Piers_Williamson

That's a very pretty Jazz 🙂

Blimey, these are going to disappear quick 🙂

I wish I were right handed.  this will be an absolutely fantastic bass for someone

Express your inner Phil Lynott

Try again...that's not BoJo, it's Captain James T Kirk moonlighting

3 hours ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

Wow, did not know that Black Sabbath's Paranoid is a cover of Cindy and Berd's "Hund von Baskerville" 😉

 

Did I spot a young Boris Johnson in the crowd?

 

Do let the the R400 owners club here know what the problem was. 

Bound for the US? 

3 minutes ago, TrevorR said:

Nice! But curious, what’s the micro switch for?

That'll be the LEDs

2 hours ago, Jason Karloff said:

Exactly. A great sounding Wal still soundd like a great sounding Wal. Irrespective of a knob that's been used. 

Or in my case, the knob that's using it....

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

What a great way to present tabI had fun 'sight reading' it. No mishtakes,  honest 😉

 

It's tabbed for a 4 string, but played on a 5 string?

I would like to be able to play 'Swing' by Japan/Mick Karn properly.  The lick at the end is relatively straight forward.  It's all the beautiful stuff earlier on that's harder to figure.  Is there a score for it anywhere?

Chuck Rainey on Steely Dan numbers (or at least you can tell when it's not Walter Becker (RIP))

Billy Book cases start at £15.  You'll soon be able to afford a load of them🙂

Please don't take this the wrong way (because you have a truly beautiful bass there), but why is it the volume knob looks like it's had a lot less use than all the others?

I understand the b....s aching bit, but I did like that Ovation Bass

23 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

 

You're into watches and such? You could fit a clock motor on the back, mount the hands through the hole where the D tuner used to be and, voila, a precision timepiece for a homestead wall.

....that would stop every time the long hand hit the G or the A.......? (but a great idea all the same).  We invented a car game called 'bump on the head' for alternative uses for an object (you can usually hit yourself over the head with most objects).  I can feel a New Year's Basschat game coming on of 'alternative uses for a 70's Precision headstock'

I bet it belonged to Paul Simonon

13 hours ago, sammybee said:

 

The sound is somewhat distinctive (unmistakably Stingray). Interesting that he thought the BC Rich looked cooler

It had nothing to do with those incredible strides (last seen on a Round the World yacht)

A big shout out to Happy Jack and Sylvia for all the hard work organising this and humping gear in and out last night.  It was great to meet a few BassChatters in the flesh (and prove that this site is not one big conspiracy to buy more bass gear) and some really friendly band members too.

Piers

Here you go then: most recent fantastic work from John......fret plane on the top end of the Stingray and fret markers on the Wal.  Both brilliant pieces of work 

They have serviced all my basses and I have bought and sold basses through them over the years.  If something ain't right Martin and John would be the first to want to fix it.  Lock-down taught me not to take for granted really fantastic specialist shops.

don't panic! It's tomorrow

I popped my head in at the bar just now, and they are expecting you!  You can even try out my leftie bass Silvia.

Still planning to get down there