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I have the Nord JC pre in a bass, although it has a Bigman PU, not the BigBlademan. I have also owned Wal basses in the past.. I don't sound like Justin Chancellor, nor does the bass sound like a Wal particularly.... However, if Yamaha market the bass then I will be in difficulty....

Al, I agree with every point except one.... I love Yamaha BBs...I have two...I like the p pickups and I like the J bridge pickup....but when combined they're just a bit...meh. I think Fretmeister's point above still applies.

I find this a bit spooky, because I was thinking exactly the same thing yesterday.... I also love the sound of Jazz basses, I like the sound of their bridge pickup, I love my Precision and you'd therefore suppose that the combination would be pleasing, but, active or passive, I can't make the iinteraction work in a way that I like. I was also thinking that the PJ combination is like an article of faith, like the Beatles or golden retrievers, and realising one doesn't like it is almost confessional. But I don't. I find the combination a bit anodyne. All the caveats apply. Obviously.

Yes....... but no.......but yes, but no, but yes...... Understated walnut top.....unmarked fingerboard....Nordstrand BigBladeMan (or whatever it is.....) They've been tapping into my most private dirty little bassdreams again. And it doesn't matter that they won't make them available (although the PH bass....) because I am already casting threatening looks at my 434, and thinking about hot air guns and veneers and it's all a bit of a worry....

Bugger..... There I was...perfectly happy.....no new basses this year.....blah blah blah Hopefully it will be completely unavailable to the hoi polloi like me....

Yes, me too..... The bass has neither that I can see....Bassassin's guitar has the leather-not-foil pickups, but the thread is (mainly) about the bass....or was.....

Always find it mildly annoying when people say "fixed for you".....so how about "tampered with for you"? However, to labour an earlier point.... if someone has an orange 414 some of us with dicky hearing and a general lack of subtlety might contend that that is as much Yamaha PJ as any hopelessly addicted flibbertigibbet bass tart could ever want. And therefore viva la difference......

The Fender is blue.... The Yamaha isn't.... Now, if it were orange, then....

At the risk of being a pedantic git, doesn't the fretless basically provide the Jazz sounds you aren't partial to, if not the ergonomics? (Although I note from the pic that you have come up with a cunning plan to minimise that....) I have also had a listless/naughty/bored year of excessive purchasing, and one such moment of weakness was a Starfire bass, although mine is the one with a single Bi-Sonic. I have to say I absolutely love the thing; in my top three ever, and I have had embarrassingly many in my decades of playing. I am not moved by the short-scale frenzy, I don't like narrower string spacing and it has lots of forearm-knacker sharp edges....and yet it's wonderful. How are you finding yours (apologies if you have already said so elsewhere)?

Have just bought a gorgeous P bass body from Jono. Throughout he has been brilliant; informative, helpful and patient while I dithered...and to cap all that he included extras in the deal!! Absolutely great guy to deal with, totally honest and reliable. Many thanks Jono Crispin

A huge influence on me from the very beginning; riddims I still find jaw-dropping to this day. He was a giant of a bass player, they were a breathtaking rhythm section and the world seems a bleaker place today. Rest easy, Robbie.

The world feels a poorer place tonight. He was a very great man. RIP Lee Perry.

Quite so....It was more a not-especially-witty-at-all facetious allusion to the heated internet debates that can arise from the quest to establish where tone comes from. Apologies if it came across as smartarsey.

So !! White paint is 0.5lb heavier than red paint !! Does this mean it's tone paint ?

I am conflicted by this... on the one hand it always seemed to me like a fair and succinct summation of Coldplay... on the other, Noel and his delightful sibling seem to me to be the very epitome of bedsh..ters !!

Green Day ?????!!!! Struggling a bit with that assertion, Al.

Punk was so much a case of the sum of the parts being greater than any individual bit on its own... But as mentioned before, Segs' parts in the entire Ruts catalogue were always amazingly creative and original....try "Dope for guns" - a stuoendous bassline. But really, everything from him. Also, Darryl Jenifer from Bad Brains... pretry much everything. And by no means a spectacular bass player, but Severin's lines on the first Banshees album define the songs and remain fantastically exciting to play.

Dire picture, but here,'s my Warmoth-bodied bass. Black Korina....bought it straight off their site about 14 years ago; they release bodies configured like this from time to time.

I have a 734 bridge on my 434m ...certainly did drop right in without modification. Apologies for the dire photo....

Can I say here that I may well be the only person on Basschat to have had a near-death experience involving Maurice Gibb. As a student-holiday postie, I was astride an aged, cantankerous and ludicrously-overloaded Royal Mail bike, teetering along an expensive and exclusive private road in Esher one wintery day in 1986, when blatting round the corner came a shiny new Aston Martin driven, as it turned out, by the very BeeGee in question... It was at that precise moment that the enormous bag of Christmas cards decided to jump ship, depositing itself...and me...in the middle of the road and causing the unsuspecting Maurice to make lots of screeching noises ( I think it was a combination of his brakes and that very falsetto of which there has been some discussion). His reactions were admirable; none of it was his fault and I am here to relate the tale. Anyhow, apropos of nothing much, a little vignette.... And do you know, it never occurred to me at the time to ask him about R*c*e*b*c*e*s.....; I probably should have, but he seemed a little flustered.

I'm a little surprised you haven't had a chorus of responses by now. It seems to me to compare very favourably with instruments from Serek or Nordstrand, for example, and it's home grown, which is nice. Not been at all tempted up to now by short scale basses; years ago I spent two days with a '72 Mustang, which was lovely, and then a 71 Precision, which was so much lovelier that the preference for me was a no-brainer... But this Alpher might be the one to finally change that. Most exciting bass I've seen this year apart from the Ibanez EHB ( which is a different kettle of fish entirely...) You have a beautiful bass there.

Is it Basschat Pedantic Weekend ? Also, because I feel an obligation to do so ( being a bit pedantic ) I wish to record an eyebrow raised at the earlier remarks from, of all people, a West Ham fan.....

Not sure how you managed it, but ( at least for a fair bit of it ) Spidey seems to be dancing in time to the music....

I note that you like it so much you bought the left-handed version as well !! I have a BB415, similarly to yours with upgraded insidey bits.... I have some other basses too, bit every time I pick up the 415 I ask myself whether I actually need anything else...