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Double post…

It’s lost its original pickups and preamp, and had a bit of a respray on the front, but the rest of it’s still there, and for what seems a decent price. Vigier Passion Bass 1986-87

Now sold, apparently, but came across this on Reverb recently. I want one! If it’s real, that is - anyone come across such a thing before? Sandberg Rickenbacker Sondermodel 2003 - Black Custom Shop

https://www.bassic.de/kleinanzeigen/vigier-passion-ii-1988.62867/ Well-played Passion II on bassic.de in a very handsome blue for relative buttons. Should anyone be on the lookout…

For some reason I love that it has EIGHT tremolo springs. Because of course it does.

Google translate strikes again. With apologies if the intended humour has just gone over my head, I’ll defend the seller’s entirely appropriate use of the German word Koffer in this context to mean hard case (as well as its more common meaning of suitcase). Though maybe I shouldn’t be tangling with someone with self-confessedly big hands…

https://www.bassic.de/kleinanzeigen/fender-player-2-jazz-body-mit-player-2-precision-hals.61918/ Came across this in the bassic.de small ads - a jazz body with a precision neck. Now I’ve often come across precisions with jazz necks - people want P thump with a slimmer neck, of course - but never seen this combination before. is this a thing, or just someone selling off the spare parts from a precision body/jazz neck transplant as a complete bass? Google’s translation of the ad below, FYI. ‘Fender Player 2 Jazz Bass Body with Fender Precision Neck . The neck is from a Fender Player 2 Preci and has a saddle width of 41.3 mm. Unfortunately, I no longer have a bag or suitcase to hand in. There is a second pickguard included. Condition is very good would even say almost like new. Has never seen a stage. Had the bass only once in the rehearsal room to test. But jazz sound is unfortunately not for me.’

Yes, what he said 🙂

I may be wrong, but isn’t the amount of silk showing at the tuner not completely dependent on the length of string from bridge (or ferrule if through body) to the tuner? Having more string wound round the tuner will make no difference to that - no?

I previously recounted the tale of my Vigier Excess on here - despite An Post’s best efforts to mess things up, Ishibashi went above and beyond to make sure the bass arrived with me safely. I’d not hesitate to order from them again.

I had one of these (though - probably - not this one: picture borrowed from Gumtree): Like many here, it was the mid-80s and affordable options were many fewer than now - I think I paid £90 for mine second hand from Musical Exchanges in Brum (IIRC). No, it wasn’t a great amp. Not anything like as loud as it looked like it should be (that well-known measure of sound output…), but turned up full and with my Thunder 1A’s preamp set to ‘maximum bass’ it was great for playing the bassline to Peaches. And it had a thing called a parametric EQ, which I didn’t really understand but nonetheless believed to be frightfully clever. Ah, happy days. I’ve no recollection of what happened to it - I don’t remember selling it, but, equally, how does one lose such a thing?

I would love to believe that some studio trickery was employed and that Mr Watt-Roy’s efforts were ‘assisted’. But this video suggests maybe not: Back to the metronome…

Running any sort of physical run-of-the-mill shop, never mind a musical instrument shop, these days seems highly risky to me. You really do have to present a good reason why your potential punters shouldn’t just shop on Amazon/Thomann/insert online behemoth of choice here. I spent three years living in Berlin recently - somewhere you might imagine as the very archetype of a place that would need a decent generalist music store to support the many and varied creative musicians living in the city. And when I was there it had one: Just Music. Four or five floors of everything you and your band might need. Staffed by the usual mixture of people who made you feel you were wasting their time and people who genuinely felt like they wanted you to succeed. I bought a lot of strings there, though never an instrument. And I was really sad to hear that they’d gone under a few months after we left the city. Read the message on their website: https://justmusic.de For those that don’t speak German, it essentially says, ‘we tried, but you didn’t spend enough money here instead on with the big online sellers’. They’re not blaming us for that, just pointing out how it is. And so it goes.

Yes!! I can get up to somewhere between 95 and 100 bpm on Rhythm Stick depending on the day. And I feel like a bass god! I enjoy playing this bass line, I completely appreciate its genius. And then I try to play along with the track, and curse my stupid clay feet…