Lasermonkey

I bought another guitar this weekend! [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/lasermonkey/image_zpsb7a71f99.jpg[/IMG] Still wanting a Jazz and a Jaguar though!

The serial no. is T002848, which apparently dates it from '94/95 and was made in the Fuji factory. My other MIJ Jazzmaster is from 1986, the first year of production for Japanese Jazzmasters. What's different about the Q series?

On the way to the dentist the other day, I popped into Cash Converters, just to seeif they had anything interesting. There was a red Jazzmaster in the shop window. It looked nice, but I thought it might have been a Blacktop, which wouldn't have been of real interest to me. Once I got home, I started having doubts that is was a Blacktop, and a bit of googling confirmed it must be a CIJ. I went back yesterday and after a bit if haggling, it was mine. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/lasermonkey/image_zpsb7a71f99.jpg[/IMG] I'm going to swap the black scratchplate for a tort one, the (very) white pup covers for aged ones and get some white witch hat knobs. Ultimately, I think I might get some Novak Gold Foils for it too. So, that's Jazzmaster no. three then!

3Leaf Audio Groove Regulator - 7 Adrenalinn II - 1 Aguilar Agro - 2 Aguilar Octamizer - 1 Akai Unibass - 2 Amptweaker Bass TightDrive - 1 AMT Slap Bass -1 Aphex Punch Factory - 1 Arion SFL-1 Stereo Flanger- 1 Arion SPH-1 Stereo Phaser- 1 Ashdown BassOmeter - 1 Ashdown Chorus - 1 Ashdown Drive Plus - 2 Asdown dual band compressor - 2 Ashdown Lomenzo Hyperdrive - 1 Ashdown sub octave plus - 1 Baja Opto-limiter (DIY)-1 Barber TonePress Parallel Compressor - 1 Barge Concepts VFB-2 - 2 Behringer BDI21 - 3 Behringer chorus - 1 Behringer RV600 Reverb- 1 Behringer UV300 Vibrato- 1 Boomstick Bottom Feeder - 1 Boss BE-5B bass multi fx - 1 Boss BF-2 Flanger - 1 Boss BF-3 - 1 Boss BF-2b - 1 Boss CE-2 - 3 Boss CE-2b - 1 Boss CE-20 Chorus -1 Boss CE-3 Chorus -1 Boss CE-5 - 1 Boss CEB3 - 5 Boss CS-3 - 1 Boss DC-3 Digital Dimension -1 Boss DD-20 - 3 Boss DS-1 - 2 Boss FT-2 - 1 Boss FV-60 - 1 Boss GE7B - 2 Boss GEB7 - 1 Boss HF-2 Hi-Band Flanger -1 Boss HM-2 - 1 Boss LMB-3 - 1 Boss LS-2 - 10 Boss MD-2 - 1 Boss ME-50B - 1 Boss ME-8B - 1 Boss MT-2 - 1 Boss MZ-2 - 1 Boss NS-1 - 2 Boss OC-2 - 13 Boss OC-3 - 1 Boss ODB-3 - 9 Boss PH-1r - 2 Boss PH-2 - 1 Boss PQ-3b - 1 Boss PS-3 - 2 Boss PS-5 - 1 Boss PW-10 - 1 Boss SD-1 - 1 Boss SD-2 - 1 Boss SL-20 -2 Boss SYB 3 - 2 Boss SYB 5 - 1 Boss TU2 - 17 Boss TU3 - 3 Boss TU-12H - 2 Boss chorus ensemble CE-5 - 2 Bugbrand Bugcrusher - 1 Carlsbro Flanger -1 Carlsbro Phase 2 -1 Catalinbread DLS Mk I (clone)-1 Catalinbread Formula No.5 (clone)-1 Catalinbread HyperPak (clone)-1 Catalinbread SFT (clone) - 3 Catalinbread Teaser Stallion - 1 Chord CH-50 Chorus -1 Chord PH-50 Phaser -1 Chunk Systems Octavius Squeezer - 1 Clay Jones Overdrive (clone)-1 Crowther Hotcake (clone, 1977 version)-1 Crowther Hotcake (clone, 2003 version) -1 Crowther Audio Prunes & Custard - 1 Coloursound Swell -1 D*A*M 1966 fuzz (clone)-1 D*A*M Drag'nfly fuzz (clone) -1 D*A*M Ezekiel 25:17 bass overdrive/distortion (clone)-1 D*A*M Fleshhead fuzz (clone)-1 D*A*M FZ-673 fuzz (clone)-1 D*A*M Grease Box (clone)-1 D*A*M Meathead Deluxe fuzz (clone)-1 D*A*M Meathead Deluxe Dark Silicon fuzz (clone)-1 D*A*M Red Rooster treble boost (clone)-1 D*A*M Sonic Titan distortion (clone)-1 Danelectro Chili Dog - 1 Danelectro French Toast - 2 Daphon E20CL compressor-1 Daphon E20DL delay-1 Demeter Opto Comp - 2 Devi Ever Aenima (clone)-1 Devi Ever Hyperion - 1 Devi Ever Cherry Pop - 1 Devi Ever SodaMeiser - 2 Digital Labs MD1 - 1 Digitech Bad Monkey - 3 Digitech Bass Synth Wah - 1 