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This because punks hated them so much without reason, except the fact they were really talented and gifted. The yes Drama album is under rated and one of their best with Trevor Horn singing, playing fretless bass, composing and producing. The 3 wonderful pieces.

@dannybuoy USPS as I wrote.

Don't forget Religion I-II :

P.I.L. debut single was some kind of awful noise. Enjoy.

And another icon of the 80's electro punk scene. Einstürzende Neubauten's Tanz Debil. Specially found for @Barking Spiders

@Happy Jack Ask him to get a quote by USPS, you'll be amazed by the difference. That said, apart from BestBassGear shipping to my wife's sister in France (as it's free over $100 USD and the French customs don't tax the way the Belgian ones do), I don't buy anything anymore in the USA. Period. Oups, bought a second hand Michael Manring / Thonk bass transcriptions book through eBay USA and just received it today without any hassle.

And to me, the best track of the 80's with the best line-up out of their best album, here it goes live and mad. King Crimson's Indiscipline :

Yek yek, not the original version, but an instrumental one, years later, and not even an 80's track as it was released in 79 :

?!?

And I could go on for days, like everyone here, I guess.

Killing Joke with that massive hit :

Talk Talk, of course :

Mick Karn's terrific fretless playing in Japan's I Second That Emotion: And that Pino Palladino sound in Paul Young's Wherever I Lay My Hat :

Very nice !

Neck pickup 100 %, bridge pickup 25 %, tone 25 %, nickel strings and playing on the bridge pickup with a firm strings attack : you should be close. Thanks (that way it's done ).

Almost never use the preamp of my basses. Most of the time when room correction is needed. And my amp is dead flat. That said, mon ami, as the two Jazz Bass pickups have reversed winding and reversed polarity, when they are both used, you get a parallel wired humbucker.

https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/dispannonce.php?annonce=1556286

And was there :

This guy is a heavyweight champion.

For my 50th birthday, all I wanted was a simple meal home with my lovely wife, nothing else, no fancy fair or big fiesta. And it happened just that way : to me, it's the most prized present I ever had. Getting back to your asking, just as some fellow bass players already wrote, if you are into the Wal thing, get yourself a Wal, but as Mick said, you won't have it ready for your birthday unless it's a second hand. Having owned a 4 strings fretless Wal in the 90's (that I sold and bought back twice to finally let it go to a friend who sold it I don't know where, which is a good thing ) and having tried the ACG's, I would say that I prefer the ACG's. The V-shaped neck on the Wal was something really special and the Wal preamp is a bit capricious. That said, now that I will turn 53 this August, I'm thinking of a Zon Hyperbass II or a Leduc U-Basse 6 strings fretless or a Lefay Remington Steele 6 strings (a unique metal fretboard fretless bass), but even if order one of them today, I won't get it for my birthday. And yes I'm a fretless man and proud of it.

This bass was certainly fretted before, has been defretted and the fretboard certainly partly sanded. If there is still enough wood, a sanding until everything has gone is possible, but as it's a fretless it's a high precision job. If you don't feel comfortable with this work, go to your luthier and for around £100 GBP, he would do the job with a lacquered finish, which is mandatory here as it's a maple board.

Do you still own that Zon Hyperbass ?