Beedster

I gigged my '73 the other night, and couldn't escape the sense that it really did sound better than the more recent instruments I've tended to gig. Couple of comments along the lines 'That bass looks like it could tell a story or two' also, which is always nice. Funny to think it probably did it's first gig before the World had heard of Springsteen......

This ^

Lovely to gig an old bass 👍

Great video, I loved the insights, the stand-in keyboardist playing havoc with the bass octaves was classic Great lesson in monitoring DB also, give yourself mostly the simple less toneful signal so that you can hear very precisely what you're doing and send more of the complex but nicer signal to the audience 👍

Yes, while the sudden urge to nip down to the shops to pick up some Barts and an Overwater is understandable, I suspect that brain and fingers are the real active ingredients for the tone and technique

Quite a relief to discover that it's not just amateurs like me who do that! As Ian suggests, IK for Pizz but a lot more useful for Arco, but for either a great way of checking especially on noisy stages

I'm really not sure whether that's a feat of engineering or a work or art, it's probably both. Wonderful 👍

Totally agree, he's a classy player not just in terms of the techniques he's able to call on, but in terms of when and how he chooses to calls on them 👍

It's lovely, but it's chocolate; you see it, you want it, you have it, you realise you didn't want it after all 👍

But……. What they’re listed for and what they sell for are not always the same. IMO I paid over the odds for my ‘73 at £4k inc OHSC. £3k of that was logic, the last £1k was emotion, because it very much ticked every box I have re finish/mojo/wear/board etc. Buying from an established and trusted business also brought some extra cost but that coat bought extra security to the transaction. No way I’d go £3,500 on that ‘72 without a LOT of initial affection for the instrument backed up by a lot of evidence and assurances from the seller.

I had exactly the same on a quite nice but could have been nicer 70’s Precision, tone with BBOT suggested Badass might be a step up, but quite the opposite, to my ear anyway, seemed to compress the tone somewhat…

Venues eh Totally OT but three of my old band used to live close to each other and close to our rehearsal rooms so would walk together with instruments on our backs back and amps/cabs/bags in hands. It was always good fun following rehearsal to pop into a busy pub on the way home, walk up to the bar and say 'Hi, we're tonight's band, where do you want us.....?' just to see the look of horror on their faces. Even more so when there was already a band setting up Anyway, as you were 👍

When I was looking to buy my current '70s Precision I looked at a lot of similarly poorly described instruments on eBay and Reverb and on far too many occasions the seller was either unhelpful, clueless, or both (all the old classics were there in force; for example "I'm not going to take it apart, but I know it'a all original because the bloke who sold it to me said it was..."). I guess I now look at poorly photographed and poorly described basses and know what to expect

No photo of the case, pretty poor photos of the instrument (SN unclear for example), collection only? But hey, you may well be right, either way, time will tell mate 👍