Hullo folks. Been lurking a while so I thought I should sign up, since this is a UK forum. My name is Simon, and I’m based in Sudbury in NW London (on the border of Wembley and Harrow).
Here’s a photo of my first Bass guitar! I’m not actually a bassist, but a month ago I needed to add a bass track on a recording I was making so I borrowed a cheap bass (an Ibanez GSR180)…and was unable to put it down, it was just so much fun! Initially I was playing though an audio interface and hifi, then I bought a small practise amp (the Orange Crush 25 you see in the photo), and the other day I went out to Andertons and played a bunch of guitars around the £200-400 price range, including Fenders, G&L, Music Man, Sire and one or two others. It was a great deal of fun, but when I picked up an SR300EB it just “felt right” for my fingers, was huge fun to play and seemed decently well built — for £260 in the new years sale I think it was a bargain.
The bass will be kept up in my music room (alongside three guitars, a piano, two violins, some blue harps and a bunch of other random instruments) most of the time but is currently set up in the lounge because I’ve been playing it non stop since I got it! I think I’m going to be playing bass more than any other instrument for a good while 🙂
