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4kg would be just about okay for a four string.

These look like a lot of bass for the money. It would be interesting to try them side by side with some much more expensive boutique brand Super-Jazz style basses and see how they measure up. That midrange circuit reminds me a bit of the Sadowsky Will Lee preamp, and it would certainly serve the same purpose. I bet these will be very useful basses, and the price-point is pretty accessible. Providing they don't weigh a ton, I think these basses are going to be very popular.

Yes, Mike's channel is chock full of interesting stuff, and the live chats are particularly good IMO. Suffice to say that, by contrast, there is some content from UK bass YouTubers that confirms the urgent mental health care crisis in this country. I don't mean Scott's Bass Lessons, though. That's more of a mental hair care crisis.

Thanks for posting this, I'm a big fan of Chris's playing going back to the days when I didn't know who he was, or indeed that it was Chris playing the bass parts I was so enamoured of. We take it for granted in the internet age that you can find out who played what for whom, but it wasn't always that way. I remember seeing Chris on TV playing his Status five string live with Go West back when five strings were still a novelty, and I always loved the bass on this track : I had assumed it was Pino, especially as the band were from Cardiff, but it was in fact Chris Childs. Only took me about thirty years to find out by accident!

I've got an identical Am St P that I bought new in 2009 and I would never part with it. One of my favourites basses ever. Mine doesn't have the Custom Shop pickup that came fitted from 2012 onwards, but the standard pickup it came with sounds good to me so I've never bothered changing it. I think the post- 2012 basses had a bit chunkier neck profile too, but I could be wrong about that. I know that my 2009 model has a perfectly-proportioned neck for my tastes. It's just like a classic and very playable late '60's/early 70's classic Fender "B" neck with the nut width halfway between a vintage P and a Jazz, and a fairly slim front-to-back profile. Anyway, I've got Thomastiks flats on mine and it does the classic P thing to perfection. Enjoy your lovely new bass. I hope it's a keeper and that you get as much enjoyment out of it as I've had from mine over the years.

My BB P34 was 4.33 kg.

Those old Pye and Decca compressors look (and probably sound) very interesting.

I know a doctor in Turkey who could probably arrange that swap for you.

The biggest difference as the decades have passed is that drugs that were once prevalent in the music business to some extent or another are now widely available in society at large, and are commonly used by people in just about every walk of life, but particularly by people from lower social classes. The experience has been democratised. There are far more street drugs available on Britain's sink estates in 2026 than there ever was in the music business in any era. Drugs like cocaine that were quite elitist as recently as the 1980's/early1990's are widely available in Britain nowadays. Opiates the same. How musicians use drugs has become far less of a totemic issue because the rest of society has superceded them and established its own drug culture. No one is looking to musicians for an example of whether to use drugs or which drugs to take. Rather, musicians who use drugs are merely an analog of wider society nowadays.

Paul Webb is another one of those overlooked but bloody brilliant bass players.

Tony Kanal is such a terrific player. I've been a fan since that first No Doubt record, which must have come out 30 years ago now!!! How is that possible? Anyhow, I like that he's quite a busy player, but his taste is so impeccable that it always works. I like his tone, too. Everything he does is just right.

I used to regularly see Mike Dirnt playing that very bass onstage in a student pub called The Bear's Lair when Green Day were just another local band.

That's a lovely bass. If it's as good as my Fender AVRI 74 Jazz Bass that I have had for nearly ten years now then it's an excellent investment. I've thought about one of these for myself but haven't managed to find one that weighs under 9 pounds, which is my weight requirement for a Jazz Bass nowadays. I would swap the scratchplate for an off-white one, but that's just my preference. I expect most people would prefer the Tort, but combined with that shade of green in reminds me too much of those boiled sweets, chocolate limes.

Try the ones from Home Bargains. Excellent value for money and decent quality. I think of them as the incontinence equivalent of Elites bass strings or Sire basses.

Lets not forget the part(s) Chas and Dave played in Eminem's rise to world domination: