Paul S

I'm gonna keep my eyes on eBay in case anyone want to thin the herd

For me, the bass on Josie is utterly sublime. It is my all time fave Steely Dan track, laying down such a funky groove whilst at the same time weaving around the melody. I don't like all SDs output - there are very few bands where I could say that - but the stuff I like is way up there. A couple of years back Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers were on the same night at the O2 - for me it was probably the best night's music I have ever had the privilege of watching I get that we don't like the same things but I don't get why people have to disparage what they don't like or the people who like it. If the OP doesn't like Aja, why make some sort of inverted snobbery remark about it? Not necessary. I left a Snarky Puppy concert at half time, for example, as I wasn't enjoying it but I know a lot of folks love them. Horses for courses.

I like the look of these 👍

What about the Harley Benton PB- Shorty - 42mm at the nut. Supposed to be half decent.

If my memory serves the old Fender Musicmasters had a 40 or 41mm width. The Squier Vista series Musicmaster certainly did. Just measured my Hofner Club, sat next to it, 43mm across the nut.

Addendum - I swapped the pickup for the Fender custom 62 this morning. Yum. Not as brittle as the Entwistle with more depth and width, more organic in character. I can see why folks recommend them so highly! Worth every penny.

Tall Poppy Syndrome - not heard that before. Gotta love Australian 'cut to the quick' attitude. As an aside, there is a species of Eucalyptus tree, called Gum trees in Australia, that has bark that looks like a small child had got a crayon and scribbled all over it. They call it the Scribbly Gum. What a great name! No way would a pompous European or American botanist ever do such a thing. 😂

I assumed it was lunch.

Wikipedia: The co-founder of Chic, Rodgers has written, produced, and performed on albums that have cumulatively sold more than 500 million units and 75 million singles worldwide. If you ask me the guy is doing something right.

😂 Perhaps you should have added the phrase 'and only people that agree with me are allowed to post, or I'll get shirty' 😂

I can't see that and not think of this:

My Frankenstein 'Honcore' - the neck was a magnificent maple neck from an med scale 80s Hondo II H1015 that, as a whole, was massively too heavy for me to wear. The body donor was a very lightweight Encore double cutaway short scale with a P style humbucker. I had the two spliced together with the necessary adjustments made, Wilkinson bridge, Entwistle PBXN pup. 3.1kg. Just about to get a Fender Custom 62 pup put inside to perhaps darken and warm the tone a little. Real fun thing that turned out better than I hoped - sounds like a Precision but looks nothing like one - and has been promoted up the ranks from home practice to back-up to occasional gigging bass.

What we used to do in my ex-covers band was, unless anyone had the strongest of objections against a suggestion, rehearse and gig the song. Some didn't make it past rehearsal, some fell by the wayside early on, some we gigged. We would have a band curry night around xmas/new year and score points for everything on the set list and whatever was in the pipeline from 1-5, keep the highest scoring tunes, ditch the lowest. Seemed to work quite well.

I bought a Fender pickup from Dan in the most straightforward of transactions. He wrapped it with care, posted it immediately, even took a pic of it wrapped up and the posting receipt. Great stuff - a pleasure doing business Thanks Dan.

I'm enjoying it - an A-Z of everything I dislike in bass design 😂

I reckon my Frankenstein 'Honcore' bass ticks all my boxes for form and function. I love the symmetry of a double cutaway. The neck of a Hondo II H1015 spliced into the body of a cheapo Encore. 32" scale, black body no scratchplate, maple neck, passive Entwistle P pickup, all in at 3.1kgs. Just about to get a secondhand Fender Custom shop 62 pup, which will increase the total spend by about 25% Of course, ask me next month and my answer will be different

Basildon fracking? I've said something very similar many times.

I was in a band with 4 Beatles lovers and this was recommended to me as essential listening - I did actually listen to the whole bloody thing waiting for the good bit. One of the worst things was lift sharing with the drummer who subjected me to an entire Beatles album every gig to 'turn me'. I don't dislike all the Beatles stuff. I quite liked their early Chuck Berry Tribute phase 🤨

I believe the pole pieces were 11" from the 12th fret, Chris - it says so somewhere in the diary, I think. The treble side was reversed and moved forward which I guess theoretically thickened the tone up a bit but, in practice to my knackered old ears, didn't seem to make much difference It certainly sounded like a Precision. The next stage - I went the whole hog, gutted it and just had a Precision pickup. But the last step in my ownership was to have it put back to stock and it will soon be enjoying a new life in Germany

Full NBC suit, I'd say. I'd rather do a stint on the cruiseliner Diamond princess

Breaking news.... man doesn't like something other people like.... 😂

Back home now so was able to dig out the build thread that Andyjr1515 did when he carried out this mod

I did it to my Sterling, reversed the coils on the P - that sounds a bit DrWho, doesn't it but the bass side was smack on the sweet spot..

Or add a Ppickup to the Ray.