wombatboter

I have a fretless Lefay for sale and it takes just that special buyer who is looking for this kind of instrument at the right moment. These basses are not cheap so you just have to be lucky.
Fortunately my bass doesn't réally have to go so that takes away a lot of anxiety -

I had one like this one for years, was my main bass.... excellent basses, sold it however after 10 years to buy the Celinder in the bass-cbat banner.
But my Sandberg JM4 won in the end :-)

It's coming to Belgium...I'm actually a bit curious who bought it around here.
I bought a couple basses on bass-chat and had good experiences with UPS and Fedex (I didn't take the insurance and everytime basses arrived here in perfect condition)

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='638617' date='Oct 28 2009, 12:18 AM']I have to say that I disagree on the 'Welcome back' comment.

It's not this or that, one is not mutually exclusive of the other.

All forms of music have their place and time and I listen to basscentric stuff when the mood takes me. The range of bass playing used is too large to squeeze it into a genre too imo.[/quote]

+ 1...

Just listening to some bass-related albums gives me inspiration for other situations.
I try not to restrict myself, sometimes I'm able to listen to a whole Miller or Wooten album, the next day I can't stand a single note. If I have to listen to Coldplay's bassplayer for instance there's not much going on for me I'm afraid, so some occasional Caron, Pattituci, etc... blows away the cobwebbs from any routine. It comes and goes..
I wouldn't like the idea that I think bass-albums are stupid or a waste of time, I love to hear influences and new bass-stuff and on "normal" albums, you cannot find that.
I do think that it's not because you're an excellent bassplayer that you're an excellent composer (I'm afraid I don't like the Jaco-solorecords, except for "Three views of a secret"..)

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='633272' date='Oct 22 2009, 11:07 AM']Did you have one? I did.....it was rubbish! (#38 of 42). Sad eh?[/quote]

I had number 14...no, it wasn't that good :-)

These days it's hard to imagine what impact Mark King had in the eighties. Now we are more familiar with slapstyles etc but I remember that no one had ever heard anything like him when Love Games came out.
It was new, it was fresh and new doors were opened (I can't recall anyone since then with the same influence).
I heard the Level 42 album ("Almost there" was even faster :-)) and I just couldn't understand how anyone in the world could play like that and I didn't even know at the time that he also sang..
Every bassplayer talked about him and he had an enormous influence (I actually learned my 16th-feel from him ("The Chinese Way") and not from Jaco for instance).
Concerning his quick mastering the bass...I really think it's a drummer thing, a local drummer picked up a bass and within a couple of days he could slap things I wasn't able to play. It's all about the polyrythms they have learned.

My first and last bump.....
If it moves up a couple of pages I see it as a sign that I have to keep it :-)

I have a similar Sandberg and I consider it one of the best basses I have ever owned, very versatile and easy to play. They sound punchy and funky and I prefer them above much more expensive basses.
Good luck with the sale..

[quote name='spiritchaser' post='630114' date='Oct 19 2009, 10:07 AM']Geeeez - Geert! You cannot do that!
If I hadn't that killer WAL 5 fretless I would instantly buy that Le Fay from you. Having played it shortly at your place I can only recommend both the instrument and the seller
Best of luck w/ the sale!
ta
Oliver[/quote]

Thanks Oliver.... how good this bass might be it just doesn't get played any more the last year and a half. I take it from its hook every now and then and I'm still amazed by it but I have left the band I could use it in. To be honest this 5 string sounds a lot better than the Lefay 4 (the 5 has more bottom) but if I have to make a choice I would sacrifice this five-string since I tend to go for my fourstring (it's just easier in certain situations)
I'm still not sure about this sale, I told myself I would never sell it but it bothers me that I cannot find a purpose for it.
I'm playing in bands which don't incorporate fretless so...

