Happy Jack

I've listened to Spotify a few times. It wasn't life-changing. It's a bit like having a cable TV package with all the bells & whistles. It makes available far, FAR more stinky poo than you ever realised was out there.

Apparently that kit comes with a permanent team of sound engineers who handle the close-miking ...

That perspex backplate is truly a thing of beauty.

In fairness, he's selling it for €160 so there's probably not much budget for a translator. Have you got one, Jack?

Come on Tom, you have to be better than that. It was a 3-hour gig where we played nearly 50 songs. Do you really imagine that he needed to choose the one song where I screwed up? Or that he shouldn't have checked with me first?

I've not played one of those through a 5-bar gate ... how does it sound?

You have mail.

What happened at the gig later was nearly as exciting ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-45672921

No need to translate it, Mick. The photo lower down shows the same bass but with a noticeably different headstock.

Could be a replacement neck, or possibly a badly-remodelled headstock. Take a look at http://www.defil-vintage.pl/2013/12/nowe-rytmy-w-fabryce-defil.html Can't leave Defil alone without pointing you at their ... ahem ... 'take' on the gorgeous Hagstrom Futurama: https://reverb.com/item/40133-defil-lotos-1973-vintage-natural-relict I get the whole Communist era thing, but nobody ever claimed that the Communists weren't very fine engineers. This monstrosity looks like a failed school word & metalwork project.

Cautiously optimistic ...

Without some idea of who actually wrote this, frankly it's pretty meaningless.

I think we should be told.

In truth, I always thought that a "Sonic Maximiser" was what we used to call a Volume knob.

Was any sticky-backed plastic involved, at all?

And the No Sh!t Sherlock moment: as this bass has a 35 inch scale; so even longer than a long-scale 34 inch

Just be glad it's restricted to the noises.

Assuming that you had that ability in the first place.

Not entirely sure why anyone would want to do this anyway.

I'm guessing it's somewhere near Cairo?