gareth

9 minutes ago, Bassassin said:

Funny, my immediate reaction to the thread was."nah, me neither" but that's not strictly true. Most slap you hear these days does tend to be the frenetic clattering & boinkety-boinking of the Youtube bedroom obsessives - but I have to remind myself that was pretty much me in 1985.

I spent months making my thumb bleed trying to work out what Mark King, Nick Beggs etc were doing, and got to the point I could ham my way through Mr Pink well enough to impress people who'd never actually listened to it. I've always played in rock/metal/prog bands so my attempts to shoehorn in a bit (at times a lot, to be fair) of sloppily executed clunking & pinging were misguided, at best. In the fullness of time (and possibly a smattering of musical maturity) I got bored & wandered off.

Like a few others here I'm partial to a bit of RATM, FNM, RHCP, have seen & been suitably jawdropped by Vic Wooten (spent an hour or ten trying to get my head around his double thumbing techique) and still own a copy of A Physical Presence - but slap is 99.9% off my musical radar & I don't expect I'll need to revisit it as a playing technique or a compositional element at any time soon.

I used to play in a covers band and had a dep stand in now and again 

The guitarist said he used to do all kind of fancy slap stuff whilst tuning up but it didn’t blend very well when the band started playing their rock covers stuff

I think he’d of liked a slap bass solo in the middle of boys are back in town 😂😂😂😂

15 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

Am I the only person who plays bass and generally hates slap? 

I think it can sound good when used sparingly (like Billy Gould or Tim Commerford) but I hate songs which are just slaps and pops all the way through. I really dislike songs which weren't slapped covered by a bassist who plays slap all the way through. I don't even like Primus. 

Am I on my own with this? 

Entirely agree

I gave up bass playing and devoted my time to raising a family, building a business and windsurfing as soon as I heard Mark King and Level 42

I returned to bass decades later when relative normality had returned to the bass playing world 

As a music listener during these non bass playing decades I bought and listened to three Level 42 albums in attempt to try and “get it”

Ask me today if I can remember, whistle or hum any of those tracks and the answer is no

Slap is like rap and grime - interesting but absolutely nothing to do with creative music making

Great basses

1 hour ago, AndyTravis said:

Nice (cheap) one on Facebook 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BassPlayersMarketUK/permalink/4081266975218233/?sale_post_id=4081266975218233

Snapped neck?

24 minutes ago, JWes said:

No serial number checking site that I have looked at is any more specific than 82 - 84.

If you unscrew the four bolts from the neck plate and take the neck off you will find a date on the neck butt

I’d want to take the pick guard off to inspect the pot dates and to see how much of the original wiring is left 

Also take pickups out and inspect changes

With pick off out check for body routes 

Actually 9.25 is a reasonable weight for a late 70’s p bass

Bridge is non original 

I don’t think that’s see thru

I think it’s a solid white that has discoloured with age 

Fender issued a Mary Kaye version of the American vintage reissue series in the 1980’s which had a see thru ash body and had gold fittings - photos below 

These are future classics

Nice bass with VAT, etc at around 25% that makes the total cost before shipping for us in the U.K. £1562.50 I believe 

What year is this please?

14 hours ago, angelagnostic said:

I demoed one of these and it was brilliant. I still regret not buying it. The actual bass, not the fridge magnet obv. 😉

They are brilliant basses

4 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

I remember seeing a white, late 50's P for sale, years ago. The finish was missing from much of the back of the body and you could see there were not just horizontal joins, but a diagonal one too. The body was assembled from random offcuts, by the looks of it. They still sold it for almost 10 grand, IIRC. I wish I had saved a picture of it.

I think it’s more ok on solid colours but in excusable on sunbursts 

I had a sunburst four bolt 74 jazz with the same problem 

A U.K. buyer?

7 hours ago, Hellzero said:

This will be a massive problem in the next few months as almost everything is coming from outside the U.K.

So better be patient and wait until the stocks in the U.K. are high enough to avoid this situation.

Don't blame those who are trying to sell these goods, you are shooting the wrong persons.

Good advice

On 06/02/2021 at 16:29, Lozz196 said:

I understand where you’re coming from Mick, I’ve found the right Precisions & Jazzes for me but simply can’t find the right PJ configuration bass. I’m thinking of just putting in a J pickup in one of my Precisions as this seems to the only way I’ll get the exact spec that I’m after.

Lozz 

As someone below has suggested the Fender Tony Franklin is a great pj - or also very good and half the money is the original (passive) MIM deluxe here 

P bass

23 hours ago, Thunderpaws said:

I wish they made a Mustang with the same shape but slightly bigger and a 34” scale length. I’m on the talk side, live the look and sound of them but they look and feel silly (on me). 

They do - it’s called a bullet bass 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Bullet_Bass

On 31/01/2021 at 11:21, wateroftyne said:

Apologies for the tangent, but have you thought about a used Limelight? They really do feel lived-in.

Are you on commission from Limelight?

Great bass, weight and price Paul 

GLWS

I think they should get back to all chrome fittings - bridge, pups, covers, tuners

Ban black fittings - blimey can I say that?!?

4 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Why? Just go the whole hog and reissue the original '64. It had better pickups (so I hear) and doesn't have that oil rig bridge.

Issue them both

If I were running Gibson I’d just reissue the bicentennial t bird

That simple 

36 minutes ago, thestick said:

Gareth from taking it apart I would say factory 

IMO it would help your sale if you could post photos of the control and neck cavity, neck butt and body underneath pick guard

Great bass

Is it a factory natural bass or has it been stripped

Thanks and GLWS

Look at the terrible matching of the body woods on this 1973 mustang - in earlier times Fender would have only used this body for solid colours