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Its worth £6 just to find out. Not much of a loss if they turn out to be nothing but ropes

Dear cliff ! Outrageous I was climbing trees and throwing sticky berries at peoples windows at that age.

Is it possible that the battery lived in the control panel rather than having its own compartment ? Is there's room for a battery , if so, maybe that's where it lived. Unless of course it was never active in the first place ?

Sounds like you could easily convert it back to active rather than replace the pickups.

For me its Stevie by a short head

I pefer his hat

Speaker size is no barometer for old school low end or any low end for that matter. Neither is it any guide for 10's being tight in the mids

As some one mentioned in this thread a few decades ago, i think James is a qualified cheese farmer and has been for some time. I've seen his guitars in the flesh at my pal Bob Pimm's house, ( RP GUITARS ) as Bob has worked on James' axes

Hilarious - thanks for that.

I've owned 2 classic shapes ( part T-Bird ish some call them ) First one i bought in the early 2000's , single Armstrong pickup, about 1984 ish and passive ( first classics used Bill Lawrence pups ) and paid approx £350-£400 , exact price eludes me cos it was nigh on 20 years ago. Dear cliff the prices have changed !! Also, up to early this year, i owned classic deluxe ii , so it had a fancy Silky Oak top, pair of Armstrong pickups active. £1800. !!! Now sold The circuit on these have a dual filter for each pickup.

No gigging that i can see in the near future, as i quit my band just before we all got imprisoned

I must admit Doc that i preferred the original body finish, but thats subjective, and you've done a great job to bring a fabulous bass back to its glory

One thing i noticed when first playing a fretless , was that if you put your finger on the fret line, it produced a sharp note. This is because your fretting finger is much fatter than the fret line, and therefore, some of your finger is in front and some behind the line. You need to place the edge of your finger upto the line rather than on it. ( see pic ) In addition to that, the further up the neck you fret, you will find that you need to make tiny adjustments to finger position, especially at the dusty end

Thats Marco Minnemann of the Aristocrats ( English chap Guthrie Govan , and American Brian Beller ) and Dream Theatre among many others Amazing drummist Beggs is a trooper, fab bass and all round nice blokey

Fretlines may have been useful or not, but sometimes his fretting hand is way off the lines enough to be a tad sharp or flat, but its hard to hear at that speed. None the less, it was fab playing. I couldnt do that even if i rehearsed my nuts off.

I loved Duran when they first emerged, and even listening to this stuff now brings back some good memories of sharing a giant 4 floored Oxford house with a bunch of musicians back in ye olde 80's I think he's a likeable chap and a decent fatty string pleasant plucker. But FFS - dont film on a poxy mobile...please. You got a few sheckles John. Get a decent camera. Guy managed it