theplumber

just looking at guitars on e bay......guy selling a fender jazz bass,which looks proper,serial number dates it early 70,s...claims he bought it for £300...and is looking to raise the same!...is it a copy(replica)......or is it some poor buggers knocked off pride and joy...you decide!.....its up tomorrow night,sorry no link, go on e bay,and search fender jazz bass........its a bloke in merseyside,with a dodgy less than 10 feedback....

The new ones seem to be made in China,according to one seller.....I am looking at the jazz and precision type bass.

Just had a look on e bay,a few brand new Tokai jazz bass and precision bass guitars are up for sale......being a big fan of the original 80,s Fender clones,I wondered if anyone has tried these new made in china versions. I have an early 80,s jazz bass and it is brill!

I played bass guitar in the early ninties with a band from Glasgow called Columbus Road. The band asked Alan Longmuir,of Bay City Rollers fame to play bass on one track of an album that the band were putting out on their own label.He did a decent job of it...but when he left,we used my version of it,which went on the album (I think the singer still has about 700 copies under his bed...) Alan later came back and plumbed in our guitarists gas cooker.......clever man!

I played in Glasgow with my band last Friday night,in a place called Rockers.....it was freezing cold outside,and my guitar had been in my home office all day(wee room with rubbish,dvds etc) I put it in a soft gig bag,out into my van for the 30 minute drive to Glasgow,then into the band room of the venue......After about an hour,I tuned it and then we sound checked.....it was well out on a couple of strings......I might have bumped into something on the stage,as its a bit compact and we are a 5 piece band.... After the sound check,I tuned it and checked it a couple of times.....I have a small Korg tuner,with the built in mike.....It seemed to be picking up everysound in the venue,so I used the guitar players tuner on his zoom pedal..... When we started to play...it was out of tune again.....I wished the stage would open up and swallow me......I tuned it during the song,but everybody in the bloody place noticed!........Something to do with the hot,then cold,then hot situation maybe!.....its a Tokai Jazz sound bass,never had any tuning issues before.....though the strings were a couple of weeks old...so maybe not played in yet!...any one else had this trouble?