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Very cool - it's actually a relative of the Eko BX series, the exact same bass turns up branded as Camac, I think. As far as I know Brandoni was (maybe still is) an outlet for a lot of the old Recanti-made Eko parts and that'll be the origin of this. If I was still anywhere near Sheerness, I'd be proper tempted by this. Jon.

I had a Gibson Marauder copy with transparent pickups, dead-on copies of the Bill Lawrence originals in the real Gibbo. These are actually potted in clear epoxy - coolest looking guitar pups ever! Jon.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1424429139' post='2696163'] I prefer my spirits draught. [/quote] J.

He's also selling a [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-IRISH-GHOST-IN-BOTTLE-/261758416360"]ghost in a bottle[/url]. Just £430 to you. Imagine what a full-size ghost must cost. J.

So - we've managed to get 2 full pages from the opinion of some bloke out of a band that split up 6 years ago, about another band which had a couple of hits 9 or 10 years ago. Fingers on the pulse, and balancing skilfully on the ragged, bleeding edge, us lot. J.

[quote name='uk_lefty' timestamp='1424297843' post='2694989'] It even looks wet on the big welts under the bridge. Is it wet? I don't understand!!!??? [/quote] Dinosaur sh!t. J.

For when you really need that "spent 5000 years up a Stegosaurus' bum" look. Amaze. Jon.

The Stranglers, and a local band called The Warm Jets were mostly to blame. Me & a bunch of my punk/new wave-mad schoolmates decided we wanted to start a band after sneaking into a pub (we were 15) & seeing our first-ever live band (the aforementioned Jets). Walking home afterwards, half-deafened and crazed with adrenalin and a sly half of bitter shandy, we formed a band. We all liked The Stranglers, so that's who we were going to sound like. I got bass because no-one else wanted to do it - I honestly have no idea why - but I was proper happy it turned out that way. None of us could play a note, and we never actually tried playing together, but two of us ended up wasting our lives in various other bands. Jon.

It's a lot of money for a modern Aria - I like the finish but not the cheapo bolt-on, scarf-jointed neck. Should be closer to £150, imo. I suppose this is based on the [url="http://www.matsumoku.org/models/ariaproii/catalogs/78_pb1500_slick/78_pb1500_slick.jpg.html"]PB-1500[/url], from the late 70s/early 80s. J.

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1424103120' post='2692637'] Anyone on here wrote a good two hours of original material liked by hundreds of thousands of people!? [/quote] No, obviously not. We're all of us just a washed-up bunch of miserable, embittered. talentless sh!tehawks and deep down we all know it, and the success of the likes of Oasis just highlights our mutual monumental uselessness. It's almost unbearable. [i]Unbearable[/i], I tells ya. Popularity and £££££ are obviously the only yardsticks that actually matter. Oh, and hard drugs & chicks too. J.

I thought the Kaisers were good fun in a one-trick-pony sort of a way, Oasis on the other hand were never more than turgid, derivative, one-dimensional bores, and I found their popularity at the time quite incomprehensible. Noel's good value for money in interviews & never seems to take himself too seriously - I've always though that's because he appreciates that as a musician/writer he's a below-average chancer who just got very, very lucky. Good luck to him, really. Liam on the other hand has always seemed like a nasty, dimwitted little w****** who would've ended up in prison if he'd not been in a band. Not sure which would've been preferable. Jon.

Shouldn't really post this here, but this is the best example of Ibby SR silly-cheapness I've seen in a very, very long time - looks like a 1990 MIJ, Fujigen-built SR1300 or 1500 (not really sure) for a massive £126 BIN: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191504734916"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191504734916[/url] J.

Bit pricey even for a real one! I've always liked these & still have residual GAS - I still kick myself for not grabbing one that was on BC about 5 years back - £100 including hard case... J.

It'll be interesting to see what it goes for, but my gut feeling is that something like this is really more collector's oddity than gigging musical instrument. J.

These don't come up very often, so quite unusual. These disappeared after about 1971, so pretty much pre-date the 70s "copy era". Earliest examples had a strange 2-a-side "jester hat" headstock. As for whether they're any good - never played one myself, and Ibanez quality in the early 70s (or even late 60s) was not what it became towards the end of the decade. That said, I doubt it's complete junk. J.

[quote name='Leon Transaxle' timestamp='1423936913' post='2690624'] That's right. I remember one of the music papers at the time referring to them as 'Elephant holding a Biscuit', or something similar. [/quote] Glad I wasn't just hallucinating again! [quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1423922163' post='2690391'] That was Prince wasnt it?? [/quote] I think he did something similar a few years later, and was subsequently referred to as "The Artist Formerly Named After A Dog", or something. J.

That's a shonky, wonky knockoff of a Vester Argus: Wild Rose Music was an ultra-cheapo Ebay outlet from about 10 years back, other highlights included a green wooden ripoff of a Tokai Talbo. That retailed at about £100 new, as would this thing - someone's having a proper giraffe with the price of this! Jon.

Seller plainly isn't a musician & knows nothing about this bass or any other, save what 25 seconds' Googling has turned up. Shame there aren't better pics, but I'm about 95% sure this isn't a high-end Yamaki build, which you'd associate with the Daion or Joodee brands. It looks cheap - the big black oversprays on the contours say ply, or at best butcher-block. Just a detail, but the MIJ neckplate stamped on the top half usually turns up on low/medium range stuff probably from the Chushin factory, as does the Gibson-type nut. I'd have liked to see a pic of the truss rod adjustment - Yamaki-built Fender copies featured an interesting side-of heel truss system, and I can't see any signs of that here. If it was starting at £50 it might be worth a look. Jon.

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1423871636' post='2690062'] Errr, actually John's own Ned Callan (collateral for dong the ad?) was sold at Christies for £2,200. And that was in 1993. [url="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/john-entwistle-a-ned-callan-solidbody-3613336-details.aspx?intObjectID=3613336"]http://www.christies...bjectID=3613336[/url] [/quote] No pic, and going on Christies' description, not one of these: [quote] A Ned Callan solidbody bass guitar in a sunburst finish; maple neck, 20 fret bound rosewood fingerboard, Schaller machineheads, two pickups, three controls and black pickguard[/quote] More likely a Ned Callan Cody "Nobbly Ned", prob'ly this very one:

[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1423771807' post='2688943'] We know that Mr West is the 'biggest rock star on the planet' because he has been described as such by... errm... himself. [url="http://entertainment.time.com/2013/09/24/kanye-west-im-no-1-rock-star-on-the-planet/"]http://entertainment...-on-the-planet/[/url] [/quote] And he's a god too, apparently. High time someone tested his immortality. Jon.

Weren't Freur originally called a squiggly symbol? In that their name was simply a squiggly symbol, not an actual word/sound? J.

The one for sale is clearly not the one in the Entwistle ad, which is a longscale, like the CMI-branded version I had a few years back. The ludicrously overpriced one for sale is shortscale, check the relative positions of bridge & output etc. Mine was a pretty cool old bass, I really only bought it out of curiosity & because it was cheap. It wasn't any practical use to me, and I sold it to BCer Razze06, who still has it now. Jon.

Slightly more modestly-priced (and specced) SR500: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/254908-ibanez-sr500/"]http://basschat.co.u...8-ibanez-sr500/[/url] J.

I've seen US sellers do this with boutique or uber-rare vintage stuff, but it does seem like overkill for a humble VMJ. Nice bit of quilting on the front of the body, though... Jon.

FWIW I think the reason they lose value so quickly is the fact they're so common/popular. The SR range has been around now since 1987 and available in a mind-boggling range of permutations & variations, so there's no element of scarcity to keep prices high. J.