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[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1346253451' post='1787048']So nothing then! [/quote] What I'd have said initially. Why my first purchase was a 1025. But had the opportunity to try a few 2000 series models, and was sufficiently impressed at the difference to add a 2024 to my rack of vintage BBs.

Well, the 2000 series is hand-built in Japan, and the 1000 series line assembled in Taiwan, and there are a few minor differences in materials - 2000 series has maple and mahogany thru-neck; 1000 series has maple and nato - but it's mostly ARE (acoustic resonance enhancement) and IRA (initial response acceleration). You cane read about those at Yamaha's website [url="http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/guitar/bb/features/page4.html"]http://www.yamaha.co...ures/page4.html[/url] . Basically, the 2000 series should sound/respond like a vintage/played-in instrument, and the 1000 series should feel/play like it's just come off the production line.

"Walnut body" Why, oh why, can't people get their heads around the idea that the finish is "Walnut" but the body wood is ash.

Given that two of the songs mentioned are sh*t, and one gets interminably monotonous, I can see his point.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1345912581' post='1783089']Bloody hell. I expect a lot of that was court costs from his unsuccessful appeal.[/quote] It would be unusual, with court reporting, for the sum in damages and the sum for costs to be talked about in a global sense. Mostly, when reporting, it's the sum in damages that is highlighted. Assuming that each count was liablled as a separate charge, and given that each count can attract a maximum fine of $150,000 (and it would appear, without limit) then, at the upper range of assessment of damage for each count, he could have been facing an award in damages of $4,650,000, before costs. At less than $21,800 on each count, it seems to me he got off somewhat lightly to be left facing an award of $675,000.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1345663347' post='1780277']Huh huh, he said "big tool", huh huh...[/quote] You can rely on a bass player to lower the tone.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1345029966' post='1772488']The swinging scene is not what it once was.[/quote] Thought swinging was a big tool in a bass player's arsenal?

He is a BCer, yes.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1345398666' post='1777088']They don't hold value well though. This would have been close to £3,500 new for whoever owned it &, if it's a commission sale or was PX'd, then he's looking at about £1,500 after only 3 years [/quote] But that just goes to show how the market views the "value" of Alembic, after you remove the "custom" aspect of the buyer equation. It's a good trick when it can convince the original buyer that "pretty" woods and 30-year-old technology are "worth" the prices it charges. And, that's all the Alembic USP these days seems to be how "pretty" the woods are. The shaping and styling is often a touch Marmite. Sure, when it first arrived on the scene it was doing some interesting, even unique, things with electronics, but nothing that run-of-the-mill manufacturers aren't also doing these days. All a bit Emperor's new clothes.

The SB30 was the single pickup version. The SB50 was the two pickup version. Modelled along the lines of Gibson Les Paul basses. These were only in production for a short time, between '72 and '74. The 30 went out of production at some point in late '73. Not played a 30, but the 50's I've had my hands on have not been good basses - heavy bodies (even though one had half its back hollowed out for electrics), narrow touchboard/deep neck, and muddy, unfocused pickups. Can't recall what the last one up for sale here went for, but in Japan sell for Y30,000 to Y50,000.

Certainly deserves the tag "new old stock" if what it says is true.

If I didn't already have two - APII SB-R150: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ARIA-PRO-II-4-STRING-BASE-GUITAR-HARD-CASE-/271033707072?_trksid=p4340.m1986&_trkparms=aid%3D555001%26algo%3DPW.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D29%26meid%3D1352794513517217331%26pid%3D100013%26prg%3D1013%26rk%3D2%26#ht_500wt_1290

It's easy to forget, because the focus of the international media moves on, but there are still various restrictions in place for businesses based in Japan, even more for the ones trading internationally, since the tsunami of 2011 - on opening hours, haulage, and shipping. That aside, July and August are traditional vacation times, when people try to get out of the likes of Tokyo due to high temperatures and humidity - a situation, no doubt, magnified this year due to the power rationing during peak periods. As for it being 2012, and nothing ever really closing, Ishibashi closes its stores around two hours earlier than it used to.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1344845763' post='1769872']I think they're like squier[/quote] Oh yeah, Squier. Remember them. Dopes couldn't spell. I mean, how stupid do you need to be to get your own name wrong? Nole

I f*ckin' hate Teles. The most agricutural guitar you can ever have the misfortune to play. Use a few SGs. Although those are always made by Yamaha.

[quote name='philw' timestamp='1344794921' post='1769235']Hmm, so many colours, so little time.... Think I'll stop at blue and orange ...[/quote] Oh, go on, get a magenta one. You know you want to!

It's lawsuit period. Definitely lawsuit period. Absolutely no doubt about it, lawsuit. Although which laws and which suit I've no idea. Laws of natural and three button, maybe.

[quote name='philw' timestamp='1344786294' post='1769098']My other one is blue. ... I think there was a tobacco burst version, but they're a bit hen's teeth.[/quote] There were a few versions of the body shape also. The version which you have (also the same as mine) with the scroll cutaway came first, and then there was the version with the horn cutaway (and two pickups). My problem always is I can't recall which shape came in which colours. The scroll version I remember seeing in the blue, amber (orange) and jade bursts and (yellow) natural, and the later horn cutaway version in solid black, (yellow) natural, magenta burst and antique sunburst.

I see a blue one every day. Just wish Yamaha had made these in a few other colours.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1344719570' post='1768469']I hate my sister. Really hate her with a vengeance. She threw away my vinyl player that did 16.67. Imagine! Never ever seen another one that did that.[/quote] My old Ferguson Garrard LS Mk I plays 78, 45, 33.33 and 16.67. You slowed your LPs down? I sped mine up!

Have no opinion as to whether my guitar playing makes my bass playing better/worse, or whether my bass playing makes my guitar playing better/worse. That said, think that being able to play guitar, bass, drums and keys makes me a better songwriter, and song writing is the only reason that I do anything music related. So, didn't vote, as none of the options fit for me.

[quote name='ChorltonV' timestamp='1344417974' post='1764039']I know this model is put together in Indonesia using American parts[/quote] No American made parts, just parts made with American moulds/specs. SB2 is a good bass. Like a few others, my vote goes for the El Toro.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1344674759' post='1767770']can you do a happy birthday to a man that is dead..??? just sayin'[/quote] Celebrating the anniversary of someone's birth, even after the person has died? Of course, we do it all the time, and not just for religious festivals. Being Scots, Burn's night immediately springs to mind.