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Yes, they definitely sound different and I have used mine plugged in for gigs.

I find my Warwick Alien quite useful, although I don’t play it much. It’s good for acoustic rehearsals (we’re an acoustic band so sometimes get together for acoustic run-through s before gigs) and good for working out ideas at home. The neck on it is as thin as a thin thing, kind of like an early Thumb, and it’s pretty nice to play. Couldn’t use it unplugged for a gig though.

That reminds me actually, I bought a new old stock Pedulla MVP from A1 Music for £599 in I think 1993? They had 2, the one I bought, which was a trans gold/amber tint, and another in a kind of washed trans green. It looked a bit driftwood-y. 😉Sometime later I tried to buy the green one too but it had just gone. I loved that MVP, it was my main bass for a couple of years. Wonderful tone. I’d have that back in a second. PX’d it against a Wal Custom in Musical Exchanges; didn’t like the Wal half as much once I started gigging it.

My main bass, my Fireglo ‘72 Rick. Sometime in ‘92 I went with my then girlfriend to Manchester, and as usual We went in A1 Music for a browse. They had an old-looking Rick in, crushed pearl inlays, chequered binding, neck toaster, walnut headstock wings, no skunk stripe etc. At the time I knew a lot less about them than I do now - pre-internet! - and I thought it was maybe a late ‘60s one (it’s actually Feb ‘72). Obviously I love Rics; my first bass was a Ric, and the bass I was playing at the time was an Azure ‘76. So I picked it up and plugged it in and my head exploded. I loved the neck, which felt wider and flatter than all the others I’d owned/played, and the sound was unreal, everything I’d heard in my head. It was, by a vast margin, my favourite bass that I’d ever played. It was on the wall for £680. Unfortunately I didn’t have any money at the time so went away thinking “well that was the best bass I’m ever likely to play, what a shame I’ll never own it”. A year later I’d been saving up for a new amp and took a trip to A1 with a friend, this time bringing my ‘76 along for testing the amps. I walked in and the ‘72 was still on the wall, rather incredibly on sale for £490. I plugged it in next to my ‘76, expecting my previous experience to have all been in my head. Nope. It was absolute night and day, so I put the deposit on it there and then and went back a week later to pick it up. I still have it, it’s still my favourite bass that I’ve ever played (many thousands of basses later), and it’s worth a rather large amount more than I paid. But I wouldn’t swap it for a genuine ‘59 Les Paul. It’s more like one of my limbs than a bass guitar. I later sold my ‘76 and subsequently spent 17 or so years tracking down a ‘72 in Azure, the other bass in the picture.

Saw him play stick with John Paul Jones (yes, that JPJ) in 1999. Great gig.

Mapleglo?

Well that a very blurred photo but assuming it’s a 4003 and not a 4001 (it’s got the fat horns common after about ‘75), Id say a newer one will feel and sound somewhat different, depending on what spec you actually get (as you’ve probably gathered, exact spec changes intermittently). Whether any of that bothers you will depend on you.

I think the 400 bazillion people who recently bought tickets would beg to differ.😉😁

Double. As Prowla says, the recent Al Cisneros was the first with a single rod. In fact, if you see a Ric 4000 series bass with a single rod that’s prior to the AC being released, it’s a fake.

Somebody really has had a sense of humour bypass, haven’t they?

Well I was half-joking. Which you appear to have missed.😉 But being 100% serious, there are lots of people who are forced into learning instruments at a very young age who eventually do see it as a chore.

You say it’s made of alder? FWIW, Steve actual bass was (surprisingly) made of maple.

Yes, get it a lot.

Was it a Stunburglar?

Unfortunately it gets my vote for the most overrated Genesis track ever. It took me a long time to admit I thought it was a bit tedious, but it was a weight off my shoulders when I did. 😉 Of course this is all relative. It’s still Genesis, and it’s still better than probably 75% of other stuff.

Selector switch issues aren’t uncommon. Was the bass new or used?

My main beef with it is the dreary One For The Vine.

Really? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 With the exception of Yes and possibly ABBA, they’re my favourite band! Oh man, that really is funny. You crack me up.

I said it wasn’t a hard and fast rule. 😉 I’ve always been somewhat ambivalent about W&W. I like it, but I don’t really love it, in Genesis terms at least. There’s nothing on it - apart from the stunning Afterglow, obviously - that really grabs me. Whereas Nursery Cryme has The Musical Box, which I really, really do love. That’s probably my second favourite Genesis track, along with maybe The Cinema Show. You know, I have no recollection of the first Rush album I heard. The first time I ever heard them was a live set from the Hemispheres tour on the Friday Rock Show (I still have the tape); I guess the first album would probably have been Hemispheres or 2112. My favourite Rush album would be a toss up between A Farewell To Kings and Moving Pictures.

I’d agree that TOTT is the best studio Genesis album, I think, although it’s hard to argue with anything with Supper’s Ready on. I just marginally prefer listening to ATTWT.

Unless they’re Jimmy Plaige, sorry, Page, who appears to get away with it at least some of the time. 😉

Have seen them playing live on the telly a couple of times and they were definitely playing live.

Everybody lifts stuff from all sorts of places. 😉

Have all their albums, not that there were many. Really good band.