Shaggy

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Guitar-Pedal-Amp-mini-micro-switch-double-pole-choice-on-on-on-on-on-on-off-on/370621677722?hash=item564ac6009a:m:m66MhJB9hRi9WyPwIyDvmmQ. + a dab of black enamel?

I literally just fitted a Nordstrand Bigman 4 to my Warwick Streamer Jazzman, and wired via a 3 way microswitch (conveniently there anyway for the original MEC MM humbucker) for parallel / single coil / out of phase. Very definitely worth doing; single coil (effectively a Big Single) is probably my favourite setting, although parallel gives that lovely big phat Stingray punch. If you don't want to drill, there is the integrated switch pot option as MoonBassAlpha suggests

Lol - like, yup that that's the truth....

I guess so, and you could hardly have two more different bassists Was what me?

Ah, but does it play like butter? If commercially successful, I foresee a "scratch n' sniff" limited edition......

Thanks for clarifying, Ashdown - makes sense given JJB's grittier core tone MK model is a great amp, the "harmonic emphasis" control is the most useful built-in effect I've found on an amp

Definitely a marketing opportunity for cat-owning bassists there! Yup - I've an old Trace 1x15 and 2x10 taking up space, but can't face letting them go for peanuts.... That's so cool! I'll def try to catch you next time you're down. A range of potential basses you could play if being closely authentic, but I'd really hope it would be the old Ovation Magnum (below) - plus the '70's satin suit of course Last time I was in Swansea Cranes (to pick up a Davidson mandolin sent over from their Cardiff store) they had several 1960's Gretsches and a couple of old Gibson guitars in plus a Wal bass - I could have spent ages there. The only PMT store I know is in Cambridge (where I have family so go over regularly) - nothing of interest there whatsoever....

Indeed; I used to frequent Cranes and they always had nice vintage stuff as well as new. Swansea has had a succession of music shops come and go, but at least it has a fairly healthy live music scene. You tour far afield casapete - what's your band?

Lol - when the sun shines (which isn't often), there's no better place on earth....... Unfortunately the junk shops and second hand musical instrument shops which every town used to have a couple of, have all but gone

I feel your pain - I did get a pre-EB MM Sabre for £400 (with a spare neck too), but the 'Ray would have been an even better score.......

Picked up a late 1970's Fender Bassman 135 head in a local junk shop for £50 a few years back. No output at all, but a reasonable guess was it was just one or more of the valves needing replacing - which turned out to be the case. More recently found an early '60's Broadway semi-acoustic 6-string with dual Fenton-Weil pickups in another junk shop (I can't resist passing one...... ) for £30 - in a bit of a state but restored into a nice guitar (it's somewhere in the Guitar porn thread) Absolutely mint USA Peavey Classic 30 (all valve) combo for £90 in a Crack Converters

It's all there bar the pickup and need for re-fret - wouldn't take too much to get it sorted, but price is way off the mark given the condition and respray

As I'd thought then! Thanks for responses above.

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.

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.

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.....

Good score - looks fab, and very like the original EB-0 (below) Cant see you getting much work done today then......

One of my all-time favourite bands, and criminally underrated Which didn't answer your question, I know.......

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

Ditto for me! Top BC-er, and great guy to communicate and deal with - thanks fella!

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......

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.....

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