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Oh lordy - Another one Bites the Dust by Queen when I was 12 on my first bass which was a Marlin Slammer - £99 catalogue bass with peeling chrome but it looked like the red precision with maple board that JD used on One Vision. Defretted it after seeing the picture of JD using a maple fretless P on the Live Killers album then binned it for a Riverhead Jupiter. I had actually learned the guitar solo to Its A Hard Life on an acoustic a few months prior to this and I so nearly turned to the dark side of the force before redeeming myself by learning every tune on the Live at Wembley Concert from 1986

I thought I'd tried all the flats and had almost given up getting something I liked until I tried Rotos. I now have them on my Epi T-bird and Fernandes fretless. I also had them on my Epi Les Paul. I now simply can't stand the roughness of rounds now. They feel wrong to me now and the Rotos are bright enough to still give me my own trademark punchy sound. I don't think I could even consider rounds now

is it just me or would the fretless neck have been better on top so you can see what you are doing?

call me old fashioned but if I were mixing speaker sizes from the same company I'd be more likely to go for a 15" & 2x10" or 2x15" & 4x10" as everything I've read would suggest that 2x10"s and a 15" are closer to the same level of output than 4x10"s and a 15".

So is he any relation to Alan 'Fluff' Freeman? If so then this bass is well worth the money alright? Not 'alf.

I don't sweat a great deal but even a small amount can make my fingers stick to the strings so for years I've always pointed a small fan at my hands

Laney make a nice light(ish) 8x10" at 45kg. I don't know of any that are lighter without paying big money

Fender did an extremely limited bound neck Jazz maple fretless but not a block in sight

I thank U all

Spotted that earlier and if the guy had been offering postage this thread would never have appeared cos it would be mine As far as I know luthite is just a type of plastic so providing it isn't too porous it shouldn't bee too difficult to get it back to its original finish. I'd like to think that the guy who painted it took the covers off and masked off the electronics cos it looks like it was painted with the covers on but then again I picked up an explorer where the guy had sprayed right over the pickups so anything's possible

IBTL

I think for most people its likely to be what they own currently apart from those 'why did I sell that' items For me it has to be the Thunderbird. I was working it out earlier that if I'd bought the bass and the parts I added to it, it would've cost me £400 but was around the £250 mark for the bass and all the addons Had it 7 months which is a modern record for me - modern being post-basschat/talkbass/egay I'm still getting to know it and adjust it exactly to my liking but it was pretty much on the money when I bought it. Such a fantastic looking and playing bass and something a bit different I'd also have to say Gallien Krueger amps. went round the doors using different stuff and came right back to GK because it produces the sound I want

And you're all wrong the best cheap strings I have ever used by a country mile and used all the time until I went to flats were Hartke ones. I picked up a 3 set pack for about £17 on Ebay. I still have a set left if I ever decide to get a second bass to keep. Now that's what I call Texas Style Rock and Roll, er I mean Cheap. (sorry i was at the wrong gig for a moment there) Those Alice ones are terrible. I still have a few sets knocking about. Cheap and very nasty.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1211518' date='Apr 26 2011, 10:54 AM']About as pointy as a Fender.[/quote] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOs4vsthLD0"]Oh, you're no fun anymore[/url]

'classics' I have one of these up my loft or it may be one of the PA heads. Hey, I should give it to my nephew and tell him that I don't know anything about it so he can flog it on Egay for a fortune.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='1210946' date='Apr 25 2011, 03:24 PM']1966 and left handed, any suggestions?[/quote] Typing '1966 left handed' into google brings up this [url="http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/hofner/collect/col1.html"]http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/hofner/collect/col1.html[/url]

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1210964' date='Apr 25 2011, 03:48 PM']I've only been playing bass for 1 and a half years and I'm on my 8th bass. I'm always scouring the for sale section.[/quote] By the time I had been playing for 18 years I had owned 6 basses. Since the invention of Talkbass, Basschat and Egay I have owned a further 60 odd in the space of 6 years I may only have one bass but its about the 70th one I've owned. The cure for gas is just try everything you can get your hands on, sell it then buy something else. Its worked for me to the extent that i just can't be bothered doing it any more.

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My last Thunderbird - if I can find another one of these cheaply enough I plan on a 5 string conversion

MY Epiphone Explorer that I just couldn;t get on with cos it was too unwieldy

Had to be done. As someone who rarely owns anything as conventional as a Fender I feel its my place to spread the pointy bass love I've now had this bass for 7 months and its my pride and joy. Its probably the longest I've held onto a bass in ages. I usually have basses for a few weeks, sometimes days before selling them again. It began life as an Epiphone Gothic Thunderbird which has the jazz bass nut width rather than the standard which is more like a precision. I bought it from a guy in America and it already had the Hipshot bridge on it. I've slowly added bits to it - I moved the front strap button to the front of the heel, straplocks, EMG 35HZ pickups, new pots and paper-in-oil cap, repro Gibson truss rod cover for the hell of it and a set of Roto flatwounds. The scratchplate is the original with sticker printer paper with the 1976 Thunderbird logo. Next will be a set of blue Fret FX LEDs.