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Happy days !

Indeed...over here in Belgium during the eighties I (and a lot of people with me) was floored by two absolute bass-giants : the impact of Palladino and Mark King has never been equalled.

This features some nice fretless bass by Pino (and a bit more jazzy than the stuff he's known for). Excellent stuff !

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWU2omQp8TY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWU2omQp8TY[/url]

Great price..recently bought a green one here on Bass-chat. Excellent basses, good luck with the trade/sale

No harm done, he got some free bumps out of it, like this one

"Does he want 2 grand for it????"

Maybe too many questionmarks confused me too about the tone of the reaction ?

If a seller has a certain price in his head (no matter how "high") it should always be respected in a way...If you don't agree with it, that's your decision and just move on.
If there's no price mentionned, it irritates certain people, if the price is too high, they sometimes make a laugh out of it. Not everything in the world is supposed to be cheap or a bargain...

I once read somewhere that (when there's enough budget) every song on a cd gets to be played by every bassplayer who is invited during the recording project by certain artists. Afterwards they just make a selection what's the best take.

[quote name='Rayman' post='596354' date='Sep 12 2009, 09:48 AM']Hi, my name is Russ, and I'm......addicted to Gear Aquisition Syndrome.

I genuinely believe I'm addicted to the feeling of finding and aquiring new basses. I love the excitement of having a bass to trade, or better still cash in my pocket, and that few days of hunting for, and then choosing a new bass. Then, a few days later, the urge is back, and out goes the new bass, sometimes within [i]days[/i] of getting it.

My problem is I'm skint. All I have is my gear, so if I need to satisfy my cravings, I have to sell or trade out, something I've done endlessly over the last handful of years. It's always been (or so I thought) part of a search for "The One", that perfect bass that you yearn for. Trouble is, I've had some beautiful basses over the years, Overwater, Stingrays, Fenders and now the Kinal, which is the best of them all, and still, I get the urge to let it go to satisfy my craving for GAS, it's madness, and I'm driving myself crazy.

I really believe, that if I was rich, I'd have dozens and dozens and [i]dozens[/i] of basses, guitars etc etc, most of which I'd never touch, because I'd be always on the lookout for something new to satisfy the GAS.

Anyone else want to stand up and confess their addiction too?[/quote]

I completely understand...I've had more than hundred basses in and out the last couple of years. Sometimes I think to myself "it's been a while since I bought one" and it has only been two weeks before.
I'm not joking : it is an addiction and I keep going back to numerous bass sites (even Ebay Australia) looking for that one thing which stops the search... but that doesn't exist. Fodera, Alembic, Wal, old Fenders..etc...
Funny thing : you don't loose that much money since you pay with the money of your previous sale but you get rarely connected with a certain bass.

This is a great relief :-)

Just say that this is a local pick-up and that you refuse to ship to Belgium !

Adamovic basses have an excellent reputation...good luck with the sale (pity it isn't a four)

I'm hopeless when I play a six-string but this made me want to change my mind for a moment, beautiful bass at a great price. Good luck with the sale.

It was the only exception to the rule...never got a call back from the buyer, I hadn't lied but it didn't feel good.

I feel very fortunate to have a friend who is considered as the best bass repairman in our country...I showed him the Jaydee, he sighed and said that he could try to do a refret job but that at the beginning of the neck it was curled in an impossible way. He sanded down the neck, did a refret but it didn't help. Was one of the few occasions in which he couldn't help me. I've owned over 100 basses during the last 25 years but I felt really bad when I had to sell the Jaydee because I like to have satisfied customers. The new owner failed to try the upper register, otherwise I would never have gotten rid of it.

I don't know how you do it but again : this one is gorgeous and the most beautiful Alembic I've ever seen. I love buckeye burl. I used to have an Alembic but this is something else.
There must be some secret well around Manchester. Hope this one works for you and makes you play with ease.. Absolutely stunning.
I don't do this too often but every now and then I download pictures of basses which are stunning to look at : I don't have a lot of pictures since I'm rather picky but your Fodera and this Alembic are both in my picture collection.
I'm gonna post this on a Dutch bassforum : will raise some eyebrows over there..

I bought a Jaydee years ago at the Bass Centre..I saved a long time to have one but when I had it, it was absolutely nothing but trouble. I know about the Mark King-hype at the time and there were inferior basses made but I still think that this is a disgrace and a quality-check should be obvious for every bass for every customer. Just think of someone who worked hard to get his dream bass and it turns out to be horror..
I had a lot of trouble with the neck which would twist within half an hour (took it to a bass-shop and when I came back home it had moved already). I tried everything, send it back to John Diggins (it got lost, came back severly damaged). Problems continued, had a refret job done but this just meant that the upper octave wasn't useable anymore..
No more Jaydees with refret jobs for me..

Never thought it would happen but the Celinder is no longer mine. One of the best and fastest basses I ever played but I also found myself looking for a sound less "modern" and "hi-fi". The Celinder is a jazz on steroids and sounds really Miller-ish in a superb way but after a while I realised I was looking for something else. I recently bought a Sandberg JM4 (aged relic) and the combination of the Musicman and the jazz pick-up works better for me although its sound isn't as rich as the Celinder. Yesterday the Celinder got sold to a young bass dare-devil from Holland who fell in love with it the moment he played it at my house. I guess I will regret that I sold the Celinder but this bass deserves to be played a lot and I couldn't make it my main bass (too much choice hanging on my walls + combination with bass midlife crisis)

Congratulations !

Everytime I see an singlecut bass, I keep seeing an elephant with its mouth open when I look at the body-shape..

I think this is the most beautiful bass I have ever seen.
Good luck with the sale !

Great chap to deal with...send him an email for some information and he took the time to send one back with every information I needed. Excellent !

About a month ago someone told me that Level 42 was playing at the Belgian coast that evening and asked if I was planning to go...I have already seen them live about 20 times so I said I wanted to stay home with a nice whisky..
My friend was very convincing and although it was raining heavily we drove to the open-air concert next to the beach.
I'm not surprised anymore about what I see and hear (first time I saw them I had never heard anything like that) but although I was soaking wet, the show was great and I was glad I had made the trip. Good soundmix with plenty of bass (not thàt obvious, I've seen some terrible shows soundwise) and the more it rained the more the audience was determined to stay and enjoy the music.. Good songs, great musicianship and lovely bassplaying (that bass-line of Love Games still sounds as fresh as it did in the eighties). I'll always be a Level 42 fan and they still mean a lot to me in my musical directions.

Love that b-side : The return of the handsome rugged man.

Paul McCartney..things like "Mrs Vanderbilt" with a very prominent bass.

Good news... you have been waiting long enough ! :-)