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The ABM 900 comes in the wider size. Are you sure you've got the ABM 300 there? [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/section.asp?section=abm"]http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/section.asp?section=abm[/url]

[quote name='discreet' post='885010' date='Jul 3 2010, 07:23 PM']I've been gassing for a couple of midgets. Would like to try them out on stage and see if I get on with them. I'd put one on top of the other, maybe with the bottom one rotated through ninety degrees so everyone can hear what's going on. Then I'd give them both a good pumping for an hour or so, and see how they take it![/quote] You filthy beast! Leave those midgets alone!

The first time I heard that every picture tells a story - and especially maggie may - I hated it. I thought to myself.....'they sound like they're all drunk!'. Then I heard an interview with Rod Stewart and he said that they WERE all drunk when they recorded it! I went back and listened to it again and now it's one of my favourite albums. I think the trick is to drink a bottle of vodka and make it up as you go along.

The badge thing could a desire for the 'Real Thing'. Also conspicuous consumption may come into the equation as well [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption[/url] I am relatively intelligent and am well aware that I am being manipulated by marketing men. I have 3 Jazz basses none of which were made in the USA. I have them because they sound great but I still hanker after an American built one. It's a bit sad really.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Geddy-Lee-Jazz-Bass-CIJ-extras-case-/130405924849?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1e5ccc7ff1"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Geddy-Lee-Jaz...=item1e5ccc7ff1[/url] This guy is selling a CIJ Geddy Lee Jazz Bass. The only problem is that the bridge and bridge pickup position look awfully weird. Initially I thought he had fitted a Geddy Lee neck to a standard body but then I noticed the bridge cover. I know that I couldn't fit a bridge cover on my Geddy Lee because the BadAss bridge extends too near the end of the bass. Which makes me think this guy has moved the bridge forward to allow him to fit one. Still it's pretty cheap for a Geddy Lee ........if you don't mind a bit of D.I.Y. to return the bridge to it's original position.

Don't let these guys fool you into thinking it's easy to play 12 bar blues well. This is some dude on youtube who wrote down John Paul Jone's bass line note for note from the Lemon song and reproduced it for this video. It's dauntingly brilliant but don't let it put you off .......enjoy [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9-DNTY8ONw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9-DNTY8ONw[/url]

[quote name='roonjuice' post='866304' date='Jun 13 2010, 07:41 PM']got the metric ones and yuo, they dont fit! Any ideas where to get the imperial ones in the uk?[/quote] This website seems to have them. It's in the states but won't cost more than a fiver to get sent over. [url="http://www.buzzardsbass.com/parts/tuning-machines/parts.html#gear-screws"]http://www.buzzardsbass.com/parts/tuning-m...tml#gear-screws[/url]

The Stones 'Sympathy for The Devil' has Keef playing on bass. Bill Wyman is relegated to maracas.

[quote name='absolutpepper' post='876192' date='Jun 24 2010, 10:14 AM']Yeah its pretty nice! Having a wee play around with your 5 string the other week gave me the GAS and I was saving up for an EB SR5 when that one popped up on the 'bay. Took the risk with a cheeky bid and got it for £300 so i'm well chuffed. Seems like a lot of bass for the cash. I'm gonna hook it up with a set of Status Rounds shortly before popping it in to Egypt's for a setup.[/quote] I've been looking for a Ray35 on Ebay too. Drat! I missed that one!

[quote name='scalpy' post='875928' date='Jun 23 2010, 10:28 PM']Man! I sold one of these last year for a lot less than £250. It was a silver series jazz, ok, but not enough character to warrant modifying. However, it took a helluva beating in the van but never failed. Can't believe people are that excited by them, but then, what do I know?[/quote] I've kept my eyes peeled for one for a while. Most go for about £300 and I've seen them go for £400 on Ebay over the last year/18 months. I was only prepared to pay £250 tops but the two I've tried (mine and one a friend of a friend has) are both very well made and have a great sound. I've seen Silver series Precisions selling here for about £150 - for some reason the Jazz basses tend to go for more. Did you put yours on Ebay? They don't come up that often as they were only made for 2 years between 92 and 94 and there's not many about.

Well I was seriously considering a Vintage Vibe Jazz but I got fed up waiting for them to bring one out in sunburst. I'd played a Silver Series before so was aware they're really well put together basses and I liked the sound. It was a bit of a leap of faith buying it from ebay though but luckily I got a nice one. The price was £250 + postage which have been roughly the cost of a vintage vibe.

As the title says I just bought a MIJ Fender 'Silver Series' Squier Jazz Bass via Ebay. It's a P serial number 1993-94. What a fantastic bass! It's incredibly solid and well made - at least as well made as my MIJ Geddy Lee. It's made of what I assume is basswood with a satin finished neck. There's no crackles from the electrics and very little hum from the pickups (which may have something to do with the a grounding strip going from the bridge pickup to the bridge similiar to a 62 Jazz). And what a sound! It sounds almost like a precision it's got so much low end punch. I've looked on the internet and there's not much information about 'Silver Series' Squier Jazzes so I was wondering if anyone has any experience of these excellent basses.

Also a slab bodied bass can cut off circulation to the hand, which will make it go numb, because of the edge of the body pressing on your forearm/wrist over the length of a long gig. I've had that before and the only way to solve it is to #1 lower your strap for that Sid Vicious look or #2 use another bass.

Wow really liked that! Especially the harmonics and melodic sequences your sound and feel was excellent. I've watched vids of others on youtube where they've been trying to do something similiar and their technique may have been excellent but the sound from their bass was like nails down a blackboard. In fact they put me off the whole idea of solo bass but your stuff shows how it should be done. Fantastic!

