silverfoxnik

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' post='437735' date='Mar 17 2009, 08:02 PM']Nice Bass............. [/quote] +1 very distinctive...

Nice collection Rob, but what happened to the Yamaha BB bass you got from Greenking/Peter?

[quote name='Shaggy' post='436733' date='Mar 16 2009, 10:37 PM']Small world! Yup. played the blue Pro2e (in fact recorded with it as my MM Sabre developed an earth hum that day), still his main bass for live work. He's also got a fretless Pro2e in natural ash which I keep trying to buy off him! I'll check that wedding night story.... [/quote] Small world indeed!! BTW, if you speak to him soon, please tell him that Nik from Winchmore Hill send his regards! If he tells you the wedding night story, you should then ask him to tell you the boiled eggs story. Another classic! Sorry for going off-topic...

[quote name='Shaggy' post='435860' date='Mar 16 2009, 10:22 AM']Always preferrred the earlier Tubeway Army stuff as being stronger songs - Jo the waiter, Me I disconnect from you, etc Andy Coghlan ("Wal") used to play bass for him too, now runs a studio a couple of miles from me doing mainly acoustic and Welsh language recordings - top guy and top bassist.[/quote] +1 Andy's an old mate of mine from his North London days.. He has a beautiful pale Blue Wal Pro2e that he once lent me to tour with about 20 years ago.. He tells a great 'wedding night' story about that bass which, if you haven't heard it, you should ask him to tell you! Brilliant bloke and a great player as you say, though I haven't spoken to him for about 3 years now.

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='436533' date='Mar 16 2009, 07:38 PM']I think I need to take some happy pills before going on - I look miserable [/quote] I'm the same.. Always joking around before and after a gig, but as miserable as sin looking when playing...

[quote name='griffonite' post='436193' date='Mar 16 2009, 03:23 PM']I had a Wal for seven years and sold it as it was very heavy and a bad neck diver. I think I only used it for so long because I had always wanted one from first playing bass and Mick Karn was and is my favourite bassist. I tried lots of basses over a twenty plus years pro' career and steadfastly avoided such "common" basses as Fenders. Of course now I only own Fender Jazz basses and agree they sound great. I think the Wal was primarily designed as a studio bass and to this end versatility was all important. I found my Wal to be over complicated for live work. The sound wasn't to my taste and as for construction I remember the neck pocket wasn't very tight and it was the only bass I have owned that had a dead spot. Also I found the neck to be very wide and chunky in profile, altogether a very impractical design for a gigging bass. Leo Fender was a design genius who got it right with the Jazz and Precision designs and these designs remain to this day as the basic template of all other bass designs.[/quote] That is of course, unless you like Wals and then it's a very practical design for a gigging bass.. Having said that, I love the Jazz bass design and have two five string models which I gig with and they're great.

Great photos Al! Thought the band looked better with you on bass I have to say.... You have a very cool 'bass pose' that the other chap just doesn't have...

Nice collection! I like the fact that you have the 3 classic Leo Fender bass designs right there (albeit one of them is a Lakland..)!

Very nice Ped!

Great looking bass! Is it a 34" scale neck?

[quote name='Chappers' post='435047' date='Mar 15 2009, 09:18 AM']Bought mine from Silverfox Nik. In a word, Superb![/quote] Glad you're still enjoying it Chappers! So, where are you exactly now - are you in Oz as your avatar suggests..?

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='433795' date='Mar 13 2009, 03:37 PM']Well, the overwater? It's really nice.[/quote] That's gotta be understatement of the year!!

[quote name='alexclaber' post='430666' date='Mar 10 2009, 04:24 PM']At some point I may get some t-shirts printed - a "Barefaced - Louder Than Lemmy" one for the rockers and a "Barefaced - Free Your Inner Afro" one for the funksters. Alex[/quote] Great idea! Can I order mine now please...

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='434845' date='Mar 14 2009, 08:12 PM']I like this photo from a show on Thursday, so had to post: - [/quote] Great photo!

Very nice indeed!

Hope you get some royalties then, Al? Interesting design for a change.. wonder what it sounds like...

I've owned and tried a lot of different Wals over the years and found that, like most basses, they vary a lot in tone and playability, so you have to try a few before you find 'the one' that suits you best as a player. My personal favourites are the early Pro models which have an ash body, don't have the 'filter' e.q. and are more gutsy sounding than the Custom models in my opinion.. They also have the big headstock (which I love) and weigh a ton and have bad neck dive.. But it doesn't matter to me because I just love the tone/look of them. Isn't it great though that there are so many fantastic basses to choose from these days; whether you like Wals, GBs, Sei's, Overwater, Status, Shuker etc, etc, the custom bass market in the UK just has so much to offer it's brilliant!

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='428788' date='Mar 8 2009, 07:09 PM']Guitar drivers loaded in a cab of half the volume required shoddily built from inferior materials. But otherwise OK. [/quote] It looks pretty stupid as well!

[quote name='paul h' post='427877' date='Mar 7 2009, 10:12 AM']Finally took a picture of my 75 Ltd in the daylight and thought it warranted resurrecting this thread. [attachment=21636:newsxjpic.jpg][/quote] Very nice looking bass Paul - got any more pics?