Doctor J

IBAN bank transfer or cash. I would never accept Paypal when there is going to be no shipping receipt.

I bought a 1985 Japanese one for €300 a few years ago. It had a bit of damage and had been up for a while with no takers. The asking price of a lot of instruments has multiplied over the last couple of years. Asking prices are getting stupid, it’s up to buyers not to entertain them. The 1100S is a very nice instrument, all the same, with a quality level which puts many of its US made peers to shame.

I admire the execution but I have never needed to switch from fretless to fretted, and vice versa, in such time as to justify paying 5 grand for it. It reminds me a little of the Born To Rock guitar Piggy played before his untimely demise.

I enjoyed that. It’s nice to hear the guitars for a change.

I use them for regular playing, for solid lines of quarter notes, eighths and sixteenths, etc. I watched the Billy Sheehan video (the one where he plays the pink Yamaha) back in the day and, while most of the flashy stuff didn’t resonate with me, getting the right hand technique together that way made a lot of sense.

I generally go ring, middle, index, ring, middle, index, etc It took a while to get used to but now I don't have to think about it.

They're certainly the same pics in both auctions.

Geezer Butler?

Between them, Bloodstock and Wacken they have enough great archive footage to keep us going for a long time 🙂

You make me look rational and, for that, I thank you 😁

Wayne Shorter, you have the floor...

Of course it's possible, but try to understand why you feel the need to justify it to yourself one way or the other.

Because it wasn’t a 5 string Stingray? I had to sell a load of gear to cover legal costs after separating with the missus a few years ago. Everything I had sold previously was by choice but, with these, I needed to raise cash fast and would have preferred to keep them. I particularly miss: 1980 L1000 Late 90’s battered Stingray, it had been used to smash open a safe but such a nice player Bacchus Woodline P, I think someone here has it now PRS EB, such a very nice bass

“PLAY HAMMER SMASHED FAAAAAACE!!!” Yeah, don’t miss that at all 😂

92 was released in 83 😉

Yeah. They should have spent a bit more time where the scratchplate meets the neck pickup. That just doesn’t work. It looks poor.

For sure. I suspect there are also those who have no idea what they actually want from an instrument, but just feel the need to buy something, as we frequently see so many bizarre and different pairings in the “What should I get?” threads. I’d say a lot of these get moved on too.

He's a great player with more interesting basslines to his credit than most. I saw them quite a few times in the 90's and they were always great fun live.

From genius...

I believe ABBA also frequently double tracked drums, particularly for choruses.

Sweet.

The cuts into the waist are deeper too.