vax2002

The body join position says signature. They are very high quality instruments, on a USA standard type level, if someone was to open the case on one of these and tell you its a £1500 bass, you would not doubt them bar the missing name, they have that awe that a real America precision should have when you play them.

Avast as well showing the site has a video clip that is trojan infected.

As they age, they will look twice as ridiculous...

£4250

Rickenbackers come with a roadwear kit ! Its called the case, with its sharp metal edges, the perfect accessory to instantly give your new £1500 instrument that road worn chunk out look.

Great video and it has to be one of the few lines I have heard the 5th string add anything of worth to the song, rather than a drone string the bottom up run really adds to the feel. Love your study of jamerson, amazes me how many bass players have never sat down and listened, one even said, huh he could not play muse, I played him the break in Ill be there before the chorus, play that mate in F like jamerson did, then bring muse back to the table. If one bass player laid down the foundations for the bass playing Riffs as opposed to root notes it was Jamerson, then Dunn I suppose...

I often considered the impedance issue, but after 10 years of it working perfectly week in week out I came to the conclusion that the 2x10 helps me monitor what I play and the 4x10 carries the boots to the back.

I run a Peavey firebass 700w head through 1 4x10 and 1 2x10 giving 4 ohms and it has never not been loud enough for any venue from big clubs to small pubs. Prior to this it was Trace Elliot which was just constantly broken or blowing cabs or just never loud enough. In the past, Marshall 400w valve head + 2x15, unreliable junk at its best Ampeg 400w valve head, nice if you are in to distortion. The peavey has been solid for what must be 10 years service now, talk about getting your moneys worth from a bass amp and the ability to set the input gain from overdrive to crisp funk is a dream come true.

Is a fools collectable price, thousands of old shafted basses are in the hands of fools that paid a small fortune and now think they own an expensive collectable instrument, what they in fact own is sombeodys clapped out worn lump of junk. For an instrument to be truly collectable, think toy cars, unplayed in the box, same with basses, it needs to be 95% condition and in its case it was made for and the case needs to be mint as well. Now they are exceptions, say if the instrument is so rare that clapped out versions are all thats left, but that is hardly going to happen with a 70's Jazz bass.

The harder the fretboard, the more the sustain, think of it as a moving nut, thats what you are doing, fretting the string, so the harder contact it has, the more it will fret.

I wonder if James Jamerson would have thought after all these years, modern bass lines would be so influenced by him. This could have been his line, straight from the Jamerson books.

Bet that peavey amp is still going somewhere...