Cat Burrito

I've not swapped mine. A lot of us like to keep it traditional rather than "improve"

Buying online whilst offering more choice does not allow you the luxury of picking up the instrument immediately unlike a shop. So it stands to reason people will offer a lot of information to give potential sellers enough to go on. It's always the stuff that is listed as "photos to follow" or coupled with just a short paragraph that seems to hang around longer.

Welcome to the forum I do hope 38 isn't old enough for a mid life crisis though

Bonjour Xtof

Welcome to the forum

I spent months and months reading everything I could about instruments as I saved up so I knew (or had read at least!) about all the parts before I started to learn properly

Looks great

[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='1107512' date='Jan 29 2011, 06:56 PM']You could take someone's eye out with that![/quote]

I'm tempted & there is a cheaper one on EBay [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Violin-bassguitar-early-60s-possibly-early-Eko-bass-/290405987445?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item439d8bb475"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Violin-bassguitar-ea...=item439d8bb475[/url] but must resist

That'd be it. Cheers Jon

It's Rob Grill from The Grass Roots miming along to a session bass players excellent bassline but what is the Hofner but bigger-esque bass?

[quote name='nick' post='1106616' date='Jan 28 2011, 07:21 PM']Unwrapped it, given it a quick going over. Obviously needs a set-up & a decent set of strings, but it really is not a bad bass - quite pleasantly surprised.[/quote] I must confess all of this sounds like a lot of fun and they certainly look cool. Whilst I massively approve of a charity getting money over Argos the one danger I sense is new players owning a badly set up bass that you wouldn't get from my local Independant music shop for example. I reckon most here know what they are doing and will have a great time modding these I do suspect a few new players may well struggle on with poorly set up kit. It'll be like the 70s & 80s all over again!

I put some La Bella flats on mine. Really heavy gauge and I had to re cut the nut. Sounded awesome although it took it away from that traditional Ricky sound.

I too hung around in the Bassworld days but went away for a few years. It's great fun second time around Welcome

On the plus side my 62RI is a 1963 original! Sweet!

Happy Birthday for Monday. I hope you've got enough cake for everyone here!

I love those Antiqua Fenders. The CIJ RI Fenders were a lot greener but I like the originals. Hagstrom basses I know from The Eagles (although 4 string not 8 string) and I thought they were a pretty well known make. I also think Cheap Trick and 80s Glamsters Enuff Z'Nuff, if you'll forgive the obscure reference. [quote name='Bassassin' post='1106378' date='Jan 28 2011, 04:26 PM'][/quote] I've used one of these on a recording session. Nice bass actually. Obviously I wouldn't play it live. Image, y'know

using the same theory as this seller [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-PRECISION-BASS-1969-MADE-IN-USA-FREE-DELIVERY_W0QQitemZ270698709940QQcategoryZ4713QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286.m7QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D6690533796740282929"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-PRECISION-BAS...533796740282929[/url]

I agree with Doddy here. I'd add this site as great for second hand too

Annoyingly the seller hasn't been in contact yet to acknowledge my payment so I hope there isn't a problem. It's been 7 days tomorrow. I too would like to know how to play 12 bar

Hi Kyle - Welcome to the forum

I mainly play with fingers but I strung my bass with Rotosound black nylons for the recording of our last album. I used a pick on a couple of tracks. There were no obvious problems with the string life from what I could tell (& I played them a lot). However the tuning tended to fluxuate a bit if I dug in hard.

There was a member join recently who called himself Spacehog. I had to go on wikipedia to see if he was from the band...he wasn't.