Al Krow

Typical eh - you can only get soapbar format for the 5 string Euro LX!

@Eldon Tyrell there's a mint 2007 Euro LX in the FS, on for a good price and seller is willing to take offers. If I was after a 4 string, I'd have been sorely tempted, myself!

There's a video of it being played on the previous page, and more discussion and pics on page 148 (and earlier) of this thread.

Don't tell me looks have never played a part in any of your choices and you are purely a personality guy? 😄

For me it's purely about the design / aesthetics. NTs just look great!

Tbf £1,500 is pretty much the price of the P34 when it first came out (and that's not a NT either).

True - but you can get a Spector EuroLX for the same price as the Hooky. It's also reverse P + "sculpted" back (which the BB NE2 has happily copied!) + neck through + bridge J pup. And it's a pedigree bass. So I'm sure Yamaha could have made the Hooky a neck through if they had put their mind to it, in the same way they did for the BB1200S. The killer for me is that I suspect that it's only going to be released as a 4 string...

Yeah - I think I had that at the back of my mind. Shame, as for me a neck through is such a great design looks-wise! Shouldn't make too much difference tonally other than NTs have a reputation for greater sustain, which I guess can be a desirable quality for rock, but probably less so for Motown!

And I guess that's not surprising, given that the BB1200S was his favourite bass! “My Gibson EB-0 got stolen in America, but it was shite and kept going out of tune,” he admits. “So I went to Manny’s on 48th Street and the only thing that was any good was their Yamaha BB600. It felt perfect. I traded in for the 1000 and after that the 1200, which had a straight-through neck and two non-active pickups. Then someone from a shop called me up saying there was now a three-way active 1200S. I went straight there and never looked back. I’ve tried every other guitar in the world, but they just don’t do anything for me.” MusicRadar August 30, 2019

The spec of the Hooky bass effectively makes it a modern day BB1200S i.e. active and with a reverse P. Except maybe it has a bolt on neck and not a neck through like the old 1200S was?

17 months, 30 days and 14 hours to go yet mate...

Quick everyone, lock up your Spectors before Cosmo spots them! 😁

And although @dave_bass5has pointed out on another thread that black basses matter, white basses are pretty darned tasty too and a Spector to boot!

Must be the virus going around which means I'm seeing double, or is it that I just can't count to one anymore? ...it's definitely going to be one of the two, right? 😁

Yup I love Spectors too. And Ken Smiths. And Yamahas of course...did I say just 18 months to make my mind up? 😁

Be right back in a mo with a decision...gimme say, 18 months? 😁

I can only manage to narrow it down to two. So I'm out for now!

Forget the shape. Just count all those knobs! 😁

Here you go:

Ooooh, that's very nice!

She picked it up for gig a good 15 or so years before I started playing! But it was a brief love affair on her part. Fortunately her old Aria was still lying around in its case ready for me to noodle on when a mate, who's a drummer, said he might need a bass player for his band...

Funny thing was that it was a PJ bass, and it was only a while after I had moved it on (the missus tells me she's not happy I did that, but she hadn't touched it in 15 years!) that I came to realise that the PJ basses are where it's at!

Yup that's exactly what I was thinking. And I do eat mine with a knife and fork (you'll be pleased to hear). Anyway back to the thread, 'cos black basses matter; here's my (well actually more accurately my other half's) first ever bass: It's pretty black, just needed to swap the bridge and the tuners!

Yeah, but just wait till I ask if you want to join me for a curry.

They do. Black basses matter. Ok quickly gets tin hat and joins Priti Patel on the naughty step.