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p.s. I love the Beatles :-)

[quote name='Fisheth' timestamp='1455790858' post='2982400'] What are you going for? I take it your white one sold? (I didn't see if you mentioned it in the thread or not!) [/quote] Yep, it's in-transit to its new owner. I'm trying to be adventurous with the new spec, but I know what I like so the apple might not fall far from the tree. We'll see.

I'm about ready to order - I just need to man-up and commit to a couple of tweaks in the spec. I CAN'T TAKE THE PRESSURE!

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1455726987' post='2981878'] I would echo this, the [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Haeussel Precision pickup in mine is warm and vintagy, very much like my '71 Precision. The Humbucker is hotttttt, but sounds brilliant.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Si[/font][/color] [/quote] Is your humbucker a Haussell too, Si..?

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1455727773' post='2981885'] As for Adrian's shop, I've never seen so much bass stock! Wow, just wow! [/quote] Aye... I wonder how the WoT family would feel about a holiday in Germany this year...?

Beautiful.

My Haussel-laden PJ is warm and vintagey, exactly as Adrian said it would be. My Maruszczyk-wearing Oly (which has just been put in a postbox, on its way to its lucky new owner) is hotter and more aggressive. And the bridge humbucker burps like a monster.

Beautiful. I want that neck flame on my new one.

My word. I have to go there... And that J is beautiful. Congrats!

[quote name='Davebassics' timestamp='1455650437' post='2981184'] I'm in the market for a fretless and these are beautiful! Only seem to have fretted on the website though? Incredibly silly question .... How do you pronounce Maruszczyk?! [/quote] 'Ma-roosh-chick'...[list] [*][url="https://www.facebook.com/MARUSZCZYKINSTRUMENTS/photos/a.10150116450572396.285289.292530792395/10153187012377396/?type=3&permPage=1"]Fretless[/url] [*][url="https://www.facebook.com/MARUSZCZYKINSTRUMENTS/photos/pb.292530792395.-2207520000.1455651164./10153172083047396/?type=3&theater"]Fretlesses[/url] [*][url="https://www.facebook.com/MARUSZCZYKINSTRUMENTS/photos/pb.292530792395.-2207520000.1455651164./10153172082117396/?type=3&theater"]Fretless[/url] [*][url="https://www.facebook.com/MARUSZCZYKINSTRUMENTS/photos/pb.292530792395.-2207520000.1455651164./10153053807692396/?type=3&theater"]BONKERS fretless[/url] [*][url="https://www.facebook.com/MARUSZCZYKINSTRUMENTS/photos/pb.292530792395.-2207520000.1455651164./10152958962732396/?type=3&theater"]Fretless[/url] [/list] ...etc :-)

I picked up a '71 a while ago that had a Bart P pickup in it. It was scrumptious - so woody, with loads of character. I shouldn't have sold the bass, really.

[quote name='AREA' timestamp='1455615920' post='2980624'] Today Afternoon, I'll go to Aldenhoven, to visit Adrian in his Showroom. Maybe I'll take my Camera with me, and to be prepared an empty Basscase. [/quote] Great! Send my regards, and - if you do requests - can you take pics of some Lake Placid Blue basses, please? Thank you!

[quote name='jazzyvee' timestamp='1455526354' post='2979730'] Here is one based in the USA. [url="http://www.redbubble.com/people/oddmetersam/collections/264001-bass-player-and-other-music-apparel-and-ipad-case?ref=carousel_collection"]http://www.redbubble...usel_collection[/url] [/quote] Wow. Do people actually wear this stuff?

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1455385054' post='2978699'] No such thing! [/quote] Correct (apart from BC tees, of course).

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1455484205' post='2979552'] I have some quick 15seconds videos of my custom Jake on my Instagram if you want a little idea (headphones needed). [url="https://www.instagram.com/simonrpoulton/"]https://www.instagra.../simonrpoulton/[/url] Si [/quote] Fab! I'm just putting the spec together for my next custom :-)

Great line. Randy's a massively underrated player. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mW0mu31rco

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1455322509' post='2978261'] Everybody in Tap played bass on Big Bottom. Blue [/quote] Apart from the drummer and the keyboard player...

FWIW, they seem to come with placky film on the pickguards. Peeling it off adds to the experience :-)

How could I forget Stephen Stills? Bass on the first CSN album, and occasionally at their gigs.

Levon Helm played bass in The Band sometimes.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1455191425' post='2976807'] Point taken re Duke. It's also worth remembering this was 1980 and the dinosaur bands had been given a caning through the punk years. Any mention of concepts was unwise. All explained in the Duke interviews available on YouTube. [/quote] Genesis thread derail alert: Yep - I always thought 'Burning Rope' from ATTWT was a commentary on the onset of punk.

I swear, if Fender, Lakland, Sandberg et al. aren't bricking it right now, they should be.