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The best place is Denmark Street in London, the importer in UK is Westside 24 Denmark St, London WC2H 8NJ 0207 8368374. Give them a ring! They are B expensive tho. you can check on the Thomann website for comparable prices. I went to my local music shop and asked them to order it for me from Westside. They were hungrier for the deal than Westside would have been as the importer so I got a good deal :-)

I went up to Denmark Street a month or so ago and had the chance to try, one, two and three. I' not a tech freak so this is just the gut response as player. The original question in my mind the time was should I buy used bass cube II? I compared the face value usability of the Cube and in very case amps one, two and three spanked it for me. The sheer power and depth each one had over the albeit very sophisticated Cube made the decision easier - amps1-3 Bass Guitar - Bass Cube Double Bass. So I then compared amps 1-3. I had fixed cube gas. One was amazing, tiny, impossibly clear and loud, you just sit and scratch our head - WTF was my only thought. The tone was pretty much all there but I felt as if AER had tried to make the smallest possible serious combo and succeeded! BUT Then looked at something to compete with the Mesa combos- the Two does that. It felt more like a 'real' useable gigging combo. Loud, bright (perhaps to bright) and punchy as hell. for me the One just didn't answer all the questions, the two answered all of them but it is bigger, heavier and if I wanted - a compact combo to sling on the passenger seat? Two was not it. So Thee .............. 2x 8" a little bigger than One but still tiny. Take all the other small combo's in the world and build a big bonfire........... Three is awesome.The bottom end is mind bending and can only be heard to be believed. It is punchier than One, it is warmer than One or Two and GDAM that low end. This is the tiny combo you can trust with your low B, or with the warmth of a vintage P bass in my view. Mine is on order for Xmas, you gotta try it.

This P looks very nice at £1200 [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Fender-P-Bass-Precision-USA-1977-78-Serial-S871003-Owned-since-1980/321567226785?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D25402%26meid%3Dd4c621915d5e4ed49be453110480f62d%26pid%3D100009%26prg%3D10670%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D301374636649"]http://www.ebay.co.u...%3D301374636649[/url]

I had a '96 BO 5 Thumb for many years and that was really nice, crisp and easy to play, not too heavy Ovangkol body. It was distinctly thumb but not too 'barky' if you now what I mean. I then bought an early throughneck 6 thumb which weighs about as much as a bus but the tone is amazing, unique early Warwick on Bartolini pups, thunderous clear bottom end growling mids and bell like highs. If you like 'that sound' then go for it whilst old Waricks are 'relatively cheap' You can get an 80's thumb for under a grand BO for under £700 if you look. All I can say I got my Thumb for a fraction of a new one, for a fraction of what it cost when it was new and that won't last forever. So if you are tempted do it now and see how you get on. Thumbs ALWAYS sell son ot much to loose.

Try this guy [b][font="Arial Black"][size="6"]Gerry Hogan Music c/o HOGAN MUSIC Winchcombe House 123-126 Bartholomew Street Newbury RG14 5BN[/size][/font][/b]

I make you 100% right. Great post.

This year I bought an 86 Warwick thumb 6. It was a very early number and immaculate. It weighs a tonne but it plays like an angel. I paid a fraction of what it cost when it was new and a fraction of what a new one would cost today. It is an inspiring bass. I didn't buy it because it was old but because it was good. I would be VERY surprised if in 20 years these early Warwicks were no considered as sought after as old Ricks or Fenders are now.Its invest I an old Warwick time methinks.

The thing for me about vintage basses is to remember that when you by a 60's instrument you are within spitting distance of the very beginnings of modern music. The music of our generation was truly born out of the efforts of a tiny handful of inovators like Leo Fender (for one) who made something almost completely new. For me the Fender P & J basses are at the heart of that. Some people feel that way about Gibson or RIcks. These designs hit the nail on the head so firmly that their design remains almost unchanged. I guess being born in the early 60's I grew up with these instruments at the heart of my earliest musical memories. I'm lucky enough to have a vintage P and soon (all being well) a J. When you pick up a 50 year old instrument that has been crafted well, looked after for all its life and pick it up to play you feel something. Crank that old P up with the tone rolled off just a bit and it growls punk tones at you, play it further up the neck and even with the tone rolled all the way back you still get distinct clear warm notes. You will pay a lot of cash to get that in a new instrument, and all it will be is a facsimilie of the 'real thing'. I own old basses becuase they sound wonderful, they have lasted the journey, they will remain precious. They are the heritage of every line of this and every other bass blog. Its an honour to keep and look after one, even if though its taken most of my life before I could aford one.

Cmon Paul kick some butt, show us some non US sanitised nice aggressive edgy phat Trace -. shake the room geez.