Chris2112

I love the video in the OP. Probably my favourite video of Billy and Paul. Beautiful melody, fearsome chops, wonderful feel, awesome tone. Billy and Paul have always been a winning combination, but their experience here is really showing. To be honest, it's better than 99% of the stuff I hear today. I absolutely love the part where Paul's solo ends and the unison line comes in together. It's also a fair clever way of doing things, with Paul ascending and Billy descending. Of course, this is to be expected from elite musicians. I've had the pleasure of seeing both Paul and Billy live on numerous occasions and they always entertain. Also, having been front row in these shows, I can confirm that they're both gentleman, and Billy shook my hand and was really cool despite the fact I was whooping and cheering for him all night.

Yes, I recall. Does "Anthony Jackson shreds" not give any result on youtube?

Soundslive in Newcastle are pretty good for Rics like. They must have a good relationship with the dealer as they're the only place in Newcastle who ever have them in on the regular.

He can play, but this is a perfect example to me of why the double bass is such a dull and unsatisfying sounding instrument!

I want to see pictures of this Jaydee Thumb!

Probably my Status Stealth 1 6 string. I only had it about 4 months. I wasn't the right bass for the time, but it was brilliant.

Those old Ibanez basses are very cool, very much underrated IMO...but £450 is very, very optimistic. Given that I recall a Warwick Thumb selling on her for £500 recently, you see what £500 can get you now!

Another of my regrets is missing out on basses I could have probably had an amazing time with, because of silly money worries. I like to keep a cash float in my bank and never like to go below it, and this has caused me to miss out on a few great basses I've been offered. Probably the biggest regrets there are a Sound Of Sweden Jonas Hellborg bass and Kingbass #4. Grr.....

Yeah, I have to say I enjoy the older MM basses more than the new ones. The old ones just have so much "FUNK"! And I always prefered the feel of the older necks to the new ones. The 1980's ones were my favourites, be it Sabre or Stingray. I don't know if it is my inherent love for the 80's affecting my view though. My Sabre special has a 1980 Sabre neck on it. You can tell just from feeling it that it has been played and played, but it is just full of funk.

I do think the right to sell gear here should be at least reserved for those who have a few posts on the forum, as recently it seems there have been a few people whi just pop up in the "for sale" forum with no posts, looking to use the place as a way to shift gear without Ebay costs or whatever! Maybe I'm naturally suspicious...

I've played probably about 6 or 7 now, and no, they're not particularly heavy. Sadly they have a tendancy to be good or bad IMO. When they're bad, they really suck. When they're good, they're the best jazz basses in the price range, and punch well above their weight.

Thank you! I might as well post a photo of the back then... Without a doubt, the best sounding fretless I've ever played!

My Sabre special suffered from this quite badly when I first got it. I adjusted the bass and sorted the string heights, and after a tweak and set up by myself, the G string is back in action! Now it sounds full and punchy, whereas before it sounded as flat as a fart! It also has one of those lovely SD MM pickups in it...sounds absolutely incredible!

[quote name='firmo' post='754833' date='Feb 23 2010, 11:30 AM']Once at a gig my bass was on it's stand right at the back of the stage (behind the curtain) when the support bands bassist bust a string. I was stood there and saw him put his bass down and disappear somewhere, I assumed he'd gone to grab his spare only to find him come back out from behind the curtain with my bass! Cheeky little f***er I was tempted to climb up on stage and knock the little sh*t out - if he'd have asked I wouldn't have minded that much but this made my blood boil.[/quote] I would have went on stage and removed my bass from the little twat's hands!

Ah, my old Spector... One of the best basses I have ever played! I still miss it now!

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='753510' date='Feb 22 2010, 09:27 AM']but the moment you get up on stage in front of these guys, they might also be expecting you to play like David Beezley, Matt Garrison or Richard Bona...[/quote] Or even, god forbid, Victor Wooten...then you'd have no chance of measuring up!

Beaten up doesn't matter so much with these basses, since they are made like tanks!