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I just had a flashback to when I was a student and one night during Freshers week a small group of us were enticed into a rather dingy club. After few drinks at the downstairs bar we stumbled up the stairs into a room where, when my eyes finally focused, I noticed hardcore gay pornography was being projected on to a wall. Not vanilla guy meets guy gay porn either, things that clearly weren't designed for the purpose were being inserted in places that seemed to have a great deal of trouble receiving them and the 'insertees' really didn't seem to be enjoying the experience. As the saying goes 'There are some things you can never unsee'. The weird thing was that it wasn't a gay club or even a gay night. I think we just accidentally walked into the early stages of a 'special' private party. We left before things got messy.

Nice bass, nice bit of playing too. I've been largely free of Bass Gas recently, but if Gibson were to reissue the Ripper, Grabber or G3 basses I might have to get the wallet out.

Yep. Mickey Shitenbacker got it right first time.

I adapt to things like different string spacing spacing or neck depth really quickly. Different string tension really throws me though. I 've got an old Washburn Status which I keep mainly for sentimental value and don't play that much anymore. Despite being strung with standard gauge double ball end GHS boomers the tension on those strings is much higher than on any other bass I own and I find my right hand fingers almost tripping over the strings on stuff that I can normally play without thinking.

I'm not here to help, I'm here to enable and encourage.

Nonsense. Remember the Basschat motto. 'Whoever dies with the most toys wins'.

Guitar designs are notoriously hard to protect in terms of copyright. But I'm fairly sure I read somewhere that Eastwood actually aquired the rights to the Surfcaster design. I know Fender cancelled the original product line as one of their first acts when they took over Jackson /Charvel because they felt Surfcasters were in direct competition with their own Jaguar/Jazzmaster designs and also because their plan for Jackson/Charvel was to concentrate on the heavy market where traditional Fender designs didn't have much of a presence and the Surfcasters didn't fit that branding. Maybe when Eastwood came along 20 odd years later enquiring about an obsolete design they had no plans to revive Fender were happy to sell the rights on

It arrived about 2 hours ago, I thought I'd just plug it in quickly to check it was working before having a proper play with it tomorrow. 2 hours later and I'm only a fraction of the way through the presets and I've started the process of putting together my own effects chains. I'm definitely going to have the read the online manual, (the 'cheat sheet' instructions it comes with are pretty basic) but so far, so fantastic.

The tips of my fingers on my left hand are like leather. Weirdly the plucking fingers on my right hand are completely callous free despite 25+ years of finger style and some fairly intensive periods of playing slap. It's never caused me any problems though.

After a a month or two of umming and ahing about whether to get the HX Effects or the Stomp and watching countless reviews/tutorials on both I've finally put my order in and, subject to the vaguaries of the delivery service, the Stomp arrives on Monday.

It took me a while to get used to the preamp but I'm really happy with my V7 fretless. The maple fretboard was a big plus for me too. You just don't see many of them around on fretlesses.

I had a moment a few years ago when I realised I was thoroughly bored with guitar dominated music, even though I never stopped enjoying playing the guitar. Since then I've been listening to all kinds of stuff, a lot of funk, a fair bit of jazz and I've just gone through a phase of listening to drum 'n' bass and retro style electronica.

I Great looking bass. 've been interested in these for a couple of years I keep finding myself drawn to the one at Bass Direct. http://w.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/G%26L_Kiloton_White.html But I keep telling myself there's other gear I need to prioritise before I get another bass.

As others have said you're not going to find any global company who volunteers to pay more tax in a given country than that country's tax laws stipulate that they must. The Amazon tax avoidance thing has been going on for over a decade now. Same with Facebook, Google and the rest. The UK government has had years to close the loopholes, the fact they haven't done so strongly suggests that, despite what various politicians say in public, the reality is that they are perfectly happy with those tax arrangements, or lack of, carrying on as they are.

Nobody should be put off by the Made in Mexico label these days. I've got the Deluxe Special bass and 2 MIM Telecasters that are all, as far as I'm concerned, faultless. There' no real build quality difference between US and Mexican Fenders as far as I can tell. The US Fenders tend to use more expensive electronics and hardware and may feature prettier pieces of wood on natural/sunburst finishes or on necks and fretboards but other than that I reckon in terms of how well the instruments are put together most people would struggle to point out any way in which the US Fender is 'better' built than the Mexican.

I've got a 2016 Deluxe Special, which, as far as I know is the same spec. Jazz profile neck, active/ passive switching, 3 band EQ, it's a great instrument. It's been my first choice bass for most things since I got it.

One of the best lives bands I've ever seen. When they're not jumping around the stage rapping, they're also an extreemely competent bass/guitar/drums combo.

I think I'll check it out tonight. I'm a big fan of Dre and the whole G Funk thing. Dr Dre is a fascinating character. He has this rapper persona of being some sort of old school LA gangsta street hood, whereas the reality is that he's been a succesful DJ, producer and composer since the age of 19 before forging a name as rapper , initially in an almost Ringo-with-the-beatles type role with NWA where they just gave him the occasional relatively light hearted track to front on top of his DJ/producer duties. Since then he's gone on to become one of the most succesful rappers ever in his own right, produced and composed on a shedload of hit records for other people and forged a billion dollar business empire.

I genuinely think that it's one of the best looking basses out there. The aesthetics just work. It really shouldn't look so much better than the near identically configured and coloured Fender, but it does. I don't need another active PJ, but if I did...

Aerodyne?

It was a commercially available product, I think a couple of companies made something similar. Edit. Here you go https://www.shapeways.com/product/S9UMXUFE7/thumbrail-fits-fender-jazz-70-s-geddy-lee

Sorry, double post.

Sorry double post.

I've got a jazz and a precision but find I use my PJ (Precision Jazz in deference to the OP) the most. Best of all possible worlds.

I'm not so sure about the hollow bodies or the melted teles, but the rest of them are some of the most aesthetically pleasing gguitars I've seen in a long time. You'd definitely need a silver jumpsuit to complete the look though.