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It’s a BFR, so not truly indicative, but I was £100 off.

@MB1

Handed over my Stingray IV 30th to Trevor today ☹️. Sad day for me, happy day for Trevor. Great guy to deal with and thoroughly recommended. Basschat at its finest.

Poor bloke can’t win. Gets hammered if he lip syncs at gigs and the same happens when he sings live 😂

As a former Dingwall Leland Sklar Signature owner, I can say that they are quite different basses. Those mando frets really are something else and I think they are a large part of it for him because, as you say, he plays with a light touch, but can easily ground the string due to the mando frets. If I had bought the Mk2 three pick-up version to start off with, I wouldn't have sold it.

No, it's not Egyptian Smoke. It's Inca Silver with a black pearloid pickguard. It has a Status Graphite neck with a phenolic fretboard. Officially introduced on 18 January 2001 at the NAMM. All made within first couple months of 2001. Total of 100 made: 49 stayed in US, 49 shipped to overseas locations, 1 retained by Ernie Ball and 1 to NAMM organisers.

You may to wait until I’m gone and you can haggle with Mrs.H over that one 😜 I do feel very fortunate to have stumbled across this one when I did.

As much as I love a MM bass, sadly I think you’re right. They would have to reinvent the wheel in bass form for me to cough up that amount of money - and I do like a sparkly finish! The Specials were decent enough in terms of spec changes (I don’t like to call them upgrades as I’m not entirely convinced they are) and I did buy in, but I think that will be the last time. As you say, there are other options from independent luthiers where you can tick all your boxes for less money. Might be a bit of a longer wait, but that’s some of the fun.

Part of that maybe that the Bongo has a big name attached to it - albeit with the 6 string variant. That said, Bongos are nice basses and are enough of a departure from their other models to hold their own - IMHO.

Zoot Allures and Zomby Woof both by Frank Zappa.

I would suggest if you haven't heard of The Vaccines then you're probably correct 😂.

Well, they appear to be. They have "Neutrik" on silver coloured bit at each end and they are made in Germany. I've no reason to believe they aren't what they say, unless anyone knows otherwise?

Dave, you’re such a Klotz. Sorry, couldn’t resist 😂.

This has reminded me that I do need to get another Speakon cable as I only have one to share between two amps at the moment and would like a spare or two. I have quite a bit in my basket at dv247.com already and need to make it up to £150 to get free shipping 😂, so will be buying from there. The only Speakon cables they sell are ‘Music Store’ (which I presume to be their own brand) as well as Cordial, Klotz and D’Addario. They do also sell the £60 Vovox one (listed in the microphone section for some reason) which I’m tempted to try just for a laugh, but yeah, expensive. I’ve seen Cordial mentioned favourably here already. Any negatives for Klotz or D’Addario? I seem to remember @obbm used Klotz stuff when making interconnects.

That is exactly what I was expecting 😂

That is exactly what I was expecting 😂

To be fair, it's no less than this thread deserves 😂.

Oh good, we're now arguing about French Grammar - in French! 🙄

Just look forward to the video. I can't wait 😂

Do you ever read what you’ve typed before you click ‘submit reply’? 😂

Just to be clear, I’m not.