Kiwi

lovely!

wow, thats a bit of a collectable. Nile Rogers reckons his lucite strat was fantastic for rhythm work.

Heheheh, good choice son! Lovely stuff!

F*** me! What happened to the Warwick endorsement then? LOL Fantastic stuff. Jon deserves as much support as we can give him. Top bloke!

[quote name='BigRedX' post='177861' date='Apr 16 2008, 01:35 PM']Did you sell it through the Bass Centre? I tried one exactly like that a couple of years ago and there didn't appear to be anything wrong with the neck at all. In fact if it hadn't been such a hideous colour I may well have bought it! ;-)[/quote] [quote name='Golchen' post='178023' date='Apr 16 2008, 04:42 PM']Yeah, it was in the bass centre. I went and saw it there but was also put off by the colour![/quote] Hehe, the colour wasn't to everyone's taste but some people on the forum liked it IIRC. Yes it got sold through the Bass Centre, it went pretty quickly as well - within 2 weeks I think. BTW, regarding the neck, although the fingerboard was planed, I had no way of knowing whether the neck would have continued to bow after I sold it on. Hopefully the neck has either reached some kind of equilibrium internally or gone to someone who likes medium to high action anyway.

we have a couple of lawyers on the forum I believe...

Wow, that was utterly amazing. I really wish others stood up to bullying tactics like that, but not everyone is an experienced lawyer.

[quote name='Golchen' post='177617' date='Apr 16 2008, 09:26 AM']I seem to recall that you advertised your dodgy neck fretless here a couple of years ago Crazykiwi. I almost considered buying it! Sure glad I didn't now![/quote] Do you mean the modulus? I ended up getting the fingerboard planed by Rob Green before selling it on. So I made sure the bass was capable of being set up well for the new owner.

Ped had an OLP with a status neck on it once. I think Dr Funk has it now.

no 5 string version from the looks of the Fernandes website. That sucks a bit.

[quote name='thylacine23' post='177470' date='Apr 15 2008, 11:23 PM']Next morning 7.30 a m,, my house, blokes there with the cash, has a cuppa, and takes the amp out of it, only a couple of things, out she slides, then the starts getting well excited, like shaking a bit, turns out to be a forerunner prototype of the AC50 twin, cause its got the original wooden transformers or something, as rare as hens teeth or similar, this guys a dealer in this stuff, Vox, ect and hes chuffed big time, like the holy grail, hmmmmm[/quote] Great story. I've got one too but a little different. Found this Jaydee for sale on Ebay a few years back: From the listing he thought it probably wouldn't be of much interest and the starting price was £90. I made a quick call to John Diggins because it looked to me like someone had chopped the wings off a Roadie, given them a bit of a plane and stuck 'em back on. Only it turned out that this was one of a series of prototype basses that John made for Geezer Butler. So after pondering about whether I'll snap it up, I decided to tell the bloke instead. Turns out he was a really nice chap and a bit down on his luck financially. Geezer was one of his bass heroes too so he was well chuffed and said the bass was going up on his wall at home. Only thing was that it came back up on Ebay about 6 months later and made £560. Turned out that he still needed the money.

[quote name='vegas_hooker' post='175900' date='Apr 13 2008, 09:47 PM']That said, the trace V4's are very highly spoken on here.[/quote] That reminds me, we're up to one combo owner and one head owner at the moment, aren't we? Plus 3 or 4 V8 owners? BTW Syed, that Fender looks like a monster. Stuff of legend from what I hear.

Blimey, if they make a 5 string, the fret work is OK and the neck wood is stiff enough it might be a bit of a winner as a gigging workhorse. I'll keep an eye out for them when I'm next in Demark Street.

hi jon and welcome I have a GK RB700 combo which I gig regularly with at weddings, birthday parties etc. Its bloody loud but if I ever need extra oomph (say for when we're playing to crowds larger than about 250) then I have a 2x10RBH cab to fit on it as well. Its probably a good amp for your toby because its quite aggressive in the mids so will make it sound punchy. The basses I play are a little scooped sounding so things tend to even out a bit. I guess you could look at getting a set of EMG humbuckers for your bass as well if you fancied a cleaner and even punchier sound. What I like most about the combo is that I can set it up as a wedge point directly up at me so usually I hear myself pretty good. I think they're pretty good value second hand and sometimes they come up on the forum for sale. A number of members use the GK 1001RB you mentioned with lightweight neo cabs like the Epifani 310UL. Again, keep your eyes peeled, they sometimes come up. In fact I believe Platypus is selling his Epi 1x15 UL at the moment.

i suspect we're probably more interested in finding out how much you paid for it. You could always give Bernie Goodfellow a call I guess?

no problem

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='177184' date='Apr 15 2008, 05:25 PM']I was at work, so all I could see in your previous post was a blank square with a red cross in - didn't know if it was a piccie or a film clip or what. My band are supposed to be playing the same venue in the future when they've sorted noise level issues out so I'll be interested to see how the gig goes.[/quote] That's probably happened because your work place has blocked youtube videos.

[quote name='ahpook' post='177207' date='Apr 15 2008, 05:58 PM']as a librarian i can only add this... remember to use correct citation when referencing online discussions[/quote] Please don't forget your punctuation, Mr Librarian. :brow: :brow:

There was a comedian I heard once who was taking the piss out of duran duran because their basslines were all the same. Was it Richard Vranch? He was funnier than Guy Pratt anyway.