Bassassin

Noted.

Still there? Amazing if so. If this turns out to be an E or A serial (IMO looks like it could be either) then it'll be an awesome bass for £100. Or if you're an unprincipled gyppo, a potential £250-ish profit.

Like them both a lot. An awful lot. Only problems for me are i) the Fender sticker on the end and ii) the association with that smug git and his dismal band. Oh, and how much?

There was a BC member who gigged with one of these, posted the pics to prove it. Can't quite remember who, was a few years back. Anyway:

On the other hand Glen Matlock was a pretty damn good player. And Steve Jones (who played bass on most of NMTB) was absolutely rock-solid. Sid was never a musician and was never meant to be. When I heard that album, aged 15, I'd never heard anything like it. I may never have thought about playing music myself if it hadn't been for the DIY ethos of the bands that came out of Punk. Pretty groundbreaking to me & millions of other kids who suddenly realised they could be in bands too.

Very much depends what you mean by "greatest". If you grew up with this stuff (as I did) you know the impact they had on the music scene at the time - many of the other bands in the list would never have existed/had careers without the influence of the Pistols! They weren't virtuosos but anyone with a pair of ears knows the "couldn't play their instruments" line was, to coin a phrase, bollocks. And (speaking as an unrepentant prog rocker) great rock music isn't about technical ability!

Very nice - resisted the temptation to grab this one myself! I had a fretless BB400S, aside from the obvious it's hard to see what the difference between the 300 & 400 actually is. Mine had a chunkier bridge, I think. Can't offer anything factual about the serial (mine had a 4-letter prefix & 3 numbers) but I think all the different formats exist because Yamaha contracted several different factories to make the same models. That being the case, it's possible (probable, depending on the factory) your serial might use a standard format. Many 80s MIJ numbers use the first or second digits to indicate year of manufacture - meaning yours could either be '81 or '84. Pretty sure BB300s would have been around in both years.

The "Geneva" sticker on the back might be a clue - they were 90s Aberdeen indie/alt rock band, made a couple of albums for Suede's label in the Britpop era. Met them briefly in a Glasgow studio in 1995 or 6 - think they were recording their debut album, can't remember if the bassist had a T-40 though!

Ridiculous bargain, they can go for nearly twice that these days. Has the original case too. I'd grab that, if I were you.

I've played Blanket On The Ground. There. I said it. I've finally admitted it. Do I feel unburdened by this confession? Strangely, no - the recollection just takes me back to that dark, shameful night, and somehow revives and revitalises the humiliation, the stigma, and makes it all real again. No matter that it took place many years ago, in a frankly terrifying pub in the east end of Glasgow, and that it was a necessary act of self-debasement if we were to leave with teeth and gear intact, limbs unbroken and bodies unstabbed. Should I have been the stronger man, and taken the kicking, the glassing? I just don't know - some scars heal, others, it seems, do not.

Just stunning. Would look fabulous next to:

Some very, very odd inclusions on a list that should be entitled "guitar bands" rather than "rock". Anyway. One omission, and I'm amazed no-one else appears to have mentioned them considering the seismic impact they had on British music. No Sex Pistols. Come on.

That's grim, particularly if it's from a proper luthier. Looks like garden-shed wonkiness on steroids to me.

Having been moaning a bit in TheGreek's thread in Off Topic, I'm happy to say it's much more stable & running much faster for me this morning. However - tagging other users (@ + username) doesn't appear to be working.

Pics are pre-update so I can't see them unfortunately - any chance of re-posting them, @ricksterphil ? Morris is house-brand of Japanese manufacturer Moridaira, who are probably best known for making Prince's Hohner MadCat Telecaster copy. I think the Hurricanes were early 80s but they're not all that common so that's all I know! £50 is a total steal for any decent MIJ bass from that era, though.

[quote name='Mickeyboro' timestamp='1509880511' post='3402235'] Never mind the bass, where do I get the Pacamac? [/quote] From the '80s. When I saw The Armoury Show, Jobson came on stage in an anorak, with a plastic bag on his head. For a bet.

The Kays will be horrible plywood Taiwanese rubbish. The Guya is MIJ, better quality and also has some collectability value. Any of the modern basses however will be a more functional, useable musical instrument. There's been a vast improvement in the quality of budget-end instruments since the 70s!

I know a guy who has one. Don't think he's selling though. I've had GAS for one since seeing The Armoury Show in 1985!

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Dave can be quite funny - particularly liked his Rickenbacker & Ibanez Rickenfaker vids. Not entirely sure what's the joke about the Strat copy though - actually looks like quite a nice Partscaster someone's put together but lacked the skills (and string trees!) to set up properly. Dave seems to imagine a Fender sticker would automatically make it better though. Continuing the topic of loudmouth Canadians who polarise opinions, I can wholeheartedly recommend [url="https://www.youtube.com/user/SpectreSoundStudios"]Spectre Sound Studios[/url] - particularly if you're an easily offended metal bassist. NSFW.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1509667045' post='3400799'] If your Marmite's that colour I wouldn't eat it if I was you [/quote] I'd be a lot more disposed to sample green glittery Marmite than the normal brown filth! I think the bass is - but that's a bit dear for a CIJ, isn't it? Admittedly I don't know much about "proper" Fenders...

Consistent with this 85/86 catalogue from Tokai Registry site - different model but same era: A lot of Japanese manufacturers who were still making copies in the "post lawsuit" era changed the headstocks on export models, but kept the Fender (& Gibson) shapes for the Japanese market. Quite a lot of these seemed to end up unofficially exported, which is probably why you see both.

Nice looking body. It's not ply - the easiest way to tell is that a ply P or J body with a 'burst finish will have big black oversprays on the front & back contours, to disguies the laminations. Also there are no visible laminations inside the routes or the neck pocket. Looks to me like this is made from two pieces of timber joined dead-centre.

Missed it. Arse.

[quote name='Spaced' timestamp='1508878666' post='3395140'] Would you like it if everyone judged your music by the first 30-60 seconds? [/quote] The vast majority of everything performed on Later will have said everything it has to say well within the first 60 seconds.