Bassassin

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='734799' date='Feb 4 2010, 09:54 AM']That was too funny! Unfortunately there are lots of middle-aged, experienced, gig promoters walking round who are not really much better.[/quote] In my considerable experience, many are much worse - these are the cynical bastards who view young/originals bands as nothing but a meal ticket, willing to jump through any number of hoops just to get to play a gig. They'll expect you to provide gear, poster & advertise the gig (while still calling themselves "promoters"), bring an audience - often requiring you to agree to bring a minimum number of paying punters before they'll give you the gig. If they know you have contacts, expect to be asked to sort out & organise other bands for the bill - and then you can add ticket deals & pay-to-play to that equation. Calling them subhuman scum is being insulting to subhuman scum. J.

Happens all the time. Tell her where to stick it - but be polite & diplomatic. If she stays in the game & sorts herself out, the last thing you'll want is her putting the idea around that you're unreliable & have an attitude problem. Jon.

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='734646' date='Feb 3 2010, 11:50 PM']I just wanted to say that whoever designed this range for Ibanez had a total 'oneness' with bass guitaring ergonomics. The 'Leo of the 90s' perhaps? Bassassin - can you perhaps shed some light on this?[/quote] Hell yeah. That'll be [url="http://www.tuneguitars.com/store/wizmart.php?code=000701&lv=2"]these guys[/url]. The SR series is great, (I've had two, still have my 1990 blue SR800LE) but they're an utter & shameless knock-off of Tune's Bass Maniac. With a slightly re-styled headstock! It's actually high time I got my SR out of retirement & gave it a good clean-up & fettling. Jon.

That's one of the licenced Zemaitis models, I think My mate out of a band years ago had a real Zemaitis Flying V, built for him by Tony Z himself. Jon.

[quote name='basshead56' post='732655' date='Feb 2 2010, 10:39 AM']that looks nice! [/quote] It is - Matsumoku-built, mid 70s bolt-neck, from Aria's Diamond sub-brand. Pickups aren't original but looks like a very good score for £250, or whatever he could be haggled down to. J.

Yeah I know - that was a rushed post edit after I checked the pics! J.

[quote name='The Twickerman' post='732033' date='Feb 1 2010, 06:36 PM']Different pickups on their own website, aren't they. The example on eBay has (what look like) toasters. They are rather pretty aren't they? Rather chunky bolt-on necks though. I am sure they feel and sound quite different from a Rick.[/quote] I think this is one of the earlier ones - it's got a different bridge too. Never noticed it's a bolt-neck, either - the ones on the Bach site are neck-through: These actually got talked about on here a good few years ago, in fact I'm pretty sure one of the Bach guitars guys actually posted here a few times. Annoyingly the basses were a hell of a lot cheaper then too. But then again, the Pound was a bit less crap against other currencies at the time! J.

Not sure what postage from the Czech Republic would be, but they're somewhat cheaper new, direct from [url="http://www.bachmusik.com/en/p101036/rbb-2-trd/"]BaCH[/url] That's about £240. I like these, quite a lot... :brow: J.

I think it looks like most people see themselves as equally enthusiastic about both - and I'd include myself there. It's interesting - for about the first 25 years of my bass playing life I'd owned a total of 7 basses, and for 16 of those used just 3 - two fretted 4s & a fretless. It's only in the last 5 or 6 years that I've developed much more of an interest in the actual hardware than previously, and because my area of interest (predominantly vintage JapCrap) is very affordable I now have more basses than is in any way reasonable. Unless you're a bass shop. I'd also say that I've immersed myself in playing much more seriously than before & my technique - and also the desire to play for playing's sake - has increased & improved hugely. Like 4000 though, I am predominantly a writer and my band exists to play the music I compose. I never, ever buy a bass without a view to using it live, and therefore on that level the music validates the gear-hoarding - to me, at least. If for whatever reason I permanently stopped gigging, I think I'd probably want to get rid of most of my basses - having all these redundant tools sitting around would be depressing. I've always been a very hands-on bodger and my gear fixation has developed my guitar tech skills immensely. Most of the vintage JapCrap which comes my way is in a very sorry state & I get a huge amount of satisfaction from making a playable & (to some) attractive instrument out of what comes to me as a dilapidated piece of junk. Over the last few years I've bought & sold a ridiculous amount of instruments - mostly skinny-string guitars - and learned a vast amount about what is a pretty mysterious area of guitar-manufacturing history. Jon.

[quote name='numptydumpty' post='731037' date='Jan 31 2010, 08:26 PM']BC member rapscallion apparently has one and is most impressed.I cant believe there is something fundamentally wrong with the bridge position so maybe it is a short scale?[/quote] I think it looks more like the body's an odd shape / oversized - it looks like there's a couple of inches of extra wood at the back & the end of the body is less elliptical than a proper J. The bridge & control plate look in the right places relative to one another. Jon.