TUNER-ACTIVE-/110664947990?pt=Guitar&hash=item19c4251916"]This one [/url]sold for £430 so that looks like the current market value.

.....Westone.info has shut down!

[quote name='Linus27' post='1189288' date='Apr 5 2011, 05:01 PM']Have to be stickers for me as I don't like things on my wrist, ears, necks etc. Its hard enough wearing a watch and [b]a wedding ring is like torture[/b][u][/u]. Basschat Sticker would be good as it could go on the grill of the cab, gig bag, flight case etc as well as the car window. Variety of sizes would be good also.[/quote] That's a common complaint......

If he doesn't, I'll collect from Swansea!

A couple of Westones: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Westone-Super-Headless-bass-/170622945695?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item27b9eb899f#ht_1086wt_936"]Superheadless[/url] (not mine!) Nice Red [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WESTONE-THUNDER-BASS-1984-MATSUMOKU-JAPAN-/170623810866?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item27b9f8bd32#ht_500wt_951"]Thunder[/url] There's another one on there but I'm keeping it a bit secret cos there's no reserve and it's still cheap! (Although with 4 days to go....)

This is the sort of stuff Mark Lamarr should still be on the radio to promote

[quote name='dmccombe7' post='1182061' date='Mar 30 2011, 12:23 PM']While reading the "Stage Positions - where to stand" thread it occured to me that many bassists stand in a specific stage area because of deafness in one ear. Any particular reason why ? I've played in bands for over 30 yrs including loud rock bands and have no hearing issues [b]that i've heard about [/b] I get tested every 2 yrs through my job. I work in engineering with high decibel levels of machinery noise. Just curious Cheers Dave[/quote] Well you wouldn't hear about it would you!!!!

Are the bassists who go stage left all right-handed? I like to be stage left as I feel [s]my headstock is in the way of the rest of the band[/s] the rest of the band are in the way of the headstock if I'm stage right.