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Yeah, I guessed that but that doesn't mean you can join the pub quiz team! Unless you know a lot about sport - I'm rubbish at sport.

I mean, turning up to work with lunch in a 70's Fender bass case would be stylish and unconventional...

It is one of the most charismatic instruments I've ever played. Absolutely knock-out. Proper Donald "Duck" Dunn territory!

Nop. I'm not selling this. It'll be going to The Bass Gallery. They'll have to take the neck off and get the scratchplate and pickups out to take photos and stuff. I just thought I'd share some pics before it went off to some collector somewhere.

I'll start taking proper pics in a bit. This thing is so seventies it's just lit a Rothmans, put on a pair of flared nylon trousers and asked for a lager top.

Nice try. I'm afraid you've not made it onto the Bass Chat pub quiz team but better luck next time...

You're half right! It's a Precision...bit more recent though. 1970. He got it in '71 from Sound Centre in Cardiff.

It is!

I'm building this up!

Yep. It's a bass... Here's a bit more!

Bit more info... It's not mine (I'm VERY sorry to say) Belongs to my dad's mate and he bought it new. He's retired from playing now and is moving his bass on. It'll be heading to The Bass Gallery shortly

Over the next few hours I'm gonna take pic after pic. Go on, what do you recon's in the case?

Ladies and gentlemen... Shakira!!!! https://bassmagazine.com/shakira-plays-bass-during-surprise-times-square-performance

I've never had a signature model before, is it obvious? Is there a signature somewhere? I mean, if I liked the bass it'd have to have the name of someone I really despised on it for me to turn it down, and then I'd probably still buy the bass but find a way of getting the signature off!

But the Les Paul is a signature guitar. Every bass made by Sire has Marcus Miller on the headstock - if you wanted a Les Paul or a Sire bass would you really be that put off by the fact it's got an artist's name on the headstock? Or do you think those are maybe different to a signature model where it's a pretty standard, off-the-shelf instrument e.g. a Roger Water Fender Precision or Guy Pratt Betsy bass? Don't you think with a lot of signature instruments you don't have to advertise the fact? Sometimes it's a canny purchase - The Bass Centre Betsy bass is supposed to be an absolute belter of a j-bass...

Wrong? No. Funny. Definitely. Like it or not, people do have preconceived ideas about what kind of music you play based on the type of bass you have. I quite like being an antsy bugger though!

I agree. Unless you're in a very specific tribute type of band where the audience expects a certain look (imagine a Beatles lookielikey with "Paul" playing a Status headless) then you can use whatever you want. It's all in the fingers, after all... Can't play disco on a Rickenbacker? *cough* Bee Gees? Can't slap on a Precision? *cough* anyone heard Forget Me Nots? I play disco and funk on a Dingwall with a Darkglass ADAM pedal. Go figure...

Gonna see Ida next week!

Yeah, totally, I’d forgotten the while pointy headstock thing! You don’t see so many these days…

And which would you feel pigeon-holed playing? I'm gonna kick off and say I'd happily own a Fender Geddy Lee Jazz bass. I love early-to-mid-70s Fender Jazz basses and the GL ones have a great reputation. They're proper disco funk machines, as well as being great for rock. I'd feel able to use one of them in pretty much any situation I'd use a 4-string. I don't think I'd get a Dingwall NG as it seems just a bit too focused on the hard-rock/metal genre, though I think they're awesome instruments. I own a Combustion and I can kind-of sneak it into a lot more situations than the NG without looking like I'm in the wrong band! The darkglass tone capsule is also less versatile than the EMG.

Look, I've been banging my head against the screen for ages trying to get some music recorded but I've got the start of something that I actually quite like the sound of. I don't know where it's going to go - I'm going to leave it for a while and come back to it and maybe think about some vocals and an arrangement, but this is a sort of starter/demo/

Portable yeah?