Bassassin

[quote name='Russ' timestamp='1438636918' post='2836072'] They've just announced this lovely beastie - the RBN. Reminds me of an Atelier Z, with the clear scratchplate. Very nice. [/quote] First time I've dipped into this thread in a while - and f*** me sideways - that is [i]gorgeous. [/i]I think I just had a crisis. J.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1441481667' post='2859195'] Shiny SB600. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aria-Pro-2-Custom-Body-Bass-Guitar-SB-600-/231677472089?hash=item35f10dad59"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item35f10dad59[/url] (I'm mentally prepared for Jon to come along and tell me that it's not actually a SB-600 but some other obscure model, as often happens [/quote] I feel faintly guilty now! Anyway - I don't really have a particularly encyclopaedic knowledge of Arias. I can tell my SBs from my SB-Rs but beyond that I'd always recommend the great Mr Graeme Fyfe's [url="http://gfyfe.com/aria.htm"]Aria website[/url]. And acording to Graeme, [url="http://gfyfe.com/sb600.htm"]it is indeed an SB600[/url]. That'll be a post '81 set-neck version, as a opposed to an earlier bolt-neck. J.

Are they played by a bunch of c***s?

I saw Motorhead for the first time in 1979, Saxon were supporting. Saw them for the second time in 2008, Saxon were supporting. Sadly probably won't see them for a 3rd time in 2015 with Saxon supporting... [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1441355789' post='2858146']...I have no recollection whatsoever of Triumph. [/quote] I vaguely remember them. Canadian 3-piece - who sounded "surprisingly" similar to mid/late 70s Rush... Jon.

I think the CNC machine's broken.

I spotted that one yesterday! Not entirely surprised you snagged it... Jon.

Another effin' Fender copy. Yawn.

It's exactly what it says it is! [url="http://brochures.yokochou.com/guitar-and-amp/yamaha/1979-01/en_11.html"]http://brochures.yok...9-01/en_11.html[/url] Not something you see every day, though. I like it. I think the headstock-end walnut plug thing's quite common, maybe something to do with securing the head-end of the truss rod. Jon.

Great deal - particularly if David's still got any of his ever-so-naughty Renegades left. And I think he might... Jon.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1440757825' post='2853529'] If you go to sell in an auction, what makes you different to him? [/quote] Depends how you sell it. 99p no reserve would mean you stood equal chances of making a loss or a profit. Or it just not selling. Has anyone looked at the guy's history to see what he's succeeded in actually selling? Ebay's full of desperate opportunists punting tat with fantasy price tags that will just never sell. J.

This is the same one that was [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1984-Vintage-Westone-Concord-Bass-Guitar-Made-in-Japan-Matsumoku-Gotoh-Upgrades-/231609891262"]on Ebay for £205[/url] back in July (same naff-looking swapped black hardware). Sold on a best offer so presumably the current seller assumes that's a reasonable price. J.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1440704043' post='2853182'] Jon - to go slightly OT for a bit. Do you know if the Teisco brand has been revived in Japan recently? There's been a few rather tasty looking instruments on the Ishibashi Ubox over the last 12 months with very reasonable prices and in AFAICS pretty good condition for something made in the 60s. Any ideas? [/quote] Yes, don't know a lot about them but there have been reissued Teisco "classics" (Del Rey, Spectrum etc) around for a few years now. I'd guess Japanese market-exclusive, hence them turning up on Ishibashi. J.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1440655663' post='2852654'] Did Gibson make a fretless version? [/quote] A quick Google turns up pics of fretless G3s (and a few Rippers) that have unlined ebony boards. This looks like it's been a stock maple/pearl dot fretted board originally. J.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1440696801' post='2853102'] I'm surprised that you value it as high as £200. NB: I'm not doubting you, just expressing my surprise that it's worth that much. [/quote] On reflection that might be a bit optimistic. I tend to go on what I'd hope to get if I was selling in a 99p start auction, and it would probably need its original bridge cover & a Teisco logo to get anywhere near that. After a second look, I suspect that in the flesh it's a bit more knocked-about than the pics suggest, too. J.

I'm inclined to think the batwing headstock/mudbucker bass is an original US-built Newport. Matsumoku-era catalogue [url="http://www.matsumoku.org/models/epiphone/catalogs/1974/pg5.html"]here[/url], which unfortuntely doesn't include the through-neck or Scroll. J.

99.9% sure it's a defret - that knocks the value, surely. Jon.

Re the "Ideal" - it's the usual make-up-some-crap-because-no one-knows-any-different rubbish you see with so many old MIJs. The bass is a re-badged Teisco, from probably around 1968 or '69 by the looks, "Ideal" will be some generic importer/catalogue brand, it looks in nice condition for its age, if everything works properly and it plays OK it should be good for about £200 tops. In the Real World, that would be. Jon.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1440503686' post='2851297'] There is a 3rd, have you heard Steve Lawson or Michael Manring ? [/quote] Well yes, I've been playing for a little while and am fairly familiar with most well-known exponents of the instrument and the techniques, conceptualisations and styles they utilise. However I said a: you [b]broadly[/b] have 2 choices, and b: I was attempting to be humorous. J.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1440460054' post='2851031'] This, I think, is not a Westone bass: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Westone-Custom-Bass-Guitar-/191671824392?hash=item2ca087f008"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item2ca087f008[/url] I am pretty sure it's a bitsa, with horrible hacking under that plastic plate where the bridge has been moved to get the intonation. [/quote] Indeed. Thunder neck on a generic plywood P body. That's seriously pushing the envelope of ineptitude, to move the bridge that much & still end up with the saddles at their limit. And then claim it "would benefit from a full setup". J.

I love these - IMO the best-looking 4000 series bass Rickenbacker have ever made. Must've been hard for the design department, getting John Hall's approval for something that looks like a high-end 70s MIJ copy, though... Jon.

An eight-minute orgy of odious stunt-bass, then. Which highlights the uncomfortable truth that if you're going to utilise the bass guitar as an instrument for solo self-expression, you broadly have two choices: anaemic atonal blooping, or frenetic clattering and pinging. Don't do it, kids! Jon.