great harry

Should be arriving by the middle of next week. Gonna be a long few days. I will have to check when the neighbours are out. Cranking it up sounds good!

Can't wait. I have been watching review videos and drooling over ads for too long.

Took the plunge and ordered the Fender Modern Player Jazz Bass from Dawsons together with a Rumble 30 amp. Can't wait to get hold of it and annoy...er...entertain my neighbours. It's ok I've got headphones too. Neighbour wars is the last thing I want in my mellowing years. Decided not to wait unt I sell the boat and got it on finance.

Still haven't got my bass yet. Decided to wait until I sell the boat. It's been advertised for a month but only one persons had a look yet. I might get a Fender Modern Player Telecaster Bass. It just looks so good. Still haven't decided on make or power of the amp yet. It has to be quite compact to fit in my compact cottage.

Hi Alex, I stumbled in here on Sunday as well and can't find my way out. The other inmates keep putting thoughts in head and tempting me with something called GAS., which I believe is an incurable addiction which will ruin my life. I hope you are stronger willed than me. Damon

How did this thread get smutty? In-discreet I think.

I was still awake from last night. And I was at a meeting with a client at 9.30 and I've git the flu (its ok I wipe the keyboard with a fertile wipe everytime I post). I must say that I am irresistibly drawn to Antiques Roadshow. What is it about newsreaders now? I never had the same feelings for Michael Aspel or Richard Baker. Or Angela Rippon for that matter.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1357609154' post='1925428'] Is that a euphemism? [/quote] Well, I did say I have teenage pretensions. But now Debbie Harry is starring in Wonga ads I will have to find a new fantasy figure.

About £17k. She wants a new kitchen as well. It's a difficult one though. I use the boat a lot for fishing with my mates. It's just so expensive to run. On top of that my business is going through a quiet patch so money is tight. I might have to drop the price a bit which would be gutting as its a great little vessel and fast too.

Dad3353, I appreciate your attempts to save me from my chosen path, but I think you are too late . I feel I am doomed to spend eternity propping up the ego trippers from the bottom.. I am even seriously considering flogging my boat to get some decent gear. And I love my boat!

Thanks for the welcome Spacechick. It is becoming apparent to me that this affliction of mine is not only very common but something to embrace and go with. Just need to get the gear now.

Just had a look at my bank account online and got a nasty shock (gulp) . It looks like it will be a month or two before I can take the plunge. Never mind it means I can have a bit mire fun looking at and trying out instruments. I think I saw a forum thread saying that Harley Benton guitars might be from the same Chinese factory as SX basses. In which case I might be tempted to go for a package for Thomann. Whatever I end uo getting I will give a little review of it from the perspective of a returning novice punk folker.

Hi Bass Tractor, I haven't tried the Yamaha yet. I think that goes for around the same price doesnt it? As does the Ibanez GRS200. I might have to give them a go. I have seen a few you tube videos of the Yamaha and I quite liked what I heard, so I might have to look into that. I will check out the Harley Benton. Are they a good brand? I have not heard of them. 35W sounds good for £69.00 though. I am going to Bexleyheath tomorrow. I might pop into the music shop there and see if they have got the Yamaha RBX-170.

Thank you for the welcome. This cuckoo's nest is starting to feel cosy already. Thank you for the advice Leen. I take it this isn't curable then. I cant see me needing or being able to afford a gigging amp for a while. The ceilidh band has 75 Watt Fender bass amp, which I can use for gigging anyway. The Laney / SX combination sounded very nice in the shop. One thing that I have noticed looking around the net, is that there are so many resources available to players which were hard to come by in the days of Punk Folk. I think relearning is going to be mucgh easier than learning was. I was taught by a classical bassist which meant endless hours of scales. I suppose that won't change if I really want to get proficient again.

As a teenager I used to play bass in a punk folk band. " A WHAT???" I am glad you asked and you are right, such a thing should never have existed. Two very respectable genres that dont mix very well. Call it experimental. It was 1976, Punk was new and well someone had to try. My first bass was bought for £17.00 from a junk shop in 1973. It was a Hofner 500/3. To me it was a tired old dinosaur from a bygone age that I had nothing in common with. Imagine my shock when I googled it recently and saw an identical one up for £950.00. I swapped it in 1975 for a rather neat looking Welson Violin Bass. It was a nice guitar and played well, but it wasnt the precision or rickenbacker 4001 that I hankered after. I flogged that in 76 for £ 40.00 (wayhay £23.00 profit :-)), in order to go on holiday, thinking, oh well I will just buy another one when I get back. Oh the folly of youth. [b]Fast forward to December 2012.[/b] I find I am listening and humming along to the bassline of every tune I listen to and am looking at bass guitar adverts online. 2nd January 2013 and I walk into my local music store pick up an SX FP62 Precision and am amazed how comfortable it feels in my hands. The shopkeeper plugs it into an amp and says have a go. "I dont know anything I say". [b]Fast forward 5 seconds [/b] And I am running through a 12 bar blues without having any idea what notes I am playing or what is actually controlling my actions. It was the first time I had picked up a bass guitar in 36 years! I have some questions 1. Is this form of madness curable? 2. I thought not. Where can I get an SX precision where I can buy it on hp (spent too much at Christmas)? It came across as a very good bit of kit and at £ 189.00 seems like a bargain. None of the online stores in the uk seem to stock it. In fact, my local shop is the only place I have come across it over here. In the US it is extremely popular according to the forums over there. Alder body, great finish, no belmishes wonky screws or filled gaps. Looked as good as a real Fender he had in the shop and sounded great. 3. Is the Squier Affinity P bass as good (budget up to £200.00 if I am lucky)? 4. What about the Epiphone Thunderbird IV or EB-3 ( I understand they are both poorly balanced guitars)? 5. Is the Laney RB1 15 Watt practice amp as good as I think it is (Which is good enough)? 6. Does this age regression thing mean that someone will be changing my nappy in 15 years? I want to play Punk Folk (joking), 60's and 70's rock from the Beatles and Kinks through to the Stranglers and just about anything in between. I might try some of that new fangled Oasis, REM and Pulp type stuff from the 90's as well. Gigging if it ever happens will probably be restricted to playinjg the bottom end of an, English music only, Ceilidh band (all of my brothers and my neice are in it so at 54 I should be thinking of toeing the family line), Unless I can find some other old gits to form a retro band with. Thank you for reading that. I hope you don't resent me for wasting 5 minutes of your time. Cheers Damon