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[quote name='Oscar South' post='448025' date='Mar 28 2009, 01:42 PM']Its all to do with the abundance of learning matierial and 'easy options' you can take these days. There are a LOT more bad musicians, but on the other hand the people who are serious about what they do and know how to utilise the expanded pool of talent and resources properly are at a higher level than musicians have ever been. The other thing is in a large pool of players with an ever expanding legion of 'virtuoso' players individuals stand out a lot less than they once did. There may be a lower 'average' talent across the generation, but don't be fooled by the lazy majority bringing us down, there are players these days who are (or will be) literally the best there ever was.[/quote] [quote name='john_the_bass' post='448032' date='Mar 28 2009, 01:51 PM']If we're talking about youth attitudes, there are some elderly folk out there that would want to rethink their attitudes and behaviour too.[/quote] [quote name='mrdirtyrob' post='448092' date='Mar 28 2009, 03:18 PM']Yeah, well we certainly aren't as good at complaining, making sweeping generalisations or ridiculously rose-tinted nostalgia as you guys are....... like.[/quote] All good points. As a de facto Old Fart ™, I'll agree with them all, too, evven the one about 'elderly folk'...

Stuff by Gary Willis is a good starter, I'd think.

[quote name='Ajoten' post='448886' date='Mar 29 2009, 07:34 PM'][*]Modify a standard J so I can run the pickups in [u]parallel[/u] (or miraculously find real S1 Jazz);[/quote] Parallel is normal, series is what you need. Personally, I'd go for the Aerodyne P, or, if dosh is no object, the Tony Franklin basses, fretted or fretless as required.

Mine was a bit plainer than that, but the same otherwise! Cool!

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Welcome! Small hands = no impediment. Enjoy!

Dealt with them a lot. Top blokes.

[quote name='OldGit' post='446304' date='Mar 26 2009, 06:46 PM']To boldly split infinitives has been OK for a while now ... Language moves on. Oxford commas are too .. If Saint Lynne Truss says it's OK then that's fine with me [/quote] [quote name='bremen' post='446358' date='Mar 26 2009, 07:33 PM']You mean 'if Saint Lynne Truss says it's OK, then that's fine with me' ;-)[/quote] Beat me to it... By a LONG way...

[quote name='4000' post='446296' date='Mar 26 2009, 06:39 PM']I certainly don't think all vintage guitars are better (I've played some absolute dogs) but what I do know is that for my purposes my 1972 Rick 4001 smokes any later Rick I've ever played in terms of tone. As ever, YMMV.[/quote] Oh, entirely agree with that. If one wants to have these things as investments, fair enough. Or maybe not? If I still had my first precision, it would be worth, allowing for inflation, about what I paid for it, ie about 250 squids x 33 years. In other words, it's 'worth' not a bit extra. It would be great to be still gigging it though, because it was a good'n. But no better than what I currently have. Certainly not worth seeking out especially, though. Quite apart from all this, I simply like instruments to be 'my own', therefore, I tend to buy new.. The 51RI I got from Mickeyboro of this parish was just about unplayed, so it's now 'my own' despite being 10 years old when I got it. It's simply a matter of taste. Vintage isn't better, or worse. Just taste. The investment side of it will, IMHO, come to nothing eventually. Or even pretty soon, if the current economic climate gets much gloomier...

Spookily, I too started on a Star Bass, a solid one. Also had a hollow Les Paul sized one a bit later.

Howdy! Great intro! An excellent demonstration of sod's law if ever there was one. Gigs will come, never fear!

I'm one of they who think the vintage thing is pure nonsense. Talking Fender here, they weren't at [i]any[/i] time in their past, built better than they are now. A lot of the jobs done by hand then are still done by hand now. Sometimes still by the same people. I've owned what would would now be vintage Fender basses, and, without any doubt, my Mexican P is the equal of any of them. My Japanese 51RI smokes the lot. I had a 68 Jazz for a while. It was a complete POS. Followed that with a 69 Telecaster Bass. Totally awesome. Yet the 51RI is better still. And most certainly better built. The one nice thing about some, repeat SOME vintage basses, is that they do feel nice to play. They're nicely worn in. But most decent instruments will feel this way after three hundred gigs or so! There's also a reason you find really clean vintage stuff sometimes - they were often dogs, and rarely got played. Buy a modern instrument with confidence, even (or especially?) Fenders. There's nowt whatever wrong with them, and it makes zero sense to fork out megabucks.

Damn, I'm not THAT old, am I? OK, I am...

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I do have a DI box, but when I can afford it, I'll get a 2nd LMII.

Are you certain it can't do the job as-is?

The only certain difference S-T-B makes is that, because you have a longer length of string being tuned up, the tension at pitch will be a bit higher than a toploader. This may or may not be noticeable, but it might help a 34" fiver to have a less floppy low B.

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[quote name='Marcus' post='436083' date='Mar 16 2009, 01:53 PM']that generation of jazz bass has a way better bridge that the bent tin jobbies, so maybe the difference was less noticable. . . . ATB Mark[/quote] A string-through-body bass doesn't require a high mass bridge - it has the whole body to lean on. S-T-B tries to clamp the bridge to the body, whereas a top-loader is always trying to tear it off. Most of the 'masss' on a BAII is the large front portion, which is mainly there to utilise the 'trying-to-tear-it-off' leverage to put metal up against wood, and handily give more saddle travel. It always amazed me that people wanted to take the bridges off Telecaster basses and put on BAIIs. OK, so you get four saddles, but it can't compete against STB. It's not better or worse, just different. And there are ways to get even a two-saddler to intonate pretty well... And the 'bent bit of tin' is, in any case, perfectly adequate for the job. Otherwise, even Fender would have replaced it by now. The new 'HiMass' bridges are not that different to the originals, although they are certainly prettier!

V&R cater to a particular clientele, to whom the premium prices are of little or no concern. That's their business model, and as they are still around in these hard times, they are doing something right. I personally think it's all a bit overblown, but then I'm well known on here for generally pooh-poohing the vintage thing anyway. Good luck to them! As a (former) guitar shop salesman, I am as aware as Ben that you simply cannot please everyone, no matter what you do.

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Or just get a Squier VM P TB, and use it stock, or put a J pickup in it somewhere.

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