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Tried similar, and they're great for a while, but with my sweaty hands they tend to detach after a while. Good if you want to keep a vintage / valuable bass all original though. Big fan of Luminlay - fitted them to both my gigging basses.

That's actually a better haircut than his one in the OP video......

Incidentally, a great place to see one of the old Vulcan bombers (amongst many other old beauties) is the Imperial War Air Museum at Duxford, near Cambridge. No longer flying I think, sadly, but the sheer size of these beasties up close, and their sleekly functional if rather menacing beauty, is amazing.

Absolutely stunning bass Chris; very individual but I can see how it would appeal to you on so many levels, and Status build quality is impeccable. I guess it needs a "bespoke" case? Having moved to playing Warwick Streamers a few years ago after a several decades of playing big vintage basses (mainly Gibbo RD Artists) I have to say I often miss the sheer physicality of playing a big bass! (coincidentally, the RD Artist was developed with John Entwistle's input, with him in mind as a signature type instrument, but I believe he distanced himself from it before launch. A shame, as despite its flaws - mainly weight - it was a stylish, wonderful sounding, and innovative bass). And - just wanted to be the first to say this - we'll all be looking out for the FS thread, maybe in the New Year........???

Wow - absolutely sublime; a new one on me, had to watch it twice. The Who a full on rock band by then I guess, but what a combination of that sheer visceral power with Townsend's quirky Mod - and for me quintessentially English - song writing. Townsend the best rhythm guitarist ever bar none; he never rated himself as a lead guitarist and I'm sure channelled much of his frustration with that into pure angst driven energy. Roger Daltrey's contribution often overlooked , but I think it was around this time that he hit his true form in the band, and for me no other singer could really do justice to the emotive and often complex vocals in Townshend's songs. And yes; the most distinctive and innovative virtuoso rhythm section ever. Interesting to see that JE left the pickup cover of his P bass on, given his very physical stye of playing; personally it's the first thing I take off.

Interesting indeed - he clearly felt that the neck mudbucker was something missing from the original (basically Thunderbird) pickup placement. As a big fan of Thunderbirds, but also of humbuckers placed right up at the neck, I've been very intrigued by the Mike Lull Tom Petersson model - anyone tried one? Mike Lull Unveils Tom Petersson Signature Bass – No Treble

Never tried one and probably never will, but Elvis Costello in his early years playing his similarly styled Jazzmaster was for me the epitome of cool.......

My memory of the older Patrick Eggle instruments is that the guitars were very decent indeed; the basses (Milan etc) looked nice but were sonically pretty bland. These don't even look nice; a shame as the original Shergolds always looked classy.

I'd agree with both of those opinions. I assume they were probably trying to make the design sufficiently different from the Wilcock Mullarkey; itself very derivative of the original Shergold body design, with the DNA that led to the Wal Pro basses. A bass version of their new Masquerader guitar would be quite tasty, mind.

Lovely plumage - bubinga? Great story

If the virtual ABBA were Abbatars; would the virtual Pistols be the Pretty Vacants? (I'll get my coat.....) About the only one of the big punk /new wave bands I didn't get to see back in the day

Owen must be one of the few long standing BC members that I've never had a deal with yet, but sorted that one now 👍 Bought a Hipshot D-tuner (Gotoh GB7) off Owen - smooth easy deal, great price, fast despatch and well packaged - one happy bunny here Thanks fella!

Bought a Boss multi-fx pedal off Sean; as multiple posts above indicate he's a top Basschatter: smooth deal, great communications, super fast despatch. 👍

In my ongoing personal project of listening to stuff I meant to listen to more to in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s but never got around to, I’ve been listening to “The Fox box”, a 4 CD set of all of recorded material from the 1970’s pop band Fox. Some decent songwriting, and very good production and musicianship (including some nice bass playing). However, unlike the last band I was listening to - Renaissance - who were SO much more creatively than the one single that they’re remembered for (“Northern lights”), I think Fox’s musical apex probably was the one single that they’re remembered for (“S-s-s-single bed”). Mind, Noosha Fox does have one of the most sensual voices in popular music.....🥰

Ahhhh.....I stand corrected! 👍. I thought it didn’t look quite like my ‘65 IV, but wasn’t sure how......🤔

To be utterly pedantic, it’s a TB IV 🙂