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[quote name='Wooks79' timestamp='1388666620' post='2324497'] I'll be honest and come out and say it, I really don't get it when people do this. It stops someone maybe getting a decent deal and a project to work on, and it can often fill the people who don't know about the item with unrealistic expectations and the hassle of getting it sorted! Each to their own, but I don't see it as being honest or doing anyone a favour. (For the record, I'm not interested in JV's and wouldn't have known about them myself prior to joining basschat) [/quote] I just don't like people being taken advantage of. We can sometimes come across as a bit predatory in situations like this. Who knows who she was selling it on behalf of? Maybe they really needed the money? Worst case scenario is that she gave it a scrub and put some strings on it and it will sell it for a couple of hundred more than she would have got otherwise. I'm happy with that.

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1388619537' post='2324212'] Well that'll have shot any BCer in the foot who was hoping to snag a JV on the cheap (and take the chance of it being fecked)! [/quote] True. I just didn't want her to just give it away for pennies. After all bit of elbow grease costs nothing. I also advised her to take it to the nearest music shop, to fit a set of cheap strings, where they would probably take it off her hands for significantly more than she would have got on an ebay auction (as long as it was basically sound with a functioning truss). Did I do a bad thing

Maybe she took my advice and ended it early, if it didn't looked like she wasn't going to get a decent price for it. I said that, even in the manky condition that it was in, it was worth £500. Given a clean and a set of strings up to £700. She seemed, from the emails I recieved, that she just genuinely didn't have a clue.

I'd like the puppy & kittens set..

Fender Silver Squire basses, are superior Squier Jazz and Precision basses, made in Japan. They were manufactured between 92 and 94 and are very good quality. The nut size is wider than a jazz but narrower than a precision. They get universally good reviews. If you find one for sale on ebay or basschat I recommend you buy it. They usually go for around the £200 mark. They make excellent spare basses. There's a few on ebay at the moment. I personally wouldn't offer more than £200 though. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Precision-P-Bass-1994-5-Made-In-Japan-MIJ-Silver-Series-Vintage-/231124988814"]http://www.ebay.co.u...e-/231124988814[/url]

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1388515674' post='2322998'] Just put Flats on it then it will sound the same as an exotic boutique bass with Flats costing many thousands of pounds. P.S. That sounds like it should be in Viz 'Handy Hints' now i come to think of it. Changes voice to very posh and serious....... "hey! Johnny Bass Player! Fed up that you can't afford a very expensive boutique bass guitar with quilted maple top? Then you need Wizzo Flatwound Strings. They will make your 1965 Top Twenty bass guitar that your Granny bought you for Christmas in 1965 sound just like a £5,000 custom bass guitar" [/quote] Hee, hee!

There's quite a few reviews of fake Chinese guitars on youtube. None of the ones I've seen say anything good about them.

[quote name='skidder652003' timestamp='1388446532' post='2322203'] good grief... [/quote] My thoughts exactly. They should all take a chill pill.

Sounds like a good excuse to significantly increase what you charge for the gig, due to the hassle factor. Sounds to me as if the Hotel chain, or the agency that works for the chain, are having cash flow issues. I'd be worried about ever getting paid at all.

I think that kid could probably make a plank sound good.

I think it's kosher. The seller usually sells jumble sale tat. I've sent a message to say she's better off ending the auction, giving it a clean and maybe getting a local music shop to restring and test it. That way she's more likely to get top dollar for it. Whether she'll take my advice or not, I don't know.......probably not.

Here's a Soul/Jazz artist you'll never have heard of, KJ Denhart. I met her in New York playing in a little bar with some amazing players. I bought her Album 'Lucky 7' and it's definitely one of my favourites. There's some great bass on it too. Here's a video of her playing live. Check out 'Lucky 7' on spotify before you buy. [media]http://youtu.be/Rd50PK7pbmk[/media] And her version of Deep Purple's Smoke on the water (eh?) It's funky honest! http://youtu.be/FgxU9wqbQgw

[quote name='6v6' timestamp='1388217348' post='2319499'] I don't get this at all, seriously, who cares who paid for it, if it has flats, or if he uses a pick?! If someone has a bass which inspires them for whatever reason, whatever it costs (sound/looks/feel/whatever) then fair play to them IMO, and your implication that those using flats (and a *pick*, *gasp*!) should only use a cheap bass is insulting, particularly when directed at an established pro who has more justification for using high end equipment than most of us around here. Back on topic, the main reason to put flats on a nice bass is that nice basses are easier to play, have better resonance and pickups leading to better tone, feel, and inspiration to play better (regardless of string type IMO). [/quote] I'm a friend of his son Chris Agnew (who is also a pro bass player). Next time I see him I'll ask him why his dad plays an Alembic, as opposed to a more conventional rock bass.

