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  1. Hi. Very interested (for a teaching/student loan bass) but I’m up in Manchester. Couldn’t get to you before half term (19th Feb onwards) unless you can post somehow? thanks
  2. Hi. Very interested in This (had an NG3/5 I had to sell and miss it!). what year and what pickups are they (I’ve only played the newer NG3 versions)? promised myself I’d get another Dingwall and would make the excuse and upgrade to a Canadian. interested to know how it is vs the active NG series in terms of build and being passive? Part of selling my (gorgeous silver) 10th anniversary was I didn’t gel with the darkglass preamp. thanks in advance 🙂
  3. Finally managed to get funds together and collected today. Superb bass and thanks to @Kalim for patience and great deal on a fabulous bass. now to shift a few others to cover the costs!
  4. Very interested. need to work out what I can sell and when I can get over to Bradford. deliveries to the house of more basses are banned…. Haha
  5. Just come across this due to a bass coming up for sale. Assuming it’s a prototype as it’s sub £300 might reach out to Mark Gooday on FB as he’s pretty accessible on the Ashdown FB group
  6. I’ve got a Hartke Hydrive 15 (fairly light for a 500W and on castors) that would be a straight swap. Or a barefaced compact 15 with cover but that’s £400 Also a Hofner BB in hard case for similar price.
  7. Great basses- I have one. Hand wound pickups that change tone as you rotate (but be careful as it’s 80s wiring!) paid £500 for mine last year (had sat in case for 30 years). needed a decent fret tidying job (ends were rather proud of fingerboard) my luthier was very impressed too. very solid mahogany basses with brass nut and a large but very thin body so no heavier than some of my other p basses. can do a variety of P bass sounds by rotating pickups. surprisingly comfy to play and a rare one to have in your collection-they didn’t make many basses compared to all the 6 strings mine is serial 01064 so yours looks to be quite an early one
  8. Bizarre post and a shot in the dark. my old teacher Colin Bilham has just died (age 90). First bass guitar chair in the west end and one of original Superstar and Joseph bands I believe. he *should* have sold his ‘64 precision to me a few years back (2005ish) but was arm twisted (I think) to flog it for (gulp) £750 by (I can only assume) some with minimal scruples. (Supposition there!) I was gutted. More so to discover that it then got sold on at auction in 2015 by Tennants in the UK at a price I could still have managed (£2.5k). the auctioneers tell me it left the UK but can’t say where. Colin bought it from the bass player in the Hollies... anyway, would LOVE to track it down (and ideally buy it back for posterity) - I’m gutted he’s gone (knew him for almost 40 years). anyone come across it (info here including serial): https://bid.tennants.co.uk/m/lot-details/index/catalog/300/lot/437946?url=%2Fm%2Fsearch%2F%3Fkey%3DColin%2Bbilham%26search-area%3Don%26xclosed%3Dno
  9. Only just heard the news a week ago (and the only reason i've joined Basschat in fact!) glad someone posted this - i worked / studied alongside Dave at music college in the early 90s for 4 years - he was a great musician, and one of the funniest blokes i've ever met! Will never forget his Darth Vader impressions just prior to walking onstage for Mahler 5 (i was in tears by the time i sat down...!). He was a force of nature, and a law unto himself throughout college (never choosing to conform if it got in the way of his talent or ideals). Absolutely shocked he's gone already (especially being the same age!) - he did, as someone else has said, have half his career ahead of him. Thank god he did some big things with his life (both professionally and personally) in his short time RIP Dave - wish I'd made the effort to get back in contact a bit sooner, but glad i got to know you for a while! Phil Reynolds
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