I didn't play for about a year and when I returned to playing I started getting cramps in my hand too. I got one of those springy hand strengthener things sports shops sell and that (plus extra practice) did the trick. Alternatively a squeezy rubber ball would do the same thing.

Hmmmmm.....very handy. I just bought it. I'll review it when I've read it. Basses are not mark 2 escorts.

I bought an indonesian made, 2002 standard Squire Jazz the other week, on a whim, from another Basschattter for £95. I already have a CIJ Geddy Lee Jazz so wasn't expecting much from it and the plan was to take it to bits and tart it up a bit with new pickups etc. But I was flabbergasted to find that when I plugged it in it sounded amazing. I couldn't get a bad sound and frankly it's the best Jazz bass I've ever heard. It is so incredibly punchy and goes from Jaco to John Paul Jones with everything in between. Of course the tuners and bridge are a bit tinny and the neck has a screw loose which I need to sort but other than that it's fantastic. I too have been hankering after a USA model for years as I assumed it was everything I could wish for in a Jazz but now find it hard to justify forking out £900 for a guitar that doesn't sound as good as my cheapo Squire (however well put together it is) If I had got this sound from a £1000 bass I would have said it was money well spent but, amazingly, I've got it from a (very) cheap low end Jazz. So the moral of this story is...........try before you buy or you could end up with an expensive (but very well put together) US bass that doesn't sound any better than the bloke down the pub's cheapo Squire. And I am that bloke down the pub.

I have 3 very different sounding basses 1 - a geddy lee with roundwounds 2- a 30 yr old Schecter with a P and a Jazz pickup a mute and tapewound strings and 3 - an old Squire Jazz, also with roundwounds. The reason I have them is because they all sound so very different from one another. So if it's an acoustic blues type gig I'll take the Schecter, if it's a rock gig I'll take the Geddy and if it's something that needs a bit of everything I'll take the Squire. My next purchase may be a Stingray, as one thing I don't have is an active bass.

These look like the little suckers! [url="http://www.stagonset.co.uk/fasteners?cart_id=5444941_26246&prm_grp=A2_ScrewBolt_PhilRaPan_M5&summit=M5|Phillips|Pan|Head|Machine|Screws#top"]http://www.stagonset.co.uk/fasteners?cart_...hine|Screws#top[/url] Choose the 10mm screw from the table at the bottom. 13p each I do believe........cheap as chips. Wish I knew where to find them 15yrs ago.

[quote name='roonjuice' post='862234' date='Jun 9 2010, 03:51 PM']WHOAH That seems an impossibly difficult task to make something that must exist in the millions by now! Crazy but appreciated![/quote] Well guess what.....he managed to find the size. It's an M5 screw with a 10mm length and a philips head similiar to these [url="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/__m5+x+10mm_W0QQ_dmdZ2?rvr_id=&crlp=1535558920_228459_228460&UA=WXI7&GUID=054416e61220a0aad3d59a25ff1040bd&agid=728969020&MT_ID=10&keyword=m5+x+10mm&ff4=228459_228460"]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/__m5+x+10mm_W...4=228459_228460[/url] What I've noticed is that the two other basses I have - a fender geddy lee jazz and an old squier jazz bass from 2002 have worm screws that fix perfectly so it must be a standard screw. Hope this helps.

I have three basses so I have the luxury of being able to set up with 3 different sounds. The first is my 30 year scheckter which has a split pickup at the neck and a jazz single coil at the bridge. On this bass I have tapewound trubass strings which sound very James Jamerson, deep and round and sound great with rootsy type country and blues at low volumes and recorded but tends to get lost and sound woolly at higher volumes. The second is my Geddy Lee Jazz which is set up with, well played in, Rotosound roundwounds. This bass has a very well defined sound whatever strings are on it and is a bit of a jack of all trades. I tend to take a bit of the treble off with the tone control and boost the bass to 'round out' the sound because the bridge pickup is set in a 70's configuration nearer to the bridge which tends to accentuate the mid frequencies. The third bass I have is a 2002 Squier Jazz, which at the moment, is my favourite (which is very weird because it cost £95 secondhand and therefore should sound naff......but doesn't?). This also has rotosound roundwounds on it and sounds fantastic with that scooped sound (bass and treble boosted). In fact it sounds jazzier than a very jazzy jazz bass having a very jazzy day (if you know what I mean). So the answer is I don't really have a 'sound' but like to chop and change depending on the band I'm playing wth and the music I'm playing.

Hmmmm.......I've just bought a 2002, Indonesian built, Squier Jazz Bass standard from a fellow basschatter for £95. I gigged it last night........and I hate to say it but.........it sounds great The neck (after a tweak) is excellent. I haven't checked the pickups but I assume they're standard. The electrics are a bit supect (but nothing a squirt of cleaner can't sort). And here I am, the guy with a beautiful Geddy Lee Jazz, the guy who was lusting after a US built Jazzer or a road worn for £700/800 more than this cost me. Wondering how a bass, made out of plywood and tin, can sound so good. It just excentuates the fact that just because a bass costs £1000 more than the one you have isn't going to, necessarily, make it sound any better.

I've played early 90's Japanese Squiers based on the 62 basses with the grounding strip, Us standards, roadworns, my own Geddy Lee, the latest Mex 70 re-issue. They were all great in their own way. Weirdly the Japanese Squier was my favourite playingwise and soundwise (it had been used and abused and left unloved in a damp rehearsal room for years). So the answer is........ Japanese Squier 62 re-issue. But you don't have that as a choice.

Think of it as a go faster Jazz. Very good quality. Pickups a bit noisy soloed (Not an issue for me). Aggressive sound. Neck is only an issue if you like very low action . If you like Mr Geddy you will like this bass.