Bassassin

Updating my [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=83076&view=findpost&p=794416"]original post about my prog band [b]Maya29[/b][/url] to say that we've just set up a Facebook page: [url="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maya29/190452804313584"]http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maya29/190452804313584[/url] There are demo versions of all of the songs from the Fifth Sun concept piece (tracks 1-9) on the Band Profile tab - have a listen, let me know what you think & if you approve, click the "Like" button. Ta! Jon.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='1105490' date='Jan 27 2011, 07:58 PM']Here's a new game for this thread. You post an ebay listing, and other readers have to spot the wildly inaccurate "fact" mentioned in the listing. I'll start: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/bass-guitar-westone-thunder-1-/250763623780?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3a62ad3d64"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/bass-guitar-westone-...=item3a62ad3d64[/url][/quote] Plenty of scope here - where do you want me to start? How about: there are at least two different basses in the photos. Hmm. J.

[quote name='indiegrungesound' post='1105228' date='Jan 27 2011, 04:32 PM']AND he used the same type of Steinberger bass as mine too![/quote] That was a Hohner B2A, after he did his back in - I remember he later flogged it on Ebay! J.

[quote name='FlatEric' post='1104709' date='Jan 27 2011, 08:04 AM']Don't know why you are interested, Jon - these are lousy basses, impossible to play, no good live and you would not want one - so if you see another one, please let me know!! Cheers. [/quote] I've heard they're rubbish Eric, I only want one because the name sounds like a prog concept album... Of course, having two of the things cluttering the place up must be unbearable, I'd be doing my charitable duty by taking one off your hands! Anyway, I approve of the way this thread's heading, and it deserves an unidentified Kasuga through-neck, probably early 80s: [attachment=70142:kasuga_03.jpg] [attachment=70143:kasuga_11.jpg] And if anyone spots one of [i]these[/i], in the UK & at a sensible price... J.

Always liked them, bassist was a diehard vintage JapCrap player - Ibby Blazer & Roadster. Only ever saw them once, in a little tent at the first-ever T In The Park. Hopefully they'll see sense/get bored & get back together. Jon.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='1103319' date='Jan 26 2011, 10:56 AM']I'd say this is worth about £350. I made an offer of considerably less, which was turned down within seconds. If anyone is thinking of buying it, hopefully my lowball offer may have prodded the seller a few millimetres towards reality. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260727468767"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=260727468767[/url][/quote] Ross - spotted that last night and didn't bother PMing you because of his eye-watering price. However - [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120656532460"]did you see what he paid for it in December[/url]? No idea why I never spotted that first time around, though. J.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1102556' date='Jan 25 2011, 06:56 PM'][url="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/daveat5/m.html"]Rest of the bits are up now[/url]. Plus a 'Tokai' and a scratchplate with an Ibanez style mudbucker hole in it.[/quote] Well spotted. That plate is off a neck-through Ibby. Wonder what happened to the rest odf it? J.

Just sold a BAII to Howard - and as always it's a pleasure to do business with him. A complete gentleman! Jon.

[quote name='FlatEric' post='1101715' date='Jan 25 2011, 08:04 AM']Mmm, bit of a tease!! Let's see the whole thing, then!! [/quote] Aha - might have guessed that would pique your curiosity, Mr Flat! Very regrettably - not mine, this one turned up on US Ebay a couple of years ago & is only the second example I've seen. In fact it might've been the same one twice. It's a Matsumoku, like the much more common Epi Scroll guitars. Here's the head - featuring the same MIJ Wavy Grover copies that Mat Rick copies have: [attachment=69936:32a1_3.JPG] Well - most of them. I have a late 70s Rosetti catalogue which features the Scroll guitars, but no bass - it's quite possible they were never imported here. Moving along, personally I'd say any thread called "Obscure Vintage Basses" would benefit from some Attila Balogh Odyssey action, know wot I mean, squire? J.

For a thread entitled "Obscure Vintage Basses" this is displaying a singular lack of obscure vintage bass content! I'll give you the Hag, sort of, but no Fender Precision, even one painted SnotBurst, in any sense qualifies as obscure! So, have an Epiphone Scroll to chew on: [attachment=69929:372d_3.JPG] Now go post something [b]interesting![/b] Jon.

[quote name='tauzero' post='1100777' date='Jan 24 2011, 01:49 PM']I imagine I'd be hung drawn and quartered by certain BC members for what I did to my 1970s P - Di Marzio pickup, homebuilt active preamp (with attendant routing under scratchplate) and modified scratchplate with a brass control plate section equivalent to the chrome section of a Jazz.[/quote] Not me. Back in the 70s & 80s, Fenders of this era were largely regarded as guff and were fair game - back then if it wasn't "pre-CBS" it wasn't worth a damn. Got any pics of your masterpiece? J.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1100360' date='Jan 24 2011, 02:12 AM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HONDO-II-BASS-GUITAR-PROJECT-/200568583258?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2eb2d1b45a"]Parted out hondo.[/url][/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=119556"]This one's a much better deal[/url] - and no, it ain't the same one! J.

No hands-on personally, but a few BCers have had them and feedback's generally good. I don't think any of the modern copies are actually bad (although I did play an Indie a few years ago & it felt cheap & shoddy, for the £500 asking price) but none of them are as accurate as the better MIJ examples - pups/hardware are wrong. neck proportions are out - and the Anniversary has too many frets! J.

[quote name='tino' post='1099523' date='Jan 23 2011, 12:16 PM']I feel they were trying to evade copyright and as such these should possibly not be Fakers but a very good bass in their own right,I liked the MB it was a lot more transparent than the similar looking Gibson product....I am actually regretting selling mine in favour of keeping my Maya Telecaster bass......so much so that Im on the hunt for another Ibby,but good unabused examples are thin on the ground of late.... T [/quote] You're never bloody happy are you! Took you ages to sell that (would've had it myself if I'd had the money - or you'd let me have it cheap!) and now you want another one... Fact is with these, they were - as far as I can make out - the first JapCrap Fakers on the market - probably around 1971 - which is why they had the full-width inlays & checked binding, both pre '72 Rickenbacker features. The mudbucker lookalikes (actually single-coils in big cases) were probably just what the factory had available when they tooled up the first production run. Fujigen (who made Ibanez) used Maxon pups in most things and at that point there wouldn't have been any proper Rick copy electronics available - or other hardware, for that matter, in fact the very early Fujigen 4001 copies had massive solid-cast tailpieces, more like the very early Rick ones than the subsequent hollow ones. Anyway, they continued building them like this for about 5 years, but revised the design around 1976 to have "correct" 4001-type pups & small inlays. They still kept the checker binding, though. Ones like this are less common because Ibanez withdrew from selling copies around 1978 so the accurate Ibby Fakers were only around for a year or two. Anyway, you do realise if one of these comes up cheap, you'll have a scrap on your hands! J.