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That’s lovely that is

This one

Cheers Andy. Yeah I hadn’t really factored in this stuff! The quest goes on then…

Yeah cheers. I think I’m beginning to understand how complicated it can be! I’m fine with one looper - it’s just a case of getting it in time and then the entire phrase is locked together, but spreading it over two loopers has that ability for them to drift apart as you say. Hmm indeed.

December 1988, in a school common room where my older brother was a sixth former, with a band without a name. I just rang my bro and he can’t remember the first song either. The set definitely featured some Poison, Def Leppard and er, Wild Thing. VHS does exist of it somewhere, interrupted by someone announcing she was serving cake. Added info: gear was my white Westone Spectrum ST bass into a borrowed Carlsbro bass combo of some sort.

Eh up. So I’ve been having so much fun with my Boss RC1 looper that I picked up an RC3 this week with a view to running them both on a board - the idea being for have more control over different bits to drop in and out. However it doesn’t seem to be that simple. The second looper in the chain records whatever is coming down the signal path from the first looper, which means it’s doubling up on that as well as adding whatever I put into the second looper and things quickly sound terrible (and also seem to drift out of time rapidly). Am I missing something obvious here? To have two separate loopers going would I need to have an A/B pedal of some sort, to stop one merely repeating the other one?

Great pic!

I’ve tried to get on with five strings and failed, even tho it would be very handy if I’d got on well with them. For me it’s their size, weight and neck width which I generally struggle with. There’s a few examples I’ve managed to get on with initially but then realised I preferred the playability and set up of my more familiar four strings anyway.

Could it be that the original 1969 neck was swapped for another and the rest of the bass remained the same? Ie they still used the original neck plate etc. Depending how long you've owned the bass might give an idea whether the neck was swapped at the time or more recently, if indeed that is what happened. The whole idea of Fenders being made from whatever parts were around means there should be plenty of models whose components span a few dates.

Yeah quite possibly

Thanks Reggaebass - that suggests the neck is from January 1968, which seems at odds with the big black lettering and the age of the rest of the bass (pickups dated 7170 and serial number placing it squarely in 1970 based on the others of a similar era that i’ve seen for sale. Its something of a dark art trying to work this stuff out ain’t it?!

Mine’s a sunburst 1970 with a B width neck which feels very comfortable to me. It’s also been refretted more than once very nicely with larger fret wire than the original, and plays beautifully. Interestingly the neck code suggests it’s possibly from 1968 - in green printed ink it’s 5 16 018 B Can anyone shed any light on what that might refer to? Pots are dated 1966, like many from this era.

Private party at a local rugby club with the Andy Wales Band last night. We swapped out some of our “deeper cuts” for some more dancefloor-friendly stuff to keep up the party spirit. We’re reaching that level of being comfortable enough with our material to relax into it now, leaving a bit more space and letting it groove a bit more, which feels great. Back home by midnight. The usual Markbass rig, Yamaha bass and this time also my Mackie PA and modest selection of stage lights from Cash Converters. Sadly no pics of us actually playing - just the stage before proceedings began.