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Took me a long time to really feel him. Wanted to like him for years because he seemed a cool artist to like or get. But now he's more like a drug; no need to do any more than press play and feel better 👍 Funny thing is I used to think he was a bit inauthentic. Think that was me. He's just playing music after all

Yes, there is that, not uncommon

Fantastic @mybass, my music story was similar to yours albeit without the happy ending (and to be honest without the talent also) Gibson Bass and Fender Fretless, very specific !

Long day, feeling a bit stinky poo, nothing serious just first world crap. Then on the radio comes Tom. Feel better already

Yep, that sounds familiar. Never underestimate the effect of even a few seconds of rock-star arrogance between a band member and the venue to scupper future gigs irrespective of how well you went down. I've a mate who I used to gig with who is the most polite and respectful person you could hope to meet. Until around 2-hours ahead of a gig when he arrives at a venue and finds the slightest thing not to his liking and puts on just enough attitude to avoid a direct confrontation while still managing to fosters off people at the venue, IME gigs really can bring out the best or the worst in people, often because of a mix of excitement, anxiety, impatience, and ego. Not me of course, i'm lovely

I suspect I'm technically owed several items that bandmates borrowed and either broke and handed back, kept, or sold when I was in my 20's, a lovely old tube combo, a fiddle, a Selmer Sax and a decent Westone bass among them. The thought of trying to chase them down now fills me with anxiety at the sheer level of work and potential pain involved. I can only guess this Ric must mean a hell of a lot to you to be going to these lengths, so all the best with your search. But as @Steve Browning said above, and as your post that I've quoted suggests might be the case, unless you're suggesting that you're prepared to forgive and forget and pay market value today for the bass, if you were lucky enough for the current owner to come across one of your threads, I suspect you're going to make them less, rather than more, likely to get in touch Good luck either way 👍

Here we go..........

Well DPD are off my Xmas card list, what a mess they’ve become, rebooking with Parcelforce, luckily I paid for DPD with PayPal so will claim given they won’t cancel/refund

Drop off here won’t accept packages over 60cms 😕

Well until this week my answer to the OP question would have been DPD, but having booked two packages (to two very patient Basschatters) for collection and delivery by yesterday earlier in the week they're still sitting here. More annoyingly DPD appear to have automated every single point of contact with an algorithm that when I ask 'When will my packages be collected" tells me 3rd October. So they have apparently also perfected time travel. So I've gone in and updated collection date and now when I search on the App they no longer show? I tried to cancel using the 'Cancel Collection' tab and it tells me that I can't, I assume because it doesn't recognise the numbers. I guess I should be gratedul that at least both packages are sitting in my house and not lost a depot or van. Shame, until this week DPD were the only courier that hadn't let me down.

PUP placement is surely more mathematically/acoustically determined to oprimise, harmonics etc while the DB-esque feel is, agreed, best achieved playing over the board, the further up the better, to get that looser and more languid attack

That’s pretty much it 👍

PUPs close to the neck can sound muddy and indistinct and nothing at all like a DB. IME it’s as much about where along the string you play as where along the string you locate the PUP, possibly more so. There’s gotta be a sweet spot for the PUP anyway, then it’s all about technique and strings. Play like you’re playing DB on strings that are as close as possible in the way they react to DB strings?

Correction, £420 plus £62 shipping plus around £125 import duty and tax. It's a very expensive neck

Close to £500, that's more than Status used to charge, and as above, I don't like the headstock shape

Also keep an eye open for basses with a graphite neck that you could remove and sell the loaded body on, usually Status (you probably wouldn't want to break up a Modulus and Moses necks are not highly rated). IIRC there was a Stingray up for sale a while back and the seller hadn't even mention the (perhaps obvious) fact that it was equipped with a Status neck

People who have them tend to keep them so you need to be quick when they do come up for sale. I’ve bought two on BC this year, and sold one of them as it was too thin (Status fretted Jazz). A couple more have been up for sale also 👍

Neither. I have two DBs, one with dots at 3,5,7,9,12 and one with no dots. I've learned that I'm a far better - more fluid and more musical - player when I'm not looking for pitch but listening for it. Some of this will depend on what style of music you play for sure, but I don't think it's necessarily a question of which of the two but whether you need either.

If you've tried different PUPs and different strings, it sounds to me like you're expecting a active bass zing/sizzle from a passive bass?