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[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' timestamp='1359485513' post='1955523'] Had a Jazz style pick-up fitted near the bridge in the 80s, replaced a few of years ago with a Wizard. It sounds like this: [url="http://www.ianhalstead.com/bc/Fretless-Marathon.mp3"]Fretless Marathon, bridge pickup.[/url] It looks like this: Not much resale value though, too heavily modified. I'll be hanging on to it though. [/quote] Tis a thing of beauty! What's yours like re: the body finishing cracking (the Shergold curse). Mine's not too bad compared to a some i've seen.

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359448523' post='1954776'] yes it had its moments, bit on the nice side for me but good to see, and free! [/quote] Yes i can imagine. I used to like The Plough, Stockwell many years ago with John Stevens etc tearing it up. I was really into the free jazz scene in the 70s and 80s. Happy days!

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359394839' post='1954109'] funnily enough i was there last night [/quote] Fletch's Brew wasn't it? Sounded interesting. Any good?

[quote name='hookys6stringbass' timestamp='1359400556' post='1954251'] They're great basses ...I love my two 6ix string Marathons.... [/quote] .....and so you should!!! Have you seen the Masquerader that's on the bay at moment?

[quote name='marcus bell' timestamp='1359397680' post='1954187'] That's what I want!! [/quote] Good luck if you can find one. It won't be cheap!

[quote name='marcus bell' timestamp='1359395738' post='1954126'] Think it's a modulator [/quote] Yes. The Modulator has two pickups.

[quote name='marcus bell' timestamp='1359391070' post='1954049'] I really want a two pickup one... [/quote] A two pickup Marathon?

Here's mine!

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1359385054' post='1953875'] Try Cafe OTO in Shoreditch, This fella's on tomorrow night. Join in everyone! [/quote] Saw him with the Art Ensemble Of Chicago many years ago. Amazing!

Boaters Inn, Kingston, Surrey. No improvised jazz but worth a visit. [url="http://www.boaterslivemusic.com/"]http://www.boaterslivemusic.com/[/url] +1 The Vortex.

[quote name='mbellishment' timestamp='1359313452' post='1952965'] Doesn't the whole objects being called 'she' come from the fact we have a Queen or something? I'm sure I heard once thats why ships are called she. My basses are she's like. [/quote] When we had a King ships were also called she.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1359308711' post='1952852'] It' all in the programming of his synths. JZ was renowned for messing with them. On Black Market, for instance, he has the keyboard programmed the wrong way around (high notes to the left, low to the right) etc [/quote] Thanks. I'm just reading Brian Glasser's book on Zawinul again. When i saw Weather Report (Victor Bailey period) i remember there was much synth strangeness even before the band appeared on stage with the stage in near total darkness and before Victor appeared out of a trunk!

Pedro Aznar. Pat Metheny's percussionist in the 1990s is a superb bass player.

Firstly i don't read music so be gentle! The song Forlorn on Night Passage has always intrigued me as the Synth sounds 'off key' (if that's the correct term) towards the end of the song. I realise that's the aim but how does Joe Zawinul get that sound? Is it pitch bending? I saw Weather Report do this song live and it was a bit mind bending.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1359297885' post='1952626'] Be careful. The bottom has already fallen out of the analogue synth market once. You could barely give them away in the late 80s and early 90s. When someone perfects digital control of an analogue signal path at a sensible price, it may well collapse all over again. Plus a lot of them use electronic components and other parts that are no longer in production. Getting them into working condition (and they are worthless if not) can be extremely expensive. [/quote] Spot on. I totally agree with that. Something that's flavour of the month this month may not be in fashion next month or year.

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1359286940' post='1952414'] As for unfashionable, I think pointy basses and entry level Yamahas and Ibanez should do quite well. Truckstop [/quote] That's what brought me to my original post. I was talking to the guys at my local guitar shop yesterday and they reckon that pointy guitars are going to be future collectables.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1359284148' post='1952374'] How about the Ibanez Ergodyne bass? Its sound is good, solidly built, good bridge etc, 3 band Eq, 24 frets, good comfortable shaped body. They get a poor press cos careless folk wonder why you can't bounce them against the ceiling and stay intact. So in the future numbers will be limited. Just wondering what others think? [/quote] I like Ergodynes and they go for really reasonable prices..........at the moment. So may well be a good one for the future.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1359278018' post='1952284'] Cool. Where are you based. Now ? [/quote] Just up the road in Hampton Hill

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1359246857' post='1952193'] Sorry no. Ive been living in twickenham 10 years . As i dont drive, only been to surbiton a couple of times .) ( where's the blush icon?) [/quote] You haven't missed a lot in sunny Surbiton. In fact i don't go there since Bell's music emporium closed some years ago. P.S. I'm Twickers born and bred.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1359245985' post='1952189'] Oops! Just reread your op,) in which case i would say, Encore , Dean stylist, and hondo/columbus and satellite that you already mentioned,) [/quote] No worries Ray. Do you remember Bells Musical Instruments in Surbiton? I gazed in that shop window many times in my youth!

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1359245256' post='1952179'] ah I get you now! The moral of the story is that you should buy whatever is really unfashionable! [/quote] There's no moral to it but yes, probably. Oh, and it's got to be cheap. I forgot to say Luke that in the 70s if you'd have got on the bus with a Jedson you would have been the height of fashion!!!

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1359242696' post='1952157'] a fortune? how much do you think a jedson will go for? factor in inflation too and they arn't that good. [/quote] If you read my quote you'll see i said that the shop was full of these sort of guitars and was a very big shop. I think that you're missing my point though. You couldn't give these guitars away a few years ago. Nobody wanted them until the world went retro crazy. That was obviously the time to buy then and NOT when they were new. That's my point.

Basses called she? I was really disappointed when this bloke down the pub said he had a hareem in his loft. Turns out he had a load of Fenders up there..........

Chuck Rainey is a superb bass player. His website is really informative especially when he talks about his time with Steely Dan.