NikNik

I am very suspicious of Ebay now, after an horrendous lost/returned mail episode. A firm sent me a non-ebay paypal invoice. I duly paid, noting all my details were correct. There was no browser auto-fill going on. A week or so later, no item. Contacted the firm who said item sent over a week ago......to a click and collect outlet!! After much analyses and proving points on both sides, I headed to the outlet, only to find that they had rejected the item due to no Ebay collection code. Contacted paypal. It took a week to sort but it transpired - and this came from a UK paypal rep's mouth - that ebay had somehow managed to change my preferred address to a non-paypal-verified address. Even when I went into my Ebay and paypal accounts, only my home address came up. The rep said he had flagged numerous occasions of this happening and it's not been acted upon. Slightly off topic but note this as another Ebay red flag.

Chromakey was a big thing back then. It's still around but now just called 'Key'. Shocking filming. You'd get your jotters for that today! Rory's version of Bullfrog Blues was one of the first songs I played in a band as a kid.

Yeh, I'd wager that's an authentic '62 RI Jazz neck. The gears are reverse gear, too.

I dunno. That neck looks like it could be off a '62 RI Jazz......

It's almost worthy of He Who Shall Not Be Named!

what the actual??

I think he just posts that stinky poo for a laugh. He must have money to burn to buy in those junkers. That Jazz that's been floating about here with the slab of mantlepiece mahogany inserted into it needs to go to his shop!

Indeed! No danger it is. Well, not for me, anyway. I run .056 bottom E on my Lowdens for Drop D tuning but I could never handle that gauge, never mind a .060, on a Strat or Tele. A .060 is close to the D string on my basses!! 😃

Dear grief - .016 - .060 strings? .060???

Skank, Thanks for that. I was puzzled by the absence of the reverb tank in the photo you posted then had a laugh when I clicked on the link. Great idea!

America.... makes me grateful for our NHS. May they never get their greedy hands on it.

Ssw that last night on TDPRI. The man was a legend. Didnt he run .013s on his Strats?

Yes, indeed. Switzerland is not a well-off country for nothing.

Shhh.....you'll alert David Icke!!

Ahhh.....V??

Son Ben was meant to have taken over last year but I cannot imagine a maniac such as John Hall ever retiring! He probably released the reins so he could spend more time hunting down fakers for sale. Cnut.

Square heel, too.

What's that for the top horn strap button? An old cupboard knob??

Gimme the WEM t-shirt.

I can't listen to music through headphones - esp in-ears - any longer as a late night/early morning YouTube Rammstein session left me with augmented tinnitus for a few days afterwards. It receded a little bit but it's definitely a tad louder than it ever was. Keeping my ears clear of wax helps mitigate it.

Would be cool to see it if poss.

I bought mine early 1980, IIRC. He also sold Riverhead basses/guitars and had some of the then new Guild B301 and 302 basses.

Got a photo of the bass?

After the missing 335, I always put on secondary send and return addresses. For a short while, in the mid '90s, I was a courier. The couriers themselves are (usually) not the problem but the handlers who sort the deliveries that of the trunk artics at night. They can be as bad as airport baggage handlers and that's where most of the damage occurs.

Let's keep it going..... I also have a feeling that my B100 had lost its brass headstock inlay, but I can't be sure. I do remember it had an inch long scratch on the upper horn! Find it for me, bass sleuths!!