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MySpace friends with Same Difference eh? Have you met them in real life? Do they ever stop smiling

As someone who's more than double his 21st birthday and, assuming you genuinely want something you'll hang on to for a very long time, then I'd go for an American Standard. Pure classic lines and unlikely to go out of fashion - especially if you buy a simple traditional colour. If you decide to mod it then you could always make sure everything is retro-fittable. The fact that it has a lower start price means a) you'll feel less likely to trade it on a whim & it'll be easier to sell if you ever do have to move it on. However - if you just want the best bass you can afford in today's market and don't want something to keep for ages then shop around & consider all the great jazz style basses out there. I have a Sadowsky & Lakland & rate them very highly. Both relatively easy to trade onwards if needed.

[quote name='Monz' post='314621' date='Oct 25 2008, 04:58 PM'][attachment=15169:12710.jpg] I have the planet waves pedal tuner... got to be the easiest to use that I have tried. Sweep or Strobe mode. True bypass and big easy to read digits... not the cheapest out there at £60 ish... got mine from PMT/Sound Control[/quote] I have two of these - one for home & one for rehearsal / live work. Biggest selling point for me is the super clear readout, you can see through the heaviest fog of dry ice

I'm sure I've seen this before but a quick hunt round the usual suspects online & I can't find it anywhere?

For a short period I owned one of each but becuase they were stored at two different venues over 50 miles apart I never got to play them back to back. Spent more time with the JO and got a pretty good feel for the sound of it. Mine was fitted with Fralin pickups and a J-Retro active pre. My DJ has a set of Aero pickups and stock passive Lakland pre. Having now sold the JO & bought the DJ home I'm really surprised at quite how different they sound. Obviously there's more to it than the basses themselves as they different pickups & pre controls & active vs passive. I'm struggling a bit to get a sound I like out of the DJ whilst the JO sounded really nice right across the board. The DJ with bridge pickup only and tone on full is my favourite sound but I'm not at all sure about the neck pickup or blended sounds. To add a bit of additional perspective to this I generally tend to keep pickups pretty evenly balanced on my basses & have never really biased towards the bridge. I'm also usually an 'active' player rather than passive so maybe it's just been a long time since I've heard a full on passive neck pickup sound! Maybe I should think about installing something active? I wouldn't need something as flexible as the East though, maybe an Aguilar?

Jamerson will always be first for me - one of the few that I can listen purely to the bass without any other instrumentation at all. Rocco Prestia is my favourite live bass man - I could watch him all evening. Third place is tougher - gotta be somewhere between Stanley & Bootzilla, again, both can be great live (although Stan has lost his 'edge' these days i think)

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='314338' date='Oct 25 2008, 08:25 AM']Thats not just a bass player in the prince vid - thats Larry f***ing Graham!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote] I thought he seemed quite good

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='314345' date='Oct 25 2008, 08:46 AM']That tash is awesome[/quote] That's what I thought, the first time I tried to find a pic of Moon basses all I came up with was Larry Graham but this guy's tash swung it for me

[quote name='d-basser' post='314295' date='Oct 25 2008, 12:39 AM']looks a bit like a Moon...JJ4...maybe[/quote] Good shout - bit like one of these:

I used to double some of the guitar parts but as the keys are doing a fair bit of that I try to play it really simple now - in fact I try to play s little as possible. Seems to be one of those 'less is more' kinda songs to me

On again later tonight - BBC4 repeat everything I'm recording it overnight - I do like Beck but I find watching him on Sky+ is a bit of a bonus as I can zap past the bits when I get a bit bored

Just been listening / watching some Prince & found this live version of Purple Rain & couldn't work out what bass his player had? [url="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=27695321"]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoid=27695321[/url] It looks like a slimmed down Jazz body but with an angled neck pickup. Not really in shot much but if you wind up to about 10 mins 45 secs theers one decent view of it then. Looks kinda cool to me And I love this song by the way

[quote name='Sean.Robinson' post='313368' date='Oct 23 2008, 10:14 PM']Hi, no i havnt yet, though like all bass shops ive just assumed theyd offer me an insultingly low price for it, has anyone had experience with them in selling a bass to them?[/quote] I sold a bass through them - they took it on a commission basis so there was some incentive to get a decent price for it. I pretty much got my asking price and they took what I thought was a fair commission off the top for organising & taking a credit card on my behalf