Digitech Whammy - 5 DOD FX-25 B - 1 DOD FX-80B compressor-1 DOD 250 - 1 Dunlop Bass Cry Baby - 4 DHA VT1-drive-eq 1 DHA VT2 - 3 Earthbound Supercollider (clone)-1 EBS Octabass - 3 EBS Multicomp - 6 EBS Dynaverb - 2 EBS Unichorus - 2 EBS IQ - 1 EHX Memory Man with Hazarai - 2 EHX Bass Balls - 1 EHX Bass Big Muff - 5 EHX Bass Metaphors - 2 EHX Bass Micro Synth - 4 EHX Big Muff Pi (Black Russian) - 3 EHX Big Muff Pi (Green Russian) - 1 EHX Big Muff 1978 IC (clone)-1 EHX Clone Theory - 2 EHX HOG - 1 EHX LPB-1 - 1 EHX Octave Multiplexer - 2 EHX POG2 - 1 EHX Small Clone - 1 EHX Small Stone Nano - 2 EHX Small Stone (Black Russian) - 1 EHX Qtron - 1 EHX Qtron+ - 3 Exar PigNose - 1 Ernie Ball VP-Jr - 2 Fender Blender (clone)-1 Fishman Platinum Pro EQ -1 Forced Fire Modulus Magnus delay/modulation-1 Frequency Central Causality Phaser-1 Frequency Central Phase Evolution-1 Frequency Central Phase Revolution-1 FuzzHugger ABsynth - 1 Fulltone Bass-Drive Mosfet - 1 Fulltone OCD V,4 (clone)-1 Guyatone MD-3 delay - 1 Guyatone PS-3 Phase Shifter - 1 Hardwire CM-2 - 1 HBE Psilocybe -1 Ibanez BCL Bi-Chorus-1 Ibanez FLL Flanger-1 Ibanez PD7 Phat-Hed Bass Overdrive - 3 Ibanez PM-7 Phase Modulator-1 Ibanez PT-9 Phaser-1 Ibanez SB 7 - 1 Ibanez SD-9 Sonic Distortion-1 Ibanez Soundtank Super Chorus - 1 Ibanez TS-7 Tube Screamer-1 Ibanez WD7 Weeping Demon - 1 Interfax Harmonic Percolator (clone)-1 ISP Decimator - 2 Klon Centaur (clone)-1 Korg DT-10 - 2 Korg Pitchblack - 7 Janglebox compressor (clone)-1 Jen Cry Baby-1 Line 6 M9 - 2 Line 6 Bass Pod XT Live - 1 Line 6 DL4 - 3 Line6 FM4 - 1 Line6 Echopark - 3 Lovepedal Eternity (clone)-1 Lovepedal Purple Plexi 800 (clone)-1 Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay (clone)-1 Maestro Brassmaster (clone) -1 MarkBass Compressore - 2 MarkBass Super Synth - 1 Marshall Guv'nor (MK1) - 1 Marshall Jackhammer - 3 Marshall Echohead - 1 Marshall Regenerator - 1 Maxon CP9+ - 1 Mellowtone Clean Chan Dirty Chan - 1 Mictester Opto Compressor (DIY)-1 Mictester Silicon Tonebender (DIY)-1 Moen Buffalo - 1 Mojo Hand Cream Pie - 1 Monolith Oracle fuzz (clone, modified) -1 Mooer Green Mile -1 Mooer Pure Boost - 1 Moog MF-101 - 3 Moog MF-102 - 1 Moog MF-105b - 2 Moog MF-107 - 2 Moog MP-201 - 1 Mr Zinky Master Blaster - 1 MXR Bass Octave Deluxe - 2 MXR Blowtorch - 4 MXR El Grande Bass Fuzz -1 MXR M-80 DI+ - 9 MXR M-87 Bass Compressor - 1 MXR M-143 Limiter MXR Phase 90 (clone, modified)-1 MXR Super Comp - 1 Nobels PHD Phaser-1 Palmer Deepressor - 1 Pearl DS06 Distortion-1 Pearl OD-05 - 1 Pearl PH03 Phaser-1 Penny Pedals Fingerprint (clone)-1 Peterson StroboStomp 1 - 1 ProCo Rat (clone, heavily modified)-1 ProCo Tubro Rat - 2 Radial Bassbone - 3 Radial bishot io - 2 Retro Channel The Fuzz (clone, modified)-1 Rocktron Cyborg Reverb - 1 Runoffgroove Tri-Vibe (DIY)-1 Sansamp BDDI - 11 SansAmp Para-driver - 1 Seymour Duncan Tweak Fuzz - 1 SFX Micro Fuzz - 1 SFX Micro Thumpinator - 1 SFX S&M - 1 Shin-Ei FY-2 Companion fuzz (clone, modified)-1 SolaSound Tonebender MkI (clone)-1 SolaSound Tonebender Mk II (clone)-1 Sonic Punch Creamy Dreamer (clone)-1 Subdecay Liquid Sunshine Mk II overdrive (clone)-1 Subdecay Noise Box - 1 TC Electronics PolyTune - 3 TC Electronics Nova Modulator - 1 TC Electronics Flashback - 1 Tech 21 VT Bass - 3 Tech 21 VT Bass Deluxe - 4 Toadworks Mr Squishy - 1 Wampler Triple Wreck (clone)-1 Way huge swollen pickle - 1 Way huge Pork loin - 1 Wholenote PH-5 Phaser-1 Wounded Paw Black Sheep - 1 Wren & Cuff Phat Phuk B - 1 Xotic X-Blender - 1 Yamaha FL-10-II Flanger-1 Yamaha OD-10 - 1 Z.Vex Box of Rock - 2 (clone) Z.Vex Fuzz Factory (clone)-1 Z.Vex Woolly Mammoth - 6 (clone) Z.Vex Mastotron - 1 Z.Vex Wah Probe - 1

