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I saw the Funk Brothers at the RFH when they plaed here about 4-5 years ago. Great gig all round & definitely the most celeb audience I can remember (outside of an awards show!). I'm seriously thinking of going over to Detroit to have a look at what's left over there & maybe zip down to Cleveland for the Rock museum as well.

Thanks Mark, That's pretty much what I thought. It's 'supposed' to play really nicely and the nck looks prefect with very little wear. It's currently residing in the USA so may all be a little bit too much potential risk. I could take cash on the bass I'm selling but there's maybe £100 potential gain if I went for a trade which is what got me interested, lol.

I've had a tentative trade offer of a nice looking refin '78 ash bodied Fender J bass in LP blue with maple board. It has original body, neck, tuners, bridge, bridge cover, control plate & case. Has relatively new custom wound pickups & currently fitted with an Audere pre, nice looking after market pick guard & LQ Badass bridge. Approx trade value would be about £1,200 which seems Ok to me but not sure if the refin etc. would mean that £1,200 is the max it would be worth or wether it ought to fetch more. If I go for it then I wouldn't be looking to sell just thought I might try to hang on to a nice older J for a while just to play around on at home

Playing in London at the end of March Not sure whether she's playing a lot of bass live these days? Shame it's a Monday/Tuesday pair of gigs but definitely worth a night out on the town. . .

No bids yet. . .

Damn - read the headline of this post and was about to say an NYC Spector or Sadowsky. Unfortunately both are going to 5 times your budget With £300 you're in decent Fender Jazz territory (not USA but certainly Mex & Jap) - that would give you a great standard bass with easy re-sale value if you want to go for something more expensive later

[quote name='redstriper' post='409175' date='Feb 14 2009, 12:16 AM'][url="http://myspace.com/redstriper"]You can check my band here.[/url] One Love.[/quote] Listening to you right now - Welsh dub, good stuff here, liking it a lot

I have a stack of classic 70's reggae on vinyl. Lots of 'roots' Jamaican stuff, plenty of dub & quite a lot of lovers as well. Moved up to London in '78 when there was a lot of reggae in the clubs and bars I used to go to. Cost me a small fortune though to buy Ja imports, the best 12" singles were £4.50 a throw - remember this was 30 years ago! Funnily enough I've never really tried to play much reggae myself - although Marcia Aitken's "I'm Still in Love With You" is a pretty comon slow warm up song for me (I'm sure the bass line was from something else but I first heard it on Aitken's song so that's what I associate it with - been used loads of time since of course!).

I'm collecting my second Overwater tomorrow & really intrigued as to what it'll sound like. I have an Overwater J bass which I really like. For me it has easily enough of a vintage vibe for my soul stuff and plenty of flexibility from the East pre if I want a more modern zing. Here's what the J sounds like (in the hands of a far better player than me!): The new one is a Perception 5 bolt on which I'm hoping will be my 'go to' rehearsal bass which has to stay at the studio. I did actually buy the J for precisely this purpose but like having it around the house too much

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='408587' date='Feb 13 2009, 01:43 PM']I love it when PL goes to start singing the next verse half way through GM's solo (1.25ish). [/quote] Good spot, I hadn't noticed that! Did you see Gary Moore has a broken string?

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='408569' date='Feb 13 2009, 01:33 PM']We are doing the extended remix Gary Moore version with s. l. o. w. intro, which extends it to nearly 7 minutes. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzpMBscDNbM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzpMBscDNbM[/url][/quote] That's my favourite version! Although obviously having Phil on vox improves it (not quite as long though!)

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='408558' date='Feb 13 2009, 01:26 PM']Streamer Stage I rolled onto the P pup... or I might just upset everyone and use my Bolin (which joking aside actually does a very convincing P bass sound). <edit> ...and yes I am using a nice heavy pick! [/quote] Don't Believe a Word is my favourite to play - shame the fast version is so short though

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='408497' date='Feb 13 2009, 12:57 PM']I'm depping for a band in 3 weeks time and they do [b]5[/b] Lizzy tracks... it is fun playing them! [/quote] Hope you will be using a P bass & pick for that authentic Lynott sound

I've just been watching the L&D show on Sky Arts (for about the 3rd time this year!). However this time I dragged out a bass and a pick and had great fun playing along with some of the songs. I'd forgotten how much fun playing with a pick can be! Still love Phil & the L&D album in particular, doesn't bother me one bit that there were a lot of overdubs after the event