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[quote name='machinehead' timestamp='1477952408' post='3165558'] These American Standard Jaguars are really useful gigging basses. Mine is in passive with only the P pickup selected for most of the time. Occasionally I use the two pickups in series which sounds massive. Enjoy your new toy. Frank. [/quote]I'm really loving it Frank, I've been playing nothing but P's for quite a few years now and I love them, but it is nice to have something that looks different but still gives me my favourite tone, but it really is a bonus having all the options should I join a new band playing music that calls for something a bit different from the P tone.

I had le Bella flats on my Squier VM Precision and had no problems at all, I have had at least twenty P's in the last few years and I would say that the Squier VM Precision was the sturdiest of the lot, its built like a tank and the neck seemed particularly strong to me. Put them on with confidence, you wont have any problems. Edit: Sorry I've just noticed that you have the classic vibe, but I'm sure they will be of similar build and quality.

I'll just say sorry for yet another Beatles post first because I know it might irritate a few, but I feel they need some respect. The Beatles seem to have been mentioned quite a bit recently in various threads, and a lot of the comments aren't always very complimentary, I'm always a bit baffled by this, ok, they might be everybody's cup of tea, especially now 50+ years later, but for me they were extremely influential. I was eleven when I got my first guitar for Christmas, and me and my next door neighbour who was a year older than me had been messing around playing Shadow's stuff, but when [b]Love Me Do[/b] was released and we first heard the opening riff where the harmonica and the guitars came in, we thought [b]what is this?[/b] It was just so much different to what we had heard before, don't forget that we only had about a hour of "youngster's music" on the radio a [b]week[/b] in those days, so we never really got to hear what was out there, Cliff and the Shadows and maybe a bit of Buddy Holly was about as raw as it got in 1962/3. At the time I loved everything the Beatles did, they had an edge about them, unlike Cliff who as many have said in the Cliff's Roll Over Beethoven thread, he always sounds a bit too polite. Yes, other bands soon followed like the Stones, the Who, Pretty Things, etc, who took the rawness even further, and then came the super groups like Cream, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, but for me, it was the Beatles who started it all, at the time they were different, original, and wrote amazing songs. Now don't get me wrong, I did move on to preferring the bands I mentioned above, but I still love listening to the beatles music, and I can still sing along to almost every song word for word, and it brings back happy memories of the early to mid-sixties when I was really getting into music. And I'm with Blue when he says, "[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][b][i]I'll never understand why you guys mock and have very little appreciation for this incredible part of music history which is yours[/i][/b]".[/font][/color]

It would have taken me five minutes after unpacking the bass and having a play to have known if it needs a re-fret, and if it did, I would have contacted you asap to say that I'm not too happy with the fretwork, and then it's a case of possibly sending it back for a refund, or if I really liked the bass then maybe negociate a price for a re-fret, which I'm sure is what most decent people would do. Two months, no negotiation? he had his chance, just ignore him!

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1477994834' post='3165749'] well if you are so am I, I had to ask about the backspacing method when the highlight and delete didn't work [/quote]Nice to know I'm not the only one!

Primarily, it's the song that attracts me but being a bass player, I get drawn towards the bass line, just can't help it.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1477991168' post='3165699'] at one time you had to use the backspace button to remove unwanted text, just highlighting it and deleting didn't work for some reason [/quote]Ah! that might have solved the mystery then, I've not tried to do it for some time now, mainly because it never worked, but I've always highlighted and deleted in the past, and that's exactly what I did this time, which explains my surprise when it worked. Maybe I'm not that stupid then!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1477949486' post='3165528'] Ah thanks mate! [/quote]No problem!

It worked! I've tried this in the past thinking that it is the obvious thing to do, but I'm sure it never worked before.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1477947378' post='3165505'] And, yes, I agree with you. [/quote]Test!

How do you quote just sections of a post?