Bassassin

Buy a body with the timber, finish & routing you want. Buy a neck with the woods, inlays & proportions you want. Buy the hardware & electronics you want. Nail the lot together. Go out for a slap-up curry with the change.

Like it or not, it's Ozzy's time as a reality TV star which made him the odd cultural icon he became. His life & passing would still have been massively celebrated within the metal community, but there would have been very little of this blanket coverage if he hadn't been all over the telly with his catchphrases.

If I was looking for a budget fretless, I'd get this: https://www.thomann.co.uk/harley_benton_jb_40fl_3_tone_sunburst.htm HB have a great reputation, plenty of folk on here use them as regular gigging basses.

OK - so I did listen to the track - headphones on, at volume, all the way through. I was mentally preparing an unbiased critique, talking about song structure, instrumental discipline, some basic production/mastering which might pull a coherent song out of what we were presented with. And then I noticed our pal Mr Layne ain't exactly a newb around here, having uploaded 6 songs a good few years back. I got curious & went a-Googlin'. https://www.soundclick.com/johnlayneandtheaeonspromiseband Two hundred and seventy two songs. I don't think there's much I could teach John L about songwriting & production. Not that he'd listen to, anyway. 🙂

Here's an idea - post your music somewhere that's not a known hotbed of extremist hate, bigotry, intolerance & lies - then maybe a few more people might be interested enough to have a listen, and not draw prejudicial conclusions about the content & the poster. I'm not clicking a Rumble link.

Absolutely, which is why metal nuts or a zero-fret make sense. Is there a reason why zero-frets are so uncommon & seem to be regarded as a cheapo shortcut? Or is it just that Fender never used them?

Logically, a brass, or other metal nut would seem to make sense for tonal consistency, unless your frets are either plastic or bone. But then - I don't understand why every bass or guitar doesn't have a zero-fret, and the nut simply acts as a string guide. I suspect tradition is the answer, and is also why bits of dead animal still get glued onto stringed instruments.

I had an SQ serial Squier P (SQs succeeded JVs) and it was by a long way the nicest Precision I ever played. Sold it because I'm not really a P player, and always sort of regretted it. The 80s MIJ Squiers - JVs particularly - have a deservedly great reputation, and came from the same factory as MIJ Fenders. The JV prefix was used on Japanese domestic market Fenders in the early 80s, without the small 'Squier' that the first export models had.

I did not know that! Went in search of pics - and so it is!

Year started playing: 1978. Blame The Stranglers. Number of basses: Loads - I've genuinely lost count. Think of a number, triple it, then add 1, because one's a twin-neck. Music theory: Don't understand the question. I have many theories about many things. One is that music ruined what might have been an otherwise normal (and probably happier) life. Technique: As Lemmy once replied to the same question - "Sturm und Drang thrashing", except in my case in 7/8 & 5/4. Groove: I don't f*ck with the groove, the groove don't f*ck with me.

Holy Multiple Posts, Batman! Welcome (x11) to BC and to the thread, @pbmuenchen and thanks for the pics & video of your bass. Always interesting to see another one - everything we know about these is in this thread, and unfortunately it's not very much! Mid '80s, made in Japan, probably at the Chushin Gakki factory, and a fairly uncommon model. If there's more to be found out, I think the Washburn Guitars - The Golden Era group would be the best place to look!

I only ever saw her once, in 1995 at Glasgow Garage - I think her first UK gig. She was very good, but a bloody awful harmonica player. I went with a guitarist mate I was writing & putting a band together with. We were quite blown away by her drummer & talked about hanging around at the stage door & kidnapping him when he came out. Wish we had - it was some dude called Taylor Hawkins.

"Liam! Smack Noel round the head with your tambourine!"

It's a mess. I'd walk away at £40, tbh.

It's Firewood. Well - 5-string version of the same thing, for sale in Slovakia. And here's one in Poland. I'll stop now. I think the light's attracting them.

No idea at all - pretty sure it's not weirdy MIJ - but it's awesome and I want it. 😎 I think it's a custom one-off, that said there's something a bit Ibanez SoundGear-y about the bridge, pickups & control layout, so there may be a donor bass involved. The bass with the 'R' on the head mentioned upthread was a BC Rich Ironbird - that's a coincidence, the font's different & this ain't no BCR!

It's an early 80s Korean-made Cort - sold under dozens of names but mainly Kay in the UK. I had one, it was pretty good, maybe not quite up to the level of similar Japanese basses from the same era, but getting there. Definitely no' bad for £50.

You can't quite get past the feeling that significant proportions of the UK -wing media never gt over that whole "WOAH JEREMY moment a few years ago. They won't be happy until Glasto's closed down, the Eavises are behind bars, every band that ever so much applied to appear has been deported and the entire Worthy Farm site's sold to US fracking companies.

I - and I hope the majority of people here - agree with that, but unfortunately this sort of discussion will get the thread locked. And remember, you'll never reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into. Anyway - moving away from politically sensitive issues*, I don't pay the BBC Compulsory Subscription, but am looking forward to hearing how dear old Rod the Sod endured a hail of p!ss bottles for the duration of his set. *Oops.

Ibanez Blazer & a lot of vintage PAF-stickered DiMarzios! Hard to understand what the thinking behind that would be, particularly the P unit right up at the bridge - you'd think you'd at least reverse it so the D & G strings don't just go "plink".

J'arrive! Bit late to be much help (that bridge will work fine!) but do post more & detailed pics. Not familiar with this design of Twincaster & it's got some details (pickups, for a start) I wouldn't expect to see on an Antoria.

If you've got half an hour, this is a long & detailed interview with Townshend, talking quite candidly (and humorously) about his career, his odd relationship with The Who, his solo output & much more. https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/interviews/pete-townshend-interview-2025

That'll be a B-Word consequence, I imagine. One of those oh-so benefitty benefits. 👍

Looks like that's been fitted by a previous owner, using a Pickguardian surround. Neck unit's absolutely not an SD. And read this - from 2009 so unfortunately pics are gone - a post from a member called Darkstrike actually points out that the Anniversary doesn't have SDs. Had a quick dig & found a pic of a stock Anniversary.

Chinese Fakers are bottom-end stuff, they won't be fitting a branded pickup set with an RRP higher than the bass itself! However modern Fakers have come factory-fitted with SDs - the Shine copies (made in Korea by Saein) which appeared in the early/mid '00s had them. As well as that they seemed to debut the classic 'design' of the modern Chickenbacker bridge, the tinny bridge pickup surround & a heel the size & shape of a housebrick. I'd speculate that's what @geofio had - Saein is an OEM manufacturer so it's entirely probable they made the Anniversary brand. However I don't think that's what Bruce F's so-called old bass is (it's absolutely 100% not MIJ!), and those pickups are 100% not SDs. That first generation of 00s Fakers included Rockinbetters & briefly, the Bass Centre's own take (was it called a California or something?), these were Korean-made & a cut above Temu Chickenbackers & that's what this looks likr to me. So maybe this is Bruce's old bass, but only 20-odd years old rather than 50.