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23 minutes ago, rasher80 said:

If it wasn't collection only I'd have that Sire.

A bit too far from the frozen North for me!

£185 a total bargain for sure. Auction over for both that and Gibson. Don't think the Sire sold. May reappear I suppose.

8 minutes ago, uk_lefty said:

Now on bass direct for £1,499. If anyone wanted it they should have bid £800 on ebay 2 months ago! 

They do seem to like their mark-ups.

There seems to be one eBay bidder snapping up nice lefties at present.

A Gibson Les Paul tribute roadworn on eBay at present, bidding @ £475. Bidder appears to be same guy that picked up the Aria above.

Same vendor has a Sire version 2 V7 lefty bidding starting @ £185. Almost bid but I REALLY don't need another Jazz Bass.

EBS still available ? PM sent.

Still available ???

Really dreadfuk

High value items very sad. Sounds as though they were lunk/crack heads though. It appears they simply wrenched them from the wall hangers as they didn't know how to work them. 

On 07/12/2020 at 10:39, grandad said:

Mine has flats, (make unknown), but is quite bright, not muddy, the tone control is very effective. Overall very well made and setup for a lovely action. I'm the 2nd owner and it was well looked after so a fine example.

The reason I posted the ad' was you don't see many lefties and if mine is typical then judging by the photos this may be a nice instrument. I paid £150 for mine several years ago. It would be good to try before buy.

Just found this old photo of my Aria & my Tokai.

The 2 share the same shape but sound completely different.

 

Put a offer in on this but it went for the asking price of £310. Tried one of these in 1985 also a lefty. Sounded like a very good P Bass to me.

Smack my Bi**h Up - Prodigy 

2 minutes ago, Bunion said:

Cut me down - Ryders Creed 

Do not look down - Meshuggah

1 hour ago, dudewheresmybass said:

I have. As well as Lemmy, the cliff burton, Charles Mingus, ellefson.............

the list goes on lol

The Pete Way one is salutary reading, underlines the resilience of the human body I guess.

Mr Linder's a phenom. Works well with the v deft drummer too. 

Wish I could afford this EBS really desirable kit, will have to make do with one of their Octavers 😩😅

GLWTS

Tarantula - Pendulum

The Spider and Me - King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard

Uncle Sam's on Mars - Hawkwind

23 minutes ago, Shaggy said:

I’ve never been able to feel quite the same about butter since seeing “Last tango in Paris” as a tender youth.     Certainly wouldn’t put it on a bass.....

No Butts it's got to be Butter.

PM'd line 6 xt

Small Hours - John Martyn.

Later -

Clockworks by Meshuggah

7 hours ago, 4000 said:

He liked buying basses. 😉

You Sir are a master of the understatement😀😀😀😀

Seen them on Reverb, winced and moved on. Do look well made though. Imagine there'll be customs interest when it ships from Colombia.

Tears of a Clown. (Several Notable examples amongst heads of state)

1 minute ago, Barking Spiders said:

I generally have little patience with lead guitar solos as most of them bore the titz off me with their derivativeness, inappropriateness to the song and overlonginess . No such thing with EVH's which were to the point and never overcooked. 

He also cut the mustard live. While most bands leave theatrics and crowdpleasing to the lead singer, Eddie was every much a part of the frontline as DLR and Sammy Hagar.

Though Vai's stuff with Zappa was fantastic.

10 minutes ago, Shaggy said:

Money’s too tight (to mention - Simply Red 

Bummy's to tight (to mention). Simply Red

2 minutes ago, Beedster said:

....which is the polar opposite of nearly all guitar players in my experience. The oldest rule in musicianship, it's not what you play that draws attention, it's what you don't play. The virtuoso guitar thing is characterised by too much playing and ostentatious displays of technique and not enough musicality. As Mozart (allegedly) said of Salieri, "Too many notes"  

That was actually Emperor Joseph of Austria talking to Mozart.

Must admit though, much as I admire the technique of the likes of Satriani, Malmsteen for example the mad widdling leaves me cold. Love/adore Allan Holdsworth beyond all measure though.

9 minutes ago, ubit said:

That solo is a work of art and fits the song perfectly. Short but oh so good!

Done free of charge on a whim. According to legend in 1 (or 3) takes + 1 of the Studio Monitors caught fire.

Brevity of the solo certainly left one wanting just a little bit more.

Whilst on the subject of tribute players - during the interval of last year's Cricket World Cup Final, one of the Test Match Special Commentary Team played an awesome version of Eruption. Did anyone else here catch it ? Made the very mediocre guitarist doing interval music cringe a bit I reckon.

1 hour ago, peteb said:

Very true, the Frankenstrat established a new standard format for the electric guitar (superstrat or other shape) i.e. humbucker in the bridge position, upgraded trem and a fender scale neck. Similarly, how EVH modded his amps led to a whole new industry of boutique hi-gain amps.

Though his tone on the Beat It solo was down to a Hartley Thompson Amp "hot-rodded" by his friend Allan Holdsworth (who was an inveterate tweaker/tinkerer).

7 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

That is either the cleverest idea ever of the most stupid! 

There was an attempt at this a good few years ago, a thing called the Finial. Apparently sounded awful. Maybe latter-day processing improvements make this better.