Rayman

[quote name='urb' post='598975' date='Sep 15 2009, 09:37 AM']I'd love to be there but it clashes with the London Jazz Festival and a certain Mr Marcus Miller playing his special Miles Davis 'Tutu' tribute on the closing night of the fest (at the Barbican)[/quote] Yeah, I have the same dilema. I've got a ticket for the Marcus Miller gig too, but missing Adam Nitti just a few miles down the road from where I live??? Gah.....what to do?? I missed last years bass day, I don't want to miss it again!

Well.....this is all making [i]ME[/i] feel [i]MUCH[/i] better to be honest, because most of you lot seem to be worse than me!! I feel [i]great[/i] now. I'm off to the for sale section...............

Nice to see the red faced Simms getting an outing Steve, how did it perform?

Beautiful....good choice.

[quote name='purpleblob' post='596779' date='Sep 12 2009, 07:29 PM']since joining this site my relationship with my credit card is getting a little tense, seeing Sei's, Fodera's, Jaydee's, Pangborn's etc. is giving me strange urges.[/quote] Don't start me on credit cards, I'm lucky to have a wife who would remove my cobblers with a rusty spoon if I started buying stuff on a card, otherwise I'd be in debt up to my eyeballs.

Well it's nice to see I'm not alone.....anyone want to buy my Kinal??

Hi, my name is Russ, and I'm......addicted to Gear Aquisition Syndrome. I genuinely believe I'm addicted to the feeling of finding and aquiring new basses. I love the excitement of having a bass to trade, or better still cash in my pocket, and that few days of hunting for, and then choosing a new bass. Then, a few days later, the urge is back, and out goes the new bass, sometimes within [i]days[/i] of getting it. My problem is I'm skint. All I have is my gear, so if I need to satisfy my cravings, I have to sell or trade out, something I've done endlessly over the last handful of years. It's always been (or so I thought) part of a search for "The One", that perfect bass that you yearn for. Trouble is, I've had some beautiful basses over the years, Overwater, Stingrays, Fenders and now the Kinal, which is the best of them all, and still, I get the urge to let it go to satisfy my craving for GAS, it's madness, and I'm driving myself crazy. I really believe, that if I was rich, I'd have dozens and dozens and [i]dozens[/i] of basses, guitars etc etc, most of which I'd never touch, because I'd be always on the lookout for something new to satisfy the GAS. Anyone else want to stand up and confess their addiction too?

great mate, great. I'll make a concerted effort to get to a gig, and come and say hello.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='593554' date='Sep 9 2009, 08:05 AM']Can't seem to place you, Russ. A great deal of lager has washed over my brain cells since then. Any more info?[/quote] Not really mate, I'd known Brian and Julie for years, and a mate of mine Mike Rawsthorne used to give guitar lessons there too. I'd had dozens of guitars from Jones's over the years, a beautiful Ibanez AS120 semi in particular, maybe the best guitar I've ever had my hands on, and a nice black DeArmond Starfire special with a bigsby on it. In the end, I traded in a purple Fender Telecaster and got my first bass in years from Brian, a burgandy MIM Precision, very nice bass that was. Can't say much more than that, how about a picture: Taken a couple of months ago, best I can do.

Pete, I've only just put 2 and 2 together and worked out who you are. I used to see you a lot in the Jones Music days when Brian and Julie owned it and I was first and foremost a singer and guitarist. I remember having a conversation with you about bass back then when you were flogging a red Peavey bass in there. I've since made the jump to bass myself. I really must get to one of your gigs. Russ.

Awesome, love it, both in terms of looks and tone. Peter described it to me earlier today, so I decided to have a look, love it. That thing must have just about every tone most people could ever want rolled into one, a bit like the Bongo I guess.

Yes well after a knee jerk idea to trade for Peters MM plus some cash, I realized the error of my ways, and we reversed the deal today, and I'm very grateful to Peter for that. Having got the lovely Marcus Miller Jazz home, I soon realized that the narrow neck and lack of a B string were going to be a problem, hence, the Kinal is back in my hands. I made the jump to 5 strings a year or so ago, because I play a lot of hip hop and Jazz, and find the low B absolutely vital for that kind of stuff, so much so, that I've now unloaded all my 4 stringers and ended up with a couple of 5ers only.

Quality.

My Tony Levin was very middy too, I think your bass is fine, it's how many OLP's sound.

I've noticed that Yolanda Charles has been playing one recently.