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In a little old Town called Castleford, in the cash converters store a Mapel black block Vm Squire Jazz £129, big sign says 20% everything over £100, so in my magnetic boots went, does it have a case, no says the guy, but it came in with a pedal I will throw in, here we go I thought, out of the back he emerges with a boxed BOSS BE7 ! eq, you can have this with it as we dont have a case. KERCHING till rings at £107, they can not even add up ? So, nearly new VM jazz squire, boss BE7. Thats what I call a result. Home, out with the car wax for a polish and some new flat wounds put on, quarter turn of the rod nut and the action dropped straight in and it sings like a Jazz should. Think I might even put the lottery on later...

The bass tab online is miles off mate, who tabbed that is tone deaf in the exteme ! basically intro C# 2 bars E 2 bars x 2 verse A A/B/A G Em X 2 then pre- chorus is Bm G# C# G# THERE'S A GHOST IN MY HOUSE IS A G# F#/E THATS IT, IT JUST REPEATS.

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1336300796' post='1643641'] Hmmm I qiute like that... think I'll build me one. [/quote] Might break your back with the piano screwed to the back...

It was, it might pass off as a 4003 m/blue but you would have to make excuses as to why it was so dark, it was just a request for dark smoke lacquer, they would make custom basses in 1993, they took a bit of the neck radius as well. Now I have had hundreds of basses, but I think I would trade them all for that one back, just because it was mine and made for me. That and if I ever spot it and they dont sell me it back, I will tanter and tanter !

No I spotted someone showing off my Old rick or what looked like it on here once , I say mine because I had it made from the factory , it was a custom colour in very very dark midnight with black hardware as it had smoke lacquer on, not clear, I had to sell it when the local crims stole my car and work tools. Now I would sell my backside to get that Rick back

Do you have a very dark purple/ midnight blue 4003 with black hardware, if so did you buy it off e.bay a fair few years ago ?

[quote name='simon1964' timestamp='1336296261' post='1643545'] Yes - the bassist who toured with Paul Weller a few years back used one. They're very nice basses, but have never been as popular as the good old 4003/4001. Ironic really, as Ric always get criticised for not updating the 4003 model - in fact they have, but nobody buys them! [/quote] They look good, but the bit that really needed updating, never got updated, the fact that they play like a coffee table with strings on, with a 4001 and 4003, they have so much eye candy you can put up with it, but as newer instruments go, they needed a newer instrument designed to play rather than look like a 4001 updated, but I dont think they have the design know how to build anything but slabs of wood with strings on, as many find out when they buy one, the number of nearly new Ricks on e.bay tells you one thing about them, you dont buy them as a players instrument.

Yep first 4004 and lets put it this way, if it did not say Rickenbacker on the top and you had to keep reminding yourself how much it was worth, you would put it straight down again in the shop, they took all the worst bits of a 50 year old design and put it in a new instrument. Only of use for impressing other bass players with your wallet.

I just wish the Chinese built instruments would drop the fascination with two octave necks, its a BASS !

Its transport but if someone has an empty car, a pair of peavey hysis 4 throw the most chest thumping bass I have ever heard in 1 pair of cabs, 4x15 black widows can move some serious air.

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1335940356' post='1638230'] Yes, what jay said really. My one, that you can see over to the left is a superb instrument but I mostly just use the p pick up because it sounds like a p bass then and that's what I like I've never been convinced about additional pick ups on P basses. the blurb in the ads will say something along the lines of "the best of both worlds, dial in the bridge pup and it will sound like a jazz or switch to the front and it's a P." Thing is for me, it doesn't. A jazz sounds like a jazz in part because of the TWO jazz pups. Yes it adds something but it doesn't sound like a jazz to me. [/quote] Agree 100% if you want a Jazz sound by a jazz, the precision is a growl bass if you buy a genuine, not many copies have the growl, it is a full on mix filling sound and suited to live, the extra pick up only serves to thin the sound, I have had a super precision and very soon you just leave it on the normal pick up all the time as they sound so full, but then again so does a jazz with both picks on so the double pickup precision is a real odd ball and fits nothing rather than fits all solution, perhaps they should have put a music man pick in instead of a jazz.

A millennium period Corona USA string through body precision is the best I have ever played, they ring like a piano. Could be picked up for the same price as one of these "replicas"

Somebody's it at with decals and yacht varnish again

It may not be vintage, but age does not make collectable, that is entirely down to condition. E.bay is awash with folk who get the two confused. A Dog rough old bass, is a dog rough old bass of any age But a closet bass can be "collectable" from only a few years old once out of production. I would say, collectable condition that will pass in to vintage collectable era within 10 years.

Its the biggest fender Logo I have ever seen !

A string through, one of the best made, lovely sustain

Funny, I swap the black knobs for chrome ones on my fenders, as the little pinky is too hard to grab quickly when you need a roll off mid song

[quote name='steve' timestamp='1335541947' post='1632955'] +1, I've had two, loved them both but couldn't get on with the lack of forearm contour and had to move them both on. [/quote] It's like any Slab bass, they can be very hard to play live, same with Rickenbackers, they are like playing a kitchen worktop and if you only play once or twice a month they are fine, but if you are on the road a lot, you need an instrument that is comfortable to play repetitively, hence you rarely see any touring or show bands with slab basses, they always have a work horse instrument. Slab basses are nice to own for eye candy, they can be bound for that Rick look, but it horses for courses, look at the working players and there are 4 or 5 stable basses used, the eye candy might go on for one or two numbers, but thats about it.

Guitarist : "Would it work if we stripped it back to basics" ..... If thats code for learning the song instead of trying to guess it, then the answer is yes...

"gig time in a far away pub" Your not gonna believe this guys... I have forgotten my Lyrics book.