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  1. Shaggy
    As I'd thought then! Thanks for responses above.
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    I hope this isn't a thick question, but does anyone know how the Ashdown Mark King signature (MK 500) and JJ Burnel signature (JJB 500) amps differ from each other? Other than the obvious MK being painted red and JJB being black; specs and features for both look pretty much identical from the online info - the JJB 500 is supposed to have a unique transformer, but given that both models have identical weights and power outputs I'd guess even that is similar. I've recently acquired an MK 500 head in lovely nick that I'm very pleased with - quite a departure for me as I've always had all-valve or hybrid heads.
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    If you're comparing them to the Sunns and Acoustics of the same era then they were probably pretty cr@p. if you were a teenager in a late 1970's punk band (as I was) they were affordable, decently (or rather indecently) loud, and looked cool. Loved mine at the time.
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    They repeat their programmes ad infinitum, so it'll be round again before too long I recorded it - will watch later. Programme synopsis was: "1973 Doc. Stars Cat Stevens, Tina Turner, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Otis Redding, Rod Stewart, Pete Townshend & more. Vintage film footage from the hey-day of London's rock and roll scene" Some might say a few years past the hey-day, but those cats were still cool, man.....
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    Good score - looks fab, and very like the original EB-0 (below) Cant see you getting much work done today then......
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    One of my all-time favourite bands, and criminally underrated Which didn't answer your question, I know.......
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    Great price! Can't wait to see the pics........
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    I woke up with "My sweet Lord" clearly running through my head on the morning I learned of his death - sounds too corny to be true, I know - but it is..... For me - Ian Curtis, mainly as I'd only seen Joy Division play a month or so earlier, and it's still the gig that has moved me the most
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    Looks to be in amazing condition, and a decent price too for these times - vintage Wal bump
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    Ditto for me! Top BC-er, and great guy to communicate and deal with - thanks fella!
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    I'd be surprised if every BC-er in a band hasn't experienced this to a greater or lesser extent. I always have, but as an NHS worker frequently doing evening and night shifts I'm pretty much used to it as an occupational hazard anyway. Anything that disrupts your normal sleeping routine basically stuffs your sleep. I generally find a totally knackered night doesn't affect me the day after so much, but catches up the day after that, and I figure the body eventually knows how to catch up with what it needs. Some really good advice above; in particular it took me a while to learn not to go to bed too soon after coming home from practice / gig, but allow plenty of chilling time - for me that's a cup of tea, Classic FM, and a good book (how rock n' roll...... ) but different strokes for different folks. TV to be avoided, especially the Sky adult channels......
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    Absolutely stunning pair of Alembics - curly koa and figured walnut facings, respectively? If that was the Distillate (from Europe?) FS on this forum a couple of years back - likewise I stupidly dithered and missed out.....
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    Proper nostalgia thread - the head version was my first proper amp, paired with a home-build 4x12 cab. The fun I had pressing those frequency band filter buttons....... I had one of those too later on (with a Fender Bassman 135) - it had a protective panel that clipped on over the grille for transit. Bullet-proof cab, but weighed a ton - no practice rig in those days, so I used to have to lug it up and down a steep narrow flight of stairs in the guitarists bed sit every week. Guitarist in first school band (same one I had the Carslboro Stingray for) had the HH VS combo - likewise I was really jealous of the green backlight; a desire never really satisfied until getting one of the UV Trace Elliot heads many years later
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    Fabulous looking bass I would have bet anything that those facings were flamed redwood rather than maple, but can't argue with the specs.....
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    My old Steve Smith custom long scale "EB-2" - foolishly sold to a BC-er several years ago, who recently very obligingly traded it back to me; in better shape too.
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    +1 to that, as also an Alembic and Wal owner Mine's an early one; a 1976 S1 long scale. Love it, but have to admit I tend to use more for recording than gigging. We're so familiar with the design now, but when you think what was around when the first Alembic basses came out, they must have seemed from another planet.....
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    Quite liking that, though def better with the mudbucker.....
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    http://www.stellartone.com/index.asp Tonestylers are the absolute dogs danglies; I have one in my bitsa P - rolled back a bit gives me the Bernard Edwards tone I could never quite get with anything else: thick punchy growly mids with no mud. cooincidentally to this thread was thinking of putting one in my Warmoth custom T'bird, with a blend control
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    Lol - I wasn't! However, having read your amp thread; I've got a lovely sounding and very compact Ashdown MAG 200 1x15 combo (kickback design, so can also be used as a floor monitor with DI out to FOH) that I'm not using - yours for free if it'll keep you playing that fretless bitsa........
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    Chris, I can fully empathise and I think we've had rather parallel musical careers - likewise I started at school on violin, gave it up when switching to bass (in the early days of punk) but also switched to folk & bluegrass mandolin and flamenco guitar at around the same time and have kept them all going (now including lute and banjo) for 40+ years. My acoustic instruments are what give me pleasure at home and I know they'll still be there for me when I'm too old to lift an amp anymore, but playing bass in a live band gives me something that the other instruments can't. As you say, satisfaction with bass depends very much on the project at the time and if I didn't enjoy it I'd stop too - and have done several times over the years - but I guess bass to me is kind of like smoking; the last time I had a cigarette was 25 years ago, but I know that inside I'll still be a smoker until I die. You'll be back......... Yup, those Bronco cases are pretty rare now and look uber cool! Edir: off-topic I known but those Breedlove mandos are fab - attached a pic of my current squeeze: a Phil Davidson F5, though still got the 1910's Gibson F4 you helped me acquire!
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    Noooooooooooooo............. You can take the boy out of bass....... Lovely gear, very tempted indeed by that Bronco case
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    You have some fabulous and very individual basses Mick - I particularly like the Silk neck-thru with the Simms p/ups
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    Probably worth putting "lined fretless" in the description / listing title, though it's evident from pics. Never seen an elm faced one before, an almost unobtainable wood now in Europe. Gives it that "Ercol" look! Welcome to the forum and good luck with the sale - lovely Wal
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    Another smooth deal with Ade - bought some Klotz cables, very happy bunny....
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    I'd say almost certainly not - bass drivers (irrespective of size) are constructed to handle bass frequencies, drivers for guitar cabs aren't - also bass cabs are tuned to be efficient in the bass frequency range, guitar cabs for higher frequencies. Bass cabs will happily handle higher guitar-range frequencies, albeit with less efficiency than a guitar cab. I think JJ Burnel got his sound partly through using blown 12" drivers, but no idea if it was a bass or guitar cab
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