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[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/164253-nbd-fender-roscoe-beck-iv-in-da-house/"]Anticlimax time![/url]

Hi folks I've been on the hunt for a Sunburst PJ with block markers, tort guard, P profile neck, 70s logo. So, when I saw this [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Roscoe_Beck_Bass"]Roscoe Beck IV[/url], which has virtually none of those attributes, I just had to buy it. In my defence, I've wanted one for years, since I first read about them... Sold as a used bass, but unplayed - virtually untouched, in fact. Plastic still on the pickguard, bag of goodies unopened, clear plastic ramp still in it's packet (what are these for, anyway?). First impressions plunking it in the office... medium-weight (8lb 9oz or thereabouts), resonant, beautiful... I'll be taking it to out very own The Bass Doc tomorrow to have him run his eye over it. And then, if it's a keeper, I'll be asking him to make a tort guard for it. More as I have it!

Oooh... I've got mail. 'A delivery requires your signature...' Typically, I'm a 15 minute walk away, having popped out for a lunchtime woodland stroll...

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1325853853' post='1488744'] What language is Ashington's...? [/quote] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitmatic"]Pitmatic[/url].. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVA59EPjV2g"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVA59EPjV2g[/url]

[quote name='leftyhook' timestamp='1325849246' post='1488615'] Ha-ha! I was in Ashington and a dog jumped up at me. the owner said, "Leave the mairn alairn y' baird laird" [/quote] Mrs. WoT went to a ladies' salon in Ashington once, and asked for a perm. The stylist said 'Whey aye, pet. [i]I waanda'd lurnely as a clood...[/i]' [quote name='fender73' timestamp='1325849247' post='1488616'] I know what it is [/quote] Curses! Have I been rumbled?

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1325844124' post='1488505'] [sub]BTW, is it a Sandberg?[/sub] [/quote] Maybe...

It's on the truck! Alas, although it's being delivered to me at work, I'm here 'till 6. But.. Straight to a rehearsal tonight. SHAZAM!

Can you wipe it clean afterwards? Thank you.

Here's the letter 'u' you missed: u Good luck with the gigs... I hope they go well.

Just got off the phone.. it *is* still at the Birmingham hub. No explanation, it should be here tomorrow.

Meanie! I'm officially giving up on it for today. The wait resumes tomorrow...

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1325774358' post='1487450'] 1971 Fender Precision with a [i]Maple[/i] neck? [/quote] Had one.. sold it... regretted it.

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1325772734' post='1487418'] Is it what you PMed me about? [/quote] *taps nose*

No. After reading reviews of the courier service who have it, I'm not confident either. Here are the headlines of some of the reviews. ha ha. [b] [i][size=3][b]Lying useless B*stards[/b][/size][/i][/b] [i][size=3][b]THIS COMPANY MUST BE ERADICATED OFF THE FACE OF THE PLANET[/b][/size][/i] [b] [i][size=3][b]I could have walked with it faster[/b][/size][/i][/b] [b] [i][size=3][b]HORRENDOUS, DISGUSTING VILE PEOPLE[/b][/size][/i][/b] [b] [i][size=3][b]F*** schedules, they'll get to it when they feel like it.[/b][/size][/i][/b]

Still in Brum, according to the tracking, but still scheduled for delivery today. Is there a lag updating tracking info sometimes?

I just know you're all going to be disappointed. ha ha. Please bear in mind that a massive change in my world is taking the bridge cover off my Precison, for example... According to the tracking, it's still in flippin' Brum. *sulks*

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1325759244' post='1487072'] WoT I think you might be hamming it up a little now. Mwah ha. [/quote] Ha... good guess, but no.

You must know a different Sue Ryder to me, Doc. The lassie I know is like a hoose end...

Hmmm... It's supposed to be delivered today, but as of 7.18am it has only made it as far as Birmingham... *drums fingers*

[quote name='Chris Horton' timestamp='1325716264' post='1486678'] What does "BBOT" mean ? [/quote] [i]Bent bit of tin[/i], aka. the classic Fender bridge. Despised by some, but they can be found at the business end of some of the greatest moments in the history of bass.

There's a thread on these already.. And a bonus comedy thread.

Just because.... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/164033-the-fender-select-caption-competition/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/164033-the-fender-select-caption-competition/[/url]

'I'm sorry pet, but I [i]did[/i] ask them for a room with a Telly.'

For no other reason than 'just because'.. [url="http://www.fender.com/products/select"]Fender's new Select range[/url].

Maybe he's just realised that while he was up to no good with that lassie, his plate of beans'n'mash have got cold?