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Focus on enjoying yourself. Once you get through the fear, you’ll have a great time. Adrenaline is your friend (booze isn’t!) Look at the crowd not the floor and make eye contact with your bandmates too. Remember that the music is part of a show, but stage presence, attitude and enjoyment are part of it too! If you’re worried about stage time, then grab your bass and head to a few jam sessions. We’ve all been stuck inside for so long, anyone in the audience wants a great time and you’re the lucky band that will provide it. Should be a brilliant night...

If they’re VAT registered they’re also only receiving around £5850 for each £7000 instrument. These guys do it because they love it, not to get hugely rich.

Still don’t get it.

There were two steel beams! Previous owners hadn’t done it properly and the engineer and builders kept finding more and more problems. Think I slimmed the collection down to a single bass at that point.

I had to sell it in the end to pay for a loft conversion!

I paid £3,750 for a 63’ in 2015 too. All original.

I’ve done exactly the same thing. I’ve even let the buyer choose the case they want, too.

I’ve spent the best part of 10 minutes setting this up and it’s a beauty.

I’ve recently bought two TRBs and they are exceptional instruments

I was merely offering an explanation. I’d prefer to stick my precious parts on a vice than play in a wedding band so I can provide no insights into the world. Personally, if you don’t know how to use effects, don’t use them.

A lot of songs have synth bass now. Guess it could be that?

This worked for my cabinet... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Briwax-FILLER-STICKS-MEDIUM-SHADES/dp/B010ATLYTQ/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=wax+sticks+wood+repair&qid=1617623707&sr=8-5

I did this on an oak cabinet and the repair is imperceptible. Truly great stuff!

Looks like my old Kay bass. Weighed about 5.5kg

What’s even worse is that the guy sells guitars and gear. It got I check his previous listings he obviously knows what he’s doing, so this is a blatant attempt to defraud which is such a shame. Why bother disappointing someone for a few hundred quid...?

I can see your predicament. Those RA basses aren’t unique, but pretty close of you’ve modified them. Personally, I have insurance but I use a £300 bass for stuff like open mics or jazz sessions. It’s just easier if I enjoy a drink or whatever.

Monster players but god I hate that sort of late 70s/80s smooth jazz. All so horrendously over produced and oddly soulless.

I’m not sure that’s entirely true. There will be a ceiling price for these and while the market is hot at the moment, it’s highly volatile. Fender basses aren’t particularly rare (if you have the cash, you could find pretty much anything you wanted on the market) but collecting older instruments is fashionable, hence the rapid rise. Again, we’re knot talking about handcrafted artisan products here. These instruments don’t sound much better than modern versions, it’s nostalgia and that’s seductive to those who remember the 50s - 70s but preposterous to those who didn’t. Take Wals as an example. Expensive in the 80s, cheap as chips on the 90s and 00s, now commanding quite frankly ludicrous sums. Anyone paying £6k for a Wal and imagining it’ll maintain and increase its value is possibly a little deluded. My point is, if you’ve got the cash and you want to spend it, do so. Just don’t imagine it’ll increase in value forever. Oh, and if you use it you’ll have to deal with worn down frets, dodgy pots, weak pickups and scratchy jack sockets. make any changes and kiss goodbye to your 100% originality! Personally, my 60s fenders stay in their cases. I should probably sell them, but they have intrinsic value to me.

Guitars are speculative investments with little intrinsic value and easily replicability. There’s no reason why the should continue to increase in value, and like many of these things, once the core demographic shuffles off (men of a certain age who grew up in the 50s, 60s and 70s) the demand is likely to fall. By all means spend your cash on what you like, but the vintage guitar market is as fragile as any other market out there.

And all the cash went to charity, too. Legend!

No, just well made. They’re cheap collectibles. Many happy owners will tell you they’re worth a grand (personally, I’ve never got it).