Cat Burrito

Pretty crazy to set limits on age. If you can and you enjoy it, that's all there is to it.

They seem to average out around £550 but I occasionally see them just under £500. I'd imagine when examples come up secondhand there could be a bargain for someone. It's one of my cheaper instruments but I think it holds it's own against the more expensive stuff.

I'm quite taken by that Mooer Hustle Drive pedal in the video. So many of them sound rotten to me but that works for my tastes.

This would be my lot...

"It's all about the music" is a fairly tired cliché. It's about how it makes you feel, it's a soundtrack to people's lives. Music is about passion but music can also be about fashion. Sometimes the non-image or simple show is a statement in itself. People seem to default to thinking of Pink Floyd lightshows or Alice Cooper onstage beheadings when they think of the trimmings that come with rock n roll but the reality is it can also be Bill Wyman's 'at the back nonchalance'.

Cheers Graeme, I did not know that. Very cool. If you are in a position to scan / photograph the page and DM me on Messenger, that'd be really cool.. and worth a pint! My MU membership expired in 1995! Valve amps do sound lovely but yes, I'm getting to a stage where a lighter option would probably be easier. I'm hoping that I can last out a few more years yet though. I think a few of the class D options come close. I'm quite impressed with the Fender Bassman stuff. I had an old 1978 135w head that nearly broke my back but sounded like heaven. Unwisely I flightcased it which must go down in history as my least wise bass decision.

Just to kickstart this, you heard my PF-50t when you saw me play. I don't think it is *that* loud so personally I'd avoid a PF-20t for anything other than studio work. I've not done a side by side comparison but it is certainly what Ampeg were aiming to do & although they don't seem to be huge sellers, the reviews all suggested it got you in that ballpark.

I have a guitar shaped bottle opener on the zip of my gigbag. Everything else is just a bonus.

My full rig, complete with hat!

Happy Days!

Alice Cooper. Great basslines from the Dennis Dunaway era, a fantastic show and he seems like a really decent guy to be around.

Buddy Holly. A young (frighteningly so) pioneer who played guitar, wrote, sang and produced. Just incredible when you look at his legacy and one can't help but wonder what would have happened if he had not been taken so young.

I bought a Jack Casady bass once purely because I liked the bass. His bands never really grabbed me. Signature basses kinda pass me by - if you want to be like Dee Dee Ramone, just buy a white P-bass and job done. I get the artists they choose because it is based on popularity. I guess they aren't likely to be picking sig models based on one hit (or no hit) wonders from the past! As a cheeky add on, about 99% of forum members would be a poor choice for a signature model, simply because we keep changing basses every 5 minutes!

I very occasionally do it if I feel the song needs it, usually on slower songs with simple root hitting the chord changes type lines where I haven't brought my upright. Sometimes I play fingerstyle, sometimes with a pick, occasionally with a thumb. I'm always puzzled by how players can limit techniques used by the greats. It's all just personal taste after all.

I had an all original '78 Precision for a few years and my father in law has a '73 P-bass that I will apparently be getting one day. I liked the 70s colour schemes of browns and oranges (not just on instruments but cars, decor etc). I think the saving grace for me is that the Mocha finish doesn't look like you've just bought it as they haven't used it much since. I prefer vintage white and some of the other shades but I reckon on balance it's a minor hit, for my tastes.

My last Hofner verythin bass was short scale & didn't feel like a toy. Swapping from 34" to 30.5" never felt like an issue. If you play regularly you can soon adapt.

A 2008 Anerican Jazz bass has been added, as I hinted at in the initial post on this thread.

Having not had a Jazz for a while, I'd been halfheartedly searching the web for one. I wanted an American one to complete an American Trilogy with my T-bird and Ric, plus I'd never owned a US one. Ideally not too new. Last week I saw Dennis Dunaway live with the original Alice Cooper band and said to my wife, almost apologetically, "sorry I am going to have to get one". Classic and Cool Guitars (whom I bought a '78 P-bass from many years back) had this 2008 model. There were a few mods that were surprisingly exactly to my tastes in the badass bridge (never owned one but remember reading about them when they were very much the latest thing back in the 90s) and the cool white pickup covers. The precious owner had put P bass knobs on it but kept all the original parts. Balance wise it is nice, just a shade over 9llbs and with a through string body. I say NBD, it actually arrived on Friday and I took it straight out to the gig I played that evening. Definitely a very nice Jazz and one that adds to what is a nice and varied collection.

Four but I'd love to bring this out for an encore

A little known UK band from the late 80s called The Dogs D'Amour. They caught me at just the right time and made me want to be a musician and not just a listener. For those not in the know, they always looked the biz, had the coolest instruments and sat somewhere between the Stones, the Faces, T-Rex and Hanoi Rocks.

These guys are good http://www.northwestguitars.co.uk/bass-bodies/

I've been lucky because in 30 yrs I had a head go in soundcheck and beyond that it's been a bass slip off the strap only a couple of times and one string break back in the 90s. I hope I'm not tempting fate.

I'm another 14/15 93% score - I fell due to not being a thrash metal guy. This is definitely what the Internet on a Sunday afternoon was invented for!

I think this is the gold standard. I was on two basses and just one decent amp / cab for a few years. What changed was I just acknowledged that I like buying nice basses so the number has crept back up over the last 18 months. It's all good stuff though. I would agree my six basses, although different, are excessive but I like having them and I am playing more than ever before.