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Lets say it like it is. My bench mark for grt pop is the Bros Gibb, ABBA, Philly Soul and The Beatles....the common thread ? it all sounds kinda happy, uplifting to coin a cliche...ie bloody well written pop music. In my local Co-op the other day I nearly ran out the door screaming...there was this monotonous...slightly hip hop drone...it was truly horrifying, and Adele, that Ed Bloke, Modern music? No thanks.

Had a gazillion P basses and my walnut CV 70's P bass with that thick neck tops them all. For 350 quid its ridiculous. Sure there are "better" basses out there but the CV package is more than I need...If ur technique is cool you dont really need a Fender.

Grew up with Bowie, Zeps, and all that peachy 70's cool...then in 1980 I heard 'A Forest' at a disco...and was blown away by the dark repetitive but soooo musical monotony.....still blows me away even now, especially when they do it live. Some of their later singles lost that coolness.

What is there left to say. They simply are the original of something that I think subliminaly a lot of post Cure "Indie" bands are trying to be. Having said that Sir Gallups constant movement has always irritated. A Forest has to one of the most deceptively simple but massive tunes ever written. Genius.

Cool zombie thread re-boot. Played a 1st Gen Ray from 77 to 87 but was never really happy, kinda lacking something, tho it did the job, but then one day in a store in around 1998 I picked up a P bass and realised what I'd been mjssing...that dry low mid thump.

Just played along with Everywhere, feeling a tad emotional. All my teen heroes gradually leaving us...man this has been bit of a shock...such an important part of the Mac and such an ordinary unassuming person but super talented.

Dont break it. It will always be dead original if all the parts stay together.,is it a nice weight.? just needs a tidy and the right pickguard...

Love Mick Karn grt player

I respectfully disagree. Those brilliant bands I loved as a teen 45 yrs ago are now fat balding grandparents living in the shires....How can that be the same vibe. I mean Billy Bragg lives in Dorset on a farm. Toya lives in the South West in a bloody great manor house....the vibes gone and most of their voices have gone too.

I dislike old Punk type bands. Punk was about being young, boyish, skinny, and image was everything as well of the bril music of course.....Id prob go see the Pistols cause they are a cultural experience but the rest, nope.

Who is Jim Richardson. Dreadful. If that was Jacos long lost bass of doom I still wouldnt want it. Anyway I was on the TV once, cut a single...does that mean my ole P bass is worth a mint? haha Nope.

Bernard Edwards on Everybody Dance.....then decades later found it he was stroking with a finger knuckle...doh...Fab tone.

Not a guitar but orchestral stuff which is even pickier and it's always been stellar...grt company.

Any ad thats full of yadda yadda yadda, avoid. Do yourself a favour get a CV 70's or 60's model., perfect outta the box and mine gives all the Fenders Ive owned a run for the money.,

You've only got to look over on Talkbass, constant woe with Fender Custom Shop stuff, QC all over the place. But it's not just CS. A relative of mine has bought a new 62 RI Strat unseen and it's all over the place..... Still kicking myself for letting a Mex Road Worn P slip thru the fingers..lightweight, tight QC and thumpy. Anyway I digress, that classic 50's nitro is lovely.

Forever the voice of dissent on what has basically become an "indie rock" bass guitar channel. Im listening to Bee Gees, The Drifters, Marvin Gaye and Luther Vandross. 😉

I did reading in 1980, Pat Travers, Slade etc ...Sadly these wondrous dudes weren't there....anyway. Enjoy.

I have a CV 70's P bass and that fat neck makes it very nice and Ive owned vintage and modern Fender. Youve got the full house it seems to me.....hate to soun d like a cumudgeon but save the money and practise more...

Never heard of BD. The thing is guitar shops have historically had to put up with in the main, young ego drenched awkward musos trying to be all cool and surly...see it all the time so no wonder they have a bit of an attitude. It's all par for the course of the music biz thing and always will be. I personaly don't know how anyone works in a guitar store....wld drive me nuts.

When I was a teen back in the 70's I was the only young person at work who went out to pubs see live local music...so nothings changed. Anyway not surprised. A CP show is the biggest safe space on the planet.

Is a Stradivarious worthless? Nope. People will eventually get sick of where music has gone (currently half way thru its deathroes I would say) and then return to the good ole days...ie the blues, 60's 70's rock, chart stuff, groove stuff, etc and those instruments will go off the scale.

I found the perfect remedy for this malady of which I too have been thru a few times, each time stretching my enthusiasm to a slither...I took up the Tenor recorder, learned to read treble clef and now cannot put it down..I can play what I like, when I like, where I like and have thousands of tunes to choose from and people love it.

Man, this sites gone downhill and not a word about Livvy, Jeez...the vibe around here is odd to say the least.

Oh well, forever the voice of dissent and to give the thread a bit of balance. I rather dislike them and owned about seven over the years. Kept buying them thinking the next one would be grt but nope...The best was the last one, a Mex RW which for the right bod was a superb instrument. Guess I cannot get over the offset, the skinny lil nut and all that PU/knob palava. I'm a P bass guy thru and thru but even their not as simple as some would think, but once you get a P bass dialled in, ie technique, strings, (dead flats), amp etc there's no going back.