Doctor J

Ah here, expect a call from the Gardaí, you robbed him 😂

If you managed to get yer man down from 350 she should be buying you dinner tonight 😂

Complete bargain. They're massively undervalued for how good a bass they are. You got a lot for the money, for sure.

3 hours ago, DubDelay said:

Fernandes MIJ P/J Bass Vs Ibanez SR800 MIJ

A nice old passive Fernandes P bass just came onto the radar. Would you swap a 1993 Sr800 for a Fernandes P, and why?

Thanks in advance.

Pete

Ahh, I had my eye on that one for a long time, happy to see it's not on Adverts anymore 😂

The SR800 is a classic design, to me. They're superbly comfortable, sonically versatile and, usually, very light. Give it time and get to know it.

That's ridiculous!

B&Q style ply

My first bass had a plywood body and it sounded great. Also, all those 60's and 70's basses where the black part of the sunburst covers every contoured surface, they're plywood too and the price of those is continually creeping up. Age defeats wood snobbery 🙂

What's wrong with being sexy?

16 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:

except didn't he sing "Excuse me while I kiss the sky", as far as I know Hendrix was nowhere near bisexual

Yes, it was a joke 😉

Quote

'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy

No need to excuse oneself these days, anything goes 😁

2 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

Every one of your basses has a price, much as I love my kit, they're all expendable.  I said I'd never get rid of my white Thunderbird but as soon as I got GAS elsewhere, boom, up for sale.

Very true. When I split with the missus a few years ago and needed to raise cash for the legal bill, I worked out the order in which I'd sell them via a complex mental formula of emotional vs actual worth vs playability vs versatility. The ESP would have been last to go but, yes, everything would have gone if required. Thankfully, it didn't come to that. 
 

Starting from scratch would have been very interesting 😁

I picked up one of these a few weeks ago. Lovely basses!

Ah here, since everybody is adding loads, I'll stick with Chamberlin and add:

Sean Reinert - the finest drummer I was ever privileged to see perform

and young Eloy from Sepultura, who is redefining drumming in Metal music

6 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

ABBA - The Dancing Queen, young and sweet only 17, would be 62 years old now.

With metal hips and knees like the Terminator

Ricky was a young boy

He had a heart of stone

Ricky is 50 now, an old man, that's if he survived prison.

Once you get into the oul doom, you'll also need one in BEAD and, if you don't have a drop-tuner on it, another one in ADGC. It's a slippery slope, I tell ya.

It's only a wee bass, maybe visualise Dave Elf-son instead 😁

I Don't Like Mondays, said Bob.

The Telex machine is kept so clean

And it types to a waiting world

Imagine My Sharona being released in 2020. The cancellation would have its own gravitational pull.

I know it's just me, but 4 string SRs which aren't PJ just look odd 😂

Doug Wimbish does that a lot, doesn't not do him no harm.

Nice bass. They intrigue me. I'd love to spend some time with one but there's something about paying a grand blind for a Cort which doesn't compute in my head. Silly, I know, but opportunities to try them first are practically non-existant.

I've gigged on bass, drums and guitar over the years. I dabble in keyboardness when needed but wouldn't come close to calling myself competent.

Genuine question, does each component of the drum kit count as a separate instrument? Asking for a friend.

7 hours ago, Killed_by_Death said:

However, we are encouraged to Buy More almost everywhere in the player communities online.

Even I am guilty of buying due to influence from the internet, but when it's the other way around NO one will take heed of the ONE guy who is commenting NOT to buy it just because it's there!

We are encouraged to Buy More once we escape the womb and are bombarded with the message until we expire, not just in online communities. This is how the wheels of our societies keep turning.

I can recall, more than once, suggesting someone should have a think about what it is they really want when someone posts one of those baffling "Tell me what I should buy" threads. If you don't know what it is you want, keep the cash in your pocket.

Vicarious is interesting without being terrifyingly complex.