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I've a vintage white BB414 which is very good. The fact of the matter is that with the 414 yamaha revived the BB series which had IMO veered away from the classic BB style. The 414 is a great rock bass, it looks sexy and is well made for a great low price. Everything produced since then has been trying to improve aspects that really don't need improving like fancy through body bridge, multi-laminate neck etc. The 2024 should have at least been produced with some exclusive colours to justify the mega price hike over the 1024. Let's face it the 414 should be Yamaha's equivalent of the P bass. They should take a leaf out of Fender's book and don't mess with it!

Is that a BB300 in there Andy?

Love G&Ls, love the look of that one! Drool..

Another great purchase from John, this time a solderless jazz bass loom. Great value, quick service and happy to offer help and support when needed.

Bought a set of Jazz Bass pickups from Simon recently, everything went smoothly, great chap to do business with and wouldn't hesitate to do so again.

Snap! Picked one up recently of the bay. Lovely looking and very well made Squier.

I no longer have this bass having sold it to a fellow BCer. My overall conclusion hasn't changed although I eventually decided that it was a little too sophisticated for my needs. Very well made and great hardware but surplus to requirements. If you fancy a P bass I would recommend a P bass. In fact I'm mainly playing a Squier CV 60s P bass at the moment and I simply can't fault it: it looks great, not heavy and really powerful pickup. Not felt the need to mod it at all. Several hundred quid less than a second hand BB734A too. Ted

Recently needed small job involving soldering and wiring a tone control. 3 trips to PMT later (don't ask) decided I can't face it again and need to find a new tech for stuff I can't do myself.

Any recommendations please, especially north of the city? Used to use the guy at PMT but has now become a total ballache with the Brum congestion charge forcing me to park elsewhere and walk. I believe Jaydee is backed up with jobs at the moment. Cheers in advance all!

Was looking at an Anaconda posh J for a while, one of the far east assembled ones, really nice looking instruments and if the opportunity arose again I'd definitely have a look.

I love my red hot BB414. Also have a BB300 which is built like a tank which I don't know what to do with as it's surplus to requirements ATM. Previously owned a BB734A which was pretty good if a bit sophisticated for my needs.

It's the simplicity of it that I love the most. Where did you get the parts from?

That is a gorgeous bass 😍. Chrome.

Saw this in the local news yesterday, Mark Edwards to attempt to play bass for 60 hours straight. Holding what looks like a rather tasty looking P bass Lyte in the pic. Good luck to him, is he on basschat? https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-musician-hoping-slap-bass-5832021.amp

I had my eye on this in the for sale section and am glad it's gone to a good home! I love G&L gear but what particularly attracted me about this one was the sub 4kg weight. The lack of tone control does bother me a little I must admit but not enough to put me off trying one one day. Enjoy!

Quick and easy purchase of a Tone switch from John. Great service, wouldn't hesitate to do business again in the future.

They really are such great cheap basses and they look proper rock and roll. I really think that the most recent line of BBs has lost a bit of that classic rawness. I'm convinced that my vintage white BB414 is a keeper although I've said that so many times about basses in the past....

Love that!