Burns-bass

Haha this is years ago when I was first transitioning to DB, and I indeed did use superglue!

A week is a long time and kids heal quickly. Best advice is not to antagonise it or put too much pressure on it as it heals. As someone who plays double bass and has quite literally had my fingers bleeding after (and sometimes during) gigs, taking it slow is a good idea.

Ahh I see, the count will refresh at a certain point. Assume each week.

That’s a great description.

Usable, affordable and look absolutely bloody fantastic.

Second lesson this week. Making a lot of progress and am actually getting a sound I don’t cringe at. When the teacher plays the bass it’s truly fantastic.

eBay will select specific items to show users on home screens. (If you’ve searched for a jazz bass it’ll show you other jazz basses, for example). The algorithm will only select your items a few times, hence the higher views when the items are newer.

It’s pretty fatuous reasoning. You can bend your knee and diff your cap, but I pay my tax myself. They’re paying the tax they should (probably for the first time…).

What’s interesting is whether you think these items will increase in value? Once the generation passes who will pay top dollar for this stuff? We’re conditioned to think that the 60s was the apotheosis of music and culture but it’ll quickly be forgotten. Human nature is necessarily destructive (and that’s a good thing).

It's both horridly tacky and super useful at the same time. I like it and want one (but my basses are all in the loft, so no need for a stand).

You’re probably a Weich and I’m a Mittel.

I’m selling one of you are interested.

This is always the argument but it doesn’t hold. You get capital flight from people like Philip Green (remember him?), but the majority of people want to live in their country of birth and close to existing friends and family. I imagine a lot of this stuff is auction fever. People getting carried away and buying what look to me like pretty average guitars (apart from the genuine vintage pieces). When your £10k gig bag arrives, the big question of course is how you’re going to display it so all the guys at the golf club can wonder at how low the action is and how incredible the sound must have been when Jeff unzipped it.

This is the stock response to any thread like this, and nobody is going to disagree. I spend £8 on coffee, for example, which is excessive when I could but instant from Lidl for £2. However, people are paying preposterous amounts of money for things that Jeff Beck ( a great artist but hardly a generational talent who’ll be remembered forever) may not have ever touched or used. The second thing is that these amounts are huge. Gross displays of wealth - like paying £10k for a gig bag, for example - are shocking.

I love his iconic Chapman stick.

Last stage capitalism all this. It’s so utterly crass.

It’s not great but it’s no surprise. They would know the value of the bass but they’re not that well known for used items.

They’re the original. I’m a mere pretender.

I had this precise problem. I used a Hercules bass stand which I then weighed down at the back with a box of books so it was impossible to topple over (for a toddler, at least). I have a spare Hercules bass stand somewhere you could try if you’re anywhere near Bristol.

It’s the headstocks that give it away. You can see how the tar leaves indelible marks when exposed to cigarette smoke for long periods. Hells point is there’s often an inconsistency between wear on the body and wear on the headstock. On the bodies there will always be fading on the main body of a guitar when compared to the finish underneath.

You can buy knock off strings on Temu and Alibaba. It’s a shame but some people will take advantage of our good nature.

A pro defret will cost about £200. I’d buy a Fretless VM series Squier instead.

Interesting that he says "restored" instead of "refinished". Wonder what the deal is?

So, having read this through, it seems that: Nobody is denying that there are VVT jazz basses constructed in 1961. But these would have happened later in the year and that anything manufactured in, say, August 1961 should treated with caution. (I'm only getting involved as it's me who posted the link to the guitar that caused all this hassle. Personally, I think enough doubt has been cast on its originality that I would seek a second opinion from someone who can see the instrument in person, but I'd be prepared to do that if I were going to drop £18k on it, given my experience with vintage dealers.)