NancyJohnson

While I appreciate the GH auction wasn't mentioned the auction itself was in early 2024, so anyone questioning the accuracy of the listing and authenticity of the bass itself could easily (easily!) have done a search off google and found the GH listing within a few minutes, tops.

General consenus and 'the rest could be anything'? People do change their pickups - just look at this site - there's hundreds of people swapping out pickups. If you have a look at the photos of the Gardiner Houlgate auction and compare to the Gumtree bass, I'd say everything matches except the Gumtree bass has - for some reason - P90 pickups in it. As I said in the original thread I posted, that seller doesn't seem to stock junk. He's had some spectacular kit through.

I honestly wish they'd have put the Epiphone logo in the same orientation as the Gibson one.

I have 6 x1GB and 2x8GB RAM boards if anyone needs to update their PC. The 8GB boards are new (I bought them mistakenly thinking the motherboard of our old PC could handle 16GB of RAM), so they were never used. Eventualy just had a new PC built. Just shoot me a PM.

I'd find a D,E and F and start a new band with them. Maybe get a horn section in with G, H and I and find a couple of backing singers (J and K). While you're at it, decimalise the music scale and create two new notes, H and I. Sorted.

Like Amazon.

Always find it weird reading these threads where someone takes this moral stance and says they're not going to purchase through <insert site here>, then buys through eBay/AliExpress and doesn't get the product described. It's eBay/AliExpress/etc. Honestly, life's too short. Whether you like Amazon or not, it's generally a one stop shop. Convenient, generally cheaper and quick. My old employer sold into them extensively; if you're buying direct (and not using a third party seller, you're pretty much assured you're getting as genuine a product as possible.

What bass is it? If it's Fenderesque, save yerself a few £££ and take a punt on (more or less) any Chinese seller on eBay.

On the OP, for as long as I can remember I've tinned the bare copper when I wire a plug. Always felt a well tinned cable end will be stronger than splayed copper strands. Doesn't really make any difference to electrical performance, does it? Also, I'll tin the ends of speaker cables for the hifi as well.

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As a youngish teenager (and being fed a steady supply of singles), the names that immediately come to mind from that period are Martin Gordon (Sparks/Radio Stars), Steve Priest (for the glorious Sweet F*nny Adams/Desolation Boulevard albums) and Jim Lea. Other guys I adore, Pete Vuckovic (3CR), Dan Adriano (Alkaline Trio), Stuart Hill (Shudder To Think), Clemente Sardi (Full Treble/Hawaii Zombies).. there's probably dozens.

Expect this post to be edited several times! We're going to hold the next SE Bass Basheroonie on 11th October 2026. Same venue as the 2025, St Sebastian's Memorial Hall, Crowthorne, Berkshire. Similar timings - 11.00am to 5.00pm, although we didn't seem to have any issue getting in a bit earlier. Again, we'll hire the whole site. And, once again to confirm, the site has decent parking, good connections with M3/M4. Closest rail connection is Crowthorne (which is on the Guildford > Reading branch line) or Wokingham (Waterloo > Reading). Hopefully, no engineering works scheduled this time around! Main entry to the site is off Nine Mile Ride, the exit is off Honey Hill to the rear of the hall. On the subject of parking, please be sensible - no double space malarkey just because you have a big Mercedes. This is the place: Map below. ++++++++++++++ BASIC POOP: ENTRY/RE-ENTRY We're proposing the usual £10.00 entry per person. CASH PLEASE. No cards, Paypal, body parts or sexual favours. You'll get a sticker. Write your name on it and wear it. RAFFLE We're hoping to do a raffle of some sort if we have enough donations. SELLING Of course, you'll be able to use the event for selling your unwanted stuff; please just make sure whatever you're selling works and is labelled and priced. ATTENDANCE Please note (as usual), this is a private event open to Basschat members and their guest(s), and we will categorically not be letting any local oiks in. It goes without saying, please be vigilant. VOLUME This is a two room village hall. PLEASE respect your volume and be considerate of other members around you. Yes, we all know you're proud of your earth-shaking SVT and 8x10 fridge, but this is a small hall and 300w of valve-powered bass tone is going to melt the face off the guy next to you, so please try to restrain your rig. When the talks are going on in the main room. please refrain from cranking it in the side room because, as proven in 2025, the sound travels. HMMM, POWER SOCKETS The 2025 event seemed to be fine, but there did seem to be the possibility of a lack of electric sockets if more people attended, so please bring a multi-plug extension cable. WHAT'S THAT BASS? Sadly the blind bass shoot-out didn't happen in 2025, so I'm hoping it'll happen in 2026. More information on this to follow. OTHER SHIZZ Be respectful of other member's equipment...no unplugging anything if it's not yours. Also, it transpired that the hall seems to be in an mobile dead-zone area colloquially referred to as a not-spot; mobile coverage is frankly terrible. You would think the location was In Guezzam Province, Algeria, rather than a few miles east of Reading. That said, In Guezzam Province probably has a larger population than Crowthorne. If you want to pay people for purchases by Paypal, you may struggle. In closing, we're obviously looking to break even on the outlay and make a profit from this. @prowla and I agreed in 2025 that any proceeds over our costs will go to COATs (Crowthorne Old Age & Teens) of Crowthorne, where I volunteer weekly. COATs have a well run shop, a lovely day centre on the edge of the village and they run a couple of mini-buses to get the oldsters to hospital and for day trips. The whole place is volunteer run, even the top line people. It's a great cause. There's no need to form an orderly queue or anything at this juncture. Cheers Paul @NancyJohnson Paul @prowla Gary @cetera

