Hello All,
Bizarrely (maybe) I'm actually a keyboard player in a blues band (North West UK). Also, I play (and collect) guitar a bit, sing a bit and having just jacked in one of the bands I was playing with (to concentrate on blues organ/piano), I've decided to pick up something I dabbled with many years ago, BASS. I've had quite a few along the way, 1973 Rickenbacker 4001, 1978 Fender Precision, 1987 Fender Jazz (USA), all of which got (regrettably) sold along the way to purchase other guitars, keyboards and even a front door! Also had a couple of Yamahas, Ibanez, Hohner, CSL, blah blah blah… My daughter has a nice 2011 Mexican Precision in CopperBurst and a very playable and great sounding Ibanez SR250 which I've borrowed a bit… ok, a lot.
NOW…. as mentioned, I have some time available and so I've decided to follow the bass bug after all and so far on the shopping list and within available budget are EITHER a MIM Jazz, Squier CV 60's Jazz, Epiphone RumbleKat, Hofner VeryThin or an Ibanez AGB200. Whichever it ends up being will occasionally be used, initially anyway, at local a jam night through a good old Fender Rumble 100 combo. I'm not (yet) a tone-specific-bass-head and I have no ego or snobbery about gear so I'm just hoping to get myself a nice sounding playable bass to use with my very loud and great sounding Rumble until the day I do inevitably become a tone-specific-bass-head egotistical gear snob ;-)
So I'm doing a bit of browsing and opinion gathering and comparing…. as you do. Knew about this site/forum via an old band buddy of mine who is on here (kennyrodg). Loads of useful info so far.
Hoping to jump all over a purchase in the January sales if not a used bargain before then.
That's it….
Cheers
Andy