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Wow...would love to know why you couldn't hear a P bass in a band situation.

If it wasnt too heavy that was a steal, then factor in three weeks to clean it...

Looks about right..shame about the PU's and cavity.

I've spent a lifetime listening to and studying the Beatles. As a teen in the 70's I hated them and then as I got older started to appreciate their genius but even today there is something about their "thing" which just seems old and kind of hokey despite the tunes being brilliant.....in a way that doesn't fit, wonder if that's why there not played much. Id even go so far to say that Motown stuff has the same problem.

Im grt at missing stuff, so I def made sure I watched the X Ray Specs thing last night....fascinating woman indeed..tho a difficult life to some degree. Its a must watch.

For simple but effective Ampeg madness it has to be Algie Wards playing on the Damneds Love Song....bliss! But the Rezillos mentioned above is killer too as is Olivers Army but its not really punk

Hard to resist this one...........

Cant b sure but it kinda sounds like it.. and it was a time when producers were looking for a modern tone...hence Y Jamerson didnt get any work...He wouldnt change his old flats for rounds...I digress.

Ok last one....and lovely bit of fast pick playing

There are no best only different and then those tunes that someone says is great but u know u couldn't dance to it in a million years or even after a couple of pints. Im old school...I like shape, melody, dynamics and a kind of melancholic emotion these two'll do for starters there's loads more.

Yes we can all have a laff about the popcorn...Im on my second bucket haha...but the truth is out....all that matters is weight, tone and feel...It can be made from chicken poop for all I care, and if it fits those three criteria..I'm in.

Well Jaco epoxied his fretboard to make it harder which may have contributed to his cutting mid range honk. I think the days of worrying about the purity of tone woods in solid body instruments are slowly coming to an end.

Split the wrap with a Stanley blade..no idea what they are but not a good idea.

Absolutely, trouble is takes decades and a ton of money to see the light.

Tis an interesting subject. Have to say my new CV 70's P bass dispels the myth about body woods needing to breath etc. Its got bags of sustain and sounds great and all happening under a thick coat of poly... I think good tone is more to do with the finished item being a solid unit rather than whether or not it started off as a single piece of wood. If a laminate/plywood is constructed from a hard wood with glue that cures hard then whats the difference between that and my CV P with a multi piece body....and finished in a rock hard thick coating. Surely its about the end result being a very solid inert finished body....certainly seems that way with my CV.

I was the biggest Fender snob on the planet and spent years looking for the perfect P bass. Alder body, great neck blah blah. I now play a Classic Vibe P and couldn't be happier, for starters it was cheap... yay! and goodness knows what wood it is..who cares, but what matters is does it sound good and does it feel good...the lettering on the head stock ain't gonna make the crowd shake there whatsit.

I never really believed it but u might be onto something. I probably last played them 20 years ago, trouble is I kind of got fed up with a lifetime playing flats and fancied another bass so unlike before decided to leave the factory rounds which look and feel like d'darrio's and "learn" to play rounds, but they just don't give me the feedback that these old wires give. Once the music begins they just dominate the sound spectrum with a fat swathe of lower mid, its really fat but not mushy...seems great minds.... etc etc

Well if u can find one, those old Musicman 5 inchers are da bomb. Still got mine from 1978. Left it behind at a gig a few years ago......a 90 mile round trip to get it....well worth the effort.

Just put a set of tatty really old D'Darrio flat wounds on my new P bass....flippin eck thump city!. I could not get any sort of authorative tone out of the rounds it came with in fact they sounded way to clangy and scooped, pretty awful, but now with the tone almost rolled completely off the thing sounds huge and great fun playing thru a Motown compilation cd.....

Well it ended up on the other side of the planet so your ok....weird tho cause the neck was the smoothest comfiest neck Ive ever played...but God knows what was up with the body.....E string virtually inaudible..A & D strings thunderous and the G kind between the two....tried everything...nut, bridge, strings, PU's, nothing, even clamped bits of metal to the darn thing to move the resonance....can only conclude the body wood wasn't properly dried out or was sap wood or something, anyway maddening.....Probably the worse P bass that ever left the factory....guess there had to be one and I got it! haha

Brilliant...they need you guys on Strictly.

A little Lee Sklar ditty for anyone who's old like me....warts an all...flippin arthritis.

I think it just never goes away and sometimes when u play a fill or lick to a great tune or even after 45 years u sense that ur technique is improving there's nothing like it...it feels darn good. I swore three years ago Id never even pick up a bass again cause I thght drums would be easier! (I played as a teen) ...haha and here I am plucking away like a good un. Guess u can take the player away from the bass but not the bass outta the player

Cant help noticing this thread has drifted a bit into this band that band chat..to get back on track. My drum room is like the arctic so its no go, so I play bass in our warm lounge overlooking the garden. Even tho I'll prob never play live bass again I absolutely love trying to learn stuff that maybe Ive never been able to get....eg some of Jamersons best gems etc. What I'm saying is I just love playing bass and drums, and even if no one else sees my efforts I know I'm improving, cause you never know....and keeping my mind active.