Just been trying to shoot a PM to @prowla and @cetera and I'm getting a response about the recipients not being able to accept messages? Thanks PAul

"Wanna buy a Spector?"

It transpired that the singer in my old project knew J Willgoose's father and offered his son some sage advice when he was starting out. I popped Willgoose a message and he was kind enough to respond and confirm: ...don't get too moist here, but there was also a bunch of other stuff on the thread discussing the possibility of exploring Atmos/5.1 mixes of the albums.

Had the same thing when I was a kid, some televised concert thing, mid-70s, maybe The Carpenters; bass player was using an already well beaten-up Jazz or Precision and my mum was going, 'Look at that old thing. Why wouldn't he have a nice new one?'

Maybe sadness was the wrong word here. Disconsolate, maybe. Dunno. No synonym springs to mind. And yes, I get the 5% analogy. Umm. I recall a story about a multi-millionaire Japanese businessman that was obsessed with vintage and rare Rickenbacker guitars/basses and bought them like any normal Joe might buy a CD ir book. He didn't even play guitar or bass, it was just about ownership and - fair enough - that was his thing. This little yarn springs to mind every time I see something aligned to expensive/rare guitars. Someone with deep enough pockets will buy it and - using Geddy Lee as an example - it'll just sit in his house/lockup and likely never see daylight again. Probably digging myself into a big hole here.

Personally, I wouldn't do anything beyond giving it a deep clean (while retaining the patina as much as possible) and a basic set up. Things worth considering that despite it being rareish, this is more down to it being left-handed, a niche 90s bass, with a Star Wars graphic. You have three fairly big boxes to tick here when considering a buyer; [you] could throw a sizeable wedge restoring this back to pristine condition and not realistically see a return on that outlay. In the same situation, I'd just source a buyer and let them take on any mods.

Little desire for ownership of anything like this but there's thousands of (pro/minted) players out there with burgeoning collections that would consider a £20k-odd price tag as small change. We've no real idea of the provenance here, whether it's been used regularly or if it's spent 60 years under someone's bed. That said, rest assured there's Precision bass fanboys on this very site RIGHT NOW who are doing the sums to work out whether they could afford this. The real sadness is that if it went to someone like Geddy Lee or Sting or <insert name here>, it would just become just another bass in an already huge collection and likely never see any real action.

It's genuine. Don't you people remember when Peavey had their open day for the partially sighted event?

Just stunning.

Email from COATs:

Here's me (and the lovely Di) when I paid the swag over this morning! Thanks to everyone!

I stopped for a while around 2001/2002, not really much going on musically, tired of chasing. It was quite cathartic to just clear out more or less everything; I kept a bass - a '70s Precision bass - in its/it's case and let it sleep for a bit. Genuinely felt good to free myself from playing for a bit.