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Love this.

[quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1340522130' post='1705470']
Cheeky to ask for pics of it now and through the process?
[/quote]Yeah, ok.

Rob, impeccable taste, as always.

Spike, can I have first dibs if this ever....worth a try.

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1340477034' post='1705108']
Ooh, I was after that one on ebay. Potentially a bastard to renovate so decided to make a low bid.

But yeah, blazers are amazing. I honestly think I'd be happy enough to never buy another bass again!

Truckstop
[/quote]Hi Truckstop, I picked it up from the post office this afternoon. It is a little battered but everything works. Electrics, truss rod, neck is perfect, just needs a really good bit of TLC.
I love the colour, not many of these around.

I'm in the process of renovating a right handed Ibanez Blazer bass, 1982, in Sonic Blue. She needs a little TLC (new strings, deep clean, set up, fret polish, electronics checking) but structurally this is a very, very sound bass. I owned one in the early 80's, in natural finish, left handed as my first bass and after messing aound on this right handed version, I totally regret getting rid of mine. Better sounding and playing than a lot of Fender basses that I have repaired or played over the years. On the look out for a lefty, now.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1340459368' post='1704731']
Lord Leverhulme, IIRC, bitching about how much his ad budget cost. Chap that owned Lever Bros Lux, Lifebuoy soap etc.

Marketing? Thing is, you're a manufacturer and you're sat there with - say - a jackplug and you think "Well, what can I say about this, it's only a f**king plug". Well, what do you do?

You hire some little advertising squit in a trendy t-shirt and he goes away and he comes back with some boards and whips the cover off and it's a picture of the jackplug and a slogan that says:

"It's only a f**king jackplug. But it'll get you laid."

Huzzah! Trebles all round!
[/quote]Lordy, from my neck of the woods. My best friends brother-in-law was the late Lord Leverhulme's body guard/ driver.

Warwicks marketing is world class. On a par with BMW. And their endorsee list is the envy of most bass manufacturers.
All they need is Vic Wooten, (they have Reggie) and that would be that. I reckon it's only a matter of time.

[b]Jaydee[/b]
[b]Status[/b]
[b]Ernie Ball Stingray[/b]
[b]G&L[/b]
[b]Fender[/b]
[b]Goodfellow[/b]
[b]Wal[/b]
[b]Wolf?[/b]
[b]G&L[/b]
[b]Spector[/b]

How do you turn down a vacuum cleaner?

[quote name='subsong' timestamp='1340007571' post='1697366']
Part of the story, the most exciting part:



Marshall JCM 800 bass series head from 1980 or 1981 and an Ampeg V-2 4x12. I believe the cab is early 70s. It weighs so much. It takes 3 full grown men to get it up or down the stairs to our practice room.
[/quote]That is the coolest rig ever posted on here, seriously.

What are you right handed people doing? Incredible price, for an incredible bass.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1339784898' post='1694435']
Massive prick?
[/quote]Musicians are nuts, big headed, ball bags and at times very forgiving and at times total *****.
Most of them, you wouldn't want to be mates with.

Rush were and are beautiful.
Put your dukes up if you disagree.

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[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1339598349' post='1691214']
A lot depends where you live, how much you are prepared to pay and what level you are at.

The better [b]you[/b] are the harder it is to find a decent teacher who is a bass player in your locality.
[/quote]Totally spot on.

Did you spray the nitro from a can or a gun?

How did you get that unique finish?

Total Rip-off.

Next time we get compliaments, why not say, "yeah, cheers. I mix the output of both pickups to a kind of low mid thump, with a dark overtone, then I let the compressor add a cool slam, boost 180 Hz by about 3 Db, add a notch of 7K, just to let the bottom end have a bit of air, then the signal is sent to the 4 ten inch speakers, with a hot DI feed going FOH".

And then watch their faces change.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1339354382' post='1687347']
Serious bass, definitely didnt sell for $15k before though. Stunning, and rarest of the rare.
[/quote]I seem to remember it going for about £15K, so that would have been in dollars?

Jean Jacques Burnel. Paul McCartney, Bootsy Collins, Lemmy, Chris Squire, Mark King, Stanley Clarke.

looks like the headstock has been repaired at some point.

That's a great story.
i wish I was gassing for something but I have been more that happy with my set up for a while now.

Only thing I miss is my old SVT II, that I bought new in 1992 from A1 in Manchester. Great amp but just a little heavy.

I think it sold on ebay a few years ago for £15K, ish, anybody?

Price is ridiculous but it's very nice.

I'd like a copy of one of these one day.

[quote name='kevin_lindsay' timestamp='1339256971' post='1686010']
My copy arrived this morning - the fan pack is really a great idea. Mega magazine. The CD book format is very cool also.

I'm enjoying the album so far. I'll give it s few listens before I make any comment - I don't want to make any RASH statements. Saying that, I'm enjoying the looser, "live in the studio" feel to the album. The track "The Wreckers" has a "Live At Leeds / The Who" vibe to it.
[/quote]Like it.