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Cheers bassfriends! Glad to deal in a marketplace thats not full of Nigerian scammers and horrendous e-bastard/overpaypal charges! Pete

Its a G+L ASAT.

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='711031' date='Jan 13 2010, 10:50 AM']Go on stage.... play a kick ass bass solo. Set your headstock on fire and then twirl it round your neck without setting yourself on fire. Then stop playing and leave. Don't put the fire out. You want to leave them something to remember. Like the venue burning down. [/quote] Didn't Great White do that a few years ago

Just recieved a lovely strap from him, great deal, thanks mate!

Nice easy transaction, cheers mate, will deal again etc!

Sort out my damn live rig properly for once. Find a replacement Rock drummer I am really comfortable working with. Do at least 3 small tours. Develop fingerstyle more. Buy another Status.

Fantastic late NWOBHM feel there, good stuff, but the drummer needs a lot of work, especially on his fills and double kick. Classic intermediate player trying to cram too much in, running out of time, then having to get back on the groove. Having said that, I'd definitely go and see this band if they played locally.

Hahahahahahahahaha! bless 'em

My all time fave: "Like a handful of gravel hitting a tin bath" Often used to describe Rickenbackers in the early 70s.

[quote name='12stringbassist' post='697170' date='Dec 31 2009, 01:33 PM']Music Ground[/quote] Scum, through and through. Mention them not!

[quote name='bassatnight' post='695445' date='Dec 29 2009, 10:46 AM'][i]Hey, I live near you can you call me?[/i] Steve.[/quote] Whats wrong with that one? Anything that can be done to get round the monopolistic stranglehold ebay have over pretty much the entire used market is a good thing in my book, and if someone comes over tonight and pays me 400 quid for the bass/amp/whatever thats on ebastard for 450, I'll take it, as cash in hand face to face is safer than any amount of ebay "seller protection" especially if the buyer lives within comfortable driving distance, and I don't have to pay ebay and paypal for the privilege of being systematically ripped off when their "seller protection" is a total farce to begin with. I loathe and detest the way ebay treat honest sellers, and avoid them wherever possible. Call me old fashioned, but don't we all prefer the good old "service station with bundles of cash" method on this here forum?

I'd try at least 3 used Ricks before committing your money, they are very variable. Its rare to get a "bad" one, but they all feel and sound different, and as others have pointed out, they are somewhat odd to play if you are used to P-Basses etc, the scale length and ultra low actions make for lots of uncomfortable noises until you are used to how Ricks like to be played. Either that, or hoik the action up and lose some of the character. If you find the right one, you WILL fall in love. I have owned around 20 of them in the past, and I still have 2 favourites I would have to be desperate to want to sell, and one I have kicked myself for selling ever since that fateful day in 1987.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='696653' date='Dec 30 2009, 07:46 PM']Question from me to ebay seller: Hi. Do you know if this bass was made in the Matsumoku factory in Japan? Answer from ebay seller: Hi Mate, on the back of the bass it has made in Corea, so the answer to your qwuestion is probably yes[/quote] Hahaha, email him back and say something like: "WOW! Thats not an ordinary one, its the Chick Corea signature model then, they stamped the nameplates like that to avoid legal action because he is (officially) sponsored by a piano company, I'd advise you to stop the auction and relist it for at least £899, hope this helps..." And see if he does Or is that mean?