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Hi Folks Don't often do this but with this one I thought I must.. So, there I was in my local music shop in Bognor Regis (Mike's Music) buying some strings when I saw this hanging on the wall looking a bit unloved.. Being the kind chap that he is, Mike let me have a trial with the bass and after spending some time with it at home, I realised it was a must have.. As far as I can tell from the serial number, its a Made in Japan 1991/2 Fender Precision. Sounds great, beautiful Ash body and maple neck and is in brilliant condition for a 27 year old bass. Happy days, or should I say, happy NBDs! Thanks for looking.. 😊

Ive had my P34 for a week now, and love it to bits. Not had a lot of time to play it this week, but i can honestly say i had had no ‘i wish it....” moments, its the most complete bass ive ever owned. Ive struggled to take any phots that make it look interesting, its hard to photograph at home and, well, we all know what it looks like. Still, a few to prove i have it lol.

Awesome gig yesterday evening at the Farmyard Bikers rally in Helmsley, North Yorkshire. This is one of big ones at about 6-7000 punters and loads of bands over 4 stages and 2 days. Great weather and enthusiastic crowd, even had time for a beer after our spot and watched a couple of bands. Loved the backstage request.....lol

😂 Si

Milli Vanilli

Liam Gallagher in every band he's ever been in.

Just back from a local (festival) gig... now off to a pub gig. Oddly the pub gig is going to be paying way more than the festival but I reckon the festival gig might be the better experience; we shall see.

took a good bit of cleaning, was like a dusty headache. Wearing some BB knobs now too.

Woo! First one I've actually recognised. I'm nowhere near my bass at the moment so someone else should feel free to continue

“YAMAHA”

Could you please update me about everything you've posted in the last... oh, I don't know - 3 months?? 😃

Yay! 👍

Here’s some https://www.allparts.uk.com/collections/wood-horn-knobs

Female bass-player? Boogie Oogie Oogie, A Taste of Honey?

Completely disagree. He was great with AC/DC at the Olympic Stadium a few years back. Aside from nailing the songs, he looked like he was living the dream. I guess this post is about replacement singers, because (like it or not) the singer is almost always the focal point for an audience and everyone else is essentially a backing musician. A change in a high profile frontman can be hard for some fans to take, but - so what. And just for the record, I think that Adam Lambert is awesome with Queen.

Couple of good gigs this week in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury. We have a new lighting guy, so enjoying seeing what he can do to make us look better, not an easy task....

I remember when it was all fields.....

All my basses are active. Passive basses are a bit meh these days (with the exception of Hohner) They were all the rage back in the 50’s 60’s, but not so much in recent years. 🤔😆

Dear friends, after more than 4 years the first 4 String bass is ready to rock the world ! EVO-FX4

The thing is, when Gibson were going bust, everyone was saying “they need to go back to what they do best, Les Paul’s/SG’s/335’s!” And were criticised for all their “innovations” (which incidentally were poop...) Fender and Gibson do what they do, Imagine Levi’s making tracksuit bottoms or Dr Martens making tennis shoes. It just doesn’t work that way. Fender have a staple 5/10 models and have to work with that. They try stuff and it doesn’t always sell - there are 100’s of models which didn’t stay long. I sold Fenders for years as my Job, and all the weird and wonderful sat on the wall while black strats and white telecasters turned over in huge numbers. For years their best selling Telecaster was the butterscotch 52, their second biggest selling telecaster was the left handed version. After that it was a natural finish USA with a black pickguard and the Baja Tele in blackguard blonde...etc. Its about an “Icon” thing for players. Jaguars/Jazzmasters/Mustangs were sort of dead until Grunge - the artists bought them because they were reputable branded guitars but cheap. Then in the early 2000’s the 72 Custom Tele/Thinline Tele/Tele Deluxe were in vogue because of all the hip indie bands using them for that same reason - before that they couldn’t raise an eyebrow let alone a big ticket price. They have a legacy and they’re bound to it, damned if they do (by some) and damned if they don’t (by others). More stringent quality control and they’d be away - but that adds cost, and that’s why a Deluxe USA Jazz is £1800 or so and a USA Sadowsky is about £4500. Incidentally - I side by side compared a USA 2010 Deluxe, A USA sadowsky and an Alleva Coppolo (check spelling) and the Fender held its own, massively. I preferred it in sound to the other two and it felt as nice as the Sadowsky. It was just a bit heavier than the other 2. It was also about £1449 at the time. They should open up 12 month contracts to us all and see if we could do a better job. Anyhow, as someone said earlier - if you weren’t thinking of buying a Fender this year - these probably aren’t aimed at you...I’m off to play my yamaha 😂

I just think that Gibson are behaving oddly pi55ing on their own chips by behaving like a peevish gorilla at a time when they should be focused on mending fences with a sizeable slab of disaffected consumers. The time to pursue copyright infringement is when customers (and potential customers) are back onside with the company. That said, it might be that the hedge fund wonks who now run the company are attempting to enhance the value of the company by clearing up any unattractively loose ends in respect of trademarks which might excite the concerns of future investors or outright buyers. A sign that Gibson may be back up for sale sooner than expected? Who can say? If, however, Gibson's plan is simply and negligently to run high-profile lawsuits alongside their customer re-engagement strategy then that's Juskiewiecz levels of crazy.

You can create your own Glastonbury festival at home. Pitch a tent in your garden,put on radio 6 Then get whizzed and stoned out of your mind. Don't forget to steal your own shoes and urinate up the side of your tent.

