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I don't own anything previously 'celeb' owned, but I get the appeal. The rational side of me says it's a daft notion, but the sentimental side of me looks at it in same way I look at anything vintage, the stories locked within. If these instruments could talk what stories could they tell? I have a few non valuable vintage basses just because they're lovely things that have seen more years than I have. What pubs, parties or stages have they played, what songs have been written with them, what emotions have they stirred in people? If they've made it through fifty years then they deserve some respect I feel. I have some vintage tools and wonder what have they fixed, what family crisis have they averted or how much pleasure have they brought the old man tinkering in the shed? My 1949 Rudge came with the original toolkit in a leather saddle bag, who have those tools saved when their bike broke on the way home from work? A celeb owned instrument has stories to tell. BTW, I'm a sentimental old fool! 😁

Wow! That's looks like a great bass for forty quid. Someone should be happy.

I agree, but where does Punk end and Post Punk and New Wave start, and where's the boundary between Post Punk and New Wave, then where does New Wave become Synth Pop, and Post Punk become Goth, and all of it become Indie? A debate that can go on and on, but labels are as relevant as the one in the back of my pants. Good music is good music. That said, I offered Gang of Four's Dave Allen up and I would say they are Post Punk, not New Wave. 😆

My Ever Changing Moods - The Style Council Do I get double points?

Gang of Four's Dave Allen always played a perfect counterpart to Andy Gill's jagged guitar lines.

Stuart Morrow is not "often forgotten" in my house. Even the simple bass line of 'Smalltown England' absolutely drives that song along. It helps that his lines were mixed prominently, absolutely killer tone.

Would - Alice in Chains

I feel I should point out that my description was purely tongue in cheek. But also realise that my lack of smilies means nobody knows that. I'll happily take the twerp tag though. 😉👍

Well at least Sleaford Mods are stirring emotions in people so they're doing something right I suppose. Personally, I'm not a fan. It's like watching a scumbag kicking off in Primark that his £2.99 t-shirt ripped when he fell over pissed, and his timid mate looking a little nervous at the scene being made.

Shiver and Shake - The Cure

I like Crafter acoustics. I feel they are a bit like Yamaha in that there is a range of prices, but at each price point you're getting more than your monies worth, and I've yet to play a bad one.

Nothing Lasts Forever - Echo and the Bunnymen Useless pop trivia, some very early OMD recordings featured the use of a 70's drum machine, the Eko Rhythmaker, which was subsequently lent to an up and coming bunch of fellow Liverpudlians, who eventually named themselves after the Eko unit, Echo and the Bunnymen. You might need that snippet of info one day, but I doubt it. 😁

I saw this advertised a week or so ago, it looks like it should be good.

Wheels of Steel - Saxon

@KiOgon did me exactly what you're after, a rotary switch that goes through single coil, dual coil, series and parallel and a standard chrome knob fitting. My bitsa Stingray has a three knob plate with volume, tone and the rotary knob, it just looks like three chrome knobs.

I like that. Where were they built? It's got an Italian vibe with all the pearloid like an Eko.

On the red or the stripped finish?

Red, the same as yours. I don't even like red basses particularly. Red with white scratchplate always looks cheap to me. I'll see how it plays before I make any decisions. I might just enjoy cleaning and setting it up and give it to someone that wants to learn.

That looks rather nice. Hmm, decisions. 🤔

The machine heads look to be the best bit of hardware on mine 😁, but thanks anyway. 👍 Manky bridge and missing tone pot, but I've got some spares kicking about. I don't really know what I'm going to do with it yet. The neck wood looks to have some nice grain in the pictures, so that's something. What was your body wood like when you striped it?

Sometimes it just has to be done. I had to go and measure up for something in the garden today. Before ordering online I thought I'd quickly check the Facebook selling pages to see if anything suitable for my garden needs was being offered. It was, although I'm sure a Crafter Cruiser P bass for £20 wasn't what I was after. I pick it up tomorrow on the way home from work. 😄

Up The Junction - Squeeze

My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry

If the board was rosewood with aged white pearl blocks, then I'd say aged pearl scratchplates. But it isn't so I've voted black as well. It's what I put on my sunburst P and J.

Helter Skelter - Siouxsie and the Banshees (some scouse band may of covered it).