Bassassin

Holy Multiple Posts, Batman! Welcome (x11) to BC and to the thread, @pbmuenchen and thanks for the pics & video of your bass. Always interesting to see another one - everything we know about these is in this thread, and unfortunately it's not very much! Mid '80s, made in Japan, probably at the Chushin Gakki factory, and a fairly uncommon model. If there's more to be found out, I think the Washburn Guitars - The Golden Era group would be the best place to look!

I only ever saw her once, in 1995 at Glasgow Garage - I think her first UK gig. She was very good, but a bloody awful harmonica player. I went with a guitarist mate I was writing & putting a band together with. We were quite blown away by her drummer & talked about hanging around at the stage door & kidnapping him when he came out. Wish we had - it was some dude called Taylor Hawkins.

"Liam! Smack Noel round the head with your tambourine!"

It's a mess. I'd walk away at £40, tbh.

It's Firewood. Well - 5-string version of the same thing, for sale in Slovakia. And here's one in Poland. I'll stop now. I think the light's attracting them.

No idea at all - pretty sure it's not weirdy MIJ - but it's awesome and I want it. 😎 I think it's a custom one-off, that said there's something a bit Ibanez SoundGear-y about the bridge, pickups & control layout, so there may be a donor bass involved. The bass with the 'R' on the head mentioned upthread was a BC Rich Ironbird - that's a coincidence, the font's different & this ain't no BCR!

It's an early 80s Korean-made Cort - sold under dozens of names but mainly Kay in the UK. I had one, it was pretty good, maybe not quite up to the level of similar Japanese basses from the same era, but getting there. Definitely no' bad for £50.

You can't quite get past the feeling that significant proportions of the UK -wing media never gt over that whole "WOAH JEREMY moment a few years ago. They won't be happy until Glasto's closed down, the Eavises are behind bars, every band that ever so much applied to appear has been deported and the entire Worthy Farm site's sold to US fracking companies.

I - and I hope the majority of people here - agree with that, but unfortunately this sort of discussion will get the thread locked. And remember, you'll never reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into. Anyway - moving away from politically sensitive issues*, I don't pay the BBC Compulsory Subscription, but am looking forward to hearing how dear old Rod the Sod endured a hail of p!ss bottles for the duration of his set. *Oops.

Ibanez Blazer & a lot of vintage PAF-stickered DiMarzios! Hard to understand what the thinking behind that would be, particularly the P unit right up at the bridge - you'd think you'd at least reverse it so the D & G strings don't just go "plink".

J'arrive! Bit late to be much help (that bridge will work fine!) but do post more & detailed pics. Not familiar with this design of Twincaster & it's got some details (pickups, for a start) I wouldn't expect to see on an Antoria.

If you've got half an hour, this is a long & detailed interview with Townshend, talking quite candidly (and humorously) about his career, his odd relationship with The Who, his solo output & much more. https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/interviews/pete-townshend-interview-2025

That'll be a B-Word consequence, I imagine. One of those oh-so benefitty benefits. 👍

Looks like that's been fitted by a previous owner, using a Pickguardian surround. Neck unit's absolutely not an SD. And read this - from 2009 so unfortunately pics are gone - a post from a member called Darkstrike actually points out that the Anniversary doesn't have SDs. Had a quick dig & found a pic of a stock Anniversary.

Chinese Fakers are bottom-end stuff, they won't be fitting a branded pickup set with an RRP higher than the bass itself! However modern Fakers have come factory-fitted with SDs - the Shine copies (made in Korea by Saein) which appeared in the early/mid '00s had them. As well as that they seemed to debut the classic 'design' of the modern Chickenbacker bridge, the tinny bridge pickup surround & a heel the size & shape of a housebrick. I'd speculate that's what @geofio had - Saein is an OEM manufacturer so it's entirely probable they made the Anniversary brand. However I don't think that's what Bruce F's so-called old bass is (it's absolutely 100% not MIJ!), and those pickups are 100% not SDs. That first generation of 00s Fakers included Rockinbetters & briefly, the Bass Centre's own take (was it called a California or something?), these were Korean-made & a cut above Temu Chickenbackers & that's what this looks likr to me. So maybe this is Bruce's old bass, but only 20-odd years old rather than 50.