Bassassin

Nothing bass-related, then! Wouldn't mind a maple board/lined fretless J neck off a Sire MM V7, for a project. And whatever kind soul gives it to me can re-shape the headstock to a Tele style, to save me doing it myself, cheers.

Outrageous bargain. A truss rod tweak will probably fix the neck bow, amazing how many people are superstitious/reticent about simple jobs like that.

All in all, that's one of the strangest listings for a mundane instrument that I've ever read.

Nail >>> Head.

He sells mostly drum stuff, apparently. Looks like he uploads these template listings and subsequently edits them to sell specific items. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/funklefester/m.html?item=153237956986&hash=item23adb1a97a%3Ag%3AKbMAAOSwxyJbhHTT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 Maybe makes sense if you're listing a lot of stuff and don't mind what the run & end times of your sales are.

That's a rarity - early example, passive, single-pickup & 22 frets. Can't remember seeing this version come up before.

That is completely and utterly off its t!ts. I'm almost reticent to admit I sort of like it. Sort of. Some thought's gone into the shape of the body, and that looks like it's been fairly well done, certainly as far as the shaping's concerned. Don't know my Hofners at all, so I don't know what the neck/electronics are from, but I think this has originally been some sort of lefty conversion, hence the control positioning. Does look like it's had a few changes (mostly unsuccessful) in its life after that though. Not exactly sure it can be saved now, either.

Despite my being part of the half-century+ demographic, one of the bands I've seen this month (twice, in fact!) is Lifesigns, who are relatively new - their first album was released in 2013 and they've only been gigging since 2014. Not sure though if they count, being not-exactly youngsters themselves - their bassist (the delightfully batsh!t Random Jon Poole) is their youngest member at 49! I do think though, a perfect example of the irrelevance of age in music & creative arts, IMO Lifesigns are by far the best new(ish) band I've heard in years, and quite joyous (not to mention hilarious) live.

And they use UPS & DHL - which might not be good news for some.

Fortunately (for the future of the species), I'm a bassist not a guitarist, so there's little chance of that! However - it's been in the studio and was used on an album a band I was in made a while back. Because it has single-coil mockbuckers wired directly to the output, it's very, very bright-sounding, and contributed some very brittle, shrill-sounding harmonics that the guitarist couldn't coax out of a Strat or a Tele. Since then though, it's just sat in the corner, looking funny...

Triplets, related through Fakery: And conjoined twins:

Fair question, but despite four decades of trying, I haven't killed a bass. Yet.

Not a bass - my first-ever 6-string guitar was a quite decent Columbus SG copy which I had in 1980. Aside from a bolt-neck & fake humbuckers, it was a pretty reasonable facsimile of the original, down to having a very slender, volute-free neck/headstock junction. Can't quite remember how it happened but it probably involved the enthusiastic execution of inept powerchords, playing along with Motorhead or somesuch, and a surprise meeting of Columbus headstock and bedroom wall. I do remember a sudden loss of string tension and very rapid de-tuning. And then the "plop" as the newly-liberated headstock hit the floor. I lacked the skills to correctly repair my newly decapitated guitar - but I didn't lack imagination: I've still got it now.

Steve Rothery from Marillion still uses the same Squier JV Strat he's had since 1985. Looks a little bit modded though!

Wonder if it's possible to change the quantity in my order & buy 10 copies at £18... ... ... ... Then sell them here for £40 a pop.

Quite looking forward to my 18 quid pre-order. Assuming it ever turns up - I seem to get a couple of revised/delayed release emails every week...

Realistically, I'd suggest that a band that looks & sounds like this, is marketed at Grandad & his scratched Led Zep discography just as much as it is at Da Kidz.

Just had a quick shufty through that list and I have to say it's tragically incomplete - none of the various Hohners I own or have owned are on it, it makes no differentiation between Japanese & later MIK etc guitars - and not even their arguably best-known instrument - The MadCat Tele copy, played and made famous by Prince - features. Needs work. And consultation with geeks!

If a paint job qualifies a bass for the thread - I have a first-run ('85) B2A in black & white, all original, had it from new. Keep thinking about selling it, then deciding - it's a Steiny clone, doesn't take up much room...

Until Grandad gives them Houses Of The Holy to listen to.

But that - with this band - is patently absolutely never going to happen. You have heard/heard of them because they have been marketed at you. They look exactly the way they look, and sound exactly the way they sound because that is the thing that is being marketed. If the marketing is successful (which for some reason it currently appears to be) then they will be expected to repeat that success in future, and it's unlikely that the formula will be allowed to change. And if it does, then you probably won't hear much from them again. Briefly considering musical history over the last 40-odd years, there have been a good few bands who came to short-lived but significant prominence by cloning Led Zeppelin. Off the top of my head I can think of four, three of which have long since achieved well-deserved obscurity. Those three are (or probably were) a German band called Kingdom Come, an ar$e-end of BritPop band called (imaginatively) The Music, and some Canadians called The Tea Party. All of them, like Greta Van Fleet, went well beyond influence, & deep into the territory of imitation. The fourth bunch of shameless Led Zep clones were lucky enough to pre-date the level of label & management control that many of the bands of the 80s & later found themselves subject to. They recorded their Zep ripoff debut in 1974 and released it on their own label (unheard-of at the time), and got picked up by a major for a further 3-album deal, importantly maintaining full creative control. They subsequently sacked their old drummer, bought a bunch of Yes & Genesis albums & started reading objectivist philosophy, resulting in a slightly altered musical direction. That was another bunch of Canadians called Rush. Not sure I can see Greta Van Fleet being in a position to follow a similar path, even if they had either the talent or the ambition. But they might well end up supporting members of The Music or Kingdom Come on a touring tribute band festival in a few years.

Keep hearing about these & just watched a couple of minutes the video posted at the top of the thread. My first exposure to them. Pathetic. Led Zep copying by numbers, the singer's beyond awful and has all the charisma of an upside-down mop with some plastic teeth stuck on. Does make me think though - it must be pretty awful being that age & wanting to play rock. A generation seemingly incapable of bringing anything whatsoever of their own to the genre, re-hashing and imitating ancient music and styles that their parents would likely have found embarassingly dated. If the likes of this is all that's keeping rock alive - then switch off the life support, ffs. Just wretched.

I've struggled with this. I'm pretty handy cutting out accurate shapes for scratchplates, but always get to the point where I don't want to potentially wreck the hours spent doing a tidy job by bodging the edges. I tend to round off & polish a straight-cut edge, which sort of allows the layers to be visible - but not as well as a proper bevel would: Liking the look of the Stanley knife blade on-a-stick tool, think I'll knock one of those up and get practicing on a bit of scrap.