Bassassin

Gawd. Reissue the Victory or GTFO.

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1475155024' post='3143513'] Not sure about Strats, but JV Squier basses can fetch more than USA Standards on the used market. So yes, you should have kept it! [/quote] Wot he said. Same, to a slightly lesser extent, if it was an SQ, E or A serial...

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1475070436' post='3142786'] I got an electric guitar when I was 11. Christmas 1979. I wanted to be Paul Weller I never did manage to learn how to play it. It was a Squire Strat. I sold it for £60 in about 1987. [/quote] Interesting. There were no Squier Strats before 1982. Possible accident involving a contraceptive & a time machine?

Having no awareness of, or interest in anything to do with music. I can clearly remember having strange, new & interesting feelings towards a girl called Pauline Webster, though. [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1474969297' post='3141847'] Learning grammar. [/quote] Yeah - "should [i]of[/i]". Get with the times, Daddio.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1474989503' post='3142095'] I think thats a Kays bass from the 80's, but Jon will be along in a mo' and tell me I'm wrong [/quote] It's an East German Musima - seen a few of these before. [url="http://wietsesguitars.nl/pagina465.html"]http://wietsesguitar.../pagina465.html[/url] Some of these - later ones, I'd guess - had Japanese hardware - this one has Gotoh tuners, shame one's missing as they're decent quality. Most of these seem to be unbranded in the UK.

[quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1474904467' post='3141410'] I'm very disappointed to note that in your list of criteria there is no mention as to whether said bass-player is considered to be any good for metal. [/quote] Speaking personally, much as I do love my metal - no. Cannot stick to root note.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1474895310' post='3141303'] I'm very disappointed to note that none of the above replies supply the essential information:[list] [*]Height of bass player [*]Weight of bass player [*]Approx. state of fitness of bass player [*]Degree of intimidation associated with bass player [/list] As a non-street-fighting man meself, trying to deck a drunken punter with my (very expensive) bass or kick him off stage with my boot to his arse would most likely lead to me spending the rest of the gig in A&E. [/quote] I'm a non-aggressive, peaceable and to be truthful, downright cowardly person myself but just happen to look like a gargantuan psychotic murderer. Having gone through countless gigs - and in fact life in general - without experiencing a lot of violence or threatening scenarios, I'm starting to wonder if there's a connection.

I remember seeing Tool at the London Astoria in 1997 - a punter climbed onto the stage & Maynard Keenan floored him with what looked like a martial arts move & completed the song sitting on top of him. Back in the real world, punters could sometimes be a problem when I when I was playing in a cover band around the Glasgow circuit. Between sets we'd often have to physically dissuade enthusiastically wrecked people from picking up instruments & howling down mics. All good-natured, fortunately.

Absolute madness. And awesome.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1474560142' post='3138839'] ....an HH Combo the size of a washing machine... [/quote] That'll be an HH VS Bassamp 1x15 combo, or I'll be very surprised. My first "serious" amp in the early 80s, certainly looked awesome and the light-up green control panel more than made up for any limitations it might have had. What's interesting is that I now have a washing machine that resembles an HH VS Bassamp. It even has a light-up green front panel. Well, sort of.

My CSL Jazz copy cost £60, it's my go-to bass for pretty much everything. Our guitarist has been known to gig with a Sunn Mustang Strat I gave him for his birthday a few years back. Cost me £5 from a car boot.

If ever I need an illustration of the concept "a solution in search of a problem", then I can point to this instrument. After scratching my head over what possible use this thing could ever have, I finally realised that the split colour scheme is a massive clue: it's the Brown Note Bass!

Nice example. Too bad about the studded wristband rash!

MIne turned up, it lights up in pretty colours when switched on so I'm delighted with it. It's a bonus that it seems to be a perfectly functional tuner as well. I did find the battery cover to be very stiff to remove and it looks incredibly flimsy too. Don't think it'll handle abuse well.

I like it but I'm probably biased - Atlansia is the brainchild of Nobuaki Hayashi - the "H. Noble" who designed all of Aria's finest, including the SB range.

Always GASed for a Status, specifically a S2000. I now know I'll never own one. Unless it's that one.

[quote name='dyerseve' timestamp='1473965060' post='3134617'] Erm that would be the high mass brass bridge, brass nut, high quality tuners, same or at least very similar controls, active, dimarzio pups, switching for series/parallel for each pup, maple neck, and high build quality. You're right, not much really... And I didn't realise double p pup was ever common. [/quote] Fair enough on that basis - although as far as I know Vantage pickups are not DiMarzios - probably Matsumoku's own MMKs. Again though the hardware is very typical of its era and heavy bridges, enclosed tuners, brass nuts etc are common on many late 70s/early 80s basses that don't follow the Fender template. Not 100% sure but I think the 2x P layout was first popularised by BC Rich on their Eagles & Mockingbirds, and it does turn up on a lot of basses from that era. This Renaissance is interesting in that it follows the BC Rich format by reversing the pickups. But really for me the significant difference between these two basses is that the Vantage is a mass-produced neck-through conventional build while the Renaissance is a short-run handbuilt bass with a bolt-on neck and an acrylic plastic body. I think this makes them very different, and tellingly, I don't imagine someone who would consider paying £2000+ for a Renaissance would look twice at a Vantage, never mind consider it as an alternative. Me, I'd take the Vantage (or other MIJ 2x P neckthrough) any day of the week. Or for the price of this Renaissance - about eight of them!

I noticed this exact same problem with mine last week. Had mine for 5 or 6 years now - looks like they're all self-destructing at the same time! Was wondering if I can remove the mucky residue with acetone or white spirit but I think I'll drop an email to Strings & Things first.

Fretless 5er with humbuckers. I'm automatically going to say Ibanez SR, you should be able to find a very nice used high-end example for your budget. The skinny necks are a bit marmite for some though.

Interesting discussion. I went with the comedy answer but otherwise it's "no" - with a caveat. I wouldn't pay over the odds for an instrument with a "history" for myself, whoever had owned it. However I certainly would if I was pretty sure I could sell it on for a significant profit myself.

It just looks disgusting. I really don't get it - can someone who likes this please help me understand the appeal of filth and squalor?

[quote name='dyerseve' timestamp='1473856245' post='3133587'] looks to be similarish to a Vantage VB-900A which can be had for much less money and have the advantage of neck-thru construction. they arent exactly common either though: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1981-Vantage-VA-900B-Neck-Through-Body-Bass-Guitar-Matsumoku-/222018882783?hash=item33b15b4cdf%3Ag%3AuWIAAOSwKtlWq8sR&nma=true&si=osIDaNUttx2%252Fu9rLEi8oYpg2C1A%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=p2047675.l2557[/url] [/quote] Erm - aside from having 2x P pickups (a fairly common configuration in 70s basses) in what way? I'm a massive fan of Matsumoku basses but even I can see that these two instruments are from different planets.