Steve Browning
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You'd hate me. My 'redundant' fingers have worn substantial grooves in my basses just above the scratchplate. -
Looks like a good deal to me. The changes are minimal overall, and stripping to natural was pretty common back then. My 72 has been stripped and so was my 66, before being refinished back to sunburst. If the changes included pickups, tuners, scratchplate or the like, I'd think differently.
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Don't blame you in the slightest.
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There's an ocean of difference.
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Bygone music/bass shops you were fond of?
Steve Browning replied to kiat's topic in General Discussion
Paid the princely sum of £260 for my 66 Precision at Tiger Music. Headless basses were all the rage at the time. It had been in the shop for ages. -
After how long? I played a pub in Worthing where, after figuring we needed to watch our volume, we were asked to turn down after the first number. When they made the same request after the second number, we were asked to stop playing and got the full fee.
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Bygone music/bass shops you were fond of?
Steve Browning replied to kiat's topic in General Discussion
Oh yes. Way better than any glimpse at a Health and Efficiency. Proper smut for the aspiring and skint adolescent musician. -
This lady was pretty impressed. In a bar in Amsterdam. It was a mirror until you got closer and this image appeared.
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Bygone music/bass shops you were fond of?
Steve Browning replied to kiat's topic in General Discussion
Another shout for the Bass Centre in Wapping. I bought a number of Entwistle basses from there, and my 66 slab bass. Locally I recall the original Telecomms in Portsmouth, a small shop that moved location a couple of times. It eventually became a branch of PMT, lost its soul and finally closed. -
Yes. I never get that. Why wear a hat indoors or under cover? This is multiplied a million times by blokes who wear hats on stage. You think it's cool and I think you look like a complete kn0b.
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Any thoughts on cheesy peas?
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Leo didn't put blocks on any bass during his ownership. The rest is hypothetical. Supposing he'd designed the Ricky and called that a Precision?
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Yes. Yes. Yes. The worst sacrilege there is. I would buy a Classic Vibe 70s mocha if it had a proper neck on it. Even now I'd buy a body to put the right neck on it.
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You may have to take issue with Mr Fender about that one! 🙂
