Clarky

I popped along for an hour (I live nearby, Hammersmith way) and the volume wasn't as bad as last year but still intrusive enough to mean you couldn't really have a conversation without craning your neck and saying pardon every so often. I bumped into Dood, Wes (wesfinn), Mark from BassDirect, Barrie (Molan) and Phil (born2bmild) at Bassgear, Alan (skelf) of ACG guitars. TBH, nothing particularly floated my boat purchase-wise, although there were some v nice instruments and rigs there (ACG have some beautiful builds in particular).

And I've seen Jon's - its tons nicer!

I thinks the price issue relates to two things: (1) the absolute level is up in hand-built luthier territory (which is an issue with all CS Fenders) and (2) could it be a more basic plank? There is nothing about that bass that screams expensive parts/build, albeit I bet it sounds great ... just probably no better than a Squier VM 50s Precision

There can't be that many ZZ Top tribute bands to sell this to. I don't see who else would pay that price

I posted this in your other thread - should help http://basschat.co.uk/topic/48665-deglossing-a-neck/page__p__487629__hl__grit%20neck__fromsearch__1#entry487629

here you go http://basschat.co.uk/topic/48665-deglossing-a-neck/page__p__487629__hl__grit%20neck__fromsearch__1#entry487629

Blast from the distant past - lovely guitar playing [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmDAVvrQnkA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmDAVvrQnkA[/url]

Lovely matey. Any chance of a full bass picture? Glad you are chuffed as a chuffed thing

My trio - 1981 Wal Mk1 fretless, Fender 1963 Precision, Alleva Coppollo KBP5 [attachment=101484:P1050007.JPG]

Was probably Hooky that turned me on to the possibilities of bass back in about 1980-ish - Joy Division's bass lines (notably Disorder, Transmission, She's Lost Control, and Decades) and New Order's Ceremony converted me from a guitar player

John bought my super-light Ibanez Affirma and was very patient sorting out an earthing issue that had arisen with one of the pickups of which I had been unaware. I am very pleased he now has the bass he thought he was getting and I can - like all above - thoroughly recommend him as a good guy to do business with

More seriously I'd be on for attending but I'm not really up for organising as I have too much on my plate at work etc and have overloaded on stress recently (won't go into details) I do foresee a geographic issue with the likes of Mr_Bassman up in Harrogate, TheRev in Bristol, bassace in Oxfordshire (IIRC), you, I and Jake in various parts of the South East, not to mention the various other BassChat DBers scattered across the country. Probably needs to be somewhere north of London but not too far north to rule out the SE brigade

Makes sense - the most [email="cr@p"]cr@p[/email] DB player on BassChat! Sorry but I am washing my hair for the foreseeable future

I'm sure a big part of my perennial chopping and changing is that I'm not actually very good at bass ('solid' is probably the best description of my abilities) and its easy to think that A.N.Other bass will make me play better. I suspect a lot of us on this site address our own feelings of inadequacy by chopping and changing, especially as (as noted above) the BassChat for sale forum makes it so easy to do.

Yep, for that read about Chet Baker - pretty boy trumpeter, got heavily into heroin, lost his front teeth in drug-related beatings, lost his looks completely and ended up dead having fallen out of his apartment window on to the street below, cause unknown. From this: [attachment=101418:chet-baker1-e1325468761730.jpg] To this: [attachment=101419:300h.jpg]

How about Dan Klingberg? he played bass on this jazz classic: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptilfSQtk2Q"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptilfSQtk2Q[/url]

Well Jimmy Blanton died at a ludicrously early age so there wouldn't be too much to say there I guess. I too would avoid living platyers and I guess someone will be ahead of you with a Ray Brown biog, most likely. IIRC Oscar Pettiford was a really interesting character and Cachao would be interesting due to his 'career' backdrop being the Cuban revolution. Cachao gets my vote

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1330598180' post='1559906'] shoulda' kept that bloody EKO Clarky[/quote] [url="http://www.mercatinomusicale.com/mm/a_eko-ba4-fretless_id2363874.html"]http://www.mercatinomusicale.com/mm/a_eko-ba4-fretless_id2363874.html[/url] [url="http://www.mercatinomusicale.com/mm/a_eko-ba-4_id2438362.html"]http://www.mercatinomusicale.com/mm/a_eko-ba-4_id2438362.html[/url]

Thats cool but the last thread about being GAS-free was from Gareth/musicman20 who now has a search out for a Bongo less than 2 months later! This is BassChat you know

Actually I just googled Foote's and there's very little on their site and well below the level of what you are after. Sorry, bum steer

I don't know how many DBs Chas Footes stocks but that's where I bought my Zeller hybrid 15 years sgo. They were on Golden Square in Soho and I have seen their website come up on DB web searches so I guess they are still there. Might be worth googling

Malcolm Healy's shop in Surrey has loads of rather beautiful DBs in his show room. Unfortunately they are mostly well over your budget. But he's a nice guy and useful to know as he is a really good DB luthier.

Nice. Was playing 'Whats Going On' tonight - one of very few albums I would describe as essential and with my favourite bass playing ever