I noticed this bass on the European Bass Day and I just had to try it out. After half a minute I knew I had to have one. I had never heard anything like it, the sustain was the best I had ever heard and the tone was warm and full. Rainer from Lefay build me a fivestring and a couple of months later I had one finally.
After a year I wanted to have a fourstring and this was build too. Both basses are the best fretless basses I have ever heard and played imo.
The stainless steel might give the impression that it would sound cold and artificial but it doesn't, bassplayers who tried it are amazed by the natural and beautiful tone coming out of this bass.
Although it is passive, it has a tremendous output and the dots and lines on the side of the neck make it very easy to intonate.
Unfortunately I find myself playing less fivestring and for the fretless situations I'm using the Lefay 4 or my fretless Wal.
I noticed that with the exception of one studiosession last Friday I haven't been using this fivestring in a band situation any more.
I could use the money from this possible sale for something else so here it is...
Specs can be found on the Lefay-site. These basses cost around 4400 euros when you buy them new. I'm looking for 2500 euro.
I prefer no trades. Bass can be picked up or can be shipped. For any more pictures of details, feel free to email me.
Thanks.

[url="http://www.lefay.de/index.php?id=12"]http://www.lefay.de/index.php?id=12[/url]

Great to see them back in business...lots of sharks trying to get an extra buck the passed years because they had become "rare". Even some who regretted that they weren't made anymore secretly liked the idea that they had Wal-basses in their livingroom. They are not cheap but neither are other quality basses..I owned around 10 Wal basses during the last fifteen years only to found out that I only needed one MKI and a fretless.
I have other basses but nothing sounds like a Wal bass, that "honk" in the tone you cannot get anywhere else.
Throughout the wide spectrum in sounds that are available (you can make it sound like an Alembic or a Precision) that personal Wal-tone comes through. It is unique and cannot be copied..that 's worth a lot of money.
I can live without a lot of basses but I wouldn't want to miss my Wal-basses.

Beautiful bass...can't beat that.

I played this bass this afternoon and it is amazing and very inspiring.. Very rare and never played anything like this before. Great for chordal work, it really opens up your mind.

This doesn't leave me too much time to try it out so I have to make my visit real soon :-)

The bass arrived yesterday and looks even better than on the pictures, a great instrument and a great BC-member to deal with.
Thanks a lot !

[quote name='claude' post='619743' date='Oct 7 2009, 04:53 PM']viva la Belgica
claude[/quote]

Tu as raison !

Over here in Belgium we play "Sultans of Swing" and "So far away" with our band and it is always a joy. We even play them during soundchecks and sometimes people come over to be assured that we play it later in the set.
I never get tired of playing "Sultans".. I play it with a guitarplayer who is capable to copy the excellent guitarwork and he sings really good too..

Er zaten Wizards in mijn Sei..

Elvis in the seventies (that energy of "Burning love" or "Polk salad")
James Taylor (would be nice to do gigs where people in the audience take the time to listen)

Belgium ! Hooray !!

Thanks already for the smooth communication. I wasn't planning to buy a Jazz bass but this was too tempting.
Really looking forward to it, it has some mojo around it.

It's not that I'm that rich..I just feel that when you really want something which makes the quality of your life better you should go for it. I don't like to travel or have other expensive hobbies or a family so I spend the money I earn on what I love most : basses and amps. They inspire me and give me pleasure.
Over the last years I have experienced (like everyone I guess) that a lot of people around me have been struck by diseases, misfortune, divorces, financial crises etc.. It has convinced me that I have to live in the "now" and that I have to enjoy the things I like now..If I really want something (ànd if I can afford it) I just go for it. Goes from food to a dvd, etc..
A really good friend of mine has to go to kitney dialysis three times a week and isn't allowed to eat a lot of stuff anymore so..puts things in perspective
So much for the philosophical stuff...:-)

I have a 6X10 VdKley speaker 1500 W, Epifani UL4X10, UL 2X10 (bought here on bass-chat) and a 2X12 (rather heavy)
Since a couple of months I mainly use a Tecamp Puma 1000 for gigs and at home I used the Epifani UL502 which will be sold and is replaced by the Epifani PS600 which has the same quality in my ears but just has one channel.

He's got taste...very beautiful.

I've recorded a couple of solo-cd's but I never release them so there's not much exposure.
A friend of mine works for television and he had to edit a tv-show around cancer and the various initiatives which were taken by different people all across the country trying to raise money for the good cause.
Each group was given around 15 seconds of television for their actions and how much they had earned and this went on during hours and hours on one of the biggest tv-stations in our country. Between every 15 seconds there was a tiny bass sample of five seconds which was taken from my cd. It felt great and I watched the program longer than I wanted to..:-)