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[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1401209230' post='2461225'] You actually went to another village? [/quote] Yes, and some of us even returned to tell the tale.

[quote name='Stu-khag' timestamp='1401206255' post='2461190'] anyone catch the young musician jazz award last week? 3 days left on Iplayer to catch up but all of the performances are on the website in full. [/quote] I thought it was great. Here's a link to a discussion about it on BC. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/237590-bbc-jazz-young-musician-of-the-year-2014/

[quote name='planer' timestamp='1401202053' post='2461119'] You'll doubtless be pleased to know it's alive and 'kicking' [url="http://www.upperthong.org.uk/?page_id=1147"]http://www.upperthon...k/?page_id=1147[/url] - Sunday 29th June appears to be your day of choice - the 2014 Official Welly Wanging World Champs no less! [/quote] That's brilliant. Thanks!!!!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1401201416' post='2461101'] No. [/quote]

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1401201249' post='2461096'] I'd live there now if the country was still like that... nothing wrong with a good wellie wang... [/quote] I'm returning to live in the country in the very near future. I wonder if the wellie wanging tradition continues?

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1401198180' post='2461017'] Karaoke seems to attract all the weirdos... when I lived out in the country, nothing filled our local pub quicker than karaoke night.... People used to come from far afield especially. My favourite was watching a guy wailing his way through some Phill Collins classics, frequently dropping to his knees, tears rolling down his face with the shear emotion of it all... playing to about six people... [/quote] When i lived in the country it was long before karaoke was invented. The highlight was the annual wellie wanging competition followed by booting a pig's head from one village to another. Them were the days!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1401197696' post='2461010'] PS - I did a gig with his old Keyboard player Jason Rebello last Sunday. We did Danny Boy. [/quote] Bilbo, did you do Caravan with a drum solo?

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1401145292' post='2460625'] While on the subject of dating Fenders any ideas on the date of this Jazz Bass? [/quote] Still no takers to hone their Fender i.d. skills?

[quote name='Bassman Sam' timestamp='1401145742' post='2460634'] Last night's Sky news, today's press. Duh. [/quote] I'm obviously missing something here but then i don't read today's (or any other days come to that) press and no way would i have Sky in the house.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1401145292' post='2460625'] While on the subject of dating Fenders any ideas on the date of this Jazz Bass? [/quote] No one fancies a go at the 'dating game' then?

Wonderful. Great to see that the future of jazz is safe in all those young hands. Made me feel old though watching Gwilym Simcock being the established jazzer on stage and i felt even older seeing Django Bates who's still a kid to me.

[quote name='Bassman Sam' timestamp='1401145064' post='2460624'] Aren't newspapers already doing this? Tribute news stories? [/quote] What are Tribute news stories?

While on the subject of dating Fenders any ideas on the date of this Jazz Bass?

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1401143134' post='2460614'] Perhaps we should start a tribute topic . . . . [/quote]

I still love those 'collection only' bargains. In fact i picked up a bass last weekend which was about 2/3rds the price it would have been if the seller had offered to send it by courier. I emailed a seller on ebay recently on whether they would consider sending a bass by courier only to be told that 'no, it's far too big to post!'. It went for about half of what i thought it would if they had offered to send it by courier. The good news is that 'collection only' basses are still some of the best bargains.

It's a tribute to all those tribute bands that this thread is still going.......on.........and on.......and on.

[quote name='planer' timestamp='1401134952' post='2460504'] Just about! There is padding all the way up, but it's fairly thin. The outer fabric is pretty sturdy-looking, mine have side handles, rucksack straps and two pockets on the front. These are they, though I didn't get mine from this seller. [url="http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=121333689045&alt=web"]http://pages.ebay.co...3689045&alt=web[/url] [/quote] Thanks. Much appreciated.

Don't worry, when i run the country every music shop will have to stock a Percy Jones signature fretless bass by law.

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1401133245' post='2460467'] There are very few contemporary bass heroes and no fretless players in the limelight. Fretless basses are doomed. [/quote] A bit like electric guitars then?

[quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1401131257' post='2460439'] It just pushed the prices up overnight to match the increase. A MIM Fender was going for almost £100 less 2nd hand and suddenly people were selling them for the retail price they'd paid 5yrs earlier. I guess it is just what happens, after all most old Fenders cost new a fraction of what they now go for. [/quote] Yes i see. Thanks. It still amazes me what old Fenders go for even in these times. I bought a 1974 Fender Jazz for £400 c1990 which was the going rate at the time. In fact it stood in the shop unsold for months before i bought it. in the same shop was a new Japanese made Tune Bass Maniac for £800. Now i'd probably get around 2k for the Jazz while i picked up a Tune Bass Maniac recently for £200!

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1401131109' post='2460437'] Well for example Marcus Miller jazzes. As they came to the end of the Japanese production, they were selling new at over £1000. So people put them up second hand at £750/£850. A quick search on t'interweb showed that their 2004 (for example) MM had sold new for £449. So people looked at £850 second hand and thought privately, " ye hav te be jokin bonny lad". [/quote] Ah right. Yes i understand. Thanks for explaining that as it all makes sense now! Cheers.

[quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1401130697' post='2460431'] The crime for me was that Fender et al really hiked the prices as the recession kicked in which in turn impacted on the 2nd hand market. [/quote] I'm just curious but in what way did it impact on the 2nd hand market?

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1401112962' post='2460156'] Understandable [/quote] Absolutely. A Jazz Bass then.

Good luck!

I don't see anyone having a problem selling a WAL, Travis Bean, 60s-70s Fenders & early Japanese Squiers at a good price.