Roger2611

Mrs 2611 "surprised" me with another 2 sets of Elite strings....I say surprised as I brought them a couple of months back so I knew I would get what I wanted!

Apparently T and P come up next to each other on a phone, so it could be a typo. My sister in law advises me that if you program enough swear words into the phone predictive text may even pop it in there for you! Ahh technology!

Hi all, merry Christmas. My Christmas project is to build a replica of Andy's famous Jazz Bass, I can see it is a CBS era bass in Grey so I assume it has been painted as I have never come across a grey Jazz before, I have had a look on line and can find a few photos but can find absolutely no information on the bass at all other than it being strung upside down. Anyone know anything about the bass and its history? Cheers Rog

Blitzkrieg Bop for sure

And it's in Gold......I think it;s a genuine 52 Gold top, you might get a bargain there......or maybe not!

Glam for me was New York Dolls, Bowie, Sweet etc. Bands like Motley Crew were glam metal then Lords of The New Church were sort of Glam Goth. An earlier post mentioned Slammer as a thrash band, I worked doing sound for a band called Metal Messiah back at the time they supported Slammer on a couple of occasions Sheffield Uni was a gig I remember especially well

Ex hair metal these days

Glam all day, can't do thrash

[i] don't think he has massively overpriced it considering its alleged provenance, a new one is over a £1000.00, yeah he might be chancing it a little but I have seen far worse chancers....ohh my font has gone all slopey! [/i]

Cheers I have put both on record, that will make fine viewing Christmas Day night with a nice bottle of red to hand!

Look come on guys, he said he wanted it to slip away to avoid embarrassment, and now people keep bumping it back up to the top....no consideration at all

I only tend to play Simple Mind's "Someone, Somewhere in Summertime" in the summer as it doesn't feel right listening to it in the winter.....but I am not sure this contributes much to the conversation!

If you can find a Japanese Precision Lyte for around that price I think you will be seriously impressed, they are really light, great fast necks and sound great. This is on Evilbay at the moment (I am not connected to the seller is any way but this is the same as mine and in a nicer colour) I think it's a reasonable price as well http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-Lite-/321953261075?hash=item4af5e8e613:g:kmMAAOSwHjNWA8q8

It's funny it seems most were either pushed into it as there was no one else wanting to play bass or ended up doing it because there was already a guitarist, I was totally the opposite, I started on guitar because I couldn't find a bass I could afford, I spent two years playing the guitar (a £25.00 Satellite Strat copy) before I found a £50.00 un-named Precision, the rest....they say, is history!

I had one in Green brought it brand new some years back, unfortunately I could never get on with the fretted necks on Bass Collections, I always found I tended to kick the G string off the fretboard.....probably my technique more than the bass. I am always on the lookout for my 602 fretless coming back up for sale...that is my biggest sale regret!

I wanted to be Sid Vicious....for some strange reason back then!

Ahh just seen the additional photos, the body is definitely wrong if the neck is correct as a 62 reissue, unless someone has heavily modified the body, the bridge is wrong, the extra pickup is wrong, the jack in the body is wrong as is the extra control on the scratchplate. I am wondering if that may be a more recent Squier body?

It looks ok to me, certainly the neck looks genuine, not 100% sure about the body but I wouldn't put my mortgage on it being a fake, the Fralin pickups are excellent and IMO better than the standard Fender one, I would be a little suspicious over the pots and pickguard as I would expect the control area to have some shielding...but again that is only from my experience of P basses and I have never owned a Jap 62 reissue! A good few Fenders have different holes in the scratchplates / bodies that don't make a lot of sense, my 50's classic has holes in the scratchplate but not in the body, my 50's classic roadworn has holes by the bridge for a cover but doesn't come with them as standard! If you like it then it's a good one if you don't, sell it on

He's an amateur, that's definitely restorable, the roof is still attached to the body and it still looks like a Ford Anglia....I have seen far worse offered under the guise of brave restoration project!

As others have already said the DI box is usually the favoured route, when I record at home it is via an Ampeg B1 line out with excellent results, I do have a Red Audio condenser mike that has a roll off switch that removes the lowest end rumble that spoils a recording, it works well with guitar recording and reviews suggest it should be ok with the bass as well

As others have said I don't think a good covers band can be tied to one style, the band I used to play with started as a pop punk / indie band but brought in songs way outside of that limited genre, some that I really didn't care for but you have to give them a go and if they are well received by landlords and their punters they are the right songs to be playing, in a night we would end up playing stuff from the 50's 60's 70's 80's 90's and however you write the decades that came afterwards!

My 50's classic (my avatar).....simple really, I didn't like the look of it all black and gold and flashy, it was too expensive, and I had just brought my first 79 Precision, the guy in the shop said "try it" I said "No" he said "it plays brilliantly just give it a try I am interested in what you thin k of it" so I played it...was totally blown away by the way it played.....said" yeah it's great but I still don't like the look of it" got in my car drove round the block walked back in and brought the damn thing! I got rid of the gold pick guard and the pickup and the bridge and the tuners, err and the wiring and neck plate! but the neck / body combination is still the best Precision available anywhere in the world...ever.....maybe!

It's actually pretty close to what Rory Gallaher's Strat looked like, he was renown for having horrendous acid sweat which ate away at the finishes and hardware

To me it looks like the mould is still very present, I assume whoever supplied the material for the body must have had a dreadful cold at the time!