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At the height of my electric playing albeit more than 20-years ago - even I was probably getting through around a set per month - in those days I was all about the zing, funny how things change! I guess the reality is that electric strings have probably been affected by the same inflation as guts, it's just more exaggerated with the latter?

I think it’s easy to get into false logic along the lines ‘strings should cost 10% of the value of the instrument’. DBs are simply too unpredictable

My present guts, gamuts, have been on my bass for around 3-years. I know electric bassists (and guitarists) who change strings after each gig. i’m probably spending less on strings despite the massive one-time hit

I disagree Jack, even my old Alu - not a machine built for tone - sounded way better with guts than with Evas or Spiros, and the guy I bought it from was playing Eudoxas on it. High quality strings can significantly improve the tone of even quite inexpensive instruments

The same guy has been selling this monster for over a year and IIRC it started out with a flamboyant description and a £299 price tag. You don’t need to be trained in psychoanalysis to diagnose optimism here….. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125653279648?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=1QKe1QltT7q&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=155UlNbXQGW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

….or a bitsa?

Seller says not released until ‘81 with back stock necks, so it’s an ‘81…?

Well I’m not a fan 😕

Some pics Front (in case you're not aware that this is the front), lovely aged, yellowed, cracked.... Back, you can see the buckle rash and other wear under the new finish

Folks I have an old Jazz body that was once Oly White but now a lovely nicotine yellow. A previous owner has however overpainted the back, which has some serious buckle rash, in white. I have no idea what paint they've used, but it looks quite thinly applied. I'd like to get that new finish off the back but leave as much of the original worn finish as possible. Importantly where the original finish is worn through to the wood I'd also like to explose the wood if possible. Gut feel is several hours with sandpaper which will at least allow me some control of the just how much of the finish comes away, but I'm happy to hear better suggestions if you happen to have any 👍

We used to glower at the guitarist irrespective of who'd made the mistake, not nice but ore fun

Thanks Paddy, might give them a go, a couple of guys on TB have commented that they're worth a look also 👍

Probably exceeded it's intended usefulness, useful in a whole different way now......

I went to a boys school where nearly the entire population recognised and worshipped Lemmy. The girls who I knew at the time were very much into Japan and could recognise Mick Karn albeit as the second most important band member. I'd say that the most recognisable bass player of that era was however Nick Beggs, largely as the result of him getting quite a lot of visual real estate on TOTP (mostly hair-related) and the fact that people were aware that the rhythmic percussive sound he was making was the result of abusing playing a bass guitar

Not sure they’d do much better with guitarists, likely Sheeran and Swift would top the list as people most photographed with guitars round their neck

I sincerely hope that she puts Mr H at the top of the list 👍

That's pretty shocking given.... 1. They had one of the most iconic bass players ever (hey, he has a Sig....) 2. People here often say they aspire to JJB's tone 3. They wrote some awesome songs and produced some incredible albums 4. BC members generally like Prog?

Blu De Tiger See what I did there 👍

You’ve overdone it by about 6 Tim 👍

Keannu 👍

Fixed it for you 👍

Jaco is forgivable, I played with a drummer who’d never heard of Paul McCartney, who is probably the most broadly famous bass player in the planet?

What I will say about the Fusion is that while it's extremely robust with a lot of padding, my standard 4-string Jazz Bass appears only just to fit with most of the padding removed. Precision and Stingray are both fine, just seems that the offset body shape has thrown the bag a curve ball that puts the headstock very close to end end of the bag and relatively unprotected by comparison with the level of protection in other parts of the bag. I'm pretty sure there would be a wide variety of basses that would not fit. https://www.fusion-bags.com/collections/guitar-and-bass-gig-bags/products/fg-double-electric-bass-guitar-gig-bag