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Well this is all very interesting. I also play a bit of cello and a harder instrument you will not find, in fact if you lower the strings too much the sound falls off appreciably, but with practise the set height is perfectly playable. "Playability" is I guess a very personal thing...personally I like a tiny bit of resistance...I like to feel the instrument fight me a bit...makes me work harder and to that end get a better outcome...Ive played necks that play themselves and they almost feel unsafe like my fingers gonna slip off or something. Anyway my Squire neck is fantastic...just the right amount of heft and resistance.

Oh well dare I get this back on track. As a now bonafide cumadgeon that's been there and got every conceivable T shirt for his troubles I can honestly say it gives me great pleasure knowing my penny h'penny Squire P bass sounds just as good over by the compost toilets as the gazzillion quid thingy the guy in the other band is using. Yep it really is just a piece of wood and totaly at the mercy of the sound dude who really will do his best to pump the bass control and cut back the mids to zero...rendering ur oh so carefully crafted "tone" to boom and mush. Incidentally my next bass is going to be made from finely wittled willow...you know the bendy stuff....should be amusing...haha

Could be factory. Scott Edwards played an extremely sparkly P bass on 'I Will Survive'.

If I have to see Rodders in a morning suit thinking hes Sinatra again I'll probably thro the TV out the window. Give it a rest Rod your awful. He'll always be in my eyes that screeching rock God on TOTP circa 73. His image and vocal tone was just off the scale original.

Dance hall days is a killer tune.

Thanks to Roxy, Bowie, Bolan, Philly Soul and then later Punk....I I hated the Beatles in the 70's when I was a teen...They sounded so old fashioned and really naff. 50 odd years later they sound like fine wine (what ever that is haha), and I include each members solo careers too. Its the way it goes I guess. Awesome music...Even their early pop stuff now sounds incredibly well written.

Kinger, the actural star that spawned a million YT wannabees and none of them are a patch on the real thing. His bro Nate is just as good.

Joined two bands a few years ago duirng my drumming faze. Perfectly ok and legit

Dada dada dada dada. No thanks. Wonder if he can play that groove to the 10 o'clock news? haha

All it tells me is that "R&R" is dead. Makes me cringe in the big stores, mum and dad choosing a Marshall stack for little Toby.....R&R was dangerous, nasty, your folks were supposed to be scared of it (mine certainly were)....No wonder it all sounds like crap today... the vibe is dead ...Now days your mum and granny think your cute as you smash up the Strat they bought you for Xmas.....Weird...,.just weird.

I shall always regret selling my early first run Mex, RW, Jazz Bass. Light, punchy and felt incredible, wonder whos got it now.

Bass is ok but, my 180 has in a very nice way been forced on me. Through a combination of becoming sick and tired of playing in loud electric bands (and yes even an electric duo or cabaret outfit can wreck the ears) for so long with major ear problems kinda forced me to re-evaluate everything. I still noodle on bass but I've learnt Tenor recorder and I'm now just starting out on Cello. I havent been this enthused since I was 17 and never knew Bach, Handle , Mozart et al can really mess with ur time....ie I spend all my time studying them. It's been a bloody revelation.

A few years ago there was a European guy in a studio somewhere with a rack of 60's P basses. He sat on a stool just a close up of torso and bass and layed down some of the sickest grooves I have ever heard in 45 years of playing....Cant find the vids he uploaded for anything...Had a considerable pot belly if I rememeber...haha. But seriously what a player.

No autographs but 10 years after I quit a local busy club outfit and, quit playing...I found a Fender catalogue and ended up in a guitar store..next thing I hear from a yoof behind the counter is..."hey aren't you so and so who was in that brill band".......spent the next 30 mins trying to get rid of him...twas nice but a bit unworthy.

No1 entertainer maybe still...Any doubters try playing Silly Love Songs and singing. Macca does it live and makes tea for the band at the same time.

John McVie. Poor guy can hardly play and he's twanging some fancy shmancy thing which you can never hear. A P bass would do him a huge favour.

Flicked the remote and what a treat. 80 I think. Weird catchy pop, The Regents (17), Ska, Legs and co and even ACDC which Ive never seen before. It all sounded so fresh and uplifting, specially The Regents...talk about simple effective production...beautiful.

Id go a step further. Whats missing is happiness...optimisim if you like. Listen to chart pop from 70s thru late 80's, in my opinion the heyday of great "pop" so much happy sounding uplifting music. Yes ok I sound like a dork but the proof is out there.

Lets say it like it is. My bench mark for grt pop is the Bros Gibb, ABBA, Philly Soul and The Beatles....the common thread ? it all sounds kinda happy, uplifting to coin a cliche...ie bloody well written pop music. In my local Co-op the other day I nearly ran out the door screaming...there was this monotonous...slightly hip hop drone...it was truly horrifying, and Adele, that Ed Bloke, Modern music? No thanks.

Had a gazillion P basses and my walnut CV 70's P bass with that thick neck tops them all. For 350 quid its ridiculous. Sure there are "better" basses out there but the CV package is more than I need...If ur technique is cool you dont really need a Fender.

Grew up with Bowie, Zeps, and all that peachy 70's cool...then in 1980 I heard 'A Forest' at a disco...and was blown away by the dark repetitive but soooo musical monotony.....still blows me away even now, especially when they do it live. Some of their later singles lost that coolness.

What is there left to say. They simply are the original of something that I think subliminaly a lot of post Cure "Indie" bands are trying to be. Having said that Sir Gallups constant movement has always irritated. A Forest has to one of the most deceptively simple but massive tunes ever written. Genius.

Cool zombie thread re-boot. Played a 1st Gen Ray from 77 to 87 but was never really happy, kinda lacking something, tho it did the job, but then one day in a store in around 1998 I picked up a P bass and realised what I'd been mjssing...that dry low mid thump.

Just played along with Everywhere, feeling a tad emotional. All my teen heroes gradually leaving us...man this has been bit of a shock...such an important part of the Mac and such an ordinary unassuming person but super talented.

Dont break it. It will always be dead original if all the parts stay together.,is it a nice weight.? just needs a tidy and the right pickguard...