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I was quite surprised when I started looking more closely at PUP positions that there's more variation, for example among Fender Precisions, than I'd always believed/assumed to be the case. I suspect there's as much rhetoric as science in this space?

I’m playing around with this project at present

There is nothing quite like his late 60's/early 70's tone, for me it started to go away a little when he moved towards more specialised instruments - to my mind in the mid-late 60's he was teasing better tones of out his Precisions than most players were 10 years later getting out of their Alembics - and his skill and creativity on what many consider quite a crude instrument puts him and Jamerson in the same camp; genius creative technicians, in short virtuosos. Yep, there were other good players, Macca was solid and had some lovely lyrical moments, Jaco was the Paganini of bass but a very acquired taste musically, and then...... well who else was there in the late 60's/early 70's? OK, loads of highly competent touring and session players, but Entwistle was one of a very small band of bass players who turned bass into a virtuoso instrument.

Both very true 👍

That’s the truth of it. Some very talented people mime, let’s not be too surprised that the less talented do the same

Yep, we tend to see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear

There's probably a whole lotta wrong in the branding/marketing (it was 1971), but shit they could play, and play a whole lot better than a whole lot of all-male bands that had far more success 👍

This is sublime

I love my current gig but man, I wanna do a Beck tribute act, I just love the basslines and the general madness of it all 👍

You get good at doing what you do a lot of, you mime a lot you get bloody good at it 😕

Perhaps the ratings are technically correct but in terms of volume and heft they certainly disappoint when compared to units rated at similar levels

His instructional video is equally rather sad, I watched it the whole way through once and could never do it again. Takes nothing away from what he contributed to music and to the bass in particular, but as you say, a very long way from the glory days......

I've lost interest in vintage instruments, I used to love the mojo and feel of a 60's or 70's Precision, but ultimately they're an expensive - and increasingly a risky - luxury, I can make often equal quality instruments from some carefully selected used parts on eBay 👍

I looked and there was a message in red stating ‘Frequently Returned’. I don’t ever order strings from Amazon having done it once before 🤔

I’m not cheap 👍😆

Yep, me, I’m an advocate of the use it lose approach to back strength however, so I’m quite happy that way 👍

I agree, I'd be hard pushed to describe any objective difference in tone between many modern 12s and traditional 15s, but - and I'm sure there's a lot of personal bias in the mix - I always prefer 15s for the feel (although I'm using a Mesa 1516 so not a 15 alone)

Sounds good to me mate 👍

Spot on Brian, it does show two things, firstly how easy it is (or could be), and secondly that people are willing to do it. Be on your guard folks, and remember that vintage guitars = antiques = shit loads of money and shady practices

And me mate. I understand Brian's perhaps not in an easy position, but I'm very keen to learn the identity of the guy doing the faking, after all he could be using feedback on his work from this forum to perfect his work before he starts flooding the market with fakers....

Please Sir, Joel's sticking his tongue out at me, can I use the smacked bottom emoji in return?