sshorepunk

Hi Some of you may have seen the MM Sterling with the laquer crack for sale last week, well I ended up buying it! I figured it may be more than a laquer crack as I've seen the exact same thing before (on a Conklin bill dickens bass). The area around the control cavity is prone to cracking due to the large area of wood that is missing. It's an easy fix done by opening up the split and hetting as much Isophalic resin in there as is possible, the clamped up until dry. Ends up stronger than the surrounding woood, I am told! I am going to get the bass refinished once this is done. Thinking about going the same route as the new classic 'rays and sterlings! Bass is currently sunburst with a maple fretboard, so considering sonic blue (or powder blue on the new MM models)in nitro, with a tort plate! I'm very much into retro colours these days (you seen my sea foam green jazz? :-) ) whites are cool, especially off whites, like the buttercream MM did a few years back, What do you guys think? End result will be a cool looking bass at less than the price of a used stock coloured sterling! Tony

@bubinga 5, is that a custom classic CS jazz or another model, specific to 1970? nice bass! My 5 string Sei was a keeper, but ended up going with the need to change back to a 4 string. My sea foam green jazz came along and it's soooo nice, so staying with me for a good while. Took me ages to find it and it is a dream to play, I like the idea of trying some Nordy's though ;-) Tony

I have a Jap P bass tuned down to D G C F, leave it like that all the time, for using on one song we do when the geezer who wrote My Star with Ian Brown plays with us. I rarley play the P for anything else, so have the luxury of leaving it in that tuning, 45-105 strings are used. Tony

re: video Class!

Really pleased with this bass, just had a busy few weeks of gigging and it was a joy to play, last night, at Academy 3 in manchester, which is probably one of the best sounding venues I've played, it sounded great, a few poeple commented on the sound! Helped along of course with my trusty EBS rig (the BIG RIG :-) ) Tony

I will be back in the MM club, sometime next week! A Sterling will arrive, then will take a trip out for a refin in a cool shade of blue, something along the lines of sonic blue, maybe the same powder blue as on the EB classic models. The powder blue seems to work better with the maple necked basses? It will be nitro and will be having a tort pick gaurd as well! Tony

That Sonic blue is amazing, one of my fave colours, along with sea foam green! It must be a Manc' thing! Tony

Like it says, we play Academy 3 tonight tickets £6 on around 9:15, we also got Aziz Ibrahim with us again for a few tracks Played in Brixton last night at Brixton jamm, was a gooooooood night! Tony

My band did this just before xmas, NWR was indeed a gent, had a good chat with him before the gig and watched him jam with the drummer before sound check, great player! Have fun Tony

Monton, you never heard of Monton? To be honest a lot of poeple say "where the fook is Monton" Yeah, it's not far from Boothstown, the other side of Worsley, before you head into Salford or Eccles! Have fun Tony

One of my favourate J tracks to play and listen to, PT on bass with an AC. I have audio only of this gig on my i-pod, some great playing by Mr Turner with some great interpritations of classic Zender lines, such as this one. Other tracks from this gig are on there as well

Hi Welcome, not too far from me either (monton!) Tony

Yes, I got a reply, not very friendly, he insulted my underpants, obviousley he aint heard of big Tony! Tony

I've done a fair bit of photo work for FTJ over the last few years, I get to sit and walk about right in front of the band for the whole set. Bruce' backline bass tone is great, I should know! I'll dig some pics out this weekend if I get chance to go though the 50 gig I got of this band! Not sure what the future holds for FTJ since Rick Butler left last year, I'll speak to my man on the inside soon and update with any news Tony

Couldn't resist messaging the guy and suggesting that if Big John sold it too you around that price, the maybe he is "a robbing git in his own underpants" Tony

[quote name='aonindy' post='732377' date='Feb 1 2010, 11:03 PM']@sshorepunk ... whats nice shiney silvery computer keyboard you be using? ... been looking for a really low profie one like it for ages.... Allen.[/quote] It's a regular Mac keyboard, very thin and not too wide, ideal where space is limited. I used to have a PC running as well, with a switch to share monitor, keyboard and mouse, apart from the