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Prices at the moment are really good on some used ones - saw a 2011 4003 on E-bay the other week - BIN for £1100. Went quite swiftly...!

Typical! Din't they consider an anally-retentive bassist would wounder about such things 39 years after they recorded it?

Listening to this over the weekend - great album. Obviously some of the bass is acoustic, with Miroslav Vitous - but the electric stuff was with Andrew White. On the sleeve he is listed as 'Fender Bass' - sounds a bit P-bass to me, as it's quite a deep tone - but does anyone know for sure what he played on it? I l really like his sound!

You can buy one from the USA on E-bay for £680....not quite sure how that works with import taxes (think it's about £700 shipped). Still £300 cheaper than the nearest UK stockist....can't see the extras topping that?

A year or so ago, you couldn't move for Roadworns. Everywhere had them...shops, Ebay....but now nowhere seems to have them at the moment. There's the odd one around, but I've been looking for a Red Jazz for a bit, really hard to find. Even the places that don't have them list the price at nearly £1100!!! All the regular stockists are out, and have been for a while. They're listed on the Fender site, so seemingly haven't been discontinued. That's why I'm looking for used - crazy prices....now virtually the same as a MIA without a case!

Cool - already have TOD - what a shame they didn't continue any further, I love John Mclauglin and Tony Williams. I keep seeing a download of Jaco with Albert Mangelsdorff and Alphonse Mouzon - Trilogue? Sounds interesting. Had a flick through the Brian Melvin 'Nightfood' album on Amazon - doesn't sound great to me - bit like a Sade backing track!

I'm in two bands - one originals, one covers. I've voted for 'originals' as that's my musical output I suppose as they're all my own parts. But the covers band is busier and we get together more....can I vote twice???

Looks like every bassist who's ever had a record out is 'underrated' by the look (and length) of this thread!

I was drumming in a band some years back, and the bassist (who was a real font of knowledge as it turned out about band stuff) said to me - 'I never join a band with keys. If you've got keys, you don't need me' was his thing. You know what, I played with a keyboard player once, and since then, I've lived by his words of wisdom!

Just flicked through a bit of the Mike Stern album on the 'net - sounds a bit 80's for me! Then again, how could you beat the 'WOM' record - amazing.

Big +1 from me as well, got a newer J and P. You could buy the 2011's Fender very recently from Thomann for about £820 - I posted it on here - and promptly bought my Jazz! Just checked now and the J's seem to have gone, but there is a P for £877 - American Standard, not the cheaper special.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1349270510' post='1824044'] David Margen from Santana. [/quote] A big +1 on this! I can't find much about him - but love his Santana band work, and during same period on Carlos' solo stuff. I he is on 'Oneness' (great record) and parts of 'The Swing Of Delight' (brilliant as well). Whist on a Santana vibe, I'd throw in Doug Rauch - I can listen to the live triple 'Lotus' (yes, triple) album all day - mesmerizing music, and Doug is just on fire.

Good post - I'm in total agreement - drives me batty as well!

Both my Fenders (J+P) are MIA. I've had the MIM's of both in the past - nice basses, but TBH, the MIA's are in a different league - both in feel, but more importantly, in tone. But a big +1 on the above mention of the Classic MIM series - seriously nice basses, and much closer to the MIA's than the 'standard' MIM's.

+1 on Martin Sims. I'm in a lucky position of being about 10/15 minutes drive away from him as well! Good place to go for general work too - I've had some set-ups there. Nice to see his wall of basses - such as the models made for Leo Lyons and Norman Watt-Roy. Great stuff!

Great purchase - congrats! I had the black one for a while - kinda wish I'd kept it - really lovely tone, and quite different from the modern MIA.

Cool - will check those out! Is there an issue with the post-Word Of Mouth recordings? Appreciate they're not 'official' releases - is the issue with the quality of the recording, or did Jaco go off the boil performance-wise? Wouldn't blame him after reading where he was during the later years.....

Really on a Jaco tip at the mo - from solo, Weather Report, Joni..... Having really enjoyed the book, it led me to iTunes where there's a whole load of 'other' recordings - some Brian Melvin stuff, PDB, etc. Can anybody suggest any of these to go for/avoid? Being that they're not the main discography stuff, not sure where to go on this..... All ideas welcome!

I've owned the Markbass 121 and New York cab for about 3 years now - best stuff I ever bought. Gigged with it loads and loads, recorded, transported.....excellent products which I carry out together! Volume-wise, with 3/4/5 pieces, never had to crank much above a quarter/between quarter and half. Really good sound. Also, I got 2 custom covers made from here - [url="http://www.amplifiercoversonline.com/zencart/index.php"]http://www.amplifiercoversonline.com/zencart/index.php[/url] Had mine in black with yellow piping to match the amp and cab! Once again, excellent product which will protect your pride and joy!

Hope it doesn't appear in 'For Sale' soon!! Make sure to keep this one!!

After my recent Jaco post, I bought the book and can't put it down.....getting into the latter third now...what a terrible, sad story....such a waste. How anyone can live like he did with the drink, drugs....compared to how he started out avoiding all the rubbish.

[quote name='JMT3781' timestamp='1347725011' post='1804378'] You aren't getting worse mate, as you get more experienced you're just spotting the areas you want to improve [/quote] +1.