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That's the one

It was an amazing weekend. I think you're right - '86, as I had my Jaydee with the custom pickup and I think I got it in that year. Hopefully some other people will drop by that were there

You could be right. Bugger that - I'm not re-editing it, I'll just make a comment on the vid !! Memory's going lol !!

I finally got round to digitising some of my tapes from the Bass Centre's Bass Weekend in 1982. Only taken me 31 years. Sorry about that. Mind you I did have to wait for the Internet and Youtube to be invented ;-) This one's of John Entwistle performing and the Q&A session after. It was a fantastic performance - and very loud. Lucky tapes don't clip like digital eh ;-) He was playing his Warwick 'Buzzard' through a bunch of Gallien-Krueger amps. Guitar amps IIRC. I have great memories of that weekend - and some more performances on my walkman some place. Jonas Hellborg, Paul Westwood, Joe Hubbard & Neil Murray on an early Roland bass synth. Nathan King was in my class - I remember him being as good as his brother back then. I think he was about 15 ! Oh yeah - here's the link. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM9EEg56bYM[/media]

sniff sniff........

Cheers Mick. I'm on the Prozak now ;-) I'll get over selling it eventually lol !

My old beastie. Pre-Ernie Ball with the bridge string dampers and stuff. Lovely bass.[attachment=132349:MusicMan.jpg]

A bit of Jay Dee Memorabilia for ya. John gave me the original sign from the workshop in Moseley, before he moved to the next one way back in the 80s, when I had more hair and less gut ;-) [attachment=132222:130410 Jaydee Sign-9-Edit.jpg]

Hi Peeps, Whole bunch of JD porn in my Flickr stream here, from my visits to John's workshops over the years: [url="http://www.flickriver.com/photos/reds42/tags/jaydee/"]http://www.flickriver.com/photos/reds42/tags/jaydee/[/url] Enjoy

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='626609' date='Oct 15 2009, 01:04 AM']Aww! What are you doing Saturday nite?? Heheh! Thanks mate! Love you too! There's a lot of history out there - when the Net first started, there were many Yahoo clubs for most of the main bass makers (I co-founded the JD one, and setup clubs for Status, Pangborn etc), going back to around '97 - and we actually had quite a few get-togethers, including parties in London etc and of course, the famous JD 25th Anniversary open day in 2001. Yahoo Clubs then changed and they kind of trailed off a bit which was a real shame really.[/quote] Awww matey! I'd love a proper catch up some time. We must do it before the last strand of your hair goes and my last black hair goes grey on me. I feel like we're the old gentlemen of the net reading your old stories ;-) What was that first JD wesbite, before the yahoo group ??? Can't remember the fella's name who put it up. One day soon - I'll put up some of the video from the 25 year anniversary. Proper pre-Youtube that footage is !!! it's not great, so I'll have to edit the best bits out. I think I might just have sunk way too many Jack Ds at the JD !!!! (Some things never change). You just reminded me about Cookie's Man City bass too !! Mental. I've got a bunch of those old pics on Flickr, if anyone wants a look - they're at : - [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reds42/sets/72157616505900933/"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/reds42/sets/72157616505900933/[/url] and some of my Bass & Guitar pics [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reds42/sets/72157611491907794/"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/reds42/sets/72157611491907794/[/url] (Been in to photography a bit lately too!)

Hi there, Those pics aren't current. They're very old !!! (like me). I took them around '98/99/00 I think (fuzzy now!) with my first digital camera. The first pic is from John & Andy's old workshop. Ignore the exif data - I don't know why it says April 09 - must have been when I last edited them. Cheers, Nick. (And a big hi to Nick! I keep popping up randomly and saying hello don't I?!) !! [attachment=34428:DSC_3685_Edit.jpg]

Here's my Beloved Custom Jaydee (The three pickup monster!) There's some great Jaydee bass & Guitar images I just posted to Flickr if you're a fan of these lovely instruments. There's lots of shots of part built basses and bare chunks of wood soon to become a guitar! [url="http://www.flickr.com/groups/jaydeeguitars/"]Jaydee Guitars Flickr Group[/url] I've had this bass since about 1987 - still absolutely love it! Fits in well for a range of tones with my Musicman and Status basses

[quote name='dr1' post='459410' date='Apr 10 2009, 04:31 PM']I am rather confused at the end of the day now...roadie 1 roadie 2 ? you have pics up above on the start. I wouldnt say at all that my bass is roadie 1[/quote] Hi - That's my bass in the Flickr pic link above. And a fine bass it is! Congrats on your new bass - they are wonderful instruments, and have a fantastic sound and playability. According to John's website, the Roadie uses the same hardware as the MK model - it's just a bit lower down the range, as the body isn't of laminated construction. My Roadie is passive with just one vol and tone pot. Yours is the active model. There were three shapes of Supernatural - The MK1 was the biggest of the three and is quite a substantial bass! The MK2 was slimmer in the waist but kept roughly the same height. The MK3 went back to the original proportions of the MK1 was but smaller overall. I have some great pics of John's old workshop on FlickR I took back in 1999 before he moved to the new place. (I'll be uploading some pics of the new workshop shortly too). Please drop by and have a look [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reds42/sets/72157616505900933/"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/reds42/sets/72157616505900933/[/url] Here's one of the pics of a part built Mark King Model : -[attachment=23603:MK_part_build2.jpg]