Piers_Williamson

I'm digging the amp big thumb. I played my 77 Precision through that amp and it sounded immense.

I quite understand the difficulty of selling niche left handed basses John and yours is lovely. I think I paid Pete the Fish about £1,200 for my five string (with gold hardware), albeit in c 1990, so I suffer a bit at the sticker shock of what Wals go for now. For the record, I thought your bass was one of the best set up I've ever played, and it sounded just like a Wal should!

Lonnie on the gramophone with Rock Island Line is one of my earliest recollections of non-classical music (along with singing 'all you need is love'). I really enjoyed this

I too had a Wal (bought direct from Pete the Fish) and sold it....for an Alembic. Which is an idiosyncratic beast at the best of times.

It is. I tried it and it's lovely (but eye-wateringly expensive!)

https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass/products/sadowsky-nyc-left-handed-jazz-4 http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Wal_MKI_Lefthanded.html The latter seems to have gone up a grand since last spotted here

Has anyone else had their Mother do yoga mid-set to a 14,000 crowd? Can't see this going down well at an ACDC gig.

Does he do commissions? It looks 'the elephant's pajamas'!

I am lucky enough to own two Fender CS Jazz basses. One a 66 lollypop bass evidences very little single coil hum. My pride and joy, a 61 stack knob jazz displays a lot of hum within about a foot of my amp (I like playing with the neck pickup dialed back a couple of notches and appreciate this might be one of the reasons for the hum). Does the Custom Shop reproduce the old habits of Jazz's faithfully. i.e. are Stack nob jazz's louder on the hum front?

My fave, but it feels like it might not have started out as a Christmas number!

You could always try this for a really fantastic vintage repro sound: PJB 8*5 (briefcase amp plus extension set flat) plus Noble valve pre amp, plus compressor.....Plus Jazz!

Is it just me...or was he just learning to play the fretless in the studio

So here's my compromise answer. Two CS Jazz, one a 66 replica (Like Lee's sunburst but new (ish)) and the other is supposed to be a replica 62 stack knob, but has some minor artistic license (like no mutes). I've had the 66 longer and is marginally nicer to play, but I always wanted a Lake Placid Blue Jazz

The Derek Forbes line that started all the others: Premonition

Errrrr...James Jameson and Marcus Miller??

Lefties on the setee

That's nice. I'm a lefty born in 1961. Feels an expensive quest to source a lefty stack-knob jazz!

The Trammps....Hold Back the Night

I took photos of Lindisfarne in the early eighties at Leeds Uni. I vaguely knew who they were, but to be at a gig where 2000 members of the audience knew every word to every song was a revelation and made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. A truly brilliant live act!