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Curve fans might be interested to know that Dean's current band Spc Eco still features his distinctive bass playing. Much as I loved Curve, I actually prefer Spc Eco.

Cocteau Twins Boards Of Canada The Chameleons Big Star The Posies Teenage Fanclub Besnard Lakes Black Mountain Slowdive Lucky Spc Eco

Looks like it may have a goldfoil in the bridge position. These are quite sought after these days, especially by slide players. I think it looks quite cool.

Teenage Fanclub at The Junction, Cambridge, 30/11/16.

On the JM and Jag, the upper slide switch engages the "rhythm circuit" on the neck pickup. This has its own volume and tone control, which are the two roller wheels you can see next to it. It's much darker than the standard neck pickup sound, but I've found it useful at times. These controls are independent of the main tone and volume knobs. On the Jaguar, the three lower switches are, from left-right: Strangle Switch (it's a high-pass filter, which takes out a fair chunk of the bottom-end); bridge pickup on/off; neck pickup on/off. I have a few more Fender offsets. There's a couple of Japanese Jazzmasters, a Pawnshop Bass VI and a '65 Electric XII. Oh, and a Jazz Bass! Guess what colour that is....

My first bass was a '74 Fender Precision. I wanted a bass (I was a guitar player first, sorry!) , went down to my local music shop (WAM Music in St Neots) and they had the Precision for £135. That would have been '84/'85. I still have it and wouldn't ever part with it, as it plays and sounds great.

I'm using Fat Beams on my 4001 and they're my favourite strings I've tried so far.

I picked this up the other day: It's a 2008 Fender "thin skin" AVRI Jaguar. I've wanted a Jag for ages, but somehow kept buying Jazzmasters instead. Anyway, I had some cash burning a hole in my pocket and then this turned up locally. The thin skins are pretty rare. I've read in a couple of places that only 25 of each colour were made. This particular Jag has a Staytrem bridge added, which is very nicely made and works very well. I suspect I will end up replacing the bridges on my Jazzmasters with them too. The scratchplate is by Spitfire and is just stunning in the flesh. The guy at Spitfire is the only one IMO who manages to do tortoiseshell as good as the vintage stuff. Why the Fender Custom Shop doesn't use his work is beyond me. It's interesting that the Jag that came up was in Daphne Blue, as my think skin Jazzmaster is also Daphne Blue! Well, that's one more Fender offset crossed off the list. What I'd like next is a Custom/Maverick, but the chance of finding one are pretty remote, especially at a reasonable price. I did happen to chance upon one in Peterborough, back in either '91 or '92 and it was £495. I'd just bought two Rickenbackers and was totally skint. I really wanted it and have regretted not selling any family members for medical experiments ever since!

Sounds like an OTA phaser, and a nice one at that. At last count, I had sixteen phaser pedals. I'm a bit of a fan!

The price of Japanese Jaguars and Jazzmasters is getting silly at the moment, with people asking anywhere between £650-£950, though unsurprisingly, they don't seem to be actually selling. I wouldn't pay over £550 unless you absolutely *have* to get that particular rare colour.

I tend to use either a Boss CE-20 or an old EHX Clone Theory, depending on mood.

Elizabeth Fraser.

Since I love these albums the same, I'll have to include both. Treasure and Victorialand by Cocteau Twins. They're my favourite albums of all time, by the way.

Subterraneans.

There's a very good comparison between the Mk III Odyssey and the new Korg one, done by Dave Spiers of GForce (who make the Oddity 2 soft synth). IIRC the ring modulator is totally different, if that matters. https://youtu.be/qBxhOXFrvrI and an Octave Cat demo. https://youtu.be/77s3bcjO4kU BTW, I reckon the Oddity 2 is amazing. Bags of character and very flexible. And polyphonic.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1441040410' post='2855578'] The Chameleons Script of the Bridge is an excellent album, the Chameleons were a very overlooked band in general and inspired many bands that came after them [/quote] ^ This. One of the greatest debut albums of all time, IMO.

The SE70 is probably my favourite multi effect unit. The front-end (overdrive/distortion/fuzz, etc) is analogue and the modulation and delays are outstanding. I ended up with two of them. The SE50 is nice, but the '70 is definitely superior.

I've listened to at least part of the Eno/Budd albums Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl every day since 1984! Despite being very sparse instrumentally, I'm still finding new things in there. Otherwise, I'd suggest #1 Record by Big Star. Criminally ignored at the time, but massively influential all the same.

Here ya go! As you can see. there's a non-original pickup in there and one is missing. The missing one is around somewhere, for some reason I just haven't got around to re-fitting it. I'm still on the lookout for a replacement pickup for the non-original one. The knobs aren't original. They're actually from a cooker! I think I still have the originals and really ought to put them back on.

It's a Kawai S170, circa '63-'67 I believe. It has a pickup missing and a neck like a 4x2, but it sounds amazing.

I consider myself equally at home on guitar or bass these days. I started off as a guitar player and ended up playing bass basically (sorry) because someone had to! Anyway, guitars. Plus a First Act guitar i bought for twenty quid. That lives in the shed and is used to test the pedals I make. You could say I have a few!

Tort is always the right answer!

Current setup: Signal chain is guitar- Korg Pitchblack tuner- DOD FX-80b compressor- Ernie Ball VP Jr. volume pedal- Merlin Overdrive (DIY Catalinbread Supercharged Overdrive clone)- DIY Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret Mk II overdrive clone- DIY Subdecay Liquid Sunshine Mk II clone- MXR Phase 100 modified to 'script' spec- Boss BF-2 flanger- Boss CE-3 stereo chorus- (stereo from this point onwards)- Line 6 Echo Park- Hardwire DL-8 delay/looper- Zoom CDR-70- Hardwire RV-7 reverb- Behringer RV600 reverb- amps. At some point I will modify the board so the power supply fits underneath (it's quite a beast!) to fee up more room. I'd like to add a few more pedals from the collection, including a Boss HF-2 Hi-Band Flanger, Ibanez PT-9 phaser,a DIY Muff of some description and most likely a DIY Green/Matamp amp-in-a-box. The chorus position gets changed quite a lot, with an Ibanez BCL Bi-Chorus or Behringer CC300 (Boss DC-2 clone) being the usual substitutions. I may well replace them with a DIY modified Hollis Zombie Chorus (with switchable vibrato and stereo outputs) as it's a nice sounding, versatile pedal. I may well replace the FX-80b with a DIY opto-compressor, as I'm a big fan of optos.

So many! Born To Go (probably the first song I learnt to play), Lord Of Light, Brainstorm, Down Throigh The Night, Space Is Deep, Orgone Accumulator, It's So Easy (though you'd need the Mellotron!), Assault And Battery/Golden Void, High Rise (lovely bassline on that), Robot, 25 Years, I could go on! And a shout-out for Spiral Galaxy 28948.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1393281279' post='2378339'] The latest edition, and finally after wanting a Ric for years. [/quote]Azureglo? I've always wanted one in this colour since seeing one in Charing Cross Road many, many years ago. 'Tis a thing of beauty!