Beedster

Seems to be a common thing 🤔

Suggestion meet solution Just checked my emails, these were the specific problems I had 1. UPS refused to collect due to the value of the bass which meant I had to take it to a 'Service Centre' where the staff had apparently no idea what to do with the paperwork and at least some of the documents didn't make it to the US 2. It was almost impossible to identify the correct import code, which IIRC we eventually had to leave off the form which further slowed down the process 3. Despite the buyer repeatedly speaking to them on the phone, UPS kept emailing me new forms to complete requiring the information the buyer had already provided (these were almost certainly system generated but I got the sense that phone conversations and digital comms were completely independent of each other). UPS tracking was also a disaster, we received 'Out for delivery' emails followed by 'Your item has been held by Customs' emails frequently Eventually Rob at Status provided the necessary information, which IIRC was related to the material of the neck inlays, and after a few weeks the bass was released. I have a friend who like @walshy regularly sends guitars to the US, his view is that it's generally ok but that when it goes wrong it goes spectacularly wrong, guess we were unlucky In the grand scheme of things, all unimportant stuff. But it was an expensive and rare instrument and myself and the buyer had three weeks of worry about losing it, something neither of us could really afford to do, especially as it was a little ambiguous as to whether the insurance would cover an impounded instrument, I suspect not. But even though I might have been unlucky, I will not use UPS again, ever 😡

Shame they've chosen to not us the fender headstock shape, Status necks always look 'right' on a Fender, not sure these will?

Ha ha, sorry, but a new bass can't be a bad thing surely I remember at the time of Manifesto Roxy Music were pretty much Prog Rock Royalty with Ferry as the King and a court of highly acclaimed musicians - Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay especially - and then suddenly there was this punk kid not only playing bass, but putting the bass front and centre both in the mix and in the imagery (as as I said in the RM thread, Tibbs gets more video real estate than anyone other than Ferry in that video). At the time it was really aspirational 👍

No just a bass player who I’d forgotten until today

This was the album version of Angel Eyes from the same album, which has a far more grunty bass line, almost like the producer said 'Play it how JJB would sound....?'

Bass nice and prominent and grunty in this live mix https://www.facebook.com/bryanferryfanpage/videos/roxy-music-trash-nippon-budōkan-tokyo-japan-april-28-1979-pro-shot/684994735365558/

If I understand you're suggesting the WAV is able to pickup non-mag strings while the CRM isn't. The CRM has both EMG mag and bridge piezo so as Tony says, it would work, you simply have to try it to know how it would sound to your ear and style, although you would have fewer tonal options than you would with steel strings as the mag PUPs would be out of the equation

Posted this vid in the Roxy Music thread, but suspect he deserves his own spotlight having played in some important bands of the time - Adam & The Ants, Vibrators two name two. I think I learned more about playing bass from hearing and studying this bass line than I learned in the following 5-years. As I said in the other thread, it's tight, present, and insistent. Nothing special in itself, but it doesn't just suit the song, it drives it along powerfully. Glorious