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I stored a tokai Strat in mine for years in a bin bag and it was absolutely fine

Thanks @blue (you're up late, mister)

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1450180523' post='2930271'] More importantly, how did it go with the redhead? [/quote] It didn't and wasn't intended to, my partner and female kids might object Just nice to get positive comments about tone (that you all get) when hearing my p bass really loud for first time (they heard it, I couldn't as in my naïveté I was right under the pa speaker)

Yes - great bass player but it's all a bit twee for my liking

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1450082111' post='2929302'] It's called Silly Love Songs and was written in response to others complaining he only wrote silly love songs. So, the irony was McCartney's own. [/quote] Ok fair enough - I didn't think he did irony but clearly I'm mistaken

heard the song containing words "[i]some people want to fill the world with silly love songs[/i]"** (ironic, given that he is a major culprit) and was very impressed by the bassline ** i have no idea what its actually called

body too large, but thanks anyway

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1449693723' post='2926114'] Didn't Jamerson have difficulty finding work later on as producers felt his sound hadn't moved with the times? With hindsight his work comes across as classic rather than dated, but I guess there was a time when it didn't seem that way to everyone. [/quote] That's what the book says

[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1449524965' post='2924420'] Transvision Vamp...did'Baby I Dont Care 3 times...utterly dreadful but that blonde was hot as hell! [/quote] Wendy...

i'll keep my eye out for one, thanks

[quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1449493144' post='2923949'] For me.... I'm even questioning if any part of it is Fender? Again, what would I know. [/quote] Id say it was a bitsa with a reliced neck

That gels with my experience

looks a bit heavily smoked to me, in the headstock pic that you post - on ebay the pickguard does not look original

oh they were fine - apart from that droning song about George Bush I just meant that I thought it would be mobbed and it wasnt. Zutons were surprisingly bad.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1449335317' post='2922724'] Yeah that's the one! [/quote] Spooky ! Surprised how poorly attended it was- we were on the pitch

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1448293209' post='2914196'] The Zutons, they were supporting REM who were absolutely brilliant [/quote] I think I was at a gig in that tour Notts forest ground

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1449262887' post='2922137'] Do you mean Daisy Duke? [/quote] Catherine Bach? She was daisy duke Barbara bach was in a roger Moore bond film

I'm assuming he doesn't need the money I always had serious hits for Barbara bach

We are quick to complain - we should also go out of our way to praise

No I dont think so. Its actually for keeping in the car for when I get practice time at work during lunchtime. P bass a bit of a handful in a 207 - so need to be quite small. Toying with the idea of the cheap build your own hohner style headless kits. Maybe I'm make it sunburst and relic for a joke

[quote name='Lo-E' timestamp='1449194002' post='2921498'] I won't laugh at your expense; everyone has to start somewhere. Congrats on getting up in front of people! [/quote] yep know the feeling and right now as well- first time I tried it (in front of local church audience, most of whom work at my daughter's school, and I [b]totally train-wrecked[/b]. I missed two nights due to commitments and barely played for three months. Last friday I was able to go. The host pointed to the house guitarist (as he himself had his hands full) and the HG suggested Johnny B Goode which I'd only heard a few times on the radio. After a quick run through in the hallway we went on and I honestly think none of then had knowingly heard a bass before - it had just been fairly a bit folky and acoustic, apart from a redhead doing a jazz flavoured version of "I will survive" which was quite enjoyable. I played a few notes of "all along the watchtower" to get host get my level through the PA and it was probably a bit loud as everyone looked around in shock. Apart from a brief memory loss moment ( I stopped, thought, counted, jumped back in on the 1), it went really well and the crowd went wild. Several people complimented me on tone and "that lovely old jazz bass" (its a battered sunburst & tort [b]precision[/b] into a zoom B2 on just Ampeg SVT setting). Partner said "would you do it again?" "hell, yeah" I said. my advice - buy a cheap acoustic bass then you can rough ideas with people in a quiet corner; taking an electric doesnt work unless your amp is very portable and there is an AC outlet in that corner minor embarrasment point - i was wearing a belt, the tongue was sticking out from the buckle as they often do when you forget to tuck it into a belt loop. Redhead took a picture which looked exactly like I'd forgotten to zip up ...

Thinking about getting a travel bass - possibly sinsinido or hohner Any advice from owners or those who've tried this ? Thanks