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Does anyone actually care? Does it matter? Herbie is a legend and his instrument sound like it does when he plays it. Think about what you are saying? a man who has played on iconic tracks for damn near 60 years is pulling a fast one? What for, why would he bother? Is he trading up for a Fodera? Cmon guys. If he forgot - is it important? Just because we are anal about acquiring instruments of a given date doesn't mean he was. He lived it. Guys (girls) most of us are just looking back and just wondering what it was like to be one of those first people to discover modern bass.

Well my Moollon J5 is a dirty filthy snarling tone monster. My 62 J is better and maybe a Stenback might top it but for a bit over 2 grand you'd be daft to buy anything else. One of the very best working musician's J form bases out there by a country mile.

Demeter or Vanderkley. I favour Demeter - light uber powerful and beautifully warm and musical. Valve pre amp through an isolation transformer into the class D. Works magic.

The reason they sound good and big for their relatively low wattage is the bloody great toroidal transformer and big old smoothing capacitors in the power supply. Bass transients eat current and although the wattage is low the 'heft' comes from the current that gets sucked into the class AB mosfet power stage. You cannot replicate that with even the best switch mode power supply. Its old technology but its damn near bomb proof and still sounds good today. Yes the cabs are heavy but that's big magnets and strong old ply. Mine sits sadly in the rehearsal room but its a perfect match for a lovely old Ray. Its a bit like an early 70's Jazz with an Acoustic 370 or maybe a 62P with an Ampeg B15. Its one of those classic sounds. This one is a British Classic and I think people forget that.

This is for sale in Japan at the moment........ DHG.....its stunning.

I can answer that. I found the Greenboy to be solidly built and a really transparent cab. The kick back feature was very useful on a compact stage. My cab was really good but it turned out to be not for me. I found the low end response and efficiency to be less than I was looking for in the long term. I realised that I needed and wanted a little colour. I moved on to Bergs. I bought 2 1x12 ported cabs and a 4x10. I run these with a Demeter VTBP M 800D. I find the Bergs more to my taste, love them in fact. They are also obcenely efficient and loud if I want them to be. The 4X10 is an utter monster. The Greenboy was a fine cab it just didn't suit me, not enough bottom end, it didn't 'breathe' for me. I have an AER Amp Three and this has a bigger bottom end than anything I have ever played. The F112 didn't touch that.

Great news! all there very best to little Iris, your good lady and your self. SO nice in this buggerage of a world to hear good news.

Ok no problem. I'll pick up a Wishbass and we can do a strait swap for your Dingwall :-)

How about almost anything running through an 1980 Boss OC2. The dub sound you get is seriously good. I use it with a Steinberger Synapse.

Yeah everyone has that thought. Then you play it and you hear 53 years of maturing wood ageing gracefully into a light resonant punchy bit of gorgeousness.

I'm in I'd play it - its a guitar not an exhibit.

No, you get what you pay for.

Grossly overpriced even for a collector. A collector would want a return, fat chance at those prices this side of a decade.

Thats sweet, my first ever bass a really nice sounding instrument and well sought after too, you won't loose on this.

Oops, that's what happens when you don't read the whole post :-/ I'll get me coat.

Brian Leiser from Fun Loving Criminals always played a Gibo Les Paul.

Has to be a PEB Ray - if that's your thing of course.