Frank Blank

This was precisely my rule initially, no bass that costs over a grand. My last few purchases have broken that rule and now I’m going back to it. Past 1k and it’s all about the instrument rather than the music for me. I need an instrument that I just pick up and play rather than marvel at and be overly cautious with. Apologies for the long replies, I’m kind of working it out myself.

Well it’s a doozy. Obviously it doesn’t quite have the build quality of my ACGs but you know what? It’s lighter, easier to play with the thin, fast neck, the D’Addario flatwounds are nice and comfortable. I often bang on about basses being ‘tools of work’ and how boutique basses make you worry about dinging them or taking them out to play live whereas I’d not mind getting a ding in this. I started out (in the later second part of my bass playing life) playing a £400ish Fender Jazz Modern Player, which I was completely happy with until I joined BC and was infected with a) GAS and b) the idiotic search for the ‘perfect’ bass, well I’m going back to basses I’m not so precious about. I’ve got an Ibanez SRC6, love the neck, now I’ve got the SRH500, love the neck. I will probably consult @Woodinblack in depth about more SR basses as I now have fretted and fretless acoustic basses, that acoustic sound being very much a cornerstone of the music we play in our duo, but I do need an electric bass with a wide range of tones and the SR neck. I’ll probably sell both the ACGs and go back to playing tools (that sounds wrong) rather than works of wooden art. Back to your original question, yes, it’s a lovely bass. As with most acoustic basses it should be called an ‘acoustic’ bass because it isn’t loud enough acoustically to keep up with an acoustic guitar and singer but plugged in it has a lovely tone and with the help of the Stomp it’s delicious.

Welcome @MikeStockport

I think so, looks like there’s plenty of room for lowering the action.

He played a lot of stuff that I didn’t like but whilst waiting for stuff I did like I often heard stuff I’d not heard before that I did like. JP introduced me to lots of bands and a few genres of music too. My musical genesis (sorry) was prog really but JP was a massive reason for the broadening of my musical horizon. I’m off to listen to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

Pics added.

I had a similar Bjork ‘conversion’ experience when she was fronting K.U.K.L., in Vauxhall of all places!

Man SLF wrote some great songs, not many, but the great ones are outstanding.

Seriously? All of it?

Absolutely this, very much looking forward to doing much like you.

It seems someone has simply ploughed through YouTube and found all the Peel sessions they could and then, brilliantly, put together this superb resource! https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-peel-sessions.html

It was ridiculous, no one in their right mind would pay full whack for that, it should be half price really but discovering that part of their discount was a lead which is included anyway was the last straw for me, I’ll not use Andertons again. Well it might be a tad thin for me but time will tell.

Well a pristine Ibanez SRH500 turned up on the doorstep this morning at 08:27. Double boxed with padding between boxes and the bass inside the original Ibanez box, well done PMT and DPD. Funny to think that Andertons wanted me to pay exactly the same for an ex-demo SRH500 with significant cosmetic damage, as a discount they offered me £30 off and a free lead, turns out all SRH500s come with a free lead anyway, that’s Andertons off the Xmas card list. The bass is very light and has that quality way beyond price point thing about it. It also has a slim fast neck that all my previous Ibanez SR models seem to have that makes it extremely easy to move around. With the absence of pickups, the dusty end of the neck Is shaped in such a way that it can be used as a comfortable thumb rest. The flatwound strings sound surprising bright acoustically, the only odd thing is how scratchy they feel against the fret when bending the strings, *shudder*. It came set up beautifully, probably a bit high for low action fanatics but about right for me. Looking forward to playing it through the QSC later and hearing how it sounds. Such bliss to have a just two controls, tone and volume.

Welcome @PatrickL

Er, one.

Welcome @mustafunk1

I've just ordered the Ibanez SRH500, I'll report back.

I have just purchased another Ibanez SRH500 but this time from PMT. It was showing as in stock in their warehouse so I called and was assured this item had been stored in the warehouse unopened in its box since delivery.

I noticed it back up, I think you are right, they are just waiting for a mug.

Floyd Lawson and Vivian Weathers from the early Linton Kwesi Johnson albums. Beautiful, simple song serving bass playing and no idea what happened to them after. John Wilson who played on Heaven 17s superb debut Penthouse and Pavement, brilliant slapping (and I usually dislike slap) excellent guitarist too. I think he was shafted on a couple of recordings afterwards for other bands and then seems to have vanished.

I didn’t. After being offered a ridiculously low discount and a free lead I just opted for a refund. PMT have one at their warehouse that’s still in it’s unopened box , I’ll probably buy that.

I spoke to PMT about their SRH500 and apparently it’s in stock at their warehouse and hasn’t been out of the box since it was delivered to them. I might go for that one.