Grassie

I would use this if I needed to play slap. I can’t slap with my bass at “standard” height (ie waist height) but can do it when it’s strapped higher (a lá Mark King).

Not that I’m much of a slapper to be fair… 😊

A pint is my limit when gigging, primarily because I drive my own gear around, but there have been occasions where I can drink and not worry about driving. The problem I have with that is that after two pints my playing gets progressively worse.

Nearly all of the basses I’ve owned have been just above entry level or mid level instruments, apart from a ‘96 US Fender deluxe Jazz 5er, but I’ve never had anyone sneer “urgh a Squier?”. In fact whenever people talk to me about my gear (ie about twice a year) they always compliment me on my sound, which I put down to my Gallien Krueger rig. Fenders/Squiers have an inherent sound which doesn’t really differ (to my ears anyway) between Affinity’s up to American made basses - that is to say a Precision will always sound like a Precision and the same with their jazz basses. I’ve moved on to G&Ls (tribute series) and I’m still getting people say that they sound great.

I noticed a while back that American musicians seem to play decent high quality instruments that aren’t Fenders or Gibsons ie Spector/Warwick/Ernie Ball/Ibanez/Yamaha, and aren’t swayed by what looks “cool” or appropriate for a particular kind of music, whereas most UK bands have bassists and guitarists that will play vintage Fenders or Gibsons and there’s very little variation between bands. Now, whether these bands choose these instruments based on their looks is not for me to say, but maybe that’s a kind of snobbery there…

I’ve always had bolt-ons. I’ve never had any issues like a lack of sustain with any of my basses. I don’t understand why you would want a bass to sustain “for days” anyway. Both of my G&Ls ring like a bell, which is down to the bridge design more than anything else. 

Love a big fat J.

🔥

Jagger and Richards look ridiculous throwing the same shapes in their 70s as they did in their 20s/30s. 

11 hours ago, rushbo said:

I'm sure I read somewhere that it's a good idea to add a little bit of non biological washing powder/liquid to the boiling water as it helps to dissolve the finger gunk. Citation needed as they say on Wikipedia.

Actually, the last time I boiled mine I gave them a very light dusting of GT85 just to help push out any moisture once I’d wiped them off.

I don’t boil them as often as I used to (now I’m a bit older and a bit more flush) but I always add a couple of drops of washing up liquid to the water, for that… er…. lemon fresh feel… 

😎

Red Hot Chili Peppers should never have made another album with Rick Rubin after “One Hot Minute”.

The sound of that band treading water is down to their insistence in using him  to record their albums.

Def Leppard wrote great pop tunes (see also Van Halen).

16 hours ago, Russ said:

Nate's a great player. He's been getting some good gigs lately too. He toured with Devin Townsend a year or two back, and he's just been announced as the bass player on Porcupine Tree's upcoming reunion tour. 

Wow! I thought that Porcupine Tree gig would’ve gone to Nick Beggs. 

1 hour ago, Reggaebass said:

Is that coversolutions , if so he’s a really good player and there’s so many covers,

Constantine is a member here but haven’t heard from him for quite a while 

That’s the fella. 😊

I like Nate Navarro’s stuff, Constantine Isslamow, that guy Troy with the amazing masks/heads behind him, and the one who plays the Washburn Taurus. 😊

Bands/singers who make me reach for the “off” switch:

George Ezra

Ed Sheeran

Adele

Any singer/songwriter called “Tom”.

Bastille

Lewis “bloody” Capaldi 

The above acts can be filed under the genre of Borecore. There are many other examples, but because they are so unutterably dull, I’ve forgotten their names.

12 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

I like

 

Simply Red

Oasis

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Jamiroquai

Level 42

 

bands who are cool to call “crap” in most people’s opinions…

 

im not cool. Heh.

This isn’t me, but it could be… 😊

4 hours ago, Sibob said:

Is the binding definitely painted? And not just badly applied binding? 

I have some pretty shoddy binding over the years haha.

 

Si

Yes, definitely looks that way. I can’t see a join of any description, but I can see what looks like brush marks… ☹️

3 hours ago, Raslee said:

Never owned a G&L but always been intrigued. Is it heavy? Sure i read somewhere that G&L can be in the upper weight range.

