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Who is Jim Richardson. Dreadful. If that was Jacos long lost bass of doom I still wouldnt want it. Anyway I was on the TV once, cut a single...does that mean my ole P bass is worth a mint? haha Nope.

Bernard Edwards on Everybody Dance.....then decades later found it he was stroking with a finger knuckle...doh...Fab tone.

Not a guitar but orchestral stuff which is even pickier and it's always been stellar...grt company.

Any ad thats full of yadda yadda yadda, avoid. Do yourself a favour get a CV 70's or 60's model., perfect outta the box and mine gives all the Fenders Ive owned a run for the money.,

You've only got to look over on Talkbass, constant woe with Fender Custom Shop stuff, QC all over the place. But it's not just CS. A relative of mine has bought a new 62 RI Strat unseen and it's all over the place..... Still kicking myself for letting a Mex Road Worn P slip thru the fingers..lightweight, tight QC and thumpy. Anyway I digress, that classic 50's nitro is lovely.

Forever the voice of dissent on what has basically become an "indie rock" bass guitar channel. Im listening to Bee Gees, The Drifters, Marvin Gaye and Luther Vandross. 😉

I did reading in 1980, Pat Travers, Slade etc ...Sadly these wondrous dudes weren't there....anyway. Enjoy.

I have a CV 70's P bass and that fat neck makes it very nice and Ive owned vintage and modern Fender. Youve got the full house it seems to me.....hate to soun d like a cumudgeon but save the money and practise more...

Never heard of BD. The thing is guitar shops have historically had to put up with in the main, young ego drenched awkward musos trying to be all cool and surly...see it all the time so no wonder they have a bit of an attitude. It's all par for the course of the music biz thing and always will be. I personaly don't know how anyone works in a guitar store....wld drive me nuts.

When I was a teen back in the 70's I was the only young person at work who went out to pubs see live local music...so nothings changed. Anyway not surprised. A CP show is the biggest safe space on the planet.

Is a Stradivarious worthless? Nope. People will eventually get sick of where music has gone (currently half way thru its deathroes I would say) and then return to the good ole days...ie the blues, 60's 70's rock, chart stuff, groove stuff, etc and those instruments will go off the scale.

I found the perfect remedy for this malady of which I too have been thru a few times, each time stretching my enthusiasm to a slither...I took up the Tenor recorder, learned to read treble clef and now cannot put it down..I can play what I like, when I like, where I like and have thousands of tunes to choose from and people love it.

Man, this sites gone downhill and not a word about Livvy, Jeez...the vibe around here is odd to say the least.

Oh well, forever the voice of dissent and to give the thread a bit of balance. I rather dislike them and owned about seven over the years. Kept buying them thinking the next one would be grt but nope...The best was the last one, a Mex RW which for the right bod was a superb instrument. Guess I cannot get over the offset, the skinny lil nut and all that PU/knob palava. I'm a P bass guy thru and thru but even their not as simple as some would think, but once you get a P bass dialled in, ie technique, strings, (dead flats), amp etc there's no going back.

Stuff happens and in the music trade it happens a LOT. All that matters now is how they rectify the situation. If they mess you about etc etc ...THEN use this righteous ole board to give em hell!

Grt choice. Ive owned gazillions of P's and now own one... the CV 70's like yours, that thick neck is brill. Anyway a buzzing P is a bad earth and nout to do with copper sheilding even tho you appear to have had some sort of a result...very unusual tho.

Cant beleive I havent posted, right up my street. As a teen I played a P bass from 77 to 80 then someone in the charts hits a bridge PU on something (not a Jazz, prob a Wal or something) and that was it...no more P bass. Played a Stingray from 80 to 89 but truth is there was always something missing. Yes it barked but I wasnt really happy. Bought a crummy Mex P in 2005? then a couple of vintage examples which had to go and now the very proud owner of a CV 70's P in 70's walnut. I just find that old hefty tone is so satisfying and you just know it's slaying the audience if mixed in right. Perfect.

Watching that old Motown documentary with Berry Gordy in the studio. My goodness what an energetic guy he is/was, no wonder it was all so successful..my fav musical subject.

To echo an above comment. Played one thru the 80's and truth is I never felt satisfied...like something was missing, yet others could really make them bark. Anyway my angst was instantly cured when in 2004 I bought my first P bass, still, it was kinda de rigeur to play a Ray under the armpit in the 80's...haha.

Started drumming four years ago tho I could always bash them but figured I needed to "learn" them properly, including setup etc. So I did, and played in a couple of bands but got so fed up with the schlep I packed it in and recently sold them. It's no biggee I learned a ton over the past years so can always put it to good use if need be, in fact the hi-hats paid for a beautiful Tenor recorder which I'm really loving, and yes thats a whole nother story. Funny enough my bass playing has improved hugely beacuse of the drumming I think.

Blimey, interesting thread. First exposure had to be Radio 1 in about 72, then about the same time running to a friends house at school lunchtime to play his dads brand new Dark Side of the Moon album...( he would have killed us if he'd known!) later still Luxemburg, from then on I was obsessed with music, instruments and bands. Still am at... 63!

Well they were the first of what we now call boutique, but they were never quite right. My old SB1000 which I bought new in 1980 was a beautiful thing but it was too heavy and the neck was too narrow and too skinny really.....still, had a lot of fun pretending to be JT. Those old SB's are things of beauty.