gjones

Does your US Fender actually have 'Made in the USA' on it? I bought my Fender Elite Precision in 2018 and it has 'Made in Corona' stamped on it. Apparently there's not enough of it, actually made in America, to allow it to be stamped 'Made in the USA'. I bought a jack plug input for it, and although it's in a Fender branded bag, and it's the specific part for that bass. it says 'Made in Taiwan' on it. If we stop buying USA Fenders, we'll put just put a lot of far eastern factories out of business.

The only time I've sacked anyone from a band was when one of the guitarists was a bit of a perv to the female singer. I had a thing for the singer myself, so took great delight in kicking him out 🤣 But other than that I've never sacked anyone, or been sacked. The classic situation is that the other members go off and start a new band.....without the member they all dislike (we've all been there).

A really good setup. I bought a 75 reissue AV Fender Jazz Bass, from Bass Direct, and it was set up to perfection.

I know a guy who used to play a USA Musicman Sterling. At soundcheck it always sounded pretty horribly middy but once the band started playing, through the FOH PA, it always sounded excellent.

He was on Joe Rogan's show the other day and he said he just does it as a laugh. You'd think he had better things to do, like send rockets into space, or something.

American Specials were a mix of parts manufactured partly in the USA and partly in Mexico. . They used to be called the Californian Series and then changed the name to American Special, then to The Highway One series. Fender do this from time to time. They were sold for a price somewhere between the cost of a MIM and USA bass. I have a friend who owns a Californian Series Strat and it plays and sounds great.

Soon enough there'll be UBI for everybody. Elon says we've got 5 years max.....

The Rumble 500 is great but a few years ago I bought one of these and I'm glad I did.

There's one guy on Basschat, who I will not name, that makes a career out of flipping basses. He doesn't even play bass, just lurks in the shadows on forums like this waiting for his prey. He's flipped two basses of mine, one on Basschat and one on Facebook. He impersonated someone else to buy my bass on Facebook.... because I'd blocked him.

Gigs are the only revenue bands have these days. In the good old days tours would make a loss but the fans would buy the new album, which is where the money was made. The good thing is that bands tour continuously, to pay the gas bill. So we can see them more often.

Very funny

Buy a ticket for your Bass and take it along.

Double post

I once played a duo gig in a bar with just one drunk customer. He started howling like a dog over the music and I couldn't take it any more. So I went over to him, picked him up (he was only little) and threw him into the street. He, did eventually, crawl back in to his seat at the bar. ...we weren't asked to come back 🤣

I received my preloved G&L L2000 today. It came with flats, which I really am not keen on, but they sounded fine. I fitted it with a used set of rounds, which is my preferred type of string and it's still sounding excellent. The action was a bit high but after a bit of trussrod tweaking managed to get a ridiculously low action on it and it's playing great.