Reggaebass

Not you sir 😁, some people can’t take the bass

Hi Fraser, I never found the headphone switch very good on mine, it never sounded clear and used to stick occasionally, I had Dave green remove mine, I think really you need to put it through a cab to check it out properly, good luck

My son sent me this on Spotify but I found it here, I’m sure you’ll remember Black Slate, good tune really liking the Bassline and I’ve been going through all of Channel One sound system videos lately ,and Luc As has some great ones on his channel if you like that kind of stuff

UB40 is a bit like this for me, their first album Signing off was superb for its time, and I like Kingston town as much as the original, impossible love is another I like to play, Earl Falconer is a great player imo , but there’s also a lot of tracks that I struggle to listen to, especially since they parted ways and there’s effectively 2 bands

Hope it gets found, I’d keep checking gumtree and Shpock and such like places

From the neighbours 😁

Great setup

one of my stack knob jazzes was a bit bright sounding so kiogon rewired it for me and fitted the 0.1uF cap, it made a big difference for me and sounds great

I’ve only ever bought and sold face to face with gumtree and Shpock, there is no cover at all as far as I know, but to answer mick , If you feel it will do some good naming then I can’t see a problem, good luck

I had lessons for it during my short period of wanting to learn some slap lines, Freddie makes it look so easy, I wouldn’t expose anyone to my version, it wouldn’t be fair on their ears 😁

What a great guy and a wonderful player, he plays so effortlessly especially on forget me nots , which I don’t think is easy to play

Another one to maybe give a watch is my friend don talking about how he gets his reggae tone

I’d say his sound is a combination of different things and his amazing playing style, just a suggestion, I don’t know the technical stuff, would it be possible for you to have your pickup rewound to your specification ie darker

I’ve studied Aston’s playing for years and he was amazing imo, he played mainly a very early 70s jazz bass, I’ve read on a few occasions that the bridge cover still had the foam in (but I can’t verify that) , and he also used flatwounds and played close to the neck , my guess is he just used the neck pickup and bridge and tone off , when I use my jazzes I have the bridge pickup off and tone rolled back, I also just back off the neck pup just a touch and it gives me a fatter deeper sound

In all these years I never knew they did a Fender Custom Shop James Jamerson Precision Bass

Not someone I normally watch but Scott’s bass lessons doing reggae, interesting

Absolutely, I think the OP is going in person to see this one

Cool, definitely worth having a look if it’s local, good luck and let us know how you get on

Cheers, didn’t think they came in until later than 79

Thanks HZ 👍

Hi, Seems a bit cheap for a 79, pickup covers aren’t original , looks like it could be sienna burst, I’d suggest putting this in the vintage fenders thread for some more opinions Robert

Had a good listen to the Ganja Man album by Linval Thompson today there’s 10 tracks and 5 dub versions on it , I’ll be learning a few of the basslines in the next few weeks, it’s well worth a listen,

Cool, I might have to explore the skatalites a bit more, Lloyd Brevett was a great player and I think he had something to do with the Melodians too, I remember reading somewhere that they recorded at Randys ,which must have been in the really early days , but ill have to check that

Good tune, I quite like the skatalites, on the Christine website it says,It was a ska version of Comin home baby a song written by Ben Tucker and first recorded by the Dave Bailey Quintet in 1961