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reach out i’ll be there - four tops

people are people - depeche mode

Not sure if that is entirely accurate. It looks to me like a MM Caprice with Jazz pickups. I guess the Fender Flea Active is a MusicMan bass masquerading as a Fender Jazz and Flea is also guilty. Any roads Leo Fender did come up with all of these designs and sold MM on to EB so even if we ignore copyright expiry I don’t think there is any shady business by MM or Joe Dart.

That was a rare and lucky find. You even got an older one with the logo. Bass looks great. P shape, Jazz pickups and neck, nice grain. Lovely.

the three sunrises / u2

you know im no good - amy winehouse

there’s a ghost in my house - the fall

Tony Levin always strikes me as someone happy enough making a decent living without all the stress and drawbacks that being centre stage brings. I would imagine that having a signature model involves some element of pimping yourself out and dealing with media types. Perhaps at his stage of career he can’t be bothered with all that guff.

chop suey! - system of a down

As long as they aren’t requesting BJ’s I wouldn’t be too concerned.

Mr. Brownstone- GnR

Is this 8 pages of bickering about whether some bass player is good enough/popular enough to have a signature bass? I would hazard a guess that as EB have released a second Joe Dart signature bass that they got enough publicity/money from the first one so that answers the questions for you all. As for whether Vulfpeck or Dart are legends or if the Signature basses are worth the money I will leave that up to the people who buy them and listen to the band.

I’ve heard of all of the above but Levin only because I have an interest in bass. Your average music fan would have no idea who he was. I would go far as to say your average under 30 music fan won’t even have heard of King Crimson and likely only knows a couple of Gabriels tunes.

Arguably Henry Ford started it and allowed the masses to get their mitts on expensive luxury items. Generally quality goes up and prices come down. Occasionally there are mistakes and companies reputations can suffer if they aren’t rectified. There are obvious environmental issues as well as alienated and low wage workers as a result but that’s another issue. That said in 2022 an aspiring muso can head out with less than £200 in their pocket and pick up an instrument that with a basic setup would be good enough to record and gig with even at the highest level if no snobbery was involved. This is the legacy of Ford/Fender.

killing an arab - the cure

A real man would use a length of barbed wire

same old scene - roxy music

racing with the sun - chinese man

chocolate jesus - tom waits

nobody knows you when you’re down and out - bessie smith

cripple creek ferry - neil young

What a perfect combination…

ride a white swan - t.rex

bathroom skank - the upsetters