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Most people who’ve been in the Spector or Musicman threads know I’ve been lusting for a Wal. There’s been arguments against, offered alternatives and arguments for, all of which I read and yay or nay that lust didn’t change. This wasn’t sudden GAS this has been going on for years, but failing to act and cheaper impulse buys stopped me. Lately the £5,000 - £10,000 (yes 9.9k on eBay) has started to see my dream bass slip further into just that, a dream. So, as with most of my purchases ‘it all happened so fast.’ I was searching the internet for “Wal for sale UK” and there it was, Bass Bros in Stratford upon Avon had a Wal Pro 1, Birds eye’s maple and not only that it was almost in my favourite colour ‘honey burst’ AND it had the single pickup at the Bridge end of the bass where it should be. (I love my stingrays and modulus FU) But and this was a heart dropping moment , it was passive with just a volume, tone and series/parallel switch… What the hell, a quick call to Will at Bass Bros and a chat about some gear I could part exchange had me promising to head down the next day (it was afternoon and late in the day I had things on) to: 1. Check the Wal out and 2. For him to check my gear out so I could haggle him up a bit more. I got as far as the kitchen and was suddenly back on the phone to him making arrangements to be on the road within the next hour… (now the GAS had hit home.) I took the Waza bass air with me as I didn’t think he’d have an all tube/Bag End setup and I’m familiar with how my other basses sound through the headphones. I played it cool when I arrived, there it was sat on a stand but I ignored it while we passed the usual pleasantries, until, finally the time had come. “Would you like to try it” It had flats on and the action was high for me but as soon as I plucked the first note a huge grin I couldn’t stop appeared. That Wal sound, punchy, loud, distinctive, beautiful. It took me less than a minute to know I was going to take this bass home with me and after Sterling service by Will an exchange of gear and some funds I was on my way home. Casting furtive glances in the rear view mirror at the Wal sat in its case, like it was some super model crossing and uncrossing her legs while she promised I was going to get some when I got to my destination those miles went by quickly. photos courtesy Bass Bros

There is a thing, the Backbeat, I’ve been prancing round the living room all day with my Waza/Backbeat combo and I have to say it’s the ultimate in home practice setups. All in, yes, the set up isn’t cheap but I can honestly say I’ve not had so much fun, learned so many tracks or practiced so much as with it.

You can eat potato skins just throw them in the pan, tell your partner your not feeling well, lock yourself in the toilet and play bass, if they haven’t seen the Waza yet they’ll have no clue 😂🤣

That’s you gone for the rest of the day then 😂🤣

Psssst wanna buy a …. welcome and beware the market place it got me real good this year gave my wallet a right good hiding 😂🤣

thats a 4 string!!!

I’ll say you won’t be disappointed

I wonder what they’d do if flea applied I’m sure they wouldn’t say no 😄

The guy on the left, is he the hat pre-Warmer for the stunt hat?

Trans fatty acid - Lamb

As soon as you pulled out the leather strap for your bass they’d know…

If the officers and/sergeants mess get lively it’s called “mess rugby” if the ordinary ranks get lively it’s in front of the RSM in the morning 😄

They did indeed I was on tour with them, but they also lost the English language when you wanted them to do something for you that required sweating 😂🤣

I can back that up, I picked it up for him from bass direct I thought they’d handed me an empty box

Purchased a bass off Will today at Bass Bros, the service was fantastic. Wouldn’t hesitate to buy there again, a real gent.

Lovely looking bass though Andy, what does the puppy weigh then?

This isn’t, but i couldn’t let @AndyTravis have all the fun of a new bass day on his own. I’ll do a proper new bass day thread when I’ve had time to process what I did today… 😂🤣

Compressors, always a bone of contention.

I’ve be been a fan of 3leaf for awhile now they certainly don’t hang around

Now that’s a beautiful looking bass, too many strings for me but if you’ve tried the graphite neck and I know you have, you just know what’s it’s capable of.

My pot is on a knife edge every time I see something I like but I’m really trying hard to save it for the Wal 😄 I do have a new crazy idea of acquiring a fretless caprice and getting rid of the Tony Franklin sig I’ve just mailed Musicman to see if they can provide a neck, I must say I haven’t seen one in the wild anywhere.

I wish I’d been that fast with Wal they sold the other day 😩

I’ll buy it from you the day after 😂🤣