Terry M.

All my basses get female names but I generally keep quiet about it. Would never mention that in a sales ad for example. My guitarist friend also give his axes female names 🤭

What I'm enjoying about this thread is learning how many gripes that I didn't even know that I had until someone else mentioned it 😄

I asked hypothetically. Would feelings about them be the same if he had included them. We'll obviously never know.

Can I assume Leo didn't put blocks on a Precision from inception to selling up in 1965? But what if he did...

It's other CUSTOMERS trying to talk to me in guitar stores I find a tad annoying 😂

White pickguards. Hofner violin basses. Classified ads that lead with Fender Squier instead of Squier by Fender. Passive pickups being called active ones just because the bass has a preamp installed. That massive swelling on the Fender headstock. I have a Fender. Bartolini pickups. It bothers me that they turn up on some REALLY nice basses. The price of 70s Fenders compared to eye-witness reports of how awful a lot of them were when new. Ernie Ball will NOT give Stingray 5 customers 19mm bridge string spacing.

I find screws in basses that aren't actually screwing anything down weird so they go in a cupboard. I've never lost one when time to sell the bass. I find the covers (for me) serve no practical use despite liking the aesthetics. I even ordered an official Fender Marcus Miller Jazz Bass V chrome cover all the way from Holland once just to install it and take it off within weeks and hide in the cupboard with the screws.

I've had this album a few years now. https://brotherly-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/analects

I really appreciate this post @Linus27. Sometimes in the posts on here I come across instances where I'm tempted to leave Basschat but it's posts like this that keep me sticking around ☺️ Ah I just read he was a part of Brand X with Phil Collins.I wasn't aware even though I've heard and enjoyed several of their tracks.

Ah is that right? I only heard of John Giblin after he passed and some of his gear ended up in The Gallery. I tried one of his old Lakland 5 strings. Apparently he was quite the tinkerer.

One of my early introductions to him. Seen him live a good few times too.

Apparently no good for jazz basses (according to two reviews on Amazon) shame if that's the case.

Wow that's really got my interest. Who is the manufacturer please?

He'd only been playing bass for a year when I Want You Back was recorded? Wow!! That's almost given me a complex.I know how I sounded after a year in and it wasn't like that 😄

It's the default in most guitar stores and I'm okay with it but I still understand what you mean. Ignore my last post then 😅

I couldn't agree more with this. I wonder how this "play bass A for this genre and bass B for that genre" started. @Lozz196 echoed this with saying you can play any music on any bass,something I've been saying since I picked the instrument up.

Very nearly bought two of these from Bass Direct. Ruach branded.

This IS an example of the manufacturer getting it wrong,despite the OP checking with them they still haven't corrected it yet. I've seen something similar on the Squier website earlier this year (listing a bass as volume/volume when the example in my hand was clearly master volume/pan) Mistakes clearly happen but I'm not expecting the makers themselves to make such basic errors I guess.

Thanks for getting back about this. They still haven't corrected the error on their website though.

I would personally hope and pray the grain looks nice so it can sport a natural finish. Failing that I would opt for butterscotch with that maple neck natural headstock and black pickguard.

I personally know musicians that literally won't even noodle for 5 minutes on a non Fender product. The OP didn't seem fussed at all when I asked,in fact he just calmly answered and everybody just moved on but you are entitled to your opinion. He only listed Fender type products in his original post.

Is this the same bass you're now selling in the classifieds with a different pickguard? Oh I've just seen it's a spare white pickguard on the same bass.