ezbass

Bargain! As an owner of 2 Elwood Ls, I have no doubt that you’ll be very happy.

I've suddenly realised that I have more straps than I need, especially pristine, padded leather ones. Time to hit the for sale section.

I haven’t bought one of my old basses back, but I have sold one back to its original owner.

A quick trawl through the FS section revealed this being sold by @eubassix...

That is the mutt’s nuts!

A bit less than £400 gets you a Classic Vibe Squier P bass. The CV range is very well thought and you could spend the extra money on a professional set up (if needed), gig bag/case, strings, etc.

It’s a Maruszczyk Jake L. It has a chambered, alder body (3.25kg), katalox fretboard, Maruszczyk’s own p/up, 40mm nut width (very comfy). Sounds just as it should.

10 - 13, depending on the songs of course, seems to fill out our sets.

BARGAIN!

Cheers guys. After my usual hour or so doing the string change and set up to my preference (to be fair, it wasn't far off my settings anyway) it really is nice. Great sound, plays very easily and is super light (3.25kg) so super comfy (even more comfy with the very padded, suede faced strap that was provided with it) and the katalox fretboard has some lovely figuring in it, so it looks cool too. I even got a free Maruszczyk mug thrown in - time for tea!

New arrival at Ez Towers today.

This arrived today while I was out (fortunately not nicked from my front door where FedEx just left it, pink torpedoes that they are). It's a standard Jake L in Pino-alike fiesta red (although it does have non-standard MOP dot inlays, which is why I bought it from Public-Peace, otherwise Bassfreaks would've had my business). Oh yeah, it's a P and no mistake and as I already own 2 Elwoods, this already feels just right. And then there were 3.

So my attempt to abstain from any gear in 2019 purchases has fallen by the wayside (but I'm still sticking to my 'one in, one out' policy). This arrived today while I was out (even though I'd rescheduled the delivery for tomorrow; just left by my front door, out in the open - nice one FedEx 😡). It's a standard Jake L in Pino-alike fiesta red (although it does have non-standard MOP dot inlays, which is why I bought it from Public-Peace). As I already own 2 other Maruszczyks, this already feels like 'home' and is reassuringly a proper P in its output. Now I just need to restring it with my preferred EB Cobalt flatwounds. Happy days.

I hadn't heard of TF until I was at a guitar show and saw him beating so much hell out of his Fender signature that I thought it was going to scream; just fantastic. An amazing player with quite an aggressive technique - I like him.

For simple, Larry Klein's playing on Boys of Summer is nice and understated, but requires precision. For nice and busy with a challenging outro Pino on Paul Young's I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down. You could actually do worse than just study Pino's '80s work with: PY, Go West, Joan Armatrading, Gary Numan, the list goes on. Of course much of the early Stones' work was done by Bill Wyman on a fretless. For me, although he has already been mention, Boz Burrell is often overlooked, as he often avoids the slides and vibrato we usually associate with fretless.

As has been said, great technique and lovely, lovely tone. The bit that really got me was the separation at around 2:05, I can barely pat my head and rub my tummy; kudos.

You bought batteries that came with free pedals. As for the cab, sorry buddy, the jig is up. 😎

Well, I’ve only bought strings. They’re just very expensive and come with a free bass .

Ooh, sneaky. Surely you ‘need’ a new pedal or amp 😉.

Yep, your days are numbered 😉

Ah well, it was fun while it lasted (details to follow in an NBD). To be fair, it's been a good while since I bought any bass hardware at all. Good luck to those still standing.

Bassfreaks is in Brussels, although I don’t know if it’s a shop in the classic sense as viewing is by appointment only. https://bassfreaks.net/pages/about-us @pierreganseman who runs it is a member here.

Another Budgie fan here too. It puzzles me that they never really became huge, given the success of Rush (the Canadian Budgie).