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I met him once, in Nottingham, when he was playing in Vinny Peculiar

Just list it - you might make some cash

Mine started herself off young -there are pics of her playing my jazz bass at 18 months old, and my prosebass 5 at 2 She has a ukelele and is absolutely entranced by 12 strings but thats as close as she's going to get to the Dark Side.

I dont want to get into the 60s/70s argument - they were undoubtedly dogs and diamonds in both decades. Its how it plays that matters. My £0.02 is that its your bass, if you want to mod it, then do so, but be sure and accept that others taste may not be yours, and that you may damage or destroy its value to many people if you do something cosmetically irreversible. If you would not ever let it go to other hands then its up to you what you do. Enough were made in factories that changing yours would make no real difference. If you [i]might[/i] need the money one day, however reluctantly made the sale would be, then buy a cheap MIM clone of your bass and do the mods to that is my humble advice.

I would send the gig bag back, or ask for a courier swapover. Best quality or not, you paid for a gig bag thats[b] free from defects [/b]and thats exactly what you should get. They can claim off the courier/Fender anyway. If the saddle screw is there, and you can put the bridge back together easily and the intonation is ok afterwards, I wouldnt bother.

[quote name='kingofthestuntmen' timestamp='1360060314' post='1964069'] As the owner of a modded '72 P, I'll be watching this thread with interest... [IMG]http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e334/kingofthestuntmen/P-Bass/DSCF1701.jpg[/IMG] [/quote] That's very nice indeed and I'm not a relic fan

I enjoyed dealing with Andy and would do so again.

I know a singer soungwriter who regularly comes up with original material as well as interpreting existing songs. I've never tried, or thought I'd be able to do it. I was surprised as anything when an almost fully formed set of lyrics and hooks popped into my head whilst I was washing up. Damned if I can remember more than the skeleton of it though.

Yes you're right - ed does say that. I'll look up the clown page and give you a reference - I only read it a couple of nights ago

@pobrien_ie Possibly the recorded version [b]is[/b] Babbitt, doesnt mean that the book is wrong about Jamerson doing lots of takes. Smokey and Norman, Whitfield were such control freaks that hey may have put a Babbitt track on after jamerson did those takes because they didnt like what he did.. He did have a free hand but he did also have a serious temper and the drink didnt help it. Babbitt said he went to question the residuals he was getting and found contracts for tracks that he knew he had played on, but made out to other people, so I dont think even the players themselves know for certain. The residuals wer paid on the basis of these contracts, many of which were written out after the fact. They were known as "mock contracts"

Not quite - read "standing in the shadows of Motown" Babbitt himself said that people's work was often replaced after they thought they were finished and had left. Read what he say bout mock contracts and getting paid Babbitt tells a story of listening to a jukebox and arguing with Jamerson about who was playing the bassline

Apparently he had to do about 60 takes of years of a clown, in order to satisfy the producers

I have the hydrive 210 combo and its excellent in every way. Only thing i would add is a headphone socket. The strings are cheap and cheerful and they work well enough

[quote name='paul j h' timestamp='1359395079' post='1954116'] I am going to buy an acoustic gu**ar and learn all the songs from my youth etc i am even going to take lessons. Cheers Paul. [/quote] Ugh - he's joined the dark side. Acoustic is ok for rattling along with people, but its not <i>a bass </i>is it