EssentialTension

Less stable with a J than with a P and no good if anyone is crashing round the stage but I've been using them for about a year with no accidents so far.

[quote name='Soloshchenko' post='1200871' date='Apr 15 2011, 03:52 PM']Gotta love Paco De Lucia. It was his brother who was the bass player in his band if I remember correctly. Never liked the look of the Gibson basses myself but played a stunning fretless one once. It sounded as big as a house.[/quote] I had a fretless Ripper for a while. It did make a big sound.

[quote name='Monckyman' post='1200778' date='Apr 15 2011, 02:50 PM']Golf, A good walk ruined. Winston Churchill.[/quote] If Winston ever said that, he got it from Mark Twain. Winston said: 'Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose'.

And a very similar Gibson Ripper banana bass:

[quote name='purpleblob' post='1200746' date='Apr 15 2011, 02:33 PM']Where's the emoticon for bemused & disappointed ? [/quote] Here you go - Wish Banana bass:

[quote name='purpleblob' post='1200738' date='Apr 15 2011, 02:30 PM']I see no links and cannot watch youtube vids in my currently location, but I have an awful feeling it's going to be a disappointment when I finally see this bass - unless it's a banana shaped bass [/quote] No banana, it's a Gibson Ripper shaped bass.

[quote name='Sercet' post='1200733' date='Apr 15 2011, 02:26 PM']... I just move my fingers until the note sounds good ...[/quote] Do the rest of the band mind waiting for you?

[quote name='skej21' post='1200588' date='Apr 15 2011, 12:53 PM']I was saying that the people substituting Cadd9 for a power chord are the problem.[/quote] I've bumped into a few guitarists who always substitute a C5 whatever the required chord.

All my present instruments were bought without trying them - three on BC, one on eBay, one direct from the manufacturer in the US. No problem.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='1200140' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:57 PM']and with an action measured in centimeters not millimeters...[/quote] Excellent. Proper bass.

[quote name='noelk27' post='1200132' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:52 PM']It was also available through the Bass Centre in the UK. And yea, it was a numbered run of 100.[/quote] But where are they now? Rare, very collectible and so pricey, I guess.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1200118' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:43 PM']Ooh - you're right. Forgot about that one... 'twas a very limited run.[/quote] Was it 100? Something to do with the Los Angeles Bass Centre?

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='1200115' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:41 PM']reguardless of the merits of the bass that is one of the worst reviews/introduction i've ever seen.... really really if i cut the high and boost the low it might be more reggae? wtf? i stopped watching when he started to tell me the bridge pup would be more 'funky'....[/quote] Needs the Ed Friedland review really.

There was a limited edition in the early 1990s I think.

In the late 1970s I had a 1950s tan Fender Bassman 4x10 combo for which I paid (IIRC) £80 - a week's wages. Sold it quite quickly for about the same £. The one in the pic below is going for $11,000:

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='1199934' date='Apr 14 2011, 08:58 PM']I like it, wonder how much?[/quote] $4500 is the MRRP so probably $3000 or so street price. That's for the US model. Skylines coming next year sometime I believe.

Where's the missing link, Gareth? Is it this one?

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='1198447' date='Apr 13 2011, 05:23 PM']I would at least expect to find a set of allen keys for the truss rod adjustment and for the bridge saddles, those should have been in the box. Heck I've just bought a Squier 50's P Bass and it came in a very sturdy cardboard box, but it had all the allen keys I've just mentioned[/quote] When I bought a CV Jazz there was no allen key. When I queried this in the shop, the guy told me: 'We don't really like to give out the allen keys because people don't know how to use them properly and then we have to repair the guitar'.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='1198958' date='Apr 14 2011, 12:36 AM']Was playing one at the London Bass Show on the Bass Gear Stand. Quite few 'real' upright players tried it and liked it: it also has some cool electronics that enable you to add reverb and the like. For me it was a little too small even with the spike fully out, there again I am 6'4"! I think Phil still has it in stock, maybe look on his website: [url="http://www.bassgear.co.uk/products-page/pre-owned/takemine-b10-fretless-pre-owned/"]http://www.bassgear.co.uk/products-page/pr...less-pre-owned/[/url][/quote] Unusually the one in the link is lined. I've only ever seen the unlined before. There's no lined option on the Takamine site.

[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='1198894' date='Apr 13 2011, 11:19 PM']Exactly The Wilbury's and anything that Jeff Lynne has ever touched is total w***! [/quote] I wonder if Tom Petty agrees with you.

That was very interesting. Thanks.

[quote name='Soliloquy' post='1198928' date='Apr 13 2011, 11:57 PM']I do find it slightly ironic that the main contributor to this thread sold a bass to a guy on here last year. The guy drove all the way to pick it up, a round trip I think of a few hundred miles. The bass had been advertised with certain pickups, I can't remember exactly what I was told. When he got there the seller said "Oh, I hope you don't mind, but I've swapped out the pickups on the bass". Well it was a bit late then wasn't it if he did mind. The guy had also put a mark on the front of the bass by not being too careful swapping the pickups over. Anyway, I subsequently bought the bass which is when I was told the story.[/quote] So, this story which you 'can't remember exactly' is hearsay and may or may not be accurate. How is that helpful to this thread? As for 'the main contributor to this thread', does that mean the OP; or the person with the most posts in the thread; or who? You may think you're not being personal but you've still got some of us trying to work out who you are accusing - i.e. the person you identify as 'the main contributor to this thread'.

[quote name='daz' post='1198504' date='Apr 13 2011, 06:28 PM']I know i must be missunderstanding this somehow ?![/quote] [quote name='Beedster' post='1198508' date='Apr 13 2011, 06:32 PM']Easily done, the key is in the first page on the link Dave posted above C[/quote] However, once you read the other thread, you may find that the key doesn't fit the lock.

[quote name='Beedster' post='1198333' date='Apr 13 2011, 03:52 PM']Oh man, I just p****d myself picturing a colony of ants making off with your Decade (probably taking it up to that bloke in Scotland, he trains the ants you see...). I'm about 4 hours behind on work thanks to this thread [/quote] ... and wasn't his name ANThonyMurray!!!!

[quote name='Beedster' post='1198308' date='Apr 13 2011, 03:42 PM']Dealt with an ant colony? So, you gave them a UK voltage amp and they gave you a bass and some cash?[/quote] That's correct but now I can't find the thread. It seems to have disappeared; as have the ants.