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  1. gareth
    7lbs is amazing
  2. gareth
    Chris Squire could play yours I no disgrace on a chinease squire affinity jazz bass and it would still sound great - its I the hands
  3. gareth
    [quote name='chrisanthony1211' timestamp='1421318185' post='2659704'] I keep coming back to this bass, it's lovely...... [/quote]ok let me tell you what is special about these basses, they are usually light 7.5 to 8lbs, the body has wonderful curves with properly finished contours versus say post 71precisions which often have angular/squarish contours, I could go on!
  4. gareth
    [quote name='goingdownslow' timestamp='1420909949' post='2654927'] In 1973 I bought a Gibson EB3 from a local music shop that had not been in business long. He never had one in stock so rang Selmer, who sent one up the next day on which I paid for the delivery. The bass cost me £240. My brother who worked in the shop later showed me the invoice which was for £144. Not a bad profit for a phone call. Not long after the shop owner was driving around in a Rolls Royce. [/quote] This is a very important point My view is that retail music businesses were once very profitable businesses. I emphasise were Here in Southend essex I can think of several examples - honky Tonk music, monkey business music and tim gentle music - all those guys went on to be very rich - the most recent example would be pmt Pmt set up some 20 years ago, probably bought the freeholds of their shops and were around enough years before the internet to make some serious money which has probably cushioned them in the current trading enviroment
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    [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1420799982' post='2653481'] It seems you don't get the costs and overhead argument. Online sellers have none of the fixed expenses so there is no way for a shop to beat the prices offered by online sellers. All a shop can do to stay in business is to reinvent the company as an online seller and use the shop as a loss leading front for it's online business. In the 60's a Fender would cost you an average of 3 to 4 months wages, so good gear has never been cheaper. [/quote] I agree It must be a miserable business trying to run a retail music equipment shop.
  6. gareth
    Sold for £750
  7. gareth
    [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1420884091' post='2654465'] I've a feeling I might be wrong here... but didn't the export JV come either with the single ply white or the tort, the white normally on the '57 and the tort on the '62? was there a 3 ply white option too? [/quote] WBA guard with fiesta was a classic 60s/shadows bass with rosewood board
  8. gareth
    luke I think that with the rosewood board this is a 62 reissue - the 57 reissue would have a maple neck - and as such a three ply pickguard would be correct
  9. gareth
    glad to see our friends on the other side of the pond appreciate these basses
  10. gareth
    beautiful bass glws
  11. gareth
    oh.......that 66 jazz bass yes fantastic bass and honest reliable seller - highly recommended GLWS
  12. gareth
    i feel a trip to Malaga coming on where do you get these wonderful basses from?
  13. gareth
    yes got a musicmaster made in china all ok
  14. gareth
    is it the same in all settings - passive/active parallel/series normal/high active?
  15. gareth
    MIM Classic Series ................................................that's all
  16. gareth
    I had a V6 Trully great amp But t developed a strange helicopter type noise I got it fixed by the guy that designed them
  17. gareth
    mumford and sons
  18. gareth
    thanks si could you also put up photos of neck off but, etc
  19. gareth
    Pictures tomorrow (saturday) which Saturday?
  20. gareth
    cheers Geoff - just makes it easier to see the photos
  21. gareth
    [URL=http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/Geoff_Turner/media/Musicman%20Stingray%20Bass%201980/2_zps30d7b724.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b603/Geoff_Turner/Musicman%20Stingray%20Bass%201980/2_zps30d7b724.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL=http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/Geoff_Turner/media/Musicman%20Stingray%20Bass%201980/8_zps6d6df6f1.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b603/Geoff_Turner/Musicman%20Stingray%20Bass%201980/8_zps6d6df6f1.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL=http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/Geoff_Turner/media/Musicman%20Stingray%20Bass%201980/7_zpsd7b4334c.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b603/Geoff_Turner/Musicman%20Stingray%20Bass%201980/7_zpsd7b4334c.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL=http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/Geoff_Turner/media/Musicman%20Stingray%20Bass%201980/6_zps41fcdcc2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b603/Geoff_Turner/Musicman%20Stingray%20Bass%201980/6_zps41fcdcc2.jpg[/IMG][/URL] nice bass glws
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  25. gareth
    £300
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