NancyJohnson

Everyone tends to bring something. There'll be enough kit to keep people happy. On the subject of the bass shootout thing, it would be nice to have a list of basses ahead of the curve so I can do some printed sheets for marking.

Blimey. Why Peavey?

I've been watching the BBC iPlayer. Observations? Lots of mullets. Quite a few performers long dead. US show was a shambles. U2 and Queen were great. Elton John on for too long. We were talking about the bands that didn't play (Geldolf, for instance, believed Big Country had split up).

Photos or it didn't happen.

And this is why I can't even begin to compete.

@prowla and I had a chat earlier. The London Guitar Show is on Sunday 26th October and I've just found out I can't do the weekend of November, so looking at the weekend after, which is 8/9th November. Could we get a list of preferred dates please and we'll go with the majority. If it's a Sunday we can get in the hall from 11.00am. Thanks

For washing it down in the shower.

Here's what you need to do and how things will go. Buy both. Then buy another one, and another one, then another one. After you've bought the last one, get another couple. Then one or two more. Oh, and then another one. This is how it goes. This is how it always goes. Don't buck the trend.

Mangling the statistics, it's barely 10% that are vehemently against it.

The hall is available Sundays from 11.30am.

Oops... I don't know if you can insert a poll, but state your desired month, September to November.

Brief update! Hall managers have said that as we're contributing any proceeds to a charity (TBD) we can get the hall at a reduced hourly rate, which is nice of them. We have access from 12.00pm for as long as required. It begs the question the date we want to do this...I can't do first weekend of November, but beyond that, I'm good. September my be too soon to wrestle the troops, dunno.

Interestingly, in the last few months it became apparent that it was actually cheaper to buy in a Chinese neck for my Aria than to fork out for a refret, so that's what I did. It's got a '70s style Fender Jazz Bass logo on it; do I care? Nope, in truth, not really. Everyone who needs to know its provenance knows what it is and if I sell it, the buyer will know as well (and they'll get the original neck, too).

#1 - Paul @NancyJohnson #2 - Paul #2 @prowla #3 - Martin @Merton #4 - Matt @Wombat #5 - Andy @Wolverinebass #6 - Stevie @stevie #7 - Lozz @Lozz196 #8 - Matt @neepheid #9 - @bassace97 #10 - Robert @bass_dinger #11 - Christopher @chyc #12 - jaco @Geek99 ** #13 - Alan @WalMan #14 - Trevor @TrevorR #15 - John @jonno1981

The guy who wrote the song passed away a while back and the drummer doesn't have a writing credit. It would be interesting to know whether he gets any kind of residuals as being one of the performers. I think in the interests of privacy, I'm not going to name the guy (or song) but I reckon a ton of people on here know the song concerned and there's likely a few of our number probably played it in the last week or so.

