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NikNik

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  1. Anyone seen this?? Lemmy's gear
  2. You know what I would do? Stay away from Hi-Gains!
  3. The carbon weave was on my Series II back in '85 but it was a true weave, under and over.
  4. Also, what's going on with the saddles/tailpiece?
  5. A 4001S or a 4000 with a TB pup?
  6. Poplar? That's a pretty light wood. And those caps are ultra-thin!
  7. I liked the spalted bodies that Vantage did a few years ago. Never seen one on a Jazz. Not bothered about the neck.
  8. I've looked again at your bass, this time on the laptop, and yours in fact has the same bridge as mine.
  9. Interesting. I do like that spalted top, though.
  10. Nice Jazz. Nice price, too. John East circuit Custom Jazz
  11. Is that not a B4? I have one almost identical (your bridge looks different) and it's a B4.
  12. There's a guy called And Dzuzik(?) on the Steiny Yahoo forum that knocks them up for about £70 for time to time. Faithful reproductions, too.
  13. Older guy I knew was a Cvil Servant and used to come in early to Edinburgh from Falkirk. He'd have a couple of pints at lunchtime and then clock-out at 4pm and then hit bars on Cockburn Street before getting his 6pm train home. Whereupon he'd nod off, miss his stop and end up in Weej. And have to go back again to Falkirk and an ill-tempered wife and a burnt Dinner.
  14. Father and son were dodgy AF. The former was also a police informer, as well as being a crook. He eventually caused the death of an coastguard officer when he tried to scuttle his boat after a drug run was intercepted by HMRC.
  15. Back in the day I was in a Heavy Metal band and the singer moved from Edinburgh to Galashiels. He soon shacked up with a dame and we used to pile down at the weekend and stay in his small flat. Bodies and sleeping bags everywhere. One of the guitarists - who was so shy that he had no carnal knowledge of women at that time - was observed one night having his face eaten off by a dame. We never saw him for the rest of the night. Around 4am we hear the door go and in he comes, covered in massive love-bites and scratches and bruises. Seemingly, his paramour had asked him back to her place, 7 miles out in the sticks, so he drove out there in the small hours. At the door, she kisses him and nips inside, closing the door on him. In a priapic rage he drives back on the winding A7 road to Gala and totals the car; it's a write-off. He's ok, though, and his father was on the way down from North Berwick to take him home. It is then that we point out the massive ring of hickeys on his neck. Someone tells him that putting toothpaste on them will make them less visible to the old man. Which turns out not to be the case, as the toothpaste seems to make them worse and highlight them all the more. His old man - a Magnus Pyke lookalike - enters the small living room where a dozen bodies lie smirking, grunting and farting. 'My God, William! What has happened??' the father asks as he stares at his son. Willie replies, 'I...I've been with a woman, father!' A stunned silence from all follows. The father casts his eye around the beer and sweat-reeking room, turns on his heels and walks away. Nothing like chasing dames, eh?
  16. Several of my basses have Warwick Reds. Great string, great value.
  17. Yeh, thankfully the days of giving a false name and no ID/Wrong ID to hock shops are long gone. They have to be accountable nowadays. Did anyone up here have any dealings with a shop called 'Boston's on Leith Walk, Edinburgh, back in the '80s?
  18. I'd have a Roya, too, if I could afford one. I like that firey red finish Jens does. But then there's this one I found on Talkbass, made with quilted Bubinga. An absolute dream, certainly at that price!
  19. Isn't it just ecstatic??
  20. Drama is my Yes Bête Noir. I, too, saw them on that tour (Edinburgh Playhouse) and they were, to me, shockingly bad.
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