Woodinblack

As I said, you could do that, you probably can't any more. Also if he bought a house in the same year he bought the cbs strat, he would have probably made 350k and have a much better camper van, or bought Bitcoin 10 years ago and be flying to his mansion in a private jet.

I think they are a bit overstretched

What link?

You would be pretty hard pressed to get a decent return on investment with a bass, unless you got something very rare very cheap or you got lucky on some brand going crazy (sort of a Wal thing). Maybe 20 years ago when a lot of things were unwanted it would have worked, but not now so much. There are so many better options. No, historically some particular year and model of certain brands have held their value, most haven't. Even your pre-cbs fender if you work out the price now to the equivalent price when bought haven't gained much. No, if you want lots of basses, have loads of basses, if you want investments there are better places to look.

Did you have a gig in a quarry?

To be fair, they never really supplied a UK adapter for electrical stuff, but they normally send a converter

I never liked the smiths at the time though looking back I appreciate their guitar and bass. But Johnny Marr is touring and writing, and he does old smiths songs without the morissey so that is good enough. I must say the biggest surprise when this story came out was 'the Simpsons is still going?!'

In NZ maybe, but not in the UK

Depends on what you are looking for, My Ibanez EHB is the lightest of all of the basses (and probably the best), but the look is unconventional and if you are a P or J bass man, you might find it too far. I also have an Elwood L which obviously looks more conventional and is lighter than usual basses of its type with the chambering (and ultralight everything).

Where I would normally agree with you on the differences between the Barts and Nords, the barts on the prestige 5005 have something different to them than the others I have played, and althoguh they don't have the bite of the nords, they do have a depth which more than makes up for it. As well as a front to back variation the premiums don't manage. Why even though my #1 is the premium, I still have not sold the prestige. Right on the mass thing though, the 5005 weighs a ton, all that wenge (probably helped by my 1605 being one of the lightest premiums).

Was it something I said or did I miss something?

I have too many basses, but to be fair, I probably have enough unopened strings to string them all! Actually, it is untrue, I don't have too many basses as I play them all, I have too many guitars, as I don't play those. Although I am sure I have enough guitar strings kicking around too! True, it is an enabler. Most people would say before they were on a forum they had far fewer instruments.

Ignoring the obvious Zombie, Zombie eaters by Faith no more is quite good fun. The only thing I have for X that isn't chrstimas based, is X-Offender by blondie, which always sounded a bit dodgy..

I wouldn't have a problem with the backing track, especially if you are a group that has an organised set list, just the timing that would worry me.

Ooh never seen that one before, thanks!

Amplified weak is still weak

Yes, they were too until I tried the wizzard pickups, which is what my series/parallel bass has. The MFDs are really too hot. I think that is why they toned them down for the M2500 I often feel with my basses, I should probably just put all the controls outbourd, play it for a bit and then take the pots and switches out and replace them with fixed wiring / resistors at the values I want! Leave it with a volume with push to kill. Well, rics do sound a bit weak, which is not like quiet - all my SRs souned quieter than the L2500, but they didn't sound weak, they just had less volume.

Quite considerably so I did too. Well, it was an L2500 but the same idea.

Same here, G&L do great basses, always wanted to try the M2500.

Ahh ok Well, you could if you wanted, but it would be a bit of a compromise with the wiring (although a 4 pole switch would do it). Do they? Obviously the total inductance of two coils in series where they are independant is the sum of both inductances, but the inductance of two coils in series when they are magnetically coupled can be less (or more, depends on the coupling). Clearly it is more from both pickups, but whether it makes that much difference I don't know. I have a bass which has Parallel / series wiring (actually two parallel / series / single coil humbuckers connected with a parallel series switch). It is hard to tell which is bassier as the pickups are just way too loud in almost every circumstance!

I know, again I was refering to series / parallel between the two pickups.

Impressive binoculars!

Funny, had exactly the same thought tonight, but then though, nah, I can get a ric another time!

Not too bad. Certainly easier to work on than the 5005 was. Same with the 5005, except there are more pots.

I meant with each other. You do whenever they are balanced dont you?