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Have you seen the 2x12 Genz Neo cab in the for sale section? 4ohm and not too far from you. Might be a good match with the Genz head.

Sire have released a few new basses on Facebook, but the short scale and passive jazz with roasted necks were of particular interest.....yes please!

I think the Musicmaster was the budget model and this was a more deluxe version for guys who wanted to play bass but were coming from guitar and wanted the shorter scale. like a lot of things when something becomes fashionable the prices go up. I remember seeing a yellowish mustang with competition stripes in my local shop for £400 when I started out. I wanted it because it was a ‘real’ fender which you didn’t see where I grew up and was told by the owner that it wasn’t a proper bass...

Pre orders from Music Zoo: https://www.themusiczoo.com/products/fender-justin-meldal-johnson-signature-mustang-bass-black

Looks like Fender should be announcing the black version of the JMJ Mustang at NAMM....

Contact Strings and Things the UK distributor, I got new pickup covers from them without too much bother. I had to wait a while as they shipped them with a big order of instruments from the states but I wasn’t in a rush.

I’m at a similar point, I have for the time being had enough of being in bands and the pressure that brings as I am normally pushed into lead vocals as well. I have a plan to go and learn a list of songs that I have always wanted to learn but never needed to for bands, things like hit me with your rhythm stick, sir duke, a couple of Vulfpeck tunes etc. I may even record/video them to really analyse my playing and see how tight I can get them as a real challenge. I also dabble with guitar and want to give my acoustic a little more time, learn a new song/chord a week sort of thing.

I have wound down gigging with the covers bands I played in, I just got sick of so many aspects of gigging. 1. The same old crap covers that everyone expects at big function, sex on fire, brown eyed girl, anything by the bloody Beatles 2. Crap pay; no one wants to pay anything decent for a band unless it’s a wedding. I earned more playing gigs when I was 16 than I do now at 36. 3. Wedding gigs are just a massive pain in the derrière, they take all day most of the time, your crammed into a corner and have to put up with a DJ with an overinflated ego and sense of self importance who thinks he should be in the middle of the space assigned for the band. 4. Young people rarely want to watch bands in my experience, in fact to sum up a conversation I heard at work with younger folk than me ‘if they see a band of “old men playing old music” we just turn around and leave’. 5. I’m sick of playing to seriously whizzed up older folks who think walking on stage with the band and trying to sing is a good idea and then later ‘dance’ so out of control that they fall over the floor monitors and knock over all the kit. 6. Drunk people asking over and over again for songs you don’t and can’t play. That’s just a few.....and sadly the thrill of playing and a little applause and a few quid at the end of the night doesn’t outweigh the crap above and being away from my family at weekends. I am sure I will change my mind and miss it at some point but for now I’m good.

Very good idea! I will look into that, currently use a small oil radiator but I don’t think it’s overly efficient. I was just curious if there was a case that insulated guitars as well as made them less susceptible to moisture etc just in case they needed to go in say an attic or garage as well.

I have an office separate to the house and it doesn’t have any permanent heating. It’s essentially the back of our garage but insulated as well as possible and decorated etc. I was thinking about keeping my guitars and basses in there but it can get very cold in the winter, so it got me wondering if there were any cases that were properly insulated and would protect them against the cold?

Now I have been banned I don’t feel the pressure to abstain so I am looking for a new case and some kind of fancy gizmo with lots of knobs so I can practice with headphones at home.

I automatically put strap locks on all my basses for years because I thought it was the done thing. I bought a comfort strapp years ago and never bothered with strap locks ever again. Never had a hole widen or a bass fall to the ground, no issues. Washers work great though way cheaper than buying Schaller or Dunlop etc. Am I missing something with regards to installing strap locks, why would you need a luthier to put a screw in an existing hole in your bass?

I mean this is the nicest possible way but Jesus you lot have some serious GAS issues! I bought a bass on the 2nd of March 2017 and put strings on it on the 30th March 2017 and haven’t bought anything since. In fact I sold a bass and an amp. Do I get a prize? 😄

I really hope someone at Sadowsky reads this thread and realised what a stupid name Metro Express is for the UK market. I don’t think I could own one simply because of the Tesco association 😂

My friend just messaged me to say JF had rejoined and followed it up with “I didn’t know he’d even left, he hasn’t played with them for 10 years...probably explains those crappy albums”.

Just stumbled across this video of Joe Darts clinic at Berklee, haven’t watched much of it so can’t attest to the quality but I know there are a few fans of Mr Dart out there. https://youtu.be/nxVsfJf3CqY

I love a good mystery, but hate people butchering basses.

Took me a while to find the picture but here’s the passive F type headstock Overwater P I remember seeing. The knobs look similar too, but if it’s the same or even a similar bass it’s had a tough life.

The logo and heel joint looks spot on to me, and I remember seeing Overwater basses on their Facebook page with a F type headstock. I don’t really believe his claims having owned two Overwater basses, but he could have easily trashed the bass and then just thought ‘feck it’ and changed over to black hardware to create a certain look.

There are some monster players that appear on these kinds of shows. I remember an article on Trevor years ago in one of the bass magazines, top notch player. Phil Mulford is another that springs to mind and my personal favourite is Ben Epstein who was in ‘The Voice’ house band. He and Ash Soan on drums were a phenomenal rhythm section.

I can see what they are trying to do, it’s a bit generic sounding, like a poor mans jamiroquai/Brand New Heavies/Incognito, but with a good band, live it could be a lot better and more dynamic. The singer needs to be put out of his misery or find the auto-tune software on his computer. I would say with a kick-*ss singer and a good band it could be good.

If it was me, I would keep as much of the bass the same as possible so no re-spray etc. All of the dings and marks sound like they have been well earned and add to the ‘mojo’ so keep it all as part of the bass’ story. I would source a new high quality blocker neck, Warmoth or Allparts and have all of the decals duplicated which is pretty simple to to. You won’t get the bullet truss rod but it will be really close. i don’t know if you have Instagram but there is a guy on there called Jagged_offset_electric and he gets some beautiful necks and does nitro tints and all that kind of thing and I am sure someone like him would be able to help with decals. So new neck and the rest original for me, then frame the old neck with a load of pictures of you using it or use it as a back scratcher.