The fasting showman

I've enjoyed reading this thread as I've owned and enjoyed a few US Stingrays over the years; 2 USA subs and 5 USA rays, nothing newer than '07. My most ornate, and the one I wish I still had for nostalgia, was a maple neck blue burst 2 eq from '94. Lovely object and really harked back to impoverished late '80s music shop window shopping. Contrary to opinion, and this could be more due to a defect in my playing, that '94 sounded the worst in my hands out of all that I owned. The US sub 2 eqs sounded good ( rw board) and in general the best in my hands were the 3eq rosewood board rays...I.e totally opposite of what is usually the archetypal maple neck 2eq. Some basses I seem to drag a nasal quality out of sometimes unfortunately. Great fun to play though, I never experienced the weak G either. I just had a look on the Bass Bros site; a good mix on there from EXs that look great through to pre EBs. Prices looked representative and reasonable from a quick glance.

Nice bass. The only basses I now own are Tribute Fallouts; one with LaBella flats and one with bright d'addario nickel rounds. One that goes thud and one that's growly. Re gig bag; it's dead basic but I found the Fender FBSS 610 fits a Fallout ok. I'd be interested to know if a better quality bag is out there though of a similar size. I think a Fallout is 111cm long. I'm using a mid priced full scale Gator double gig bag for my two.

https://share.google/U5owh09omz454e5Sk Not sure if that attached OK but there's a 1995 Fender custom shop Rumble head in Stoke, relatively cheap for a 300 watt valve head. I believe these had cooling problems but that may be a few modifications away for someone in the know. Interesting amp if it's your thing anyway.

This is light hearted, and as we're all just playing it doesn't take into account foreign regimes, imperialist land grabbing etc. A bigger obstacle is how skint I am regarding buying new musical gear. As my tastes are firmly stuck in the past: Fender doing a new range of USA made p bass/ j basses with the Fullerton shaped headstock. They would come in a few different custom colours ( they'd need to dust off an old '70s catalogue and look at the back page) per calendar year; I.e LPB alongside say black, white , sunburst and maybe an international series colour like cherry burst or orange for example. The non black / white / burst colours change every year. For about £1500, just a dead basic '70s copy, like a well made s/h one.

I can't be of much use but I'm ditching a very strong gig bag if you need it for packaging. I'm in Lichfield btw

Protection racket 7051 bass gig bag. Zip works after a fashion, handles likewise. Completely un-sellable as it's got major issues. Ideal for in house bass storage or for part of the packaging to transport a bass in a sale dispatch. Free to collect from Lichfield, Staffordshire. I couldn't bear the rigmarole of couriers, packaging etc

Andrew Bodnar RIP continued

Andrew Bodnar RIP, great player

Gallien krueger 800rb reissue but mono without the biamp feature, with speakon outputs.

Definitely agree re sound; when one of the guitar players in the band I'm in bought a bass IV, switching to a Fallout bass solved a lot of problems. I'd been using a very nice P bass up to then but the Fallout sounding so even across the board, ( particularly played high up the dusty end) it really sat in the spectrum below the bass IV without competing for the same space. I marvel sometimes how 2 30 inch scale basses ( admittedly one into a guitar rig, one into a bass amp setup) can separate out so well. The Fallout is capable of being physically an octave above the bass IV yet feeling much deeper. It didn't work like that with the Precision. All very subjective and unique to that band situation obviously.

still sounds new to me 40 years on