Rayman

That's awesome, the cake [i]and[/i] the bass. Happy birthday sir.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEI-Flamboyant-5-string-Bass-/160536016090?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2560b134da#ht_500wt_949"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEI-Flamboyant-5-str...da#ht_500wt_949[/url] Not mine, but it is a good mate of mine who's selling it, top bloke, and it's an outstanding bass. Buy with confidence.

That's beautiful.

Colin Moulding......and JJ Burnel of course.

[quote name='bigthumb' post='1100218' date='Jan 23 2011, 10:17 PM']Ha ha! I remember him![/quote] Me too.

I've never commissioned a custom build myself, but I have owned a couple of second hand ones, an Overwater Progress Deluxe 5 and a Kinal MK-5, both of them were utterly stunning in every way. So why did I sell them? Because I'm an idiot. I guess in my case it's just GAS that get's me every time, and the trouble is, I'm skint, so if I spot a bass I [i]must have[/i], I have to trade one out in order to get it. Frankly the ESP Horizon 5 I'm currently using as my main bass is [i]almost[/i] as good as either of the aforementioned, so I'm pretty happy, but for how long??

Ibanez GWB35 and an ESP Horizon.

[quote name='jonthebass' post='1088274' date='Jan 13 2011, 04:42 PM']What a great video. Love the Guys jamming and looking cool at the end [/quote] I wonder if they could've imagined what those two guitars they're mucking about on would be worth now?

Who's that big dumb git with a can of Irn Bru in his hands?

Very very sad news indeed. Another great musician lost.

[quote name='Machines' post='1064336' date='Dec 20 2010, 10:18 AM']Oh you mean this one ? To be fair I regret selling it - I could do so much more with it now than back then (2006 by the way). [/quote] Bloody hell that's a blast from the past, yeah that's the one. Me with my lovely BB3000S, wish I still had that, and Alan with that stunning Spector, the bass that forced me to get the one I have now. Two nice Marcus Millers there too, I ended up owning the 4 string that Mike is holding for a while, and the 5er that Gary's got was a [i]really beautiful[/i] bass, I still want one of those before I die.

I really like the Soundgear basses. One of the best basses I've had was a K5, lovely bass to play for any genre, very comfortable. For me, ergonomically, I think Ibanez basses are superb, and even the budget models I have tried have been very playable. I can only repeat what I've said in the past, you can play any style of music on any model of bass, period.

A while back, I was determined to go "old school" and stick to an old Precision with flats on it, [i]but[/i], it just didn't work, I missed the low B too much. At home, for fun, I use a 5 string fretless, but within both bands I'm very happy with the Spector Euro 4, there's really no need for a B string from a band point of view.

I remember that holoflash Spector Matt, at that mini bash we had in Manchester some years back, I thought it was a great bass that.