Woodinblack

Hardly, if you want a bongo you don't really want a sire. I mean, I wanted a bongo and wouldn't go near a sire, but if you hang round enough you get what you want at a reasonable price. I presume eventually they will get to a street price of less.

The blue certainly isn't selling it, and never liked the unfinished part behind the neck under the strings.

I really don't get what is bad about the headstock, I never saw it. It itsn't objectively bad like the sire or James Tyler, or bite(?) or even the moderne (which I like as it is so stupid).

Of course you can, they sound different. Put two 63 jazz basses next to each other and they will sound different to each other. Get another newer jazz bass with a pickup made to sound vintage and it will sound different. The difference is whether there is something totally unique to them then you can play 10 basses blindfold and say say 'yes those 5 are vintage, and these 5 arent'. But you can't, I am sure that noone can. Because they love that bass and they can afford it, they are players not collectors, but I think that will tail off with the current prices, the players will start selling off their old basses and just taking cheaper, less nickable instruments on the road, because that makes sense. Many people stopped taking expensive instruments out, as mentioned, david gilmour sold his rare strats for charity and plays new ones, he still sounds exactly the same. Even if you 100% believed that a vintage fender came up with a totally unique sound that nothing else could make, you can't possibly beleive you could hear that when it was gigging when half the time you can't tell if it is a bass or not!

No, your browser auto completed your password for you, the web site certainly didn't, otherwise what would be the point of having a password? So maybe in the time since you last ordered you have either changed your password on some other device, or put it wrong on that computer or they have auto changed their passwords a while back, but either way it sis wrong. But no, no trouble ordering with Gear4music last time I did it which was last month.

Well, I am sure it isn't easy to accidentally release them. I am not a dingwall fan, but they do put effort into their custom hardware, so I would imagine they have thought it through completely. I don't want one anyway, as i have been put of dingwalls, but like to see a bit of innovation where it happens.

Sadly that sounds closer to my wrongo than the bongo!

I couldnt live with that headstock at all. But then luckily they have a string spacing I cant get with so its not an issue. They are great, had a tribute 2500, but sold it when I was trying to downsize, would have another one in a shot, for me it would be like a functional P bass.

I think they would hit the mark pretty well if the person playing was blindfolded. I have heard many vintage fenders, some are great, some are dogs, most are pretty good (I guess most of the bad ones have been thrown away in the 70s), but if you didn't know it was a vintage fender, it wouldn't sound special either way. They sound good to some because they are being listened to with their eyes and heads. Youre paying for a rarity not a sound.

Well, no reason it has to be hard to change the strings. I would certainly be happy to see them on other basses.

A bit too up close and personal. A local place in the next village that we hadn't played before so didn't really know much about it. Seemed to be a lot of space when we started but there was a pinch point between the door and the bar and my microphone stand! So in the first half, the first hour there wasn't that much interaction, a few dancers, mostly of people we knew who came out because we were there, and applause from them, and a few other intersted crowd that just watched. The last 15 minutes of the first half we tailed off the rock stuff and the crowd got more interested and interactive, as is generally the way. The second half was pretty well flat out the whole time and we had to retreat back a bit closer towards the wall as space became trickier. The guitarist put some small stools in front of his pedalboard to stop people from jumping on it! There was a security woman who thankfully kept pushing them back a bit when they were bashing into my microphone - the joys of pubs huh? Still they all seemed to enjoy it and the barstaff seemed happy at the end of the day so its nice to open up new venues. Usual problems, took a while to work out why no sound when I started, transmitter and receiver the wrong way round! Drummers drum lights burned out half way through, forgot to charge my page turner. On the plus side, sax player got a new wireless (nux sax thing instead of shure) and no longer got clicks and pops from it - a bit of feedback but probably at the moment it is still set for the shure so needs some adjustments. It is a lot easier to setup.

Used that with the band yesterday and it is ok, not super bright but in the right place it works well - but transport wise, anyone got a recommendation for a bag to put it in?

I'd agree, I like the headstock and anything is better than the sire one, even fender!

I will have my ric, although maybe too stringy for most

Hardly, the Ibanez Axestar AXB50 was released in 1985, that was headless.

My combustion wasn't that heavy, not that it was light, and the balance wasn't an issue with it.

The new bridge seems like a good thing, and of course if you get the 4003s they don't have sharp edges (neither do the 4004s)

Yeh, there are rare occasions when every moderator I need to ask a question of isn't instantly available, sorry about that. Anyway, it should work now.

Seeing as on a fretless you don't really need to change the frets for scale length, if you want one of these as a fretless you just have to get a normal one and move the bridge 2.5" up the body

No, you have to move the bridge AND redo the fret positions, which is why it has 24 frets instead of 20 (or whatever is on the 4003, I just have a 4004 here, it has 20)

I think it was the playing! I skipped a lot as well, but he is the guy they made the 4030 for in the first place, according to this: https://rickenbacker101.substack.com/p/overview-the-4030 which is also quite clear they just moved the bridge (although that original was a 4002 body)

I would say that second line invalidates the opinion on the first line

it won't embed for whatever reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEGn-48kbmo

Yes, there is something odd on your account, I need to find out why that is, hold on a sec..

Ok, read the story of the origin of the 4030 and it is just a 4003 with the bridge moved up 2.5" and hotter pickups in different place. I guess there is a market for everything