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I have some song lyrics tattooed on one arm but not sure if that is bass related enough.

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I always think of you as being of sound judgement.

Confession time. Just traded a bass with some cash my way, so that's just a sale really isn't it?

Excellent trade with Ash. Now proud owner of a lovely P bass having been without for too long.

I had a very close shave with @AndyTravis Fender Jazz Power Bass Special. Luckily (or maybe not) I was not first in the queue so still in the game

That is very unreasonable of them, presuming that later models were considered to be upgrades

I'm probably in a minority but I'm not that keen on the early JB stacked knobs controls. Much prefer the VVT arrangement, or V/T/4-way p/up switch arrangement as I spend much less time pratting round with settings this way.

I feel the regs on trades from 2019 were excessively harsh as you're not acquiring new gear, merely changing existing stock into something else

Pretty sure many of those 'activities' are illegal up here in the northwest.

Which review is this please db5?

I personally am glad the OP makes no reference to playing unlined fretless basses well, just if we are playing them

OK got it thanks.

Wow, what combos is that giving you?

That is a chuffin' lovely bass @Mastodon2

From a Spector perspective the first 'decent' bass I owned was the original Spector Legend (before the range split into two versions). It was a cracking bass and you can find them lurking about for £300 or so. Probably the best in terms of value for money that I have owned was an NS-94. Virtually a US quality bass made during the SSD period when he was in litigation about who owned what. Not up for sale often but worth waiting for imho, ymmv etc.

Oooh count me in. I have a couple of ACG fretless basses:

13 hours in and so far so good. What is the official policy on trades? Are they OK on the basis that it's not more stuff just different stuff?

Excellent, thank you for that. I'm now looking forward to seeing a metal act with a bassist using a Hofner strung with flats (in standard tuning)

I'm glad that has finally been cleared up. We now need a definitive statement on strings and pickups and we can all go home

If a J bass sounds like Cheltenham does a P bass sound more like Gloucester thus making it better for metal?

I speak as a bass fan and currently own a few in various incarnations. A passive ACG with overwound single coils (you would have to prise this one from my cold, dead hands), a passive Anaconda (technically humbuckers with switchable coils that can make it a J bass), and active ACG and a LAG collections (active EMG p/ups). They do sound different in isolation probably due to the different p/up & electronics combinations, however in a band mix I suspect you'd be hard pushed to differntiate them.