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[quote name='Evil Undead' post='1225668' date='May 9 2011, 10:45 PM']But answer me this? Am I a snob for not being keen to gig with a Squier logo on my headstock?[/quote] Nobody will look at the logo on your headstock. FWIW I did about 30 gigs in the last year with a standard Squier Jazz that I bought used for £100 on here, nobody ever batted an eyelid. I keep thinking I should replace the pickups because they are pretty rubbish but I am happy enough with the neck on it.

I suppose you get the chance to play it before you buy it, unless you order it, then you don't. And if you buy used you can try it if you buy it from someone local, so... I'm struggling here. I only ever bought one bass new.

[quote name='Wil' post='1224965' date='May 9 2011, 12:11 PM'][/quote] I don't like Laklands usually but that is a pretty bass.

Get your bass in tune and then just glue the tuners in that position. Don't listen to the people saying you should tune up mid-set, you would look stupid giving your bass to the guitarist mid-set.

Bands that are keen to improve, not just happy to slog out their tunes every gig the same as the last. And clever songwriting. And people I can get along with, no dramas.

Nice one man. I'm thinking about moving on from my current band at the moment, last week I was depressed at the idea of having to start from scratch finding musicians again but now I'm just excited about writing new material and working with new people.

I sold each of mine for £25 IIRC. I wouldn't get one from the USA - you will at least have to pay a handling fee to Parcelfarce which IIRC will be about a tenner, then you might get stung for VAT too. It's only really worth importing more valuable stuff from the states.

A few ounces? Under half a kilo packaged up, I've mailed two of them (one NYC reissue, one Nano).

I don't have anything as interesting as your Washburn. I did have a USA Fender Jazz for a while (it was a 22-fret 'boner' one) that ended up in a similar shape but I didn't abuse it, it was just a sh*t bass.

Doesn't anyone make a wheel with a brake? One of those stompy brakes you get on wheelchairs and posh supermarket trolleys would be grand.

Nice one man. I've been gigging a cheaper bass than that for the last year, there are some good cheap basses around these days especially those Squiers.

The envelope filters in the M9 are frustrating - no sensitivity control on any of them. Don't buy it for the filters. It's useful for delays, pitch shifting, digital sort of stuff, the dirt in there is pretty good too, generally. There's not a massive choice of modulation effects though, and the effects that are there often seem a bit too... specific. They aim to capture the character of well-known effects but you might not find a good generic effect in amongst the historic models.

[quote name='Fat Rich' post='1220702' date='May 5 2011, 10:08 AM']It looks like the answer to "What are really unfashionable at the moment?" is...... Status players Thanks guys! [/quote] Don't feel bad man I play a Warwick and they're not cool either. Not as heinously square as a Status naturally, but... Sorry again.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1220689' date='May 5 2011, 10:01 AM']On the face of it - because MK is so prominent in their roster and synonymous with the brand - people might typecast the brand as being solely for 40 something, cardigan-wearing thwackity thwackity slap brigade.[/quote] Cool people don't play Status basses and have never played Status basses, that's their problem. Even when Mark King was nearly cool in the '80s he didn't play Status basses, he switched to them afterwards! Until someone undeniably cool is strongly associated with a Status bass they'll always be expensive mid-life-crisis basses.

[quote name='Shambo' post='1220518' date='May 5 2011, 02:48 AM']Series switch?[/quote] I did that, but of course you lose the sound of a single soloed pickup at the same time as losing the buzz. The series sound is a good, beefy, useful sound, but it's a different sound.

I use flats on my Jazz for my ska/rocksteady band, kills 99% of all known harmonics dead.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1220121' date='May 4 2011, 06:28 PM']And hip hop in Jazz is cool if it comes off. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfnR0v0AxDY&feature=related"]Kenny Garrett - Happy People[/url][/quote] I got three minutes in and it was still just constant sax blues licks with no end in sight, so I gave up. I've never met a sax player I liked.

[quote name='tauzero' post='1219872' date='May 4 2011, 02:04 PM']Mid-80s. Think [url="http://clutterbuck.urbanup.com/5675255"]clutterbuckery[/url]. Sadly, the fashionable phase didn't last long enough to create a vast reservoir of unfashionable headless basses, and preceded any 5-string fashionableness as well.[/quote] Ah, I didn't start playing until 1989. I never knew anyone young at that time who had, or wanted, a Status bass. So yeah the fashionable period must've been short.

[quote name='Fat Rich' post='1219588' date='May 4 2011, 10:17 AM']It'll be interesting to see if Chris Wotsisname from Muse will make Status fashionable again.....[/quote] When were they ever fashionable?

Warwicks as usual, Sandbergs are also not holding their value very well, not sure if that's a fashion thing or just that their brand hasn't been well received. Is it something about German basses?