I sneaked a quick shot of an Alembic owned by Pete Agnew (Nazereth's bass player), that he'd left in the recording studio overnight. Not only was there flatwounds on it but he played it with a pick. I hope he was given it for free by his record company. Here he is with the very bass [url="http://www.drjazz.ch/album/bilder/PeteAgnew-6813.jpg"]http://www.drjazz.ch...eAgnew-6813.jpg[/url] Edit: by the way I do like Nazareth, it's just I think the sound he gets (a good rock tone like Phil Lynott's) with the Alembic, could be obtained just as well with a Fender or Squier P (John McVie used to play an Alembic. Last time I saw him he was playing a Precision). In fact this might be it [url="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alembic-Series-one-bass-1976-John-McVie-Fleetwood-Mac-/171151568316?pt=Guitar&hash=item27d96dadbc"]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alembic-Series-one-bass-1976-John-McVie-Fleetwood-Mac-/171151568316?pt=Guitar&hash=item27d96dadbc[/url]

It's all showbiz. Wearing sunglasses at night is in the contract. My niece has recently got herself a record contract. She's touring the states in Feb and things seem to be going well. Hopefully she'll be a success. The one bit of advice I gave her was to make sure, when journalists interview her, to lie through her teeth about everything. The public don't want to know that she was working in a call centre 6 months ago and that her mum and dad live in a council flat. They want to think that she was brought up by wolves or found, as a baby, in a spaceship buried deep below the Antartic ice, by Russian explorers in 1925.

[quote name='Grissle' timestamp='1387962101' post='2317495'] Fender sells bodies and necks now. That's the way I would go. Better resale also. [/quote] That's a valid point. Bitsa basses can play and sound better than the real thing but if they don't have the Fender logo on them and a serial number, if you ever decide to sell them, people don't want to know.

[quote name='Ziphoblat' timestamp='1387964297' post='2317516'] Did you plug it into an Ashdown? [/quote] Nope. At the time it was a Fender TV15. I like Fender I just think, from personal experience, their leads are sh*t. This is the blurb they have on the packet. [size=3][i]'[color=#333333][font=open_sansregular, sans-serif]Fender® Standard Koil Kord™ Cables are not the typical vintage coiled cable designs from the '60s, with severely rolled off highs and questionable construction methods, but rather, a new interpretation that still does justice to the past without ignoring modern needs. These newly designed cables are engineered to preserve what is good about the original coiled cables, without the problems and compromises.'[/font][/color][/i][/size] But the truth is, they sound as rubbish as they ever did. They're made on the cheap, in some sweatshop in the far east, using crappy components. So if you want to make a Genz Benz sound like an Ashdown, now you know how.

Decades ago, I used to have one and the speaker was pretty awful when turned up to a decent volume. I reckon if you upgraded it with just about anything it would sound better. I also had a carlsbro stingray, which is the cobras 150 watt big brother. The speakers in that used to fart all the time but when I connected the amp to a decent 2x15 cabinet, it actually sounded not bad. If you're going to get it serviced you may as well ask the tech to fit a decent speaker in it at the same time. He might have one hanging about.

My best pal had the serious hots for the Kajagoogoo bassist. He was traumatised when I broke the news to him that the bassist was actually a guy not, as he had thought, a girl.

I heard Dave Grohl and Macca's band play Wings 'Band On The Run', at the whitehouse, in front of the Prez and Paul. It was pretty sh*t. And I'm sure he'll think so too when he watches the video. Definitely too high a key for his voice. Hearts Stairway to Heaven, at the Kennedy Centre was a huge cheesefest too, as they murdered the song. The worst part was when the curtains parted, a gospel choir was revealed, and turned the song into some kind of 'Christian Rock'. The Leds smiled dutifully but I'm sure they were thinking 'WTF!!!'.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1387732365' post='2314991'] A few weeks back we sold a cab to a customer by making him face away whilst we plugged in a variety of different cabs whilst he kept playing. He walked away with a Bag End 1x10". Not at all what he was looking for when he came in We sometimes give people a selection of basses to play and refuse to tell them how much they cost. Did that recently with a batch of Fender J's and the customer bought a Mexican with upgraded pickups ahead of a stock USA model. It simply sounded better and played just as well. Blind testing is definitely a good idea when it's practical [/quote] You are a disgrace as a salesman. (always try to sell the most expensive thing in the shop) But possibly quite a decent human being.

Stainless steel is the way to go. Would make it cheap too (well the Indonesian copies would be). Nice sound, like a top of the range jazz bass. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAVxqwiyoQo[/media]

There's a reason why they're called ashtrays.

This is much better. I enjoyed the sound of your last video but I felt the overdriven amp disguised the actual sound of the basses too much. On this video, I really liked the deeper muddier sounding basses as they sounded better in the context of the music you played as a backing track. I especially liked the Gibson EB-2. The others I liked were the Gibson RD, The Thunderbird and The Stagg EB-3 . I think it's worthwhile trying the same thing with a different style of music to show how basses sound better or worse depending on the style of music they are playing within. For example the Jazz Bass may have been my favorite sound if the backing track had been funkier, or the Rickenbacker if the backing was rockier. Thanks.

The only bass I've heard at a sound check and gone 'what the f*** is that!?', was a Wal MK2. It was in a grungy music pub. I had my back to the stage and was leaving the venue when I heard the bassist soundchecking and ran back to find out what he was playing. No new bass (as opposed to a collectible antique) is worth four grand though. People who own them inevitably have a bank balance that far outweighs their actual talent.