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I don't know about other Warwick basses but I heard a friend of mine playing his thumb bass recently. It has two Jazz pickups very close to the bridge so gets a very burpy Jaco Pastorious sound. It is probably a more Jazz and funk orientated tone which is a bit like marmite - you either love it or hate it. He usually plays a USA Precision which is an all rounder and the 'in your face' Thumb bass sound wasn't really appropriate for a lot of the covers his band played that night. Here's an example [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7spc7CHbT_Q&feature=related[/media]

Yes, but usually they are crap because if you'll play for free you must be. Of course if you're an originals band, getting paid nothing is par for the course in my experience. Saying that I'm amazed at the peanuts even covers bands are paid in my neck of the woods. The fees haven't increased since I started playing in the eighties.

Fretless? She doesn't say anything about that on ebay. Somebody's going to get a shock when they get it delivered.

Yes badass bridge and the pictures seem to show Fender Noiseless pickups. I got in touch and she says no serial number or country of manufacture on bass. Looks like a bitsa bass made with decent parts but doubt it's a Fender.

The truss rod adjuster doesn't look like it's on the headstock. Which means it's probably not Mexican (unless it's a classic 60s bass).

I would say the definition is showroom condition.

I was thinking of buying this myself but I've won an action for another bass on ebay and can no longer afford it. The seller sent me some nice pictures of a very good condition USA Jazz. It's a very nice price for some lucky buyer. [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/fender-jazz-bass-american-standard-2009/106632437"]http://www.gumtree.c...-2009/106632437[/url]

What if it's a Fender road worn Jazz Bass? I did once see a road worn Jazz for sale, described as mint, on this very forum.

You have a van? Isn't that how Bill Wyman got the Rolling Stones gig?

[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1342940230' post='1742873'] Where you going through the PA as well? [/quote] There was PA support but because of a seriously loud guitarist through an Vox AC 30 onstage, and the fact I wanted to see what the compact could do, I turned the amp up to not far off it's maximum. It was a excellent sound onstage and I was told by fellow bassist it was great in the crowd too.

My band played an outdoor gig today, to about 1,000 people in the centre of Edinburgh. I was using my MiBass 500 micro amp and my newly aquired Barefaced Compact. What a sound! I had the MiBass near it's limit but it was loud, clear, punchy, defined and deep though the Compact. No distortion and no farting from the speaker. It's a great combination and I thoroughly recommend them both. And I can get the amp in my gig bag and can carry the cab with one hand (when the drummer picked the compact up he said to me 'Sorry to tell you Gareth but they've forgotton to put the speaker in your cab'). Fantastic!

Yes see me tomorrow saturday at the Jazz and blues fest mardi gras. I'll be playing with the Dana Dixon Band from 1 til 4pm. It's free and it's out in the open air (bit risky for Edinburgh). We're more Blues than Jazz.

Welcome to Basschat and Edinburgh. Get yourself down to The Jazz Bar on Chambers St where you'll find a lot of like minded bass players. I recommend any band with Aki Remally playing in it (he plays bass and guitar as well) as he's the funkiest of the funkiest.

Yeah looks like a bitsa bass with a stripped and revarnished body and with a Fender decal stuck on the headstock. It may be a good sounding and playing bass but it isn't a Fender. Honest enough to admit it in the questions and answers section.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1342539208' post='1736811'] it doesn't need to have. There are two japanese '62ri models- one with spiral bridge, US pickups and alder body and one with jap pickups and basswood body. Depending on the age it may or mayn't have the spiral bridge. Tuners on both will be jap (metric) sizes needing a smaller hole in the wood than a american (imperial measurement) size one. [/quote] My 62 reissue had the spiral saddles and the larger size vintage tuners with the normal 18mm peg size with a strap button on the back of the headstock. It also had the copper earthing strip going from the bridge to the copper pickup plates (which is the way they used to earth jazzes back in 62). If it doesn't have the large vintage tuners and the spiral saddles it's not a 62 reissue (lots of other Japanese Jazzes still have the copper earthing strip). But it doesn't really matter because this supposedly MIJ Jazz is going for Squier money which makes it awfully suspicious. I'm sure I saw this the other day on ebay and it was going for about £400/£500. Possibly somebody has just lifted the photos off ebay and tried to lure an innocent punter to their doom...........we'll see.

Hmmmmmm......when somethings to good to be true etc. I'm sure I've seen that picture somewhere before? Ebay possibly? Proceed with caution.

Groovy! Two handed tapping in BB King's band would be instant grounds for dismissal.

Bad day for Motown. Such a nice guy too. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiSDZVmnRNU&feature=player_embedded#!"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiSDZVmnRNU&feature=player_embedded#![/url]