stewblack

Stewblackenbacker actually

I'd be selling it for 100

Getting a truss rod cover made so it doesn't pretend to be a Ric any more too. Also thinking Retrovibe pups...

I'll tell you what, no idea if you're any good on the bass (😉) but you're a great photographer. What's the story behind your choice of head? I kind of expected to see the other HB.

Oh God. I haven't eaten a roast spud since the last Mrs Black handed me the pink slip and left me to forage alone.

This is a really interesting thread. I don't present well at an audition (long standing anxiety issues) but am a real asset on stage. On the other hand I am great fun to be around in the first 12 months of any band, then the d|ck side of my nature starts to come out and I'll be great friends with one other member of the band, ambivalent about one other and detest the other one. I will always be first to the venue, learn everything, carry spares of everything; I'm creative and sensitive to the needs of the song, but simultaneously ridiculously over sensitive to criticism - real or imagined. You wouldn't know any of this from an audition. Difficult isn't it?

Well I did wonder but I hate to disappoint any one in the green ink brigade 😅

like this?

No it looks like it was just a mass produced Chinese faker of the kind advertised on AliExpress. Someone imported it and then put it in the 2nd hand shop. Don't know why the guy down there thought it was a Chowny, I was entirely ignorant back then. I have learned since!

Tarted her up a bit

Extremely good bass. Mine is fretless I would buy a fretted without hesitation.

When they filter through to the for sale ads I might take a look, but I'm a little bit more excited for the new zoom multi fx - assuming they release a bass version

You can! You give them a letter then scroll through alphabetically. If you want to use multiple effects in a patch the footswitch only turns off and on the individual effect showing on the screen. In ABCDEF... mode you go through individual effects not patches.

I have downsized my transport to cope with falling gig fees and rising petrol prices so I can't really take my preffered rig any more. The frfr solution sounds neat, elegant and tempting. I can't quite explain however why I get goosebumps at the sight of 2 15" Trace cabs stacked with a Trace 2 x 10 on top.

I love to bi and even tri at times. Yes it is Quixotic, but it's also great fun. At present my most regular gigging band doesn't allow time to properly set up such wonders, but I do it whenever I can. Nothing sounds quite like it.

Yep, it makes no sense. I think you're a splendid person in any and every way imaginable, but these pictures make my tummy hurt.

Yes. I am the worst person at wheeling and dealing. I sell low buy high. I miss every bass I've ever sold.

Still working on it

On my long term bucket gas list. Utterly gorgeous.

Actually just remembered, Peavey have produced a couple of gasworthy beasts, not least

It's all subjective of course, and who knows I may see a coffee table bass tomorrow that makes me swoon. I'm not just opinionated I'm fickle too. Feet of clay!

This thread is quite interesting in what it tells me about P and J basses. Take them away and with a few obvious exceptions (Rics, T birds, semi acoustics ) most everything else looks hideous. * Not all, but most. So perhaps it becomes increasingly obvious why those ubiquitous fender shapes remain the start point for so many manufacturers. The Aria Proll SB for me is the exception to the rule. *personal opinion expressed as fact, not actually a provable proposition.