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/lasermonkey/Guitars/DSC_0383.jpg[/IMG] My basses. 60s Egmond Kansas 1EBS1; '74 Fender Precision; '73 Rickenbacker 4001; Squier Precsion Special; Indie IEA30B [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/lasermonkey/Guitars/image_zpsa4fc7558.jpg[/IMG] My new Fender pawnshop VI. Enjoying this a lot! [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/lasermonkey/Guitars/DSC_0385.jpg[/IMG] Electrics: '65 Fender Electric XII; Indie LP; Rickenbacker 330/12; Yamaha SGV800; Fender "thin skin" AVRI Jazzmaster; Peavey JF-2EX; Rickenbacker 330/6; Kawai S170; Vintage VS6; '86 MIJ Fender Jazzmaster [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/lasermonkey/Guitars/DSC_0382.jpg[/IMG] Acoustics: Indie IJ-20 Special (one-off prototype); Indie IHD-30S; Indie IEA-30B; Indie ID400SM (one of 20,all solid wood); Indie ID-20-12. As you can probably tell, I'm a big fan of Indie acoustics. It's a shame they don't make them anymore. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/lasermonkey/fx%20pedals/408460_337152032963603_890715918_n_zps4303a9df.jpg[/IMG] Pedals. This is an old picture and I have over ten more now. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/lasermonkey/image_zps275b4031.jpg[/IMG] New bass rig, so new I've yet to let rio with it yet. Trace Elliot AH150-11 amp (not sure which mark) and Ashdown MAG 210T and 115 cabs. I'm currently gassing for a Squier Jaguar and Fender Jazz bass.

