Broken Fingers

Hi. I am 55 and started playing bass when I was 18. Then I went gallivanting about for a few years until about ten or eleven years ago when I bought myself another bass and started attempting to play it again. I have been attempting ever since and have played in a couple of bands.....mainly heavy stuff like Sabbath, Iron Maiden, ACDC, Metalica and so on. When I was 18, in 1976, I bought a Fender Jazz Bass in a music shop in Newcastle for £330-00. It was a lot of money at the time. When I stopped playing I sold it......Oh god, how I wish I hadn't. Anyway, when I started playing again, I bought a 2002 Mexican P Bass in Midnight Wine, to get started on. It was great.....still got it. In 2006, I bought a Fender Custom Shop 1975 reissue Jazz bass. Made in the USA. It cost £1100 quid I think. Maple neck, block inlays. Nice bit of kit and its what I play most of the time. Since then I bought a few different basses. A Warwick Streamer, which I still have but don't like, so I don't play it. I have another red Mexican P Bass, and Ibanez Gio Soundgear and a Musicman Sub Bass 4. I tend to buy any old bass I see if the price is right. Today, I was rang by a guy I know from the pub who told me that during a house clearance he recovered an old red Yamaha bass. I went round to have a look. The neck was straight it looked OK so I gave him £40.00 for it. Gave it a clean, put some new Rotosounds on it and plugged it in. Its a phenomenal piece of kit. Its a BB300 and judging by the serial number it was made around Spring 1984. So it is 30 years old. I have never played a Yamaha bass before. It's a P-bass but I would say that it plays and sounds better than either of my Fender P basses. Its had a bit hammer and has more than its fair share of dents and scratches.....but hey-ho, it cost 40 quid! I was bloody impressed by it generally but what really impressed me was that the pots, which are original, don't make so much as an odd crackle. You can feel the quality of them when you turn them. So.....that's me and I am looking for you guys to tell me whether Yamaha basses are the world's best kept secret. So what do I play through. At home for practice I have a Laney 100w R2 Combo. I have a 100w Torque combo as well. For live gigs I use a Trace Elliott AMS 400 with a 5 band equaliser. The cab is a Trace Elliott 1x15 4x10 cab that weighs an absolute tonne. Its old but its bloody good. I bought it from my friends estate when he died. My wireless is a Line 6 G55 with a rack mount kit and a Korg Digital Pro Rack tuner, neither of which I have used in anger because I have just built it, so its waiting for its first run out.