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[quote name='ednaplate' post='369354' date='Jan 3 2009, 04:38 PM']Welcome on board. This really is a friendly place to hang out. There are no such thing as dumb questions. As you're a multi-instrumentalist you are more likely to be fielding questions from us.[/quote] A nice warm welcome..

Hello All, I've been a lurker for a month or so and have signed up not just because of the wealth of knowledge and experience available here but because it seems a genuinely nice place to hang out. Hats off to you - all the other music forums I'm a member of (SOS, Motunation, Gearslutz) can really flame newbies just for being new and posts can quickly descend into a bunfight at a moment's notice. Basschatters - I salute you! About me: I'm a saxophone player. Actually sax, flute and clarinet. I used to play bass when I was a teenager but I gave it up when I decided to pursue the saxophone and try and be a pro musician. A year ago I returned to it after an 18 year absence purely for my own enjoyment and I've got the bug and GAS all over again. I'm really enjoying the instrument and so much more second time round. It makes me feel like I didn't quite waste all my youth. When I get more playing experience and tighter chops I would like to find a band or two. My bass crimes (Warning - painful reading): I have to get this off my chest - remember I was young, stupid and needed the money. When I was that dumb, young teenager I traded my 18 year old Fender P when Fender Ps were unfashionable for a Trace Elliot speaker cab. The year was 1988 making that bass a 1970. The cab was the 4052H bright box - not even a real speaker cab. A few years later, when Steinbergers were unfashionable I sold my mint Steinberger XL2 for £600. My Mk3/Mk4 Trace Elliot rig went in bits to various new owners (unfashionable again) but my most heinous crime for me was finally letting go of my mint Status Series 2000 - serial no #001. I think I got about £800 for it. My current rig and I'm trying to make amends: I bought the bass I always wanted - A Musicman Stingray I missed the Status so much I bought another - a late 80s Series II A Phil Jones Flightcase-150 and a Tascam Basstrainer Would love to have: A nice Japanese Fender Jazz or Sandberg California. That Vigier in classifieds Everything else - you all have some tasty basses. Enough for now - and thanks in advance when I start asking dumb, obvious questions. Derrick