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[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1408737285' post='2533156'] Get on over to Denmark Street then - they had two out, and the one I played was lovely. You must have seen the threads about the shop - seriously nice guys and great service! [/quote] Did you play the M85?

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1408708808' post='2532783'] I went to Anderton's a few months back, cash im pocket, all ready to buy the Guild Starfire bass they had in. Unfortunatley the shop model left a little to be desired and they took forever getting the other one for me to try that I left empty handed. Still have major GAS for one though. [/quote] I emailed Andertons several times about the Starfire but never got a straight answer until they stopped responding at all. That's another shop I won 't be using again.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1408635039' post='2532072'] Both - wasn't too keen on the looks of the M85 - looked a bit out of proportion. [/quote] I like the M85 look but I've only seen pictures. I might feel differntly if I saw it in the flesh.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1408552233' post='2531308'] Really hating this thread now - was in London today so made a detour to Wunjo, and yes, they had the Guilds in stock- Korean, £795 inc hard case, play like a dream. I now need to sell some stuff and hand on to some gig money...... [/quote] Which did they have in stock? The reissued Starfire or the reissued M85 or both?

Harvey Mandel and Wayne Perkins were also considered as replacements for Mick Taylor - hence they play on some tracks on Black and Blue. I think I also reaad somewhere that Jeff Beck was considered but he was completely not interested.

I just don't go there; it hurts too much and I'm usually out of tune.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1408479246' post='2530655'] Is Chas still around, I get the feeling he's not. Blue [/quote] Died 1996, aged 57.

The Animals too ... http://youtu.be/MgTSfJEf_jM

... and The Yardbirds also with Epiphone Rivoli ... http://youtu.be/HTO7WVxjz3A

The Tremeloes featuring Epiphone Rivoli ... http://youtu.be/n03g8nsaBro

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1408475012' post='2530597'] Sombody corect me if I'm wrong, but when I saw Paul McCartney last year here in Milwaukee, I could swear his bass player was playing a Gold Jack Casidy Bass, the Epiphone, right? Blue [/quote] Yes he plays an Epiphone Casady.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1408474841' post='2530594'] Yeah, thing is, and I think you older guys, 60 and up will remember when all the UK bands came to the US in the mid 60s, that Starfire bass was huge. Everyone had one. Blue [/quote] If you mean the UK bands then it would be more accurate to say everyone (well not everyone but a lot of them) had Epiphone Rivolis. The Starfire was uncommon in UK then and I'm not sure that anyone in UK had one. Of course in US, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Lovin' Spoonful, the Byrds, all featured Starfire bass at one time.

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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1408474214' post='2530582'] You see, it was Warwick calling their bass, "Star" that threw me.Guild has always been cool, however those things are expensive! Blue [/quote] I knew you'd know the difference once you saw one again

Reissue version ...

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1408472207' post='2530551'] I could be wrong but I think Warwick makes the Starfire now.I looked at one before I decided on the ES-335. Blue [/quote] Recently reissued by Guild ... nothign to do with Warwick ...

I played a Dearmond Starfire with Hammon Dark Star pickups for several years in the 2000s. I also play a fully hollow Takamine B10.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1408462442' post='2530436'] I think for some guys gigging was never there thing and thats fine. Me, I can't imagine a weekend without work. What would I do, read a book, watch TV, go fishing, go to a movie. I would be lost. I really think for my age I'm a minority in more ways than 1. Blue [/quote] I woudln't want to be gigging every weekend, once or twice a month will do me.

I read somewhere Jones was getting $50,000 per week on tour. Could be nonsense though.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1408442478' post='2530106'] ... if we're on a bill with a band of 20 year olds they're more likely to be in bother than we are ... [/quote] I was playing in an 'average age 40-something hard-rocking psychedelic blues three piece' a few years ago. We had been booked to open for a group of '20-something full-time music students progressive metal band'. We were nervous of their technical abilities but they liked our equipment - we provided the backline. But our drummer counted 1-2-3-4 and the sound of our experience hit the back wall. I think, they found it much harder to follow us than we would have done to follow them. Having said that I wouldn't want to follow my 20 year old son's eight-piece gypsy dub band (as they call it).

62, but I've been doing my best to avoid playing 'rock' for a long time. Other band members are in their 40s or 50s. I too saw Johnny Winter and BB King standing up but I also saw Muddy Waters and Bukka White and Brownie McGee and Sonny Terry etc all sitting down. Sitting down or standing doesn't really matter and there's excellent music now just as there was fifty years ago and a hundred years ago etc etc.

I thought Bb too but I've been wrong before. Anyway playing the B just gives a different flavour. Your last phrase 6-5-6, I would play using open string 1-0-1 - if you see what I mean.

Tune down your 34" scale bass to DGCF and put a capo on the second fret. You now have a 30.3" scale bass tuned EADG. Try it to see if you like it.