Piers_Williamson

Has anyone had Hic yet? Or Thin Izzie Or Gay Moore?

Any clues (if you are not on Facebook)?

Norman Watt Roy (didn't he play 'Relax'), and if you wanted to get esoteric Chas Hodges

Helpfully T'internet says Mick's was #441 and we know he switched to playing Wals in 1981 Does this look familiar (albeit without frets)?

That is older than Mick Karn's Travis isn't it?

MY question wasn't really about the mixed views of whether CS Basses are worth the money (for what it's worth I have two. I am left handed and started playing bass in the CBS years. There was very limited choice of any L/H Fender Bass. L/H Jazzes were as rare as pixie dust. Hence today, I have two CS Jazzes. The (relatively) cheaper one is by far the better. The expensive one looks nice and plays well, but doesn't knock me out. I agree wholeheartedly with a lot of comments posted in this thread, on both sides of the argument. What I was really on about was distribution and selling practices (in this case of Fenders), particularly with top end priced products. Left handed instruments are esoteric for a retailer at the best of times, but their relative rarity highlights how they can get 'sold on' in the secondary market without really being sold to an honest end punter. I just wondered how common this was with high end instruments?

Clearly they are nose-bleed expensive new and depreciate pretty quickly. I was interested to see a couple of 'sold', apparently second-hand basses recently turn up on an internet dealer and on Reverb. The prices approximated to a slight discount on their 'new' price. Meanwhile the large retailer where these basses had originally been for sale had jacked up their prices for the new ones remaining. It looked suspiciously like the retailer was 'churning' their stock in order to obtain fresh stock from Fender. Any thoughts out there?

And while we are at it, I think Imagination's bass player used to appear with a different bass every time, so this might be the only Wal appearance? (and I presume the bass line was actually a synth?)

The Bass player looks suspiciously like Keith Chegwin

I think she met one or two men in her time...... I was lucky enough to see her play with Larry Klein at Wembley. Dare I say I think Jaco (or even Pino) were probably a bit more interesting (as bass players)

One of my favourite albums of all time is Shadows and Light. It also made me a life long fan of Pat Methingy and Lyle Mays (the latter now sadly RIP)

What should have been a fantastic Fender Precision Lefty, except it wasn't. I think it was probably that I didn't know how to play it! I ended up hot rodding it with a di Mazio pickup, putting a Badass on it and stripping the sunburst ala John Deacon. All to no avail. 40 years on, I acquired a 77 Precision which must be pretty close to my original (bar a maple v rosewood neck), and it is the business. In the intervening 40 years I've learned to play a little bit better too.

Fat fingers. Here's the truss rod

Thanks all, so to continue my education

If you saw this on a pre-CBS bass and knew that it had been re-fretted, what would you look out for?

there is only one type of biscuit....a chocolate minty one....

That has a bit of a John Entwhistle vibe to it doesn't it (except I think his was Rum and Coke and had a straw)?

Did the Ramones have an unusually undersized fan base?

I'm waiting for the Alembic he used to play with Judie Tzuke to come up for sale (Although I'm a leftie so no use to me)

Well I think Duke Ellington’s title was well deserved

😔 Not good. My go to amp/speaker repairer. I would be interested in who is recommended. If they had to clear their gear out of their premises, it must have taken a mega effort! It was a proper Aladdin's Cave

Interesting. I have a Handbox R400, where I assumed the pre-amp stage did much the same job as the Noble, so I plug either my Wal or my Fender straight in. I tend to use the Noble as a front end to my Phil Jones (the combination is absolutely brilliant, but not as loud as the Handbox) or my Mesa D800+ (which got rather sidelined by the Handbox!)

As a fellow Noble fan, I'm curious as to what you like about the combination with your active basses. I primarily like my Noble with old school fender passive pickups (having listened to Tim Lefevre). I also discovered it works well in combination with a compressor, but I find my Wal and Musicman pretty overpowering in combination. Any advise?

I have a fantastic Noble valve pre-amp which has an equally fantastic valve DI