jezzaboy

For £60 in good nick, that`s a deal. They are decnet enough basses and can be made much better with some budget upgrades. A good little project for the holiday season!

My thinking is the jack socket was moved to accomodate the extra knob for the active circut but is no longer in place so possibly the bass could be wired as passive? It has a few issues: moved strap button, non original bridge, different knobs...but at the end of the day, you might like the sound and feel of the instrument. I seem to remember this was quite cheap for a mid 70`s P, especially considering the s/h prices in guitarguitar. The biggest benefit you have is if you don`t like it, let them know and send it back. But, it may be love at first feel as Bon said............

I guess I must have got the "one" that was set up in the shop .

Don`t be silly!!! When has that mantra "I don`t need any more basses" ever worked!! It just goes to show, we really do get ripped off when it comes to the price of bass guitars compared to the old US.

I have an Sr300 as well one of the 2012 models with the different pickups. It cost me £250 from Guitarguitar and I havent had to adjust anything at all with regards to the set up, it is exactly the way it left the shop. I prefer the Ibanez pickups and pre amp in this to the Bart`s that are fitted to the Sr 500 and 700 models, both of which I have owned. I sometimes think of getting something else but the feel, sound and the build quality of the cheapo Ibby keeps GAS in check. For the moment

Is she any good at knitting?

Four days for a T bird, 3 days for a set of tuners. What DB did you order?

I love the Quo as well. Both old and new but I reckon the present line up kicks the a*s of the old line up. Rhino and Matt are a great rhythm section.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1355228274' post='1895557'] That was on Slave Alive Vol 2 , I believe. [i]information that is not posted to be pedantic but because I can't bare to see this Slade thread drop off the front page just yet !!!!!!!!!!![/i] [/quote] Yep good Doctor, your diagnosis is correct. It is on Slade Alive vol 2. The version I have on disc is called Slade Alive on the Salvo label (cat no: salvo dcd 201 if anyone is intrested) and has the 2 albums packaged together. Don`t mess about, just buy it!

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1355175350' post='1895131'] I like Oasis. Everybody thinks I'm joking when i tell them this [/quote] Agree with this. I have been in bands when it`s almost a sin to suggest we do one of their songs. They were a good rockin band and the music goes down well in the pub and to me this is what matters. I think Noel`s HFB album was great as well.

Well worth it. If you are a fan it`s required watching.

One eyed jacks with moustaches from Alive is one of my all time favourite tunes. They are one of the all time best British bands of any era. End of.

I priced this kind of mod for a Jazz bass last year and the shop was quoting me £40 for the routing and electrics and £30ish for the scratchplate. I would imagine that it would just be a matter of re connecting the wires to wherever they are conected to at the moment as the pickups are passive.

In my last job, I always told the guys I was a Rock star! They thought I was full of mince until one day a guy came in to buy some stuff and recongised me from one of the pubs I used to gig in regular. When he was asked by my co workers was the band any good, he told them the band was excellent and I was a good bass player. Unfortunaley I am no longer in the same job or band but hey ho! And on this subject, I have found over the years co workers either: Really couldn`t give a toss. Or well impressed that you play in a band and usually say that they always wanted to play guitar or sing etc.

I love the position of the tuners on this Kay. Do you think that the original neck had those small crappy tuners fitted originally and he decided to fit a set of clover leaf ones? And the position of the string tree is stunning, the way that it bends those (most likely crap) strings completley out of line. The man`s a genius! I hope Fender or Gibson are aware of this man`s work and sign him up right away for their R & D department`s.

Just in case anyone`s intrested, Mark King was the guest on Ken Bruce`s track of my years feature this week. In case you aint a listener, a musician of some sort pick the 10 tracks (2 played each day mon to fri) that are important to them and after the first one tells Ken why they are so. You can get it on the Radio 2 i player about 2 hours 10 mins into Kens show. I`m not a huge MK fan, he just comes across as someone who loves his music.

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1354098185' post='1881939'] I'd take Mick Green over all of them. [/quote] I would agree with this. The man was a genius.

Love them both but let`s be honest, apart from playing with Zep 5 years ago, Jimmy hasn`t really done anything worthwhile since 79 ish whereas Beck is still gigging and putting out music. Having said that, Beck can`t write for tofee and Page has written (or stolen, you decide!) some of the best music the world has heard.

Wow! What a right decent guy and a faboulus player.

Like most of us, I make the odd mistake usually when checking out the ladies in the audience, although not bad enough to stop the song. I used to play with a guitarist who very rarely made mistakes and used to scowl if me or drummer boy dropped a clanger. Imagine my delight when doing Dakotta by the Stereophonics, he put his cappo on the wrong fret and tried desprately to explain to me what he had done whilst keeping playing. I caught on after a few seconds but it was nice to see him squirm.

I have roughly the same problem. Myself, the drummer and singer were all part of a band that went belly up as the guitarist, though a great player was also a bottle merchant. So the 3 of us got together, worked out a set and I spent some time getting a guitarist sorted. After a few attempts, we have a decent guitarist and now the singer is starting to get very hard to get a hold of and is very non comitial when I do get a hold of him! So I spoke with drummer boy and we are gonna bin the singer and try and get someone else in. A prospect that doesn`t appeal to me but it`s got to be done. As the old saying goes, "bands would be great if it wasn`t for the people in them!"

Very nice Johnnyboy. The colour really suits these basses. Good to see that you got one of the new models.

Got the P bass myself and am well impressed.

Larry Parnes, Larry Page, Mickie Most...........the list goes on. This ain`t a new thing. X factor is just the latest, fashionable version of it. All these things have a shelf life. What will come after the likes of X factor? Now that is the scary bit.

I read an interview with Snowy White and he has a Les Paul Goldtop that I think was from the 50`s if I remember correctly and he has used for years. He used to rest it against his amp for years when not using it and finally decided to get himself a guitar stand. One of the first times he used it, he put it on the stand and it fell off cracking the neck in a similar manner to your friends. I am sure Mr Shuker will do a fantastic repair job on it.