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Could be a jazz with a status or moses neck on it? Hard to tell anything without a clear look at the headstock.

Hey Flint, welcome aboard. I reckon you'll find plenty of people who would agree with you on budget. Lots of good sounding stuff out there second hand!

Hey Chris, welcome, Ibanez make some good basses!

oioi Mick, glad you signed up at last! Hope you enjoy becoming part of the place.

hey chumba, welcome aboard

hey Zach, loads of members from here in Bristol too! Hope you can hook up with some of them. Welcome aboard

Hi kennyrodg, thanks for joining us. We try and keep things focussed here. Welcome aboard!

hi James, welcome aboard. What are you planning to upgrade to?

welcome aboard Dan, we have a very supportive and enthusiastic community here - sometimes I even struggle to keep up!

In my experience, flame throwers just get off on the attention. Especially ones who are openly abusive to admin. Ignore the comments and you'll starve them of the oxygen they crave so much. You can use the ignore function on your user control panel if you like. Drop me a PM if you need any help. You can also make it known to others in a thread that you've set the user to ignore and maybe others will do the same.

how much buffing did you do between coats?

We played at a Marriot hotel/manor just off the A10 in Herts last night for a wedding. Very young crowd - mostly in their 20s and early 30's, also very hard work to begin with. They stood around for the first set and watched us while chatting but towards the end of the first set they started to bop about a bit. Second set was a lot better, we played 'Ain't Nobody' and a couple of the ushers had a 80's breakdancing dance off! Third set was pretty good and more what we're used to, lots of drunken people jumping about and having a good time. Great that the girls brought the party to them by taking control of things rather than losing confidence. They did a really good job of turning that one around. The room where we played was in a conservatory, The Summer House, great for low volume acoustic instruments like a string quartet but for us it was a nightmare. We had to keep our volume low at the start so we could all hear ourselves but the more people that came in, the more dampening we had! So we could turn up a little louder. Volume definitely stopped people talking to one another and got them dancing instead. One usher is going to be in the dog box tonight though. He was so pissed that he couldn't take his eyes off the singers, his gf/wife noticed and started giving him the evils. He was still standing there slack jawed and gawping and after some determined arm tugging and nudging, his other half gave him a right bollocking there on the spot and hauled him off!

I saw this and went 'ooh'! I reckon it would look pretty sweet with an MM5 pickup in too. But then I remembered that I don't get on with heavily offset bodies. Still I haven't done that in reaction to a new bass since seeing a Shuker headless 6 for the first time over a year ago.

[quote name='alanbass1' post='170372' date='Apr 5 2008, 06:38 PM']Hi, I have been in the US for the past three years and got into a number of their forums - talkbass and TGP. I'm now back in blighty and came across this site which looks cool. Landed on Wednesday and had my first gig last night! Looking forward to the shippers arriving with the stuff I picked up stateside so I can get going with that.[/quote] Hi Alan and welcome aboard. I invite you to put some pics up in the Bass Porn section so we can all drool over them.

GK speakers have a bit of a rep for blowing unfortunately. Stick a neo 15", like an Eminance Deltalite II. I've played an RB400 combo with one fitted and it was what prompted my to buy my RB700 combo.

Got the pickup back from Andy today - 48 hour turnaround! Stunning service! Anyway, I fitted it this afternoon and the bass is good to gig tomorrow. I'm really liking the firm sound of this thing although the bridge pickup doesn't have the same depth as a stingray.

do you have one in red over blue perchance?

[quote name='eubassix' post='169924' date='Apr 4 2008, 05:41 PM']OK, this is a little different to the conventional FLEA (with the single soapbar) - but it does have a very nice top and IS a Flea body (.. and neck, I think). It has an additional fret and is sort of cloned with the Modulus VJ series of basses. Twin Bartolini J's and with Vol., Pan, and 3EQ. Very nice (?).:-[/quote] Nice looking bass! Any ideas about when it might be in the classifieds then Dave?

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='169920' date='Apr 4 2008, 05:31 PM']..lovely graphite Alembic sir! [/quote] cheers, its a little more 'mojo'd' than the photo's show though. I was tempted to refinish it but I thought it might be more authentic if I left it as it was. Its seen quite a few Canadian winters.

Haha, gorgeous stuff! Thats what its all about for me right there. He's completely nailing that song and still sticking in some fly phrases. Estelle's bassist could take a few notes.

[quote name='WalMan' post='169783' date='Apr 4 2008, 01:41 PM']What do you mean [/quote] I'm too scared to talk about it any further, I might get threatened with physical violence again.

I'm going to mention a dirty word here *cartel* I'm aware of at least two attempts at price fixing in the UK over particular lines of product involving two of the biggest retailers in the UK in the last 5 years. Although I don't like to see the well-meaning and genuine retailers suffer, I find the presence of cartels and bullying of distributors [u]completely[/u] unacceptable. The presence of online retailers has been absolutely pivotal in breaking those cartels up. As I said to Alex on Monday, I'm fully prepared to pay 10% extra for peace of mind and the Gallery has my support so long as it continues to be a genuine and trustworthy retailer. BTW Alex, I hope the EA Micro 300 wasn't seriously damaged and the radio is back working again. I wouldn't mind coming back to have a go on it sometime with the EBS neo212.

I'd suggest a Tobias Toby Pro 6, you can pick them up for about £400-ish second hand. The pickups and electronics are a bit crap but the woodworking is fine and the bass is really easy to play.