stingrayPete1977

All these threads do is give me gas for stuff I didn't have gas for, I want a Clover now!

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1364558182' post='2028110'] I like that nice wool underlay with mine. [/quote] Ashdown then?

I wouldn't have a Status over a GB no way, then again I would rather be a pub rocker than a bedroom slapper playing with myself [size=2](backing tracks) [/size]

Again not sure if its the sound of the clip rather than the bass/mic/playing/studio recording etc etc but I can get a better sound than that from my Stagg!

[quote name='thebassman' timestamp='1364520047' post='2027762'] Yep, me too. I get to use it in anger tomorrow night for the first time :-) [/quote] I purchased mine least year then broke my wrist, the same day! I only used mine for it's first proper gig with the 2x12T last weekend although we have had lots of full scale practices. It was very useful having one channel set up for the electric up right and the other for the stingrays

Barbra Streisand still commands a massive premium for live shoes! Beyonce?

Welcome to the stagg club

My Genz Shuttlemax 9.2 is awesome, both channels are ace and I can't decide which I prefer but I don't have to as its just a click of the footswitch to change channels

Best album ever still both musically and production wise IMO

There is a famous quote that goes something like "of the 2000 lotus cortinas built only 3000 are still around" almost every part for the cooper s dr t mentioned are available even whole body shells. I get your point but once they get to collectable status people look after them more rather than do things like resprays or putting extra pickup routes in etc as far a basses would be concerned, with things like limited editions the companies are trying to create something that starts off as special, the results vary.

[quote name='ebenezer' timestamp='1364296205' post='2024397'] i had genz streamliner 900 lovely build quality but sound too smooth for me maybe shuttle 9 would have been a better bet! [/quote] Shuttles are even cleaner

Before anyone jumps on me the same would apply if guitars had been invented the other way round, I would then be what we now call a lefty

If no lefty instruments had been made and acoustic guitars had not been symetrical more leftys would of learnt the right handed way wouldn't they? Not many lefty orchestral players is there?

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1364320411' post='2024863'] OK, so that's not actually a stretch from F to A. [/quote] Jeez! 1st finger playing F with a stretch to A with the pinky ending on a slide (down), I also play some tunes in a simliar vein on the B string where I am using the tone of the fretted E rather than an open E string but in the tune I am thinking of the stretch is only from the C#, still a reasonable distance on a 5er

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1364319082' post='2024841'] Why would you want to stretch that far? At that position on the fretboard the furthest I would extend my fingers is 2 frets. Any more is definitely a movement of the hand. [/quote] The riff had a slide down from A, you can't do that with an open A

I'm not conviced about the nostalgia idea you know, the most expensive old cars are from an era where no one alive can be blury eyed about them, I was born in 77 but would kill for a nice pre cbs Jazz for example so as long as new Rays are in production people will have an interest in old ones, I knew nothing about pre eb rays until after I had purchased my 2002 teal Ray new.

Before damaging my wrist last year I could stretch between F and A on the E string playing with a sort of flat handed technique, I have since started playing double bass and I feel like a total novice again!

I will buy what I like the look and sound of regarding gear, I don't feel particularly British so I don't care that much, if the product is both good and British then I would buy it though, I never say never anymore so if I fell in love with a new Ashdown amp I'd buy it

Not selling mine ever anyway

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1364286215' post='2024214'] Are the prices of vintage instruments still inflating or are they just keeping up with inflation now? I can't help thinking the bubble will burst eventually. Sure the instruments are getting older but they're not really getting any rarer. [/quote] This is what they said about lotus Cortinas a few years ago when they hit £15000, now they are £40k at least!

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1364261026' post='2024125'] Yes I can see your point - I think where I'm coming from is that the idea that something old is good and desirable changes with generations - you only have to track/watch antique auctions to see this - beautiful artefacts which were worth a fortune twenty years ago are now only worth scrap value in some cases - painful but true in some cases. I'd love to have a crystal ball but methinks the baby boomer generation is most heavily responsible for the 50s/60s music scene and for its perpetuity - the next generation (mine) may not be so kind to its heritage and artefacts. [/quote] What I am saying is that in that situation then if the pre eb ones were worth say a hundred quid a normal ray would be fifty and even a collectable ebmm like a bfr would be eighty at best. I agree things go up and down but I can't think of a single example of an item where a newer version of something is worth more than an original one, see all fenders for example

Oh don't be like that milty!

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1364247176' post='2023896'] Do you have your own pa ? [/quote] Yes , short skirt makes nice coffee......