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I'm not going to do anything in a hurry. It's been there years, I'm not going to do anything rash.

Hmm.

I know exactly how you feel.

It'd be interesting. I'm not exactly in a rush. My ideal situation would be giving it to one of my friends kids who is an aspiring bassist and seeing them play it when they do a set at Glastonbury! We can all have fantasies...

Thanks for your thoughts everyone. Really interesting.

I have never wanted to buy an instrument back after I've sold it. When I move on I move on!

Cheers, I appreciate that. To be honest I'm not bothered about the money. It's properly battered and won't ever be of interest to a collector, though it's 100% original. It's more that I keep looking at the case on the shelf where it lives and I'd rather see it on a stage being played. I also have a totally strict one-in, one-out rule on instruments so I could actually have a bass I'd play. The thing I've mulled over would be doing a swap for a Stingray 5 string. That has an appeal.

I have a beaten up '89 Stingray 2EQ that I've had for 30 years and have gigged with when I was younger, but I've not really played much in the decades since. I got back inot bass over the past 5 years but I just have no interest in 4-string basses any more so it sits in a case... but... I am finding it it really hard to consider selling. It's the only consistent instrument I've had in my life. I've also been told by other people who have played it what a special instrument it is and how I'd be an idiot if I ever got rid of it, but it's sitting in a case doing nothing which seems awful to me. I'd appreciate your thoughts. EDIT - we have a very strict one-in, one-out rule with instruments here. This means I have a bass that is taking up the space that could be taken by something I'd actually play. Having said that, I've played a Dingwall 5-string almost exclusively now for 5 years and have zero interest in playing anything else so maybe I'd be swapping one bass I don't play for another bass I don't play.

99% off bass solos suck. Jaco Pastorius bass playing isn't enjoyable. Better to study and learn then listen to for enjoyment.

Oh, tell me about it. I've done some rehearsals where the air con is on the blink and I feel bad for anyone close to us when we go for a post-practise pint!

That looks like a very specific night club

The fact that Sailing was massive is the problem. So was Clive Dunn's Grandad. So was Mouldy Old Dough. There was so much awful music in the 70s and 80s that we've forgotten. Having said that, Meri Wilson's Telephone Man is a walking-bass masterpiece and Crazy Horses is one of the best rock tunes I can think of so there are always gems in throwaway pop if you keep an open mind!

People, we have rose tinted glasses and remember the best and conveniently forget the dross. On this day 50 years ago, this was the charts in the UK: 1 - I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING (BUT MY LOVE) THE STYLISTICS 2 - SAILING ROD STEWART 3 - THE LAST FAREWELL ROGER WHITTAKER 4 - BARBADOS TYPICALLY TROPICAL 5 - IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW HOW TO LOVE ME SMOKIE 7 - BLANKET ON THE GROUND BILLIE JO SPEARS 8 - THAT'S THE WAY (I LIKE IT) KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND 9 -JIVE TALKIN' THE BEE GEES 10 - DOLLY MY LOVE MOMENTS 11 - GIVE A LITTLE LOVE BAY CITY ROLLERS Not a bad number one, very seventies, and the Bee Gee's and KC And The Sunsine Band's tunes are great but the rest is not great...

Sold Alex a UHX Bass Metaphors preamp/dist pedal. Great comms, fast payment, happy to do business. Hope you enjoy it! Cheers K

I returned the Yamaha to Mike last week after using it for a couple of months - absolutely can't think him enough. I was pleased to upgrade the loom for him with a KigOn loom as a thank you - Mike, I hope you enjoy the VBT layout a bit more than the previous setup. Cheers!!!

Really good to know. Hope the affair blooms into a long and loving relationship!

Hmm. It may not be the basses fault in my case either…

I’m 5’6” and I play a Dingwall. I look, frankly, ridiculous.

My goodness, I never realised what a seething pit of resentment and hatred we had here on basschat! Get it all out and purge yourselves!!!

I kind of know what you mean. I can't say I listen to RHCP for enjoyment, but I do use some of his basslines as warmups as they're brilliant string-skipping or slap exercises.

Sounds like a review of one of my bands...

I sea what you did there.

My dad's a keyboard player and he's genuinely one of the nicest people I know... but ... I can't share a stage with him!

You’re in danger of taking this thread seriously….

He's bean better...