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    As a Motorhead fan in the early 80's imagine my sheer joy to find myself, at a friend's gig at a club in Holland Park in London, next to Lemmy at the bar. We sat there for an hour or so, chewed the fat, he bought us a drink, we I think were skint so didn't return the favour but IIRC he didn't seem to mind. A really nice, calm, intelligent guy. Don't think he said one thing that suggested he was a famous musician. I do remember that I spent the whole night with my leather jacket zipped up desperate for him not to see my Motorhead t-shirt! One of rock's great characters. The story of how he 'left' Hawkwind is a classic
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    I miss that dude
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    Nice one
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    As above, the stacked knob feature is nothing more than a circuit configuration. With Jazz Basses, circuits are so easy to change and so varied that I’ve always seen them as being like a bridge or PUPs, that is part of the Bass with which you experiment until you get it right, more than a defining feature of the instrument itself. For example I’ve tried active versus passive, series versus/and parallel, VVT versus VTP versus VT/VT etc. Best advice I can give us to find the Jazz you like best and install the circuit.
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    That’s not short
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    And Lemmy wasn’t a short man either
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    flip me that’s glorious
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    Weight is relative
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    Two PUPs, neither in the classic place, plus Jazz neck. Not a true Precision
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    Also for Andy
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    I met Nile, what a f*****g lovely guy. I’d have him in my band any day. To date he hasn’t applied
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    And of course, the tone underpinning many of the world's most iconic bass lines is infinitely worse than any of the above tones when isolated
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    One for Andy....
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    Wonder how the pres might perform with a different bass, as above the string balance both in volume and timbre is the most prominent feature to the casual listener (and I'm pretty casual in this context)?
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    It will provide heft. Nothing else matters
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    How the f**k could you be surprised, it’s about as good a rig as Mesa have ever produced, and given that in real terms it’s between Mesa and Ampeg in the race in question, it was always going to be awesome. Glad you like it however. I’m 100 miles away and haven’t heard it yet, can you turn it up above 2 so that I can check it out?
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    Whenever any musician says that they are ‘like’ someone famous, I know that they will be nothing like them. 100% nothing like them
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    Yep
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    It’s been their role since Ancient Greece
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    You may be right Loz, looks like Brazilian but might not be. Either way it is a lovely dark rosewood and nicely played in without being worn
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    Original FS thread here, some useful tips if you are thinking of buying and refinishing. BTW it's a '62 RI with grounding strip to back PUP
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    PS the board is beautiful dark Brazilian Rosewood
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    Lovely 26 year old bass, suffering from the woes that afflict all the Fotoflame models in the end, that is the Foto finish is splitting. It is however a lovely bass, typical of the early 90s MIJs. I’ve been using the neck on my ‘68 Jazz and was going to strip and refin the body (I did the same on a Fotoflame about 10 years back and the finish comes off very easily). However, I’m now selling the ‘68 and even though it’s a bit cracked, the finish on this bass still looks amazing, so seems best to leave it, or at least let the new owner decide. Price is a bargain, no haggling and no trades please. Chris
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    If something is unused I guess it's new. If that were not the case, how long would something have to sit on a shop shelf to become used? Flip side, plenty of musical instruments are well used but still sold as new, having been played over and over again by prospective buyers, but never actually bought. I guess 'new' is a bit vague both ways
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    I’m thinking of doing the same, I just need one more Gen 1 Compact Or a Mesa 1516EV
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