Linus27

I'm happy to admit that I'm a Fender fanboy. Been playing for 30 years, I've had 3 Stingray's, 3 Warwick's, a Status, a Washburn, a Ricky, two Lakland's and countless Fender Precision and Jazz basses and I am most comfortable playing either a Fender Jazz or Precision. I've made a living using these basses and still happily playing and earning money using them. There is nothing wrong with any of the other basses I've owned and played, they have all been superb top rate instruments and I admire anyone who uses anything they want but for me, I'm just so comfortable playing a Fender Jazz or Precision that I no longer bother looking at any other bass. It's just pointless. I don't like all Fender's though, just a simple passive Precision or Jazz as that will do me, nothing fancy or active. I am tempted to try one of their Performer Precision's with the p/j config though. So, fair game to anyone who wants to use whatever they want but for me, after 30 years of playing, I know what I like. As they say, one man's poison is another man's wine.

Definitely will go next year, I saw your gig too late and by chance. I had no idea it was even on but now I do I will make sure I go. If you know what date it might be then please let me know. I do over 100 gigs a year so do get booked up so I can just make sure I'm unavailable for gigs when you are playing 😁

You are near me then as I went to Tomlinscote and used to see them in Camberley all the time although they had their long hair back then. The other band from around our way at the same time were Breathe who were from Yateley and had a no.2 hit in the States with Hands to Heaven.

Drummers are our friends, even if they can be the biggest pain in the butts we still like you, its guitarists who we dont like 😂😂🤣🤣

Wow, thank you so much for sharing. I am a massive Charlie Brown fan and so wanted to go to your show but I was gigging myself. An ex girlfriend gave me the nickname Linus after Linus from the cartoon and all my basses for the last 30 years have all had a sticker of a different character from the series on the headstock. One of my basses is even called Lucy after Lucy from the cartoon 😂 So yeah, a bit of a fan 😊 Really hope you do it again next year so I can make sure I get to see you, it looked awesome. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

Wow, I just tried this and it's true, my fretting hand has a much wider span 😀

Cheers project_c, I'm really liking the idea of a PJ setup so seriously looking at getting one of the new Fender Performer basses that have the PJ setup. Then probably a Status fretless neck if I can't get a fretless Fender neck.

Me again and I had one of those moments where I might of had a good idea. Whilst looking at Fender Precisions, I noticed that Fender are doing a very lovely Special Japanese model called the midnight. It is black, rosewood board, matching black headstock and gold hardware. My initial thought was this bass would look great fretless and then it hit me, buy it and then fit a Status Graphite fretless neck to it and it will look awesome. So this was kind of high on the list of possibilities and then I noticed that Fender make a very lovely American Players Series Precision in Lake Placid Blue with black scratch plate. It comes with a precision pickup and a bridge Jazz pickup and it looks like you can blend the two. Fit a Status Graphic Fretless neck to it and it should look lovely and sound awesome. Plus it will be much cheaper than a new Tony Franklin Precision and have blendable pickups. So these are my two top options right now 😁

Thanks. I have been considering the Ampeg rigs as well. I love the vintage look.

What cabs are you using with your PF50-T for live work?

I'm in two minds about this as I am a massive Simple Minds fan and I love some of the later stuff. Sparkle in the Rain and Once Upon a Time were mega albums and I would say Street Fighting Years is a close second to New Gold Dream in being my favorite SM album. I actually think SM went crap when they lost Michael McNeil. The stuff they have done without him has been dull. Losing Derek Forbes on bass was a bit impact but the bass players that replaced him, John Giblin and Malcolm Foster were both great players and still added an original spin on the music. Even losing Mel Gaynor on drums didn't really make that much difference. Saying that though, early SM is mighty.

Thanks for the advice Beedster. Maybe get Shuker to make me one if I cant find secondhand. He made me my Jazz neck and its superb. The bass is strung with Rotosound flats so that should be ok and as for the tone, just rounded, smooth, full and mellow with a bit of attack. Not after the Jaco sound at all. If it doesn't work out, then I'll just stick the original neck back on and be back to square one 😁

So, I've had another idea. I already own a Fender Precision FSR 70's bass in natural. It's a lovely bass and comes with American Vintage 59 pickups so sounds great as well. It's only really my back up so what about getting a maple fretless neck for it? It would then look like the picture and just like what Sting used to use. Plus, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a new bass. I know Shuker can make me a neck but any other suggestions? I also looked at Warmoth and see they can make me a neck but I have no experience of this company so no idea if they are good or not. What do you think guys?

I think I am settled on a TF in black unless a lovely CIJ turns up. So now the wait begins Thanks for the input guys. Has been really helpful.

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Looking to buy a Fender Precision Fretless and my options are limited and kind of down to three choices. A vintage Fender from the 70's, a Crafted in Japan Fender or a secondhand Fender Tony Franklin model. I know I could look at other manufacturers but all my other bases are Fender's and I just love them. I think the vintage will be too expensive unless I look at a late 70's model. The Crafted in Japan would be lovely, won't cost much but is hard to find so I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the Tony Franklin fretless precision? I've played one for about 5 minutes and it seemed nice and I really like the option of the bridge pickup but not sure if the extra cost is worth it over say just a standard fretless Precision. Anyone got any thoughts or experience of these basses.

I so want one of those Ampeg PF-50T heads. So missed the good deal Kenny's were doing. Your rig looks lovely.

Yeah, our other halves know it's what we do and we earn good money so it all helps. Plus it's never going to be forever, only being doing it for 30 years 😂🤣😁

The band is called The Dolomites and we are basically a 50's/60's party band. To be honest, our guitarist is just really good at getting us gigs and its also worth mentioning that this is our first year together so not bad for a new band. We do have a few promo videos but we dont really use them to get gigs. This first one we recorded at the start of the year. It us miming to our own studio recording on top of a pub roof 😁 Cost us £50 as well 😁 This second one we did a few months back in an amazing American diner in Horsham. About a third of our gigs are acoustic so we wanted to try and capture this by doing a rough live acoustic "around the campfire" type video. Also worth saying that this Kala UBass I also bought in 2018 and is certainly a best buy for me. You can also see the Fender Mike Dirnt in the background so both of my 2018 best buys in one video 😁

Hahaha well the total for the year is 117. Plus, I did two dep gigs for a Children in Need event the other weekend so my total for the year will be 119. It would of been more but we had to turn a few dates down 😊

Well, in total we have 117 gigs this year. We would of done more but some dates we were not available. Next year we already have about 80 gigs booked and a couple already in 2020. No, nope doing it for a living, we all have day jobs sadly. We just work really hard and really enjoy what we do. In the summer months we've had it where we've done 3 gigs a day and we play mostly clubs, pubs, private parties, weddings and festivals, be it music or beer.

Quite simply the best is my Fender Precision Mike Dirnt signature in yellow. It is pretty close to being perfection in bass terms. I love it and I've had two or three sound engineers say to me at soundchecks that it sounds amazing. Considering I've done 113 gigs this year and 13 have been with this bass and it's the only bass to ever get these comments then I'm pleased.

Are these actually 800 watts or is that with an extension cab?

Thanks Dave, one set purchased 😁

As in Rotosound Jazz Flats?