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  1. On 08/12/2022 at 14:19, jd56hawk said:

    Seriously, I'd like to meet anyone wiling to spend $1,000 on a Player Series bass just to ask them why they'd even consider spending that kind of money on one of these.

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    There is a gorgeous hand made Bass on here over the last few days that is for sale at about a third of its new price. It was a bargain but had no interest and the price was dropped about 20% and it still hasn’t sold. Whether you like it, or understand it, there is something about Fenders that people like and that makes them a ‘safe buy’. I have dabbled with a range of stuff but always come back to a Jazz. My Ultra is just the best bass I have ever owned. And it should be given the price! But the prices have gone up so much I could probably break even after a couple of years of ownership.

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  2. 4 minutes ago, FDC484950 said:


    I had a look at the Fender site just today and an American Pro II P bass 5 is £1819 - not long ago it was £1999. Could be improving exchange rates I suppose? Given few US Fenders are making it to these shores at the moment, it’s odd it went down instead of up (and 3 of 4 colours are in stock apparently). 

    I never saw those that high but I don’t tend to look at 5s so it wouldn’t surprise me. The Ultra like mine was £1999 until recently but is now over £2100, compared to a few years ago they are all up as far as I can tell. I paid under £1700 on my ultra less than 18 months ago.

  3. Just now, Ralf1e said:

     

    Only thing on Google against that number is a comment on here today

    That is reassuring, I was offered one a while ago and when I googled the serial number I got loads of hits on forums along the lines of ‘just bought this, is it genuine?’ So I guess they just copy one transfer and stick it on a load. 
     

    Fingers crossed, you could be onto a bargain!

  4. 15 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

    I think Friday is one of those unfortunate songs that has become a victim of its own success. A very cleverly crafted piece that just gets played way too often (but then I've made no excuses for being a fan of our and out pop music).

    It is just so out of place on the album and is just very clearly there as a single release option. I would have thought they were big enough by then to have full control over output but it seems like a classic record company pressure thing to do. If you listen to wish without it, the whole experience is so much better, it just kills the mood and flow. I don’t actively dislike it, but would never choose to listen to it. It lacks the fun and quirkiness of earlier poppier output like love cats and is very meh to me.

  5. 10 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

     

    Once this number had sunk in ( 😯 ) I did the rest of the sums.

     

    4 × ultralight at 55g each = 220g.

     

    That 220g plus the 360g reduction = 580g previously .... so the fitted tuners were 145g each!

     

    Blimey 😳 Is that 145g going to be the typical weight of a tuner on Squier and MIJ p-basses?

     

    [As for the metric / imperial insanity: I think of things like tuners in grams, whole basses in pounds, nut widths in inches, neck depths in millimetres.... 😬 The conversion tool on my phone's calculator gets through a lot of work]

    That sounds strange, 145g is a serious weight. Bag and a half of sweets in old money. The density of steel is between 7.5g and 7.8g per square centimetre of my memory serves me right. That would mean they needed to be 20 cubic centimetres of steel! Or a solid chunk 5x2x2cm to put it another way. Do you still have them to check?

  6. Something on another thread got me thinking, does anyone else have any band mates that are totally different when playing to not playing? Our drummer is a great bloke, genuinely nice guy all the time, but when not playing he is a bit ‘beige’ shall we say. He goes to brass band recitals and is a bit of a music nerd. But when playing the drums he is an utter animal, it’s like something flips and he changes personality and bang off we go at 100mph (which I love). He has really surprised a few colleagues who have come to see us over the years (he works where I used to).

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