The fasting showman

Protection racket 7051 bass gig bag. Zip works after a fashion, handles likewise. Completely un-sellable as it's got major issues. Ideal for in house bass storage or for part of the packaging to transport a bass in a sale dispatch. Free to collect from Lichfield, Staffordshire. I couldn't bear the rigmarole of couriers, packaging etc

Andrew Bodnar RIP continued

Andrew Bodnar RIP, great player

Gallien krueger 800rb reissue but mono without the biamp feature, with speakon outputs.

Definitely agree re sound; when one of the guitar players in the band I'm in bought a bass IV, switching to a Fallout bass solved a lot of problems. I'd been using a very nice P bass up to then but the Fallout sounding so even across the board, ( particularly played high up the dusty end) it really sat in the spectrum below the bass IV without competing for the same space. I marvel sometimes how 2 30 inch scale basses ( admittedly one into a guitar rig, one into a bass amp setup) can separate out so well. The Fallout is capable of being physically an octave above the bass IV yet feeling much deeper. It didn't work like that with the Precision. All very subjective and unique to that band situation obviously.

still sounds new to me 40 years on

The guys at Jaydee in my experience are always helpful. I wonder if they could accredit the bass in some way to make it identifiable? I was just surprised at it's existence at all, a 30.5 scale Jaydee Supernatural Correction: Roadie not Supernatural

I've no link to the sale at all but there's a short scale Jaydee Roadie for sale at Bass Bros. I've no funds whatsoever for such a thing but it's a really interesting bass for JMJ mustang money.

I managed to keep the frames to the castors but transplant in new wheels and axles on my 8x10. I just needed new 75mm wheels, this way getting the hole centres right for the castor plate didn't matter.

Hometown gig in a converted church that I've played before, nicer onstage sound than previous times. A few mistakes but a well received generally enjoyable gig. I've used a Peavey vb2 810 fridge for my last 3 gigs, this one and the 2 previous tour supports we did. The fridge was purchased for the usual blue book £100 for a non Ampeg 810: it's the 3rd 8x10 I've owned and I maintain that despite science going in the opposite direction they can be a good, cheap viable solution for certain situations. Obviously it wouldn't have worked when I was doing pub / club covers and probably not ideal for everyone. When I found out the bookings we had this year I either had to get an additional 2x12 neo GK cab or go on a different tangent. I flogged the GK and bought the fridge for half of what I got for it...I can rethink things in the future if needed. Fair to say that the 810 with the GK head is like a 3.5 litre v8 ticking over and never gets shouty; the volume is at the volume of the drumkit ( I'm enjoying playing with a more energetic drummer after playing with a sedate one for a few years) and one guitarist plays big chords while the other plays a bass 6. So I need to really ground the music, giving an illusion of being an octave below the bass 6. The tilt and roll drill with the fridge is pretty workable too, I struggle more with 4x10s tbh. My first gig with LaBella flats. Not wild about them on their own but great in the band mix, really full and consistent. The higher tension seems to work well too, nice to play.

Given the links between John Diggins and John Birch, I'd say Jaydee are the people to go to regarding John Birch pickups etc. I remember seeing a new Jim Lea bass at Jaydee back in 2010 or so, another branch of what they made along with the Iommi SG, Angus Young model also. When I think of Jaydee I tend to associate them with the Mark King bass but there's a lot of John Birch previous history before the Supernatural basses.

There used to be loads of them kicking around Birmingham in the early '80s....my ignorant 13 year old self used to be quite sniffy about them! There was always a few in Musical Exchanges The Broad St Musical Exchanges had a Super Yob in the window for a while in 81/82.

Would have been a popular setup in the '80s. Loads of those cabs around. I remember hearing a 400rb through a boogie 1x15 with an EV speaker at a gig, sounded great. I'm not into loads of low end tbh more the low mids and good presence. Much of my tastes are stuck in the last century!