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Mostly self taught but I used to be a good violin player so an amount of musical knowledge definitely helped. Weirdly whilst I can read / sight read the treble clef music I still struggle to read the bass clef, no idea why. Thinking of having pano lessons in an attempt to sort this once and for all. Thinking bass lines, the first band I ever joined (and am still with) is an originals band so probably doesn't count. For covers maybe the following: American Idiot (probably the first I learned) Dark Side of the Moon - taught myself to play the whole thing with a bit of tab help for Time Ziggy Stardust Can't Get Enought Of Your Love Eleanor (The Turtles) Nothing Else Matter (easy, but love the song) Aspiring to learn: What Had Ye For Supper, Maddy Prior iirc, beautiful fretless bass part & Starship Trooper

Any news on gigs yet?

Per Cuzzie's comments. I recently sold my VS4 and miss it massively (I had put a Nordstrand NP4 pickup in it).

I like comments on threads. One experience I had recently was in respect of an item I had listed. I got a PM from one of our 'glass half empty' members saying it was over-priced and could be bought new for virtually what I was asking. I thought, OK fair point let me do more research. So I did, decided this person was wrong, listed it elsewhere and ended up selling the item for more that I was asking originally.

They are the Delano/Sandberg items.

Since receiving the CD it has been on in the car constantly. Great work Lewis and band. Have told my Scottish mate who broadcasts a prog show to give some airtime.

Excellent. Pics will be required of course.

I used to have a VM4 and ended up selling it as I now know that I prefer a P/J setup. THe P sound was OK but it was no MM bass. Just my view obvs.

Sandberg necks are indeed the dog's danglies.

But I have it now!

Mine hasn't landed yet

Just to note that all of my custom ACGs (and I'm a frequent flyer) have cost less than a Fender Custom Shop bass. In fact a number have cost less than a US Professional series. Yes of course there is a risk, and you definitely won't get your money back, but by chosing carefully (both luthier and spec) then you can mitigate some of that risk.

My Spector Euro LE4 ticks those boxes I think. It's essentially an active P bass.

Yup, good spot bud, these are Sadowsky knobs that I had knocking about. They're a bit bigger and the position marker is much easier to see in the dark on stage.

That was totally accidental and almost certainly user incompetence. Nice P bass sound; just been A/Bing the bass with my Amercian Std P bass to make sure!

New medium scale bass in what is essentially a P bass configuration with passive electronics and a split coil pickup. Like all Alan's work it's a cracker!

Absolutely fine. Tried it several times yesterday to make sure but not issues at all. This particular bass is wearing relatively lightweight D'Addario nickels in 45/60/80/105 flavours as opposed to the headless Border Reiver, also 32" scale. that has the D'Addario EXL160BT set on. Guages for the 160BTs are 50/67/90/120. Looking at the bass is think black tapewounds might look pretty cool too!

The seeds of the idea to commission a similar beastie were definitely sown after I'd had a go on yours

Cheers bud, just been having a quick noodle, v nice indeed to play.

Here we go folks ACG Finn 32" scale P bass Alder body with quilted maple top natural satin finish 3-pc ash neck with Maple board P bass pickup, passive electronics, detuner on E string Weight 7.4lbs Crappy phone pic, will so better ones in due course.

Picking up my new 32" P type bass tomorrow. Overly excited for an older person.

This is my main gigging bass with the pub rock covers band I play in. It's actually an American Std P bass from 2015 iirc. Black/Black/Rosewood as you can see and looks pretty 70s to my eyes. Approx 50% of your budget and nicely built. Not an expert on 70s/80s Fenders by any means but the Am Stds are nicely bult basses. Sounds great too