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I messaged him on eBay yesterday: Please answer honestly, why do you keep posting this piece of junk? Do you really believe any sane person is going to spend a million pounds on this, or even a million pennies? Answer: You see the Best Offer link? The big number gets attention to it. People send offers, they might get lucky. And before people go into 'it's unplayable', really? How would they know? How many 15 string basses have people ever seen, far less played..? My guess would be one. This one. It works perfectly well as a bass of single course tuning or even as a Chapman stick, going 7 up/7 down from the centre. I trust this answers all such questions.

It's up for a million quid this time - twice it's record if my memory serves. I've just messaged him? again accusing him of being insane. It's come up in Farnborough this time - is that it's usual location?

£65 in Pompey - for a tribute band?!

No way! Had UK on in the car yesterday. What a star he was.

Fantastic approach, I hate rehearsing at gig volume.

Lots of ??? in the entries under hardware and electronics. I was immediately suspicious of the EMG-HZ badges on the pickups - to my knowledge the Euros never had those, they were fitted with tonepumps and 'proper' EMG's. The RRP in the title is purely there to be misleading too IMO. Be afraid.

Are they still around?

Do punters think that pro bands can instantly play any idea that comes into their heads and that pub bands can therefore do the same? I blame those TyPhoo chimps for all this; 'You hum it son and I'll play it'.

[quote name='Bassmonkey' timestamp='1485700281' post='3225893'] ...play X, Y or Z ... [/quote]You might get a Rush fan asking you for YYZ one night. Coat deployed.

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1485684953' post='3225723'] Whats the mxr exactly ? [/quote]M80.

I've seen Joe Zawinal use a backward keyboard. Birdland live I think.

Probably should have explained the thread better. It occurred to me that by the time my tone gets to the business end I've used the controls on my bass, an mxr at my feet and the controls on my amp. It all seems daft.

Jeffrey Hammond.

Andrew Levy.

[quote name='Rexel Matador' timestamp='1485525487' post='3224638'] You beat me to it! I find it's quite hard to [i]not[/i] look cool holding a bass. In terms of effortless chops I would go for Matt Freeman. [/quote]This. I often warn Ms EMG if I'm gonna practice to sit down beforehand in case she swoons at the sight

There's a couple of threads running at the mo where power amps have been suggested as an option. Anyone using one?

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1485459366' post='3224164'] Simplicity? [/quote]Good point. I've seen the light. If we're all using effects and tone shaping who needs an amp full of knobs?

Nice to hear lots of affection for the brand in the replies. My first was also a Trace. I think the real watts v D watts is a fair issue too and has been discussed on here before. I'm also confused as to what they're going for with a very feature free amp with potentially gigging power levels?

Is this what he uses to make anything he plays sound like a Rick?* Love the model number. *a slice of my own words please - that sounds great! All it needs is to be cheaper and in a pedal.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1483105617' post='3204761'] Here's my Korean made, thru neck NS2000/4 [url="http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/FairfaxAikman/media/spector/spector1_zpsqvkkmm88.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/FairfaxAikman/media/spector/spector3_zpsw4jmv6kk.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/FairfaxAikman/media/spector/spector2_zpsd5eqs7za.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote]I bought mine new for IIRC £700 and they were worth every penny then. At the ridiculous prices you see now they're a steal. Superb basses.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1485289566' post='3222868'] I was a huge fan back in the day -- Astoria '88 is still one of my top 3 gigs ever. Sounds like you and I were at the same IBAS convention! I was heartbroken when Frank called it a day; I went to their first post-Frank gig with John Beck on guitar and a chap called Lee Knott on vocals but the spark was gone. I do like what I've heard of the latter day John Mitchell-fronted band though. If you still have your copy of Tall Ships and want to offload it, I'll gladly buy it off you. [/quote]That's two places we were at together - I went to the Astoria gig too. Frank was a bit edgy at that convention, I guess the end was nigh. I remember them debuting two new songs at that Hammy gig too? You're welcome to the Tall Ships for free! PM your details. Ps. Three places, I went to the Navajo Kiss gig at the Camden Underworld too! John Beck's a tidy guitar player.

Saw them on their last tour* at the Hammy. They opened with Bullet in the Barrel (a b-side, they were a great b-side band). Also met him at a band convention in Covent Garden in '89. I was dismayed to hear he'd re-recorded a load of old IB songs from his time in the band - no need. *There's only one IB for me - bought The Tall Ships and hated it - IB Light.

If I can stray into films... went to see La La Land with the nearest and dearest. Dreadful, but she's worth it.

[attachment=236589:Jeffrey Hammond.jpg][quote name='ZilchWoolham' timestamp='1485270267' post='3222647'] He left all his gear behind. I remember reading in a fairly recent interview with him on a Tull board that apparently, sometime in the 80's, he spotted his striped Precision (I think it was a Precision, but he might have had several black-and-whites) on the telly, as some other bassist was playing it, something he wasn't too chuffed about. He never mentioned what band it was, though. I suppose one could plough through every episode of TOTP and The Tube from the 80's and we might find out! [/quote]You're quite right, it was a Precision, I was mugged by other pics of him with a Jazz. Found some great pics of Tull whilst looking too.

[quote name='ZilchWoolham' timestamp='1485203482' post='3222116'] He did so in the late 70's while remaining very much active in music, and later sold the estate to an environmental organisation, back in the 90's I believe. Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, bass player for Jethro Tull from 1970 to 1975, quit to pursue his true passion of painting and hasn't touched a bass in 40 years. [/quote]I wonder what happened to his stripey Jazz? I heard he burned the matching suit.