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[quote name='Steff' timestamp='1388755887' post='2325639'] The way I see it - she will relist the bass with a high starting price or a high reserve, it won't sell, then some music shop or trader will contact her with a £350-400 offer, will buy it and then display it in their shop for £700. [/quote] Do you really think it's worth £700? I'll send her a message right away 'Whatever you do don't sell it for less than £700 Lucy!'.

[color=#000000] Here you go. It will be re-listed, possibly after a cleanup and a restringing. [font=arial, sans-serif][size=2]Hi Gareth, yes I decided to end it now I know a bit more about them and I'll relist it with a better description. Lucy[/size][/font] [size=2][b] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=2]- vwluvbug09[/size][/font][/b][/size] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=2][b]Reply in your email program or through My Messages[/b][/size][/font] [url="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11051.m44.l1154/7?euid=605e7c780fbb4776bc6690b99f15d209&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcontact.ebay.co.uk%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FM2MContact%26item%3D360823222312%26requested%3Dvwluvbug09%26qid%3D744510938014%26redirect%3D0%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AX%3ARTQ%3AGB%3A1154"][/url] [/color] [color=#000000] [color=#666666][font=verdana, sans-serif][size=1] [/size][/font][/color] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=2][b]Dear vwluvbug09,[/b] How did the sale go Lucy. Did you decide to pull it because of the low bidding? Or did you get an a decent offer from elsewhere you couldn't turn down? It's a very nice bass and a bit of TLC will turn it into an instrument somebody will be proud of. Cheers Gareth[/size][/font] [/color]

In places like that I recommend you get the drummer to play with canes and the rest of the band lower their volume to the reduced level of the drummer. I also make sure my bass amp is off the stage, maybe on a table or chair, and as near to ear level as possible (which stops the sound getting too boomy, as the amp isn't coupling with a hollow stage and makes it easier to hear). Of course many drummers hate playing with canes. But just tell them the practice will do them the world of good (And if they still make a fuss just repeatedly hit them with a cricket bat until they do what they're told).

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1388708998' post='2325284'] No no no...... Don't be like that. I think it's fairer to say you ran to the watering hole screaming run for your life.......... [/quote] I would never do such a thing......

Thing of how much lager £150 would buy.

I remember, after a break where I played no bass for about a year, I started getting cramps in my hands. I put it down to lack of muscle strength due to inactivity. So I bought some hand grip muscle strengtheners and used those for a while. It seemed to help. Then about 10 years later I got carpal tunnel problems in my wrists. Which causes pins and needles, with numbness in the hands after playing bass for any period of time. Lengthening my strap helped, so that I keep my right wrist straight. Eventually I had to have an operation which solved the problem in my left hand. If the problem in my right hand gets any worse I'll have the operation on that one too.

[quote name='SlapbassSteve' timestamp='1388691490' post='2324962'] For the most part none whatsoever! I'm just surprised they don't make them already considering some of the artists they mass produce signature basses for. The Flea replica would be interesting as far as I know they don't currently do a stackknob '61 jazz reissue in the same price range as say the geddy lee or mike dirnt basses, and the Paul Simonon would have a black headstock and DiMarzios as standard. Besides, the Geddy Lee sig, one of their more popular ones currently, is just a '73 reissue with a Badass II and a squiggly line on the back of the headstock... doesn't stop it being a great bass though It's not always so much the player as the era it conjures up [/quote] And the skinniest neck on any Jazz Fender make. And it's the skinny neck that makes the sound (which I confirmed by fitting various other necks on my old Geddy in the spirit of experimentation).

Oh dear, l feel like I've wandered along to the waterhole and scared away that wounded wildebeest you'd all planned to have for your tea.

[quote name='deanovw' timestamp='1388670385' post='2324559'] I think it would have eventually sold for what it was worth. I have just sold a very nice JV jazz bass on ebay for £400 as thats all I could get for it. The market decides. [/quote] Whaaaaaaaa! You had it on here for £750. That was a nice bass, sorry to hear that. But Christmas is probably a bad time to try and sell anything as people are usually watching the pennies around Dec/Jan.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1388669774' post='2324552'] Agreed I'd be annoyed if I'd been hunting this JV and some bleeding heart had filled in the seller so that it was withdrawn. why would you? What business is it of your's? Killjoy [/quote] I'm getting a cut of the final price. Anything over £150 I get 50%.

[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.