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No offence meant..... honestly..... but I don't understand the use of the word 'let'?

That's a great tone! How have you set the controls? Are you using ANY pedals/drive channel on amp or anywhere?

I have a few Korg ones and never had any issues.

Been doing lots of gear buying/selling and trading over the last month. Here's what's come in.... HX Stomp - Still learning this one and waiting for a friend to pop over to help me programme it for what I need.... GK Plex - I got this so ridiculously cheap it would have been rude not to! I'm using this immediately for a classic GK 800RB sound straight to the desk and IEMs on some quiet stage gigs I'm doing... HAZard LAMPS pedal - The fantastic Lonnie West in the US has reverse-engineered the classic Spector Hazlabs preamp and put into a pedal form. When I put a passive bass into it the instrument comes alive with dynamics, overtones etc and pushes it towards classic Spector territory.... Love it!

Been doing a lot of buying/selling and trading of basses and musical equipment over the last few months! These are 3 of the 4 basses that have come in. See separate thread for Rickenspector goodness 😎😁 Spector Euro Classic in White Spector Coda 4 Pro Fender Classic 70's Precision I'm VERY happy with all of them!

American bassist, singer, songwriter, ballet dancer, classical composer and all round top bloke Kip WInger (Winger, Alice Cooper etc) has always been a personal fave of mine. A much underrated all-round musician, he has been using a custom one-off Spector for the last few years that featured a Ricky shaped body, specially created for him by Stuart Spector and PJ Rubal just before they sold to Korg. It has never been put into public production for obvious reasons... I absolutely loved the look of that bass and was lucky enough to hang with him a few months ago and to play it during Winger's soundcheck at London Islington Assembly Hall (see pic below). Anyway, to cut a long story short, I found a Chinese faker company who would make me a copy cheaply so I took the plunge! What did I have to lose? Well, it turned up last week and was, for the money, better than I expected! It needed some work and attention (new nut, fret end filing, new pickups/preamp and heavier duty bridge) but a quick visit to my local tech got it sorted and I debuted it on Saturday night! Visually, the control diamond layout is unequal but it's no biggie to me as it now looks, plays AND sounds great! Total cost for build, shipping...... and my updates/improvements...... approx £450 all in. Can't complain at that and VERY pleased with the result. Here she is:

Yep!

My Wife is a fellow musician (singer, clarinet, piano, guitar) and her day job is as a Senior Music Therapist so music and instruments are around us all the time. My Son is also an accomplished young drummer. If she didn't like it, told me what I was 'allowed' to buy or told me to leave a band we wouldn't be together in the first place... Music isn't just what we do for fun, it is who we are...

At the moment..... Duran Duran - Rio & Girls On Film Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army & Accidents Will Happen Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart, Pulling Mussels From The Shell & Cool For Cats

I played a weekend of deps with local covers band 'The Lee Aaron Band' (NOT the Canadian rock goddess Lee Aaron 😉) in the NE Hants area..... Great nights, lots of compliments from punters.... and the landlord on Friday was a bassist too (and owner of a few Goodfellow basses)! He told me my bass sound was the best he's ever heard in his pub, which was nice! I was using my Spector Euro Classic with GK Legacy head/Genz Neo212 cab. Saturday's gig saw me debut my new 'oddity' (see pic below). See thread here: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/502803-nbd-spectorbacker-or-is-it-a-rickenspector-or-maybe-a-kipenspector/

I have: Simply Dan (awesome Steely Dan tribute) this Friday night in Wokingham Alastair Greene (ex-Alan Parsons Live Project guitarist) with his blues band next Thursday in Aldershit Alice Cooper on Sat 20th at Hammy-O Uncle Funk at Bracknell on Sat 26th Stewart Copeland (spoken word) in Fleet on Sun 3rd Nov Big Horizon (debut show from Jeff Lynne's backing band in ELO.... feat. Lee Pomeroy) at Pizza Express, London on 8th Nov Nu-Yacht Kings 'Young Gun Silver Fox' at Islington Assembly Hall on 30th Nov Falling In Reverse at O2 Arena on 16 Dec. Plenty to keep my busy between now and Xmas then!

I flew over to Germany with my bass. I didn't need to declare it/get a carnet because it was classed as a personal possession and was with me at all times.

I thought it was Mo Foster?

I'll be depping on bass with the Lee Aaron Band (not the Canadian melodic rock goddess) at The Royal Oak, Alton on Friday and The Station, Fleet on Saturday.

"Do Not Cross" or "Do Not Enter" tape, taped across the front of stage between PA stands.

I find a good 2x12 reproduces everything I need, whether in a rock show or a disco/pop function band. My cab of choice is the now discontinued GenzBenz Neox 2x12. Full range, bass ports, tweeter, 600W at 4ohms and a relatively lightweight.

I'll wait for the disappointed people to sell on their ones for around £500

This thread is who you saw last, not who you'll see next

Damn.... when I saw the thread title I thought "now THAT'S something I can contribute to. I can name 10 bass players!" Sadly not. As you were.......

Oh come on...... "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour....", "My Old Man's A Dustman" etc?!?!? Gen Z would kill for tracks like that... (If they havent already sampled them and auto-tuned them to bu**ery.....?)

Translation: If he really loved that music then who are we to say otherwise.

If Lonnie Donegan made him feel warm and fuzzy then that was completely valid in his lived existence.

I imagine we're just underwhelmed by the influx of Tik-Tokers, 'influencers' and other social media nobodies and prefer to find our bass heroes through their actual music giving us goosebumps etc?