Old Horse Murphy

I couldn't agree with Mark more. I struck a deal with Marco on the Thursday and the bass was with me by the Monday!! Fantastic service and great product (exactly as described). Thanks Marco

[quote name='paul, the' post='82524' date='Nov 1 2007, 09:52 PM']Gorgeous DJ. Although I hate you for not knowing your old blue one had Fralins. I'll never forget it I'm afraid. Never. I swear on the cat in the hat's life I didn't know either. In fact, Dave took great delight in emailing me later to tell me!! [/quote]

I just thought I'd share with you 2 basses I have recently acquired from 2 of our Italian members; Muya and Hiperion. Sadly, in order to get my mits on these, I've had to let my Stingray 5 go and am currently selling my Teal Stingray 4. Sad, but an unfortunate necessity. First up is my Lakland Darryl Jones 5 stringer. I've put a Jeannie's black pickguard on her and I need to change the strings too. I'll eventually look to fit a John East unit to her after hearing OBBM's DJ5 with a Jazz Retro a few months back. I find the 2 single coils offer me a very different sound from my Stingray 4 and that's exactly what I was after. My other acquisition is a 1975 Fender Precision in Mocha brown. For a 70's Precision, she's really light and thumps like Hell. I really regret selling my US Precision to Martthebass and realised how much I wanted one again. It's a bit of a Bagpuss bass; flea-bitten with chips, dings and paint missing, but it plays fantastically and looks (in my eyes) wonderful too. I'm really happy with her. Quite an unusual colour but the grain really shines through. I've done a bit of research on this colour and it is reasonably rare (probably due to the fact that it's not everyone's cup of tea- maybe that should be cup of Mocha!!) I've just had it set up and confirmed all the pots, neck, body etc are the right date (Not that I doubted it, but it's good to have it confirmed). So that leaves my bass collection standing at 1 Fender US Jazz, 1 Stingray 4 (refinished), a DJ5 and a Precision. I'm happy with it and have promised my wife I'll stop looking at anything else.....I had my fingers crossed though. Apologies for the poor quality of the photos. Thanks for looking.

[quote name='obbm' post='81936' date='Oct 31 2007, 08:32 PM']Nice one Sean. I like the purple strings too. I'd be very interested to put your and mine side by side and see what the differnce is between the Aeros and the Fralins. My DJ5 has Aeros and they are great but the DJ4 has Fralins. Perhaps I should fit some Wizard 80s and see what happens. My DJ4 is my bass of choice and I use it all the time. It is just so playable.[/quote] Glad to have been of service Dave Funnily enough, I've recently re-joined the Lakland club with Muya's DJ 5 stringer. Definitely a keeper too

Bought a Nautilus off John. Exactly as described and great service. Highly recommended. Cheers John

Welcome Mark

I recently swapped my Stingray 5 for Muya's (Giorgio's) Lakland DJ5. He posted it on Friday and I received it on Wednesday. It was exactly as he described it (spotless) and came with a Lakland hard case too. The sound from the single coils really cuts through and compliments my Stingray 4 beautifully. All in all, a good guy with exceptional product and fantastic service. Cheers mate!! If you're ever over in England again I'll buy you a beer.

[quote name='martthebass' post='79750' date='Oct 26 2007, 01:03 PM']Hope you didn't mind the use of your picci OHM. This bass just get's better and better, the Thumb and the Sterling are gatherin' dust at the mo.[/quote] I didn't realise it was my picture!! Glad you're still happy with the P bass.

[quote name='martthebass' post='79535' date='Oct 25 2007, 07:54 PM']We can't all be perfect...........sniff.[/quote] She's still got it Mart...beautiful

Thanks Guys. It looks as if I wasn't a million miles away with my idea. I'll let you know how I get on.

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='78104' date='Oct 23 2007, 11:01 AM']Nick, my band had a bash at covering this before we decided it didn't really fit in with the other material. Our bass player (it's the band I play guitar in) didn't use an Octaver or a 12 string bass - in fact I doubt he knew that it was a multi string bass or whatever the technical term is. It sounded alright anyway - I don't know whether that's actually because it sounded alright - we gigged it a couple of times and it went down well enough - or my attitude towards it is a bit more "wing it and hope". The other thing I think I did was to play his part on the guitar an octave above - which is probably what your octaver would do. Sorry I can't be of any further help. I never really liked doing it anyway[/quote] Thanks John. I suggested the Guitarist tracks this an Octave higher, but he wasn't too keen. His band I guess, so I'll give it a go with the Octaver and see how it sounds.

[quote name='gafbass02' post='77831' date='Oct 22 2007, 07:00 PM']and turned down towers of london, I may have overdone things, my memory is kinda hazy! hehheh[/quote] We were on the same bill as Towers of London about 2 years ago (may have been longer). We watched their set and I've not laughed so much in ages. EVERY Rawk pose you can imagine was pulled!! They were God awful though

I've been asked to fill in for a month or so with a local indie-rock band (Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stoneage, Nirvana) and of the tracks they want to play is "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam. This is a new number, so their current bassist can't give me any steer at all. The intro is played on a (so I've been told) 12 string bass and unfortunately, I don't own one of these. I was thinking of trying to use my Octaver to replicate the sound, but wondered if anyone else plays it and what they use to get that unique sound.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='76570' date='Oct 19 2007, 03:37 PM']I've literally just sold that one to SB but I am getting some more at the back end of next week. If you don't mind waiting a few days I can reserve one for you. Just let me know but it's no sweat if you don't want one as I'd already committed to buy another couple before I was trounced off eBay! Would the plural be Nautili? Cheers john[/quote] Not sure what the plural would be...I only want one anyway!! Happy to hang on until you get them in again

Have you got anymore of the Nautiluseseses?

[quote name='obbm' post='75791' date='Oct 17 2007, 09:54 PM']So where is he/she in Surrey then?[/quote] Kingston Upon Thames

[quote name='obbm' post='75760' date='Oct 17 2007, 08:46 PM']Looking at his feedback he seems to deal quite a bit in Stingrays. I spotted one of our own number in the list of buyers.[/quote] Me!!

I've bought off Superstrats before and can thoroughly recommend his gear and service.

Yeah it was great!! Can't believe that Marcus Miller, Pino Palladino AND John Myung all turned up. Never expected that.

I've just got it home and plugged it in....WOW. Sounded good before but the East preamp adds just a bit more definition to the sound. It looks amazing in the flesh too. Well happy