Newfoundfreedom

I do it all the time at rehersals. I usually just shoot daggers at the guitarist so everyone else thinks he's playing the wrong chords. 😂

Guitarist - "We should do a Shadows number." Me "Fking elevator music. I'd rather put a gun to my head"

I don't even think it's a supply and demand thing so much as a perception of value thing. It's like an unknown work of art selling for a hundred grand, suddenly every other work of art by the same artist is worth a hundred grand, purely because of perception. Items create value based on what people think they're worth, and while ever more than one person perceives something to be of a certain value, it will actually drive the price up. I find it particularly daft where guitars and basses are concerned. Like all technology the manufacturing of guitars has improved massively over the past 50 years. I would even argue that you can probably buy a "better" (I know, better is subjective) instrument for £3-£400 than spending 4 grand on an old Fender. I must admit I've never been a Fender fan anyway. I find them extremely bland and unbelievably overpriced for what they are. I'd rather have something like an ibanez or Yamaha any day regardless of value, but that's just down to personal taste. Either way I'd certainly take a new bass over an old one. It's like buying a Betamax video rather than a modern home cinema system just because you enjoyed a certain film on Betamax 40 years ago. I just don't get it. Having said that, I totally get the "I've worked hard, I want it so I'm buying it attitude." So fair play if it's your thing and you want one, then why the hell not.

I haven't even come up with a name for my kids yet. I just call them kid 1 and kid 2. Kid 1 is away at university now.

I like Flakes, especially in ice-cream ala 99. I've never tried a fantasist.

I still can't help but feel it's an improvement over the standard fugly Fender headstock.

Yeah I think we can all agree, playing bass in flip flops is a definite no no with one hand or two. You're supposed to wear Crocs.

Can't be that difficult. All my mirrors are fretless.

Are they those velcro strap things I keep seeing wrapped and the neck of the bass just kind of over or behind the nut? I often wondered what those were for.

I wish I could play one tenth as well as him with two hands.

Ah bugger. There goes my GAS again!

Anything above a Diddley Bow is more than ample.

Careful @Teebs You're gonna run out of little likey men again. 😂

I still don't get it. How are you supposed to take a selfie without letting go of the neck? My Instagram would be crap if I played bass with two hands.

If there's one lesson I've learned in life it's never take your hands off the neck until the job is finished.

You need to know the magic word. "I'llneverhavemoneyagain!"

I totally agree. Hard to imagine how you would let it get in that state even if you're gigging it every day for 50 years. But having said that, at least that is original and authentic battle scars. I find the purposefully road worn look of new instruments utterly ridiculous. Take a perfectly good, brand new instrument, make it look knackered, triple the price. WTF is that all about? I mean I kind of get it if you're in a tribute band and you absolutely have to have the exact look of the original instrument. Even then it seems a bit silly unless you're going to go with hair dye and plastic surgery on yourself first.

It's for Jazz doncha know?

I think I've got it! It looks like a Carnell to me. 😋

Superb! I can't wait to see how you're going to make a pedal board out of a cooker hob. Lucky it's not gas.

Are you sure it wasn't a Tangleword guitar? That would explain it.

As soon as I start to play I get psychological itchy noise syndrome. I can't wait for an open string section to come around so I can have a good scratch. Thank God I'm not an astronaut!

I once left my "nice boy" reputation behind when I went home with a rather attractive female audience member. Mind you, I was 16 at the time, it was my first gig and I felt like a rock God! I reckon I could have pulled Angelina Jolie that night. 😂

I was thinking exactly the same thing. I don't understand the world any more. Who in their right mind would give £550 for this?!