Linus27

I changed the pickguard on mine to a tort and it started to buzz really badly. Put the anodized one back on and it stopped. So I will need to get some shielding up on my tort plate.

They look amazing

It was The Belfort International Festival of University Music. It was musician's from all over the world playing at various venues in the town of Belfort. We were a guitar punk pop band like Ash, Stereophonics, Manics etc. and played on the main stage. This was our backdrop, a gigantic Lion that looked over the courtyard. We got to meet up and watch Jazz musicians from Canada, marching bands from France, traditional bands from Portugal, Croatia, punk bands from France and soul bands from the UK. The whole town became a 3 day festival and it was absolutely brilliant. This was our backdrop

One thing I'm so surprised about is the build quality, it's amazing. Out of the box they are so playable that I would be happy to gig it with no adjustment and they sound absolutely amazing. I've only ever had one Squier before which was the Vintage Modified Fretless Jazz which was ok but the build quality was a bit iffy. I actually had to take one back as the neck was warped and the replacement was better but not great but this 40th Anniversary is on par with the US and Jap Fender's I've had or got. They certainly pushed the boat out on these basses and I'm kind of tempted to pick up either one of the blue or black gold editions or the 40th Anniversary Jazz.

I'm playing tonight with The Tim Shez Band at The Login Lounge in Camberley. Its fantastic new venue that's a mix of a cafe/jazz club/wine bar. It has an amazing stage and sound and does craft beers and I'm super excited to be playing there.

They are such great basses and so lovely to play, even addictive. I was just about to go to bed and couldn't resist having a noodle, put a big smile on my face.

I'll weigh mine tonight but I would say medium. It doesn't feel super light like one of my basses but not as heavy as my main bass which is on the heavy side.

Yep, absolutely and so many fabulous memories and life experiences. Waiting at Dover to cross into France, challenging the girls British Netball team to a game of netball and then football and being totally destroyed by them 😁 Being in France playing at a huge international music festival and getting into a huge food fight in the food hall with a Spanish trad band 😂 Miming in Dundee shopping centre to promote our latest single and coming out to perform to find our roadies had set all our gear up back to front and upside down 😂 Getting a visit from the Welsh Police in the early hours of the morning whilst recording an album due to our drummer get very drunk and walking back to the studio from the pub the night before with a gate which in turn let all the sheep out to roam around the village the following morning 😂 Playing at a festival in Reigate on a beautiful sunny day being buzzed by the Red Arrows mid set and everyone coming up to us afterwards asking if we'd arranged that which we took credit for 😂 So many more amazing memories, loved every minute of it.

Nice, I dont think you'll be disappointed, I'm certainly loving playing mine.

What did you go for in the end?

I loved the circus life, absolutely love it, travelling across the country, venue to venue, playing in a new town or city, meeting new people, playing a gig which might be absolutely amazing or go disastrously wrong but still having a laugh along the way. It was one giant adventure and I love every second of it. Some people used to moan about it and say its really boring, they hated it, hated all the travelling etc. so I would just say to them then stop if you don't like it then go and get a regular job but this is a gift, to be on tour, to play music, not everyone gets this opportunity or life style so you make the most of it, make it work for you but if this is too much hard work and you'd sooner be working in a shop, or a factory or an office then you crack on but doing this is my dream and I am going to love every second of it. Most seemed to get it after that and enjoyed it but not all.

We've had fans record our gigs and make their own t-shirts which we were ok with. We even had a band cover one of our songs in their live set which was pretty cool. A few years ago, I heard a new band and one of their songs was quite a rip off of one of our songs.

Somewhere in a 'sliding doors' parallel universe I would be in The Stereophonics. Virgin were coming to see us and The Stereophonics and we were in discussions with them but in the end they decided to sign The Stereophonics.

We did play there but it was on the 12th August 1999. I don't think we played there previous to that.

This goes back to how you define success. I did 3 years as a club band, playing over 100 gigs a year, earning around £10k a year whilst doing a 9-5 job every day and having a wife and 2 kids. It was just a case of finding a balance.

Here you go and yep, looks great 😁

Been playing around with mine a bit today 😁 Tort scratchplate and a lighter gloss 70's neck. Does change the look of the bass somewhat. Rosewood neck which is quite nice. Original

Here you go, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_(band)

I never wanted the fame and fortune but I wanted to play music and make a living out of it. When I was 9 in 1979 and at school, I told my teacher I wanted to play the trombone so they gave me a test and then told my parents I will never make a musician as I don't have a musical bone in my body. Then skip to 1985 and I saw U2 at Live Aid and saw Adam Clayton strutting around the stage looking like the coolest dude on the planet and I wanted some of that. Went to college and met some friends and got myself a guitar and my friend got a bass. I wanted to play bass and he wanted to play guitar so we swapped but he gave up and I stuck with it. I then spent two years learning to play and then joined a band and gigged lots but this ended after a few years. I then formed another band that eventually got signed in 1996 and actually did really well. We went on tour, photoshoots, recorded two John Peel sessions, did a Radio 1 roadshow, a live Virgin radio session and recorded an album with Mark Wallis who produced the It Bites album, Travis albums, U2 and many others. We released 4 singles, got lots of airplay including TV and cinema adverts. We made it, were signed, getting paid and living the dream but I was still not interested in any fame or fortune despite some of that coming my way. All I ever wanted was to have a song played on the radio, record an album and go on TOTP's. Now, my perception of making it is different but I still don't want the fame or fortune and if anything, even less so than before, I just want to play music and making it is all about how much you play and how much you can live from the income it brings rather than being famous. A few years ago I was playing in a club band that was earning great money and gigging pretty much every weekend. It was supplementing my day job income enough for me to buy a car from earnings and to be fairly comfortable so I considered myself to be semi-pro during that period as apposed to being pro when I was signed and it was my only income. If I look back over the 37 years of playing, I have been amateur, semi-pro and pro and I look at the wall with the albums I have played on and think that I have spent more of my days gigging, touring, recording and playing music that I have working for someone else so for me, despite being an unknown, but known to my friends and family as a musician, I identify myself as a musician more than anything else and to me that is making it.

Post up pictures when you've done the bits to it as it will be great to see. I'm thinking of changing the pickguard to either a vintage off white or red tort and possibly fitting the fretted neck that came with my Fender FSR 70's Precision. It's tinted as well but not being used as the bass has a fretless neck on it as per the picture above. Like your idea of bridge covers as well so might do the same.

If they do come in at around a grand then I think they will be super popular. Official release date is rumoured to be the 19th so we might find out soon.

Oh, I get you now, Mr Rosewood hahaha love it 😂

Huh?

Just to add, my 40th Anniversary Precision in Satin Dakota Red has just arrived and it is incredible. An absolute dream to play and is actually set up really nicely. It also sounds brilliant and despite not liking satin necks as I prefer gloss necks, it feels really really nice. The only other satin neck I've ever liked was my fretless Stingray which was the nicest neck I've ever played but this also feels really good. The vintage look is also really nice. So I am super happy and the best £250 I've spent on a bass and will tide me over as the only fretted bass in my collection 😜

Starting to appear now. https://reverb.com/item/73213671-fender-vintera-ii-70-s-telecaster-bass-vintage-white I had made my mind up on getting it in green but I'm actually liking the Vintage white more now.