Shaggy

Bought a set off strings off John; smooth easy deal, great communications, and strings sent off pronto 🙂 Top fella! 👍

Good thinking 👍. Though as there are clear logistical problems in getting a deceased grandparent to validate a bass, it might be better to have each bass certified by a living Uncle, together with a photo reinacting him finding it in his loft. Car boot spin off possibilities here also

Announcing the new “Fender Bender” model range - For the ultimate in that road-worn look, your instrument is lovingly and authentically run over in the Fender Custom shop car park, using an original ‘57 Chevrolet once owned by Elvis himself 😎

Wish you were closer! 🙁

Very similar indeed to mine! My first amp - in 1977 - was built by my brother (who was pretty good at that stuff, went on to be an electrical engineer at Marconi), he even built in a fuzz circuit. I made the cab from the wooden carcass of an old TV, with the 2 speakers from my Dad’s old Pye radiogram. Needless to say, the speakers completely blew the first time I hit low E at band practice 🙁 Like most at the time, we recorded ourselves on one of those crappy little cassette recorders with piano key buttons.

Another great one very economical note-wise:

How about this; a mere £20K and not even pre-CBS: https://m.facebook.com/groups/477038984505702/permalink/522515286624738/?m_entstream_source=feed_mobile&paipv=0&eav=AfbE-50Aq3x3tTbF389DO0KlmRnGxdZnYQUxX5BYioeJIWgVZriYjjTq-h-A_rfvibE only a few years ago I was struggling to sell my ‘65 P on here for £2.5K - admittedly it was boring old 3TSB......

Most of this is pretty much a groove on open E. The wonderful Mr Barry Adamson 😎

All PC’s/tablets/phones should have a factory-set program such that if you type “plays like butter” into it, your keypad actually turns into butter......😠 But yes, looks like a decently priced ‘50’s P, particularly compared to how bonkers prices for ‘70’s ones seem have gone lately

My main musical regret is that in 46 years of being in gigging bands I have never, ever been in one with a half decent name 🙁 i wont list them all, but lowest point had to be a school punk band called the Thrush-ridden Apes (usually billed as The TRA)

When I saw the thread title I assumed that P45 had to be a UB40 tribute act where the band members actually have jobs.......(honestly!) (You have to be very old to understand that one 🤔)

Strangely enough, at a recent gig someone came over to me at halftime and asked me if my Warwick FNA (Corvette) was a Wal, probably fooled by the “W” headstock logo. 🤔 Gave me a flashback to a time in the early ‘80’s when someone in a car park asked me if my car was a Jaguar (actually a clapped out 1966 Bond Equipe GT4S, my first car, that cost me £100). Lovely bass in the OP, good score! 👍

Jeez, you should have jumped on that Chris!

I do feel your pain - though personally it’s the Blue-burst 4003 rather than the Blue boy that been on my GAS list for a long time 🤔. Hope you manage some sort of trade. Mind, I reckon you own a genuine dream bass in that Travis Bean TB2000 fretless......😉

Fab work Barrie 👍, and it’s going to be much more special to you than any bass acquired complete in the boringly normal way.......😉

Embarrassingly, usually a quick limber up noodling the intro of “Boogie oogie oogie” (A taste of honey) Or, if feeling mellow, the slow walking bassline to “Dazed and confused” (Led Zep)

Great story and pics, but you HAVE to tell us what you traded it for at ABC Music! Mine is #23; they're fabulous and unique basses

That’s a mk1, surely.....🤔

JMB has worked for me a few times, in fact it’s very recently put me back in contact with a lead / rhythm pair of guitarists who I used to play with and lost touch with many years ago. I find the only annoying thing about the site - and it’s probably something I’m doing wrong - is that the “cookie accept” box seems to pop up on the screen every few days.....😠

I’d have thought that the New Year is generally a time when people tend to declutter / fancy a change of gear, pushing up the FS listings, though unfortunately the cost of living malarkey may well be an added incentive. 🙁 Certainly “book price” seems to have little meaning anymore; most eBay BIN prices seem to be arrived at entirely at random and then a couple of zeros added, though there’s still the occasional worthwhile listing. Slightly off topic; I’ve noticed that most of the vintage gear on eBay now seems to be sold from Japan, with the same item listed multiple times at slightly different prices, and at a prices so vastly inflated as to be almost meaningless (all instruments, not just basses). 🤔