Musicman666

I can see that body is only a facing in zebrano …but what is the body itself made of?

I think status prices were not that far behind wal if you went for the high end models with all the bells and whistles… but I’m curious as to which bogart model has a wood body and composite neck? …I find their website a bit unclear on this….probably me.

I believe the bogarts are all composite, no wood is involved apart from a veneer which for me was too radical, I prefer a wood body with a graphite neck.

I suspect robs commitment to quality is going to be the main obstacle to him simply passing on the business to whoever wants to buy it,… to some people reputation is more valuable than cash and he might be unwilling to see the legacy of status tarnished in his absence ….I think wal did it right but there was some luck involved with having Paul willing and able to step up to the plate.

Looks like there is one stealth left on sale in the stock basses ….

Funnily enough I was talking to dawn not too long ago about what would happen to status when Rob inevitably takes a back seat and would there be an ex apprentice like Paul of wal to pick up the baton,…. She went pretty quiet with that suggestion which was very unlike her, normally she can talk all day and now I know why.… status as a business could keep on going if there was somebody else ready to step in.

sting needs a mention...he wasn't the virtuoso bass player as such but what he does is spot on for the track every time.

love his string punch style on kinky afro...without that this track would be nothing.

.... nobody with inside knowledge would bother with a 118 pound bass ...sounds more like kids to me,

yes ...my one has rusted poles as well...it's good to know i'm not the only one with these issues.

my walnut s2's ...

anyone remember stringsdirect when it used to be holiday music in leytonstone high road ...?

yes ..a wal mk2 is another one of my basses that i haven't seen in years ...locked up in a room in south east asia ... its probably now a race between me and the termites....can termites chew their way through a wal case??? i hope not.

i have one of these locked up in a room in se asia...havent seen it in years ...hope its still there(could be eaten by termites)...neck played like butter ...geddy thinks so too. i remember buying it in hong kong for top dollar ...it was literally the only ready way into fretless at the time if you were stuck in that part of the world before internet sales became a thing.

"excuse me while I kiss this guy" ....hendrix purple haze ...somehow I just accepted it without question and moved on.... ...my mate cracked me up with games without frontiers by Peter Gabriel ...she's so funky yeah??????? seriously dude wtf?

i bought a black ray brand new in the uk during the 90s and immediately took it to south east asia....with all that high humidity around the backplate split and the poly paint got all cracked up and started falling off, a guitar tech said it has mojo. Plays just as good as the day I first got it....but looks like shite.

played a musicmaster for years ...it was a 78 Olympic white, it was my first bass. I remember the strings always sounding incredibly whumpy for want of a better word ....i play a status graphite now, standard D ...as far removed from that first bass as i can possibly get. Amazed that little fender is now held in such high regard...perhaps I was a little hasty to have sold it.

when i think of a bass solo my mind immediately conjures up ric gretch's (bass noodle) performance in the Blind Faith track Do what You Like.... now i'm not holding this up as any jaw dropping performance but it is pretty cool in the the context of things and somehow it must have been a little nerve wracking to be sandwiched between clapton and baker, i guess the order of the day was do whatever you like as long as it didn't sound like jack bruce.

from what i can gather these slots by depp were pre arranged prior to any trial so he was just honouring his commitments ....and depp considers himself primarily a musician who does acting to pay the bills ...but yeah don't give up the day job johnny....he's ok but not great, it's like he thinks he's keith richards or something.

Used to see quite a bit of hawkwind including nick turner and Robert Calvert…for me their pinnacle was the levitation tour with ginger baker at the hammy odeon, and then it was sonic attack at the same venue with Michael moorcock , maybe next was at Glastonbury with Lemmy who also showed up at the crystal palace bowl, after that they seemed to go slowly downhill in budget, I did see the black sword tour at the Walthamstow assembly halls …maybe the last time was down in Truro, ….still amazed that Dave Brock was mates with Eric Clapton on the same busking circuit in the 60s.

These two bands are quite different which will colour my choice significantly ….one is balls to the wall essential rock and the other is meh …. So no guesses as to which bass player gets my vote.

Youtube …

Less is more…

Just about anything by the police.

double track everything and you will surprise yourself…