Doctor J

Any symmetrical headstock looks terrible with an uneven number of tuners. Zon, Smith, Gibson, even the lovely Alembic crown headstock, they just look woegeously uneven as five string models.

How high or low do you wear your bass? Are your wrists in a neutral position (i.e. not bent) when you play?

Pick the one like like the look/feel of and get on with your life.

Perfectly proportioned and well thought out.

What’s so hard about quoting a fully insured delivery price, since you’ve gone to the trouble of packing and weighing anyway?

Yellow Submarine is fantastic, classic pop. I could live without the twee Macca stuff, Your Mother Should Know, etc, but I am no poorer for having them with me.

Pictures. I much prefer sharp pictures to shaky and fuzzy ones. I also prefer clear pictures to dark and murky ones. If I can see sharp and clear together in one picture, that’s just super. I want to see the front and the back of the instrument. I want every part of the instrument to be visible across the sum of pictures posted. I also like pictures which clearly show any damage, marks or features mentioned in the blurb. I don’t need to see an artistic b&w picture of you, from a distance, playing the bass on stage, thanks 🙂

Nice!

It has stopped me purchasing quite a few basses here over the years. Like you say, Clarky, it’s unnecessary grief to be a buyer sorting out these details, particularly from abroad, before you and the seller can commit to the purchase, packing and collection and before you can even pay the guy. 

Then the battery stays connected and using charge, even if the bass is unplugged, if it’s in active mode.

Unplugging the cable is the simplest, most reliable and obvious way of connecting and breaking the power circuit. It’s physical switching, so little can go wrong - user excluded.

The jack being plugged in connects the battery circuit to the preamp whether you’re in passive mode or not.

Now in our 27th year together

If you want some some melodic doom for these melodic doomy times...

http://witheredfist.bandcamp.com

Great gesture from a company who already to more than most to get money into the hands of the artists.

My trusty old ESP 400 Series Jazz. It's coming to the grave with me, anyway, no sense in parting ways now.

There is a demented charm to these which I quite like. They’re like something out of one of Jim Moir’s (Vic Reeves) paintings 😂

300 quid, you say? 

1 hour ago, merello said:

 Imagine a full size Explorer bass? 

Would I need a bigger house in order to have somewhere to keep it?

The nicest looking bass here. Stunning.

Ehhhh... this is awkward 😂

25 minutes ago, CamdenRob said:

I am at peak practical spatial bass capacity at the moment. Any more and I’d have to buy another stand, which I don’t have floor space for anyway 😕

Ill have to get rid of something... 

...Do I really need a fridge 🤔 

Build up. Up towards the ceiling,  all that empty space waiting to be filled with basses. You can do it 😉

I wish this kind of thing was around when I was doing acid.

80’s and 90’s MIJ, sub-€500, that’s where you’ll find me at my happiest 🙂

i do my own fretwork, electronics and setups so, no matter how they arrive, they all end up playing like yankee buttaaah. These cost less than £1200 collectively.

Ozzy played two warm-up club gigs on the 11th and 12th of January 1991 in McGonagles in Dublin prior to the release of No More Tears which were Mike Inez’s first and second shows with the double O. Both nights 😉

Ebay isn’t the problem. People are the problem, exploiting systems put in place to protect buyers and actually using them against good sellers.

Who’d have thought we could live in a world where Oasis had ripped off Motley Crue as well as everyone else?

Who, in turn, had ripped off Killing Joke