I started out playing bass on my own recordings, mainly as I kinda knew what I wanted, and it wasn't what any of my bass playing friends would do. It's only relatively recently that I have been playing bass in bands. Although my previous project ended quite acrimoniously, I really learnt to love playing bass while involved with it, so I take that as a very positive thing. I'm playing bass in a three-piece band now and loving it!

Colin Greenwood from Radiohead. I think the man's playing is incredible and he serves the song perfectly. Mike Mills from REM. not a fan of the later stuff, but his sense of melody is amazing. A big influence on me, for sure. Simon Raymonde from Cocteau Twins. I'm probably biased here, because they're my favourite band, but a unique style which fits the music perfectly. Andy Hummel from Big Star. Another melodic player whose influence is apparent in a lot of bands, yet never acknowledged.

Here's mine! Firstly, my '74 Sunburst. I bought this back in either '84 or '85 from WAM Music in St Neots for £135. Secondly, my Squier precision Special. I bought this a few years ago from Cash Converters, Huntingdon, for £29. The sign said 'electrics not working'. Yeah, well superglue and blu-tac aren't the first choice for solder replacements! I had to buy some new pots, knobs, a new scratchplate (someone had painted the original matt black. Badly), a new set of strings and had to tweak the truss rod as the previous owner had slackened it off completely. Plays nicely now and has a very appealing scooped tone.

No gigs on the horizon as yet. The latest band has ly been together for a few months, but we did do a three-song set at the jam night at Eaquires, Bedford, last Wednesday.. I had forgotten how nervous get during gigs!

Egmond Kansas 1EB1S semi acoustic from the 1960/. Build quality is awful, but it does have a very appealing woody tone. Indie IEA-30B electro-acoustic Fender Precision from 1974. I paid £135 for it in "85 Fender Pawnshop IV (just took possession of it on Saturday) Rickenbacker 4001 from 1973. Paid £299 for it in 1990. The nicest bass I've ever played. Squier Precision Special. Got this from the Huntingdon Cash Converters a few years ago for £29. The electrics weren't working, but blu-tac and superglue aren't well known for their conductive properties! I replaced the scratchplate (the one that was n it had been painted Matt black. Badly) and had to tweak the truss rod , but it has turned into quite a nice instrument.

Hi, I'm not entirely sure how it has taken me so long to find this place! I'm not solely a bass player , but I play bass in one band and everything else in another. I ended up playing bass n my own material as I could never find anyone else to do it! I think this was a blessing in disguise, as I find it an immensely satisfying instrument to play. I have a '73 Rickenbacker 4001 (bought from the Drum and Guitar Centre in Cambridge, 1990 for £299!) , a '74 Fender Precision, a Squier Precision Special I bought from Cash Converters for £29 and tarted up, a 60s Egmond Kansas 1EB1, and Indie electro acoustic and my most recent acquisition, a Fender Pawnshop VI, which I am bonding with extremely well. Plus a whole load of guitars.... At the moment I'm still using my Orange Crush 35B which is *just* coping with the drummer's new kit. I'm definitely on the lookout for something with more heft! I'm also using a load of self-built pedals, including a clone of the Catalinbread SFT (which I love), a clone of the D*A*M Meathead Deluxe dark Silicon fuzz, an opto-limiter and a Musicman Stingray 2-band eq in a box, which works nicely with the Squier. Cheers, Mark.