So one of the nice things about being a graphic designer, apart from being good at design (as that’s still to be determined) is you end up learning enough about processes to know the best way to get things done for different projects. So I asked Stevie if he wanted help with a badge for the cab. Partly as I wanted a nice badge for my own cab and partly as, if done right, it’s wee details like this can lift a project from very good to great. Like a most the other details stevie has built into this cab we want to try and do it to a high quality. I also wanted it lightweight- a pewter cast badge would be daft on a cab with neo drivers. The first problem we have is the small volume number, while die cast plastic badges, like the big manufacturers use, would be nice - it’s hardly cost effective to make 1000 badges in China to just use 10. Equally you could get a small batch of something from the UK, but the cost goes through the roof. Stevie set a budget for it, which bluntly was a bit more than I would have wanted to pay for a cosmetic thing that erm half of you might not like. So - instead my aim was to get a badge for the grill, a sticker for the gap on the handle and a sticker for the back for about the price of a pint at a music venue. Design is subjective right? And what do you call this thing... we started off on this idea that actually some of Stevies other passions could help name it- like it can be as abstract as anything as long as it’s memorable, pronounceable and means something to Stevie at least. Stevies wife’s maiden name didn’t sound rock and roll enough so we ended up talking about his work as a German translator and throwing random German words at each other. This was quite good as I also enjoy German culture (I’m there now), and design - and it’s the centenary year of the Bauhaus. So Stevies there geeking out on German cab names and I’m geeking out on German design and it’s viele spaß! luckily for you the long compound nouns got dropped, and Stevie started trialing BCcab as a name in PMs with some of you. Bass Chat cab obviously, without it needing to say that, and able to say it without sounding like an idiot, and I think there may have been a second meaning but I forget what that is. So then BCcab - v3. I still got to geek on with my Bauhaus- sorry!! I tried to come up with something that would work with almost any colour scheme and layout, but be distinctive enough that to be worth doing. Not so small that it wouldn’t be noticed, but not so big it took over the cab. so we’ve got a vinyl sticker for the back plate, a domed sticker for the handle and a subliminated aluminium plate 100x40mm for the front. (Soft enough to drill for screws if you need) - and it’s all just going to add £3.60 to the cost. (if you are building the cab and not getting the flat pack Stevie will have a few extra sets you might be able to convince him to sell you if you cover postage too) So the other day I got the first pre production picture of the badge prototype made up. (Colours are off a wee bit on this pic) im excited if no one else.

Just a sound guy, offered to pick a bass up for me, and turned up, no stress. wish we’d had time for a brew and more chat. Lovely bloke. one of the many sound people who make this page worth being on.

Really copping the Glam look.....think you’ve just about persuaded me to keep my Dano.

Aww, thanks mate. It's not as good as the original (female!) bass player does it. (there's a clue for somebody right there! 😉) (and to be more authentic, I shouda' used a Jazz bass!)

Lovely bass! There’s something about the feel and tone of 90s MIJ Fenders.

I have a P bass for sale that was played on * the following Pink Floyd songs: Comfortably Numb,” “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” and “Money” $2,000,000 o.n.o * in my bedroom Please pm me for further details and photos

Looks like you all know what it is but daren't say! 🤣

My other top tip for noting settings is take a photo on your phone! you can even time link it to a quick and dirty phone recording or computer recording as you have a focusrite and you have the settings for the tone

I thought he sounded pretty good on a youtube clip I saw, and I don't like his voice in Guns n Roses

Sold Tony some strings. All very good. Thank you.

Defiantly... If not, get Animal in on the gig. He'll nail it.

Shouldn't he just play it the way it's supposed to be instead of you trying to lock in on a mistake he makes?

Stage name: Skegness TV Bar. That'll never catch on.

Oh well. There goes my Marshallmellow VB400. I'll be composting forthwith.

Haüssel jazz pick ups are not only very good, they are quite hot and have a heap of mids. The closest I have heard a neck solo’d Jazz pick up sound like a P bass pick up

Let us now how you go, of course the other option is to really roll the tone off your bass, you will get the drive, may just attenuate the fuzz, and could give an almost ‘tube’ type tone

I was wondering this too. Oh yeah, porn name - Whiskey Smith

Nail. Head. The wonks in question may know c*ck-all about making guitars but they know a lot about making money. Gibson is a heritage brand and the value is in its history. Cleaning up the trademarks and any IP questions may not add a huge amount to the value but it will make everything a lot cleaner and make the brand much more attractive to a new owner. The Epiphone thing is curious - some of their models are fine instruments in their own right. I have a lovely ES-175 and I've tried a few of their jazz boxes and really liked them. On the other hand, some of their output is truly dire.

Series would give an additional boost to the mids like you say and a series parallel switch or push/pull pot would allow for the original Parallel Jazz tone as an extra option. I have a series parallel on my Jazz and it's great for that extra tone.

Go for four-conductor wiring humbuckers and run each individual pickup in series.

Haha, JC is a great bass but i found it quite uncomfortable to play, especially sitting down. I dont miss it at all.

Welcome to the club! A few notes for you: The mono jack socket is the one nearest the strap button and if you plug a mono jack into the ""Rick-O-Sound" one you'll only get the treble pickup. I'm not sure if your one has it, but on current 4003 models the Treble Tone knob is also a push/pull switch, which allows you to switch in the "Vintage" style treble capacitor. The strap buttons are Schaller Straplocks. Don't put too heavy gauge strings on a Ric; I use Swing Bass 40-60-80-100 on mine. Enjoy the Ric! (BTW, the Laredo is a 4004!)

Re-listening to Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik (which did not leave my car in the early 90's.....). He was definitely at his peak on this album. I have not heard anything by them since that is this ferocious, funky, complex yet simple and good....... Carry on!