Bassfinger

I recently turned down a £2k offer im a '69 precision, completely original aside from the strings and a fair bit of patina.

Yours is unlikely to be in worse condition than mine and has the original case, so id say perhaps 3 or more gees.

Me.  

By day I'm  a cardigan wearing, pipe smoking retiree.

On stage im a 6'5", podgy, bald, Geddy Lee wannabe who struts about like John Travolta in Night Fever. It's exhausting!

I've gone the other way of late, back to 4 string for live playing and going up a bit for the drop notes. Can never really make up my mind if I like 5 or not.

My new christmas song, "Putting Up the Tree on 1st September", is going to make me minted. 

"Taking the Presents Back To Marks For a Refund on Boxing Day" will be the surprise summer hit that sets me up for life.

Tascam GB10. Headphones. Lead. Batteries. Sorted.

4 hours ago, Grimalkin said:

They wrote great melodies, lots of them. Two great writers competing, that was the chemistry of it. 

Cough. Three. Cough.

5 hours ago, mowf said:

Perhaps not a surprise that a guest at a horse riding event has got that kind of cash… I doubt you’d have had an offer like that if you’d been playing to a bunch of pigeon fanciers.

Yes, we do 2 or 3 gigs a year at different events for this lot and they pay very, very well indeed.

Some or all of them are on the tattoos thread.

Ive a 1969 precision, which I bought two years ago as it was a not a particularly exciting year for production and asking prices weren't  up to much. Fortunately its a fine instrument in its own right and plays nicely, so I got a 'vintage'bass thst looks the part yet which is still  auite useable.

A few weeks ago we did a big gig for a group of equestrian customers (alas, none were in jodphurs on the night) and one of the guests, a bass player himself, offered me exactly 2.5 times what Id paid for it.  I don't need the cash and don't want to sell, but was a little taken aback at the profit that could be made by folk that have the knack of divining market trends in advance.

They're my favourite band to the extend that i even have a Beatles tattoo.

Thats not to say every song they did was sublime, as they did some pretty mediocre stuff too. However, to me personally their sense of musicality, lyrics, experimentation, musicianship, and George Martin's genius production skills combine to hit that sweet spot in my soul.

And before anyone asks, and they inevitably do when they discover I'm a Bealtes fan, George Harrison is my favourite. I have a tattoo of him as well.

If other folk don't like them then that's their business, concerns me not.

Harley Benton - stop being so bleeding awesome. Its annoying, and hard on my wallet.

We're thinking of trying to bullpois our way onto Britons Garotte Talent as 'The Lockdown Dads'.  Even if we didn't get very far the notoriety would bring in more shekels appearing on This Morning and the like as it would from selling our recorded music.

An another rip off merchant.

Ron Mael of Sparks...

Charlie Chaplin...

Aye, Mr Greek I've long learned to look closely at the individual instrument rather than rely on any notional hierarchy of quality based upon the lettering. The inconsistency is utterly bizarre.

Fenders are alright, no more or less than any other brand to me.  I currently have two on the fleet, but have had several others over the years and finally settled on a couple that I really liked.

Most of the criticism could be aimed at numerous other brands and models, so little point ticking them off here. Suffice to say if you try one and like it then great then get one, you dont then dont.  They're often grestmin their own wsy, but so are countless other models.

Fender - sort out the consistency of your QC. Its a joke that a top line MIA can have more flaws and gaps than some of the better MIMs, and even more unfathomable that the situation can be reversed for the next randomly selected example of each.  Unless you go to a shop and eyeball each instrument individually you never know what you're getting, and in this long distance internet biying age thats a significant ballache. Sort it out!

Ive a bit of a history of cultivating strange facial hair for gigs. Foot long goatee, big droopy gunfighter moustage, and my current near near ZZTop look, but I have been forbidden on pain of divorce to even think about friendly mutton chops.

Just acquired one of these myself, albeit in the slightly-darker-than-surf-green-green.  Just fell in love with the fell of the neck. Bought it in a Thursday, re-strung it in a Friday, gigged it Saturday. Love it.

I wonder what old farts like me who have no mobile phone are expected to do. Take my laptop with me, perhaps?

Dunno about bassists, but read a piece recently about Steve Hackett who got stranded abroad during covid.  He had no gear available so his guitar tech went about bought 3 or 4 Squier strats.

Hackett was apparently blown away with how nicely they played, even more so after a change of electrics, strings and setup.  Mr Guitar Tech offered to remove the Squier logo and replace it with a more socially acceptable one but Hackett had him leave it. "Its nothing to be ashamed of!"

Well, just like me these days!

Amd the obligatory..

And...

Did someone say stickers?

Heres my lookalike.

Although it must be said thqt he has more hair atop his head than I do.