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Slighty sanitised tribute version. Can only assume to remaining pickguard covers the PUP-control wiring cavity, and leads to/joins an EBMM Sabre-style control plate. This version to my eye does the job without the need for gaffa tape that, frankly, would be trying just a little too hard! perhaps there's a little too much relicing by comparison with the photo above, but there are later photos where the finish does appear to be largely gone

IIRC the original line to The Real Me was played in a single take which JE was sure Townsend would reject as being overly complex and disorganised Man, what a take......

WTF is the story with that guy, seems to have a lot of instruments with a greater or lesser connection to some well known musicians but at mad prices. Is it money laundering?

JE's a player I understand. If I had those songs put to me, those are the lines I'd play, at least the technically simpler ones. I'd love to be able to think like Flea or Zender or many of the great funk players, or play fretless as lyrically as Bakithi Kamalo or Mick Karn, or just hold it al down like Deacon or Macca, but I think at heart I'm an ill disciplined rock player, and the sheer joy I get from playing JE's lines makes this bass 100% worth it, one thing I am sure of is that it is going to have very little trouble finding its way through the mix 👍

Let's do it 👍

So I have a set of DR Lo Riders lined up, purely because last time i used them on a graphite neck they went very very low without problems, so I'm going to start there and see the lie of the land tone and playability wise. Next few weeks I'm going to be spending some time with my cherished copy of this I imagine.....

Two B2s next to each other in Google search Which, via planes, takes us back to basses

Al's an absolute star, great to finally meet, sorry it wasn't for a more substantial period of time. Next time mate 👍

And I'm so sorry to have had so little time Al, would have loved to have shared a bite and a beer mate, perhaps next time. Hope you enjoy that bass and that especially lovely neck 👍

I think a BC Bash at Duxford and Cosford in in order? We tend to hit the Folkestone show each year as my wife's Mum live's right under it, and two or three years back they had a Victor. Man, it was impressive, not Vulcan impressive, but up there. Those Cold War designs were extraordinary

I'm more interested in the fact that a performer is suing his own record company for the fact that he doesn't sell as much as one of his rivals. Whether we like the music in question or not, it strikes me as another nail in the coffin of the music industry. Each new nail results in an increasingly risk-averse music industry, and an increase in the promotion of safe, generic, offend nobody & please everybody, dull music (more Ed Sheeran essentially)

Depending on when the audition is I'll do you one at cost, and it really won't be much, certainly less than a new Squier 👍

Do a bitsa version of the one in the photo, easy and cheap to do, it's a PBass so all you need for it to sound decent is a decent PUP and tuners that hold. Most of my bitsas - and FFS I have made a lot of the bloody things - were cheap and pretty decent by comparison with even used prices for equivalent quality instruments 👍

It's why I didn't get famous, zero sum game between me and bloody Pastorius

Exactly..... In the old days they used to write (often quite clever) diss tracks that made them both shitloads of cash. Fast forwards and Drake's suing his own record company - essentially because his diss tracks sold less well than Lamar's diss tracks - so he (Drake), and possibly both, are about to lose shitloads of cash? But interesting that the allaged slander/libel (never sure which is which), isn;t the subject of the case......?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje08q8qnzqo I have my own theory as to the why and the what here but it potentially sets an interesting precedent?

When in the US I rhyme it with manger, as in ‘away in a….’ In France I rhyme it with manger as in ‘Pret a…’ In the UK I rhyme it with hanger as do all proper English speakingers 👍

He was a man of his time 👍

Yep, they were designed to intimidate as much as to operate. It works. When we saw the final flight, the image that came to mind as I watched it bank towards the shoreline was of the battle dragons in the Lord of the Rings movies, it really is a very ominous shape in flight, and provokes some fairly primeval emotions 🦅

...and I have to say big thanks to Rob at Status, who's helping my identify what might, or might not be, a very slight issue with the electrics on this

Yep, this is a very large instrument, and yes, I get the draw of physicality, it's in part why I love to play upright 👍 And the new-year sale? Who knows, if I like it it'll stay, if I don't, or I can't tame it, it might go. It's certainly going to be around for the duration of the current project. Time will tell........... 🤔

Agree with all of that 👍 First thing I noticed was the PUP cover also. I wonder if - given the physicality of JE's playing - it simply reduced the chances of him damaging the PUP during a set. This would be kinda ironic given that the rest of the rhythm section were doing just the opposite at many gigs, but then JE was of a very different type to Moon and Townsend...... 🤔