Doctor J

I wonder if Cruz spent time replicating the shonky build quality of your average 70’s Fender, you know, sanding a few extra mm of breathing room into the neck pocket and such?

Or they could just try to make the competition disappear?

Very, very nice.

Nor the JPJ Precision.

The other side of it is the countless number of folks who think they can upload and do what they wish with someone else’s music. Those who show no respect for the work of creative artists, not just for big acts, but for us bottom-dwellers too. For example, I released some music recently, recorded with a mate. Ahead of the full release date, we released one song on youtube and, a couple of days later, another song on bandcamp. A few days later, we released the third and final song on youtube (we do very low tempo stuff so our three songs clock in at just under half an hour 😂 ). The next day, my mate sent me a link to a youtube video asking if I had put it up. I checked the video. It was our three songs in one video, compiled by someone in Poland who had ripped the audio from bandcamp and uploaded our music, ahead of our chosen release date, using the original artwork we paid for, without our permission. It’s small potatoes, I know, but to have someone wrestle what little control you have of how your music is released and presented is a pretty crap feeling and takes a lot of the fun out of what should be an enjoyable event. Checking the guy’s channels, he had more than one, all he did was upload other people’s music from all genres randomly and try to monetise it. Around the same time, we received an email from another guy asking permission to upload it. His channel is also just music he uploads, but he promotes the kind of genre we operate in and he asked first, so we gave permission. To get onto Spotify, itunes, etc, we had to go through a broker service - we chose cdbaby - and also published through them. A few days later, I noticed the licensing information added to the second guy’s video, see below. This was done via the clever algorithms called out in the OP’s video, no doubt. While I think the situations outlined in the OP’s video are extreme and pushing things a bit too far, it should be remembered that there are plenty of people using original music without permission for their own gain. It’s not just The Eagles who won’t miss another ivory backscratcher, but us nobodies, too, who are getting screwed. There is merit to both sides of the arguement. As with everything, some balance is required to find the appropriate solution. We’re not there yet, though.

Alternatively, sell it and have a nice holiday. Japanese Boss pedals command a premium, old and boxed ones even more so. I think the cardboard traps the tone and mixes it with the space-time mojo and then they sound better than the same pedal not old and boxed. There is a hipster somewhere who doesn’t know he needs this in his life yet. To ebay with you!

Humans need to disappear.

I saw these fellas in Hamburg last year, most enjoyable racket.

I bought this DOD FX 59 “Thrash Master” sometime in 1990, I think. It’s a terrible sounding thing on a guitar, for which it was designed. On a bass, however, the copious amount of low frequencies give a thick and meaty distortion which could level a village in the wrong hands.

Nasty Gibson were seemingly threatening shops which stocked Deans with legal action prior to them filing a suit against Dean themselves. That'll win them friends. https://guitar.com/news/dean-seeks-trademark-cancellation-against-gibson-alleges-dealer-interference/

You’d need a medium now.

I keep mine in the filter of the washing machine.

A couple of weeks ago I saw an old SR1000E. The item description, however, read... so, emboldened - as I do enjoy fixing up fixer-uppers - by Dutch courage and bad advice, clicked Buy It Now, drifted back into tipsy reverie and promptly forgot about it until it arrived in the post a few days later. Thankfully, I was able to see the source of the electronic woe within a couple of seconds, fixed in a couple of minutes, and the truss rod was a little stiff but quite functional, nothing which couldn’t be solved by a clean and lube of the nut and bolt. It needed a thorough decontamination from the biosludge which coated every square cm, but it’s working fully, the neck is straight as an arrow, it sets up nicely and sounds like a beast. It makes a great sibling for my same-year SR800 which came off the line 141 units earlier. I have some new straplocks on the way and that’ll be one of the best mistakes I ever made.

“Gig earnings”? What are these things of which you speak?

Yep. If you can’t dig in on a Precision, it’s the setup not the instrument itself.

Don’t even reply. It’s a well known scam. This person is a criminal trying to steal from you. You don’t need to be polite or explain anything. Just block them and don’t waste any more of your time on them.

If you really think you’re in a position to pontificate on worker exploitation while paricipating in a society getting fat on what is little more than the slave labour of others, then “oh dear” indeed. That must be a very high horse! Not advocating it here while paying to sustain it there is, of course, most noble and not in any way hypocritical. Well done you! 😂

Nice try 😂

His son is in Texas now? He used to live in Nigeria.

If you didn’t type that on an electronic device made in an Asian sweat shop where worker’s rights are essentially non-existant, well done you!

I know what you mean. I find subtractive eq’ing to work best on the 800. It’s not overloaded with mids, that’s for sure. There’s a bit of work to get through before I get to hear the 1000. It’s a very different animal, both woods and electronics are quite disparate. I’m expecting that to translate to what cones out of the speakers. They’re such a comfortable design though. I started playing in 1989, it’s incredible to think of them being cutting edge then and how the world of bass looked 30 years before that.

I saw them at Bloodstock a few years ago, he’s not shy. In football terminology, he leaves it all out on the pitch 🙂

I drunkenly bought this 89 SR1000E “as is” on ebay. The seller mentioned a stuck truss rod and dead preamp. Shipping was free, though, which was nice as the seller is in Japan. It’s a nice counterpart for my 89 SR800LE but it’s going to need a lot of work and a rather thorough clean. I do love old SRs though.

I bought an “as is” 89 SR1000 over the weekend with (potentially) a borked truss rod and blown preamp... from Japan. I think it was the free shipping which pushed me to do it. That and the bottle of wine. Hey, nobody forced me to drink it, so it’s all on me. If you buy it, pay for it and you and the seller get on with your lives. Very simple. I’d love to know what percentage of ebay purchases are fuelled by booze 😂