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For the cost of a pack of new strings and wipe down you'll likely have a very decent Jazz there, assuming the electronics are in a better state than the exterior.

When I looked again at the Reverb link I noticed the seller was in the US, so UK prices still not confirmed. Fingers crossed though. I want that green Tele Bass.

That's actually a fair bit cheaper than I was expecting. Given the current prices on top tier MiM Fenders such as the JMJ Mustang, the Mikey Way Jazz and the Mike Kerr Jag I was expecting these to be £1,200+

There's always something catching my eye. I've got the vanilla stuff covered in terms of Jazzes and Precisions but anything with an unusual pickup position or feature set always gets me thinking that it would give me something a bit different from what I already have. I went down a bit of an Epiphone Rumblekat rabbit hole this afternoon, I'm probably not going to get one but it definitely fits the bill of covering tones my current basses don't really do.

Blimey, just seen the video. It's like something Whitesnake or Poison would have put out in the 80s.

In terms of aesthetics, which is all that maters to me because for my there's no noticeble difference between different fretboard woods, I prefer Indian Laurel over the pau ferro that Fender have been using for the dark boards on their Player range.

I think maybe the 40th anniversary guitars are a little more conspicuous than other models/brands and their comparitively low RRP may mean that it's not economically viable to rebadge or tweak the remaining stock so maybe there's a bit more urgency in running down stock of that particular line. I got the impression from other articles on the same subject that Fender is intending to eventually release the overstock to the market while cutting factory production until that stock is gone.

I wondef if the bargain price is anything to do with this. https://www.musicradar.com/news/fender-100-million-dollars-sales-cancelled-post-pandemic The article is about Fender but I wonder if they made too many Squiers as well, after all the 40th anniversary was in 2022 and we're now into the 9th month of 2023.

I'm a big fan of pointy guitars and basses and this is a particularly nice example.

For the Jazz and Precision I'll buy a couple of sets of DR Hi Beams each per year so probably somewhere between £140-£160 a year on roundwounds depending on what price I can find them for It was considerably cheaper than that a few years ago when you could get Hi Beams imported from the US on Amazon for between £20-£30. For me if there's not much point using roundwounds if they've lost their brightness. As for my fretless Sire I bought a set of Labella Jamerson flatwounds at the same time I bought the bass, but 4 years later I've never felt the need to change the flats it arrived with.

Weird video. OK the volume issue on the G String is disapointing but as far as I'm concerned he completely undermines his complaints about the overall tone of the bass because, g string uneven volume thing aside, to me it sounds good every time he plays it, even when he's supposed to be demonstrating how bad it is, and especially good with distortion. Even the G string sounds OK when he's playing on all strings, although obviously it shouldn't be getting louder as he bends it inwards. The tone thing is subjective but the bass sounds more or less like I would have expected an instrument with a big humbucker in the middle position and a 2nd pickup right up against the bridge to sound.

I've been a fan of Trujillo since his Suicidal Tendencies days. On the one hand it's great that he's now got the recognition and financial security that comes with playing with Metallica. On the other hand I suspect he'd be making more interesting music in a wider variety of genres if he wasn't with them.

I believe the cookie consent option thing is an EU law. No idea if it still applies in the UK. I think there's a UK law that websites have to provide certain information regarding their cookie/data use( you should be able to see a link to Basschat's cookie info at the bottom of this page) but that's not quite the same thing.

Just with regards to the bit where you talk about being challenged about being too good for a woman... Years ago I was in a pub pool team, one of our very best players was a young woman, on her day she could beat anyone. There were at least 3 occaisions I personally witnessed during league games against other pub teams when after she'd beaten a male opponent the blokes actually stormed out of the pub and didn't come back. It was like on some level they actually couldn't cope with the concept that a 20 year old woman was a better player than them. Anyhoo the moral of the story is that some people are d1cks and their opinions on what women or anyone else should/shouldn't be capable of can be soundly ridiculed then ignored.

I'm not and never have been a Stones fan beyond liking a fairly limited selection of their greatest hits, but I'll admit to being a bit fascinated that so many bands and artists that could have retired to enjoy a lifestyle most people will never experience years ago instead choose to keep releasing new music and touring. At this point it's clearly not about the money and they must know that most of their audience only really wants to hear the 'classics' live so I can only assume that they still have a need to satisfy their creative drive.

Thats a cracker. The black works great with the tort pick guard.

I suspect a lot of us who have experienced depressive illness will find those lines quite familiar. I certainly do.

It seems like an odd decision to open a bricks and mortar shop in the current UK economic climate. Especially as Gibson guitars, even the so called 'limited run' Custom Shop and Murphy Lab stuff are widely available from most large UK guitar retailers. My guess, given the location is that it's aimed as much at wealthy tourists visiting the UK as it is at UK resident consumers.

I know a bit more about the guitar versions as used on the Deluxe and Thinline Teles in the 70s than I do about the bass version. What made the Wide Range pickups unique was the use of CuNiFe magnets rather than the alnico usually found in Gibson PAF type humbuckers. From a guitar point of view although they've since developed a bit of a cult following they weren't actually very popular at the time because they were lower output than their Gibson counterparts. Until very recently Fender only used the CuNiFe pickups from 1971 to 1979. After that although they kept the Wide Range humbucker name and split pole piece pickup cover styling they were actually using alnico Gibson PAF style magnets in their humbuckers. In the last couple of years Fender have again started making Deluxe and Thineline Teles with CuNiFe magnets and those pickups are also available as an aftermarket part. At the moment there's no Fender branded bass version, but, when the Vintera ii series leaked a few weeks ago there was a Telebass with a neck humbucker in the new range so it's just possible that a new Fender Wide Range CuNiFe bass humbucker may be on the way. I have had a quick google search and I couldn't find any other pickup manufacturers that are making a CuNiFe Fender style bass humbucker, but that's not to say that there are none out there. Good luck with the search and fingers crossed for a Fender reissue inline with the recent Wide Range guitar pups.

It's not perfect but it's a massive improvement on the previous site, which was borderline unusable.

I like the aesthetics of the one on right but I'd guess that a single pickup right up against the bridge is going to sound pretty thin. More so than, say, the back pickup on a Jazz which would typically be further towards the neck. Happy to be proved wrong.

A guitarist friend of mine who was at Glasgow uni in the mid 90s got a tip off that Prince was doing one of his legendary post gig gigs at The Garage. He wasn't much of a fan at the time but he went along with some feiends who were and managed to get in. To this day he says it's the best gig he's ever seen in his life. No complicated lighting, no pyrotechnics, no dancers, just Prince fronting a slimmed down version of his touring band on a small club stage letting the songs speak for themselves.

I'm not famliar with her later work but this is a cracking song.

Personàlly I'm a big fan of the competition stripe on the Mustang. It's distinctive and , at this point, it's part of the Mustang's DNA. That said I wouldn't want it on a Jazz or a Precision, but on a Mustang , to me anyway, it just looks right.

I'd be suprised if they were less than £1200, which would make them more expensive than the US made American Performer range, but then some of the current Mex made signature models are even more than that.