#1 - Paul @NancyJohnson

Good afternoon Big edit on the OP here (10/9/25), so please read this and treat as pinned content. The honourable member for the Bracknell @prowla (aka Paul) and myself (also Paul...blame Mr McCartney) are happy to announce that the SE Bass Basheroonie is confirmed for Sunday 9th November 2025 (11.30am to 5.00pm) at St Sebastian's Memorial Hall, Crowthorne, Berkshire. We were initially looking at just hiring the main room, but as we now have 40+ people looking to attend, I've taken the option on the second room at the Hall, so the whole place is ours for the day. There's two rooms in the hall, a little stage, decent parking, good connections M3/M4. Closest rail connection is Crowthorne Station (which is on the Guildford > Reading branch line). I'm more that happy to pick up and drop off. @prowla has offered to visit CostCo the day before to load up on cakes/sandwich tray (we'll operate an honesty box for these). This is the place: Map below. We're proposing the usual £10.00 entry per person, obviously there'll need to be a raffle (please find some stuff you're prepared to let go for the raffle table) and a sale table (please mark your sale kit up with a swing tag of some kind with name/price). Please note (as usual), this is a private event open to Basschat members and guest(s), and we will categorically not be letting any local oiks in. As we're a bit new to this, we'd be grateful for any input insofar as guest speakers goes and any ideas for input; I've emailed Lee Voss, Barry at The Bass Centre, Alex at Barefaced and D'Addario. While I'm uncertain at this juncture whether he'll attend, I am in contact with the wonderful Colin Moulding of XTC. I'm a bit of a fanboy, so it would be superb if he could. (*As of 22/7/25, he's declined, but the inference is that maybe I'll hit him up nearer the date.) As of today, I've not heard a toot from Lee, Barry, Alex or D'Addario, so if anyone has any influence, please lean on them. Insofar as an agenda goes, I'm pretty certain @cetera and I can entertain you with another enthralling round of Name That Bass (although I'll need to work on Gary to play something different to Carry On, Wayward Son, which is still etched on my brain to this day). If you want to have a bass included in this, please let me know by PM beforehand, make sure you bring it along and are OK with Gary breaking playing it. If you read through this thread you'll see there's a few names been mentioned, so as soon as we have a full list, we'll write up an agenda and once we're all bored senseless we can do a bit of tag-team wrestling in the car park. @prowla and I did have a little discussion about where to donate any proceeds and we seemed OK with the nominated charity being COATs (Crowthorne Old Age & Teens) of Crowthorne, where I volunteer weekly. COATs have a well run shop, a day centre on the edge of the village and run a couple of mini-buses to get the oldsters to hospital and for day trips. The whole place is volunteer run, even the top line people. It's a great cause. In the meantime, add your name to the list. Cheers Paul/NJ

OK, started forming a queue. I'll wait for the rental quote and hall availability dates to come through. MODS! Can you close this thread to comments and I'll start a new thread.

The hall can hold 90...it might just need to be a bit different.

Let me pick up here. I'd always thought setting one of these up should be pretty straightforward and I have capacity. @prowla (Paul) has just been in contact - we're local to each other AND both @jonno1981 and @ceteralive about a mile from me. How would everyone feel if me and @prowla tried to sort something out? Proposal would be (possibly) St Sebastians Memorial Hall, Crowthorne (see details below). There's a map/link below. We'd need to hire for say six hours (10-4pm) on a Saturday @ £25.00 an hour. I honestly can't remember what Colin used to charge for entry (was it £10?), so 15 attendees and we'd have a enough to cover the hire fee. I'm sure we could rope on the Barry at the Bass Centre and get enough stuff together for a raffle etc. It's a big room and it has a little stage if we do another shoot-out etc. The hall is remore enough so as not to annoy people. Easy connections M3/M4, closest train is Crowthorne (on the Wokingham and Guildford mainline). I'd be happy to do pickups from the station (I'm sure others would as well. @neepheid (I think) may be kipping down at mine. Anyone interested? https://wokinghamwithout-pc.gov.uk/facility-hire/st-sebastians-memorial-hall

"I love this bass so much. It's the best ever, but I want to change it." If you love the sound, anything you install will have a profound effect on that, even in a flat position.

Be nice to the guy at the Parcelforce depot, if he wants to have a look at the bass, let him. If he wants to pick it up and have a noodle, let him. For one of my Ishibashi Thunderbirds he did this, I asked how much the duty was and he he just went, 'What duty?' and waved me on my way. Sometime you can get lucky.

I can't actually grasp why this money-grab has irritated me so much. (Well, I can, but...) Anyhow: Musicman Stingray basses: 1979 (£2.3K) https://reverb.com/uk/item/88807689-musicman-stingray-sunburst-r-1979-sn-b013725-04-07 1978 (£3.6K): https://reverb.com/uk/item/85274423-ernie-ball-music-man-stingray-pre-ernie-ball-1978-sunburst or £3.9K https://reverb.com/uk/item/90415351-music-man-stingray-with-maple-fretboard-1978-made-in-usa Just buy old.

I'm not talking about one of his actual basses. There's dozens of Stingrays from the 70s available for well under the price of this signature model. The thing I don't get to this day with signature models is that the ones PP has - minor tweaks aside - were all just stock/production line instruments. There's nothing unique about them and there's likely hundreds out there.

Six grand? Mother of god. Wouldn't a genuine one from that period cost less? (Checks Reverb, and yes.) Six grand?