Cheers

No more than any other jazzes I’ve owned. A touch lighter than my old Sire V7 I’d say.

50 minutes ago, theyellowcar said:

Big fan of the colour. Almost iridescent. 

It’s never Lake Placid Blue, none of the online pics or videos convey that, but when I opened the box, I have to admit I did do a little “phwooaaarr”! 😂

39 minutes ago, Jonesy said:

Lovely stuff, that finish is great. I have the maple board version and the neck on these is one of my favourites, feels slightly chunkier back to front than my Fender. The gloss feels really nice too.

 

Enjoy it!!

Yeah, the neck is a little deeper than my Squier jazz but width wise it’s perfect. Much like my Kiloton, pretty much the same dimensions other than the extra couple of frets on the KT.

Ordered Wednesday, turned up earlier today. I love jazz basses and I also love G&L's saddle-lock bridges and their pickups, so when I saw this reduced by £70 I pulled the trigger...

Good things:

The colour - listed as Lake Placid Blue, this is more like an Ice Blue, and it's metallic, and looks the nuts. Much nicer than Fender's LPB. The back of the neck and headstock is also finished with a nice vintage amber tint.

The sound - sounds like a jazz bass should. Rear pup has The Honk, blended with the front pup it rounds out beautifully for a really versatile tone.

The bridge - these things are G&L's secret weapon. There is a protrusion under the bridge (downtown) which sits in the wood, sending lovely jazz vibrations through the body. Sustain and clarity for days, and also no dead spots around the 7th fret on any of the strings, maybe due in part to the headstock shape...

Set up: Really, really good, straight out of the box. The action is just how I like it, had to tweak the tuning slightly, and the E string seems a little duller than the others, but very impressed with that side of things.

The not so good things:

A very small dent in the finish near the control panel. Nothing serious, I'll get over it.

The binding - not real binding, but painted, and painted quite badly near the dusty end. Now I didn't know that quite a lot of manufacturers paint faux binding instead of installing the real thing, and that's OK I suppose (Its seems to be an aesthetic thing more than anything else) but really, whoever did this particular job needs to try again. Just not good enough, even for a far eastern instrument.

Anyway, here are some pics.  

Like that a lot. Her and Dua Lipa seem to have a lot of love for a decent bass line. 😊

The guitar version is back in print (10 available) should any of our six string brethren fancy one… PM 4 deets… 😎

Guys - I haven't forgotten you, I've been mega busy with other stuff (work and gigs mainly) but I should be able to get the prints in my grubby mitts by the end of the month, then I'll contact each of you individually to arrange delivery etc.

Fanx.  

I had one for about 5 minutes earlier this year. Sounded great, looked great,  but the neck dive was horrendous so I got rid of it.

WITHDRAWN - MODS PLEASE REMOVE

***PRICE DROP - NOW £300*** Up for grabs is this lovely bass, I haven’t had it long but have realised I just prefer jazz basses, so this is being moved on. Finished in Alpine White, it features G&L’s brilliant MFD pickup which is a passive but powerful unit. Switchable between single coil/series/parallel, it sounds like a passive Stingray with loads of bottom end and punchy mids. The fretboard is rosewood (and a nice thick slab of it too) frets are decent. The bridge is G&L’s patented saddle-lock unit, which in my opinion is one of the best out there - the amount of resonance and sustain this thing puts through the body is ridiculous and no doubt adds to the punch you get from this bass. Bad stuff? There is a small ding in the paint on the front, and another on the back (both of which happened with the previous owner) that I have tried to photograph, but neither affect the playability of this instrument. I’m asking £300, brand new these go for upwards of £450 (although I think the white one is now discontinued). No case I’m afraid. Located in Newport on the Isle of Wight, and I’m very reluctant to ship as couriers do not seem to give a flying you-know-what about other people’s stuff, but I am willing to meet at one of the IOW ferry ports (Portsmouth/Southampton/Lymington)to do the deal.

Thanks for looking. 😊