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I'd be concerned about any bass that has a neck that moves without changing gauge of strings or subjecting it to extreme temperatures or humidity. I've never had a bass where the neck has moved without something obvious causing it like the above.

Can't say I've ever seen one before

The Musicman Sterling I used to own had been used in a demo video for GAK before I got it, I used it to recorded a demo at Graeme Duffin's studio. Graeme is the guitarist with Wet Wet Wet, such a nice guy and an incredible ear. It was amazing watching him work. He put us so much at ease that the guide track we recorded ended up being the one we used for the demo. I then sold it on to James Glennie who is the founding member of the band James

I once had a Hartke HA5500 that I wanted to rack mount but I couldn't find rack ears to attach to the amp. I emailed the UK distributor at the time and they sent me a pair of rack ears that had been attached to one of the amps that Jack Bruce used for the Cream reunion concert. I know it's not in the same league as paying £40k for a bass that someone famous had sweated all over but it's still good, free and not been sweated over enough to have to caulk it

I think that this has been the subject of a few other threads as well - This is one of the new "ash" bodied Jazz basses, in fact ash everything

They did do a limited edition Sledge bass a few years ago. I can't remember if it was Flea being a Richard or whatever but that was the reason there was no graphite neck Flea signature and instead he went to Modulus

I need to go and have a shower after looking at that bass. That's dreadful

D'addario do EXL160BT which are 50, 67, 90, 120. I used them in standard tuning and got on fine with them so they should be ok in D tuning. They also do a super heavy gauge with the EXL230 strings - 55, 75, 95, 110. Amazon are currently doing these for £18.20 https://www.amazon.co.uk/DAddario-EXL230-050-110-Electric-Strings/dp/B000OR8BP0 I don't endorse D'addario strings, although that would be nice, but they are all that I use. I gave up trying anything else years ago as I found exactly what I wanted. I normally get 8 or 9 wedding length gigs from them before they begin to go dull - so about 36-40 playing hours

Me too. I remember the photos in the pages of Bassist with the vast array of Warwicks in every flavour and all sorts of exotic stuff This bass is really good value as you can pay up to £140 for the pickups alone and matching headstocks are always more expensive than plain ones. Me likey

Personally it doesn't matter. I've been through so many basses of differing nut widths, neck depths, string spacing, number of strings etc that it doesn't matter to me anymore. Means that I can jump from one bass to another without thinking about it

I've got a Fender High Mass bridge and 18v to my EMGs going on my Jazz bass tonight Another thing I read was that high mass bridges improve the sound/sustain/bananas/snake oil on Jazz basses but make Precisions worse/sustain less/the spawn of beelzebub

I love D'addario strings. Depending on what mood I'm in I'll have Chrome flats, ELX165 Nickel plated or my current favourite - Prosteels I find most stainless strings too rough but D'addarios across the board seem to be a lot smoother on my fingers

My hovercraft is full of eels. I will not buy this record, it is scratched

I'd only ever gone out gigging with one bass for years. It's only been in the last year or two that I have taken a second one - initially as a spare but then I decided to use one for the first set and another for the second. Usually the one for the first set has flats as a lot of the first half is disco, funk and soul but the second half has more rock and pop so I have a second bass with stainless steel rounds for the second set. I don't agree that you have to spend a lot of money to get a good bass, in fact my Player Precision is already sold and I am in the process of selling my Stingray. I figured that it may be next year before I get to play so didn't see the point in having so much money tied up in these basses. When we start gigging again, my main and only basses will both be Harley Bentons. The first set bass will be a JB-20 with licenced Hipshot Ultralites, Fender pickups and a Wilkinson high mass bridge. This will have D'addario flats. The second set bass is a JB-75MN. This has EMGs with BTS tone controls, Fender high mass bridge and Hipshot US Ultralites with D-tuner on the E. This will have D'addario prosteels. I already had the parts for the first one and the Ultralites for the second one. I've only bought the EMGs and Fender bridge specially. If I was playing a gig with minimal gear then I could take either and leave the other one at home

My Desert Gold with matching headstock 2004 SR4

The pictures of my long gone Colonel Mustard L-2000 are probably long gone as they were on photobucket so here they are again:

The ones I'd have back in a minute would be: Fernandes fretless with EMGs Colonel Mustard G&L L-2000 Stingray 5 in Lava Pearl Carlo Robelli 12 string The Warmoth '56 Precision that I spent ages speccing all of the parts Finally - my BB1025

Found it! The first of the slidey bits come around 1.08

Alternatively you could buy a spanner with both sizes https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Deep-Offset-Ring-Spanners-5-8-x-9-16-7-16-x-1-2-AF-A-F-Chrome-Vanadium/380862823013?hash=item58ad317a65:m:mP9bZwD6Ce7aWtGO3I1fYbA I carry both sizes plus a 3/4" for my Ultralites in case one of them comes loose during a gig which has never happened but would rather have something like this handy when I'm at a gig a couple of hundred miles from home

You're absolutely correct - I have a notification telling me that there is a new video but it's not there

They take the grub screw type of knobs - they're designed as direct replacement for US basses

This and I Wish are my two favourite Stevie Wonder bass lines. I remember when I heard this at being disappointed as it didn't sound as good as I thought that it was going to be but I Wish being even more amazing than I thought it could possibly be but I can't find it on Youtube so it may have been deleted or taken off

When I had my FSR Precision Special I didn't like the sound either so I changed the factory pups and preamp for a set of EMGs and the BQS control and sold the original pickups. Turned a good bass into a great bass it was a tight fit for the large mid-range board attached to the pot but it did fit without any work plus I discovered that I was able to squeeze 2 9v batteries into the battery compartment and use an adaptor which clipped right onto the existing battery terminal to make it 18v

I got mine from Six String Supplies. It's incredibly well made https://www.sixstringsupplies.co.uk/product/solderless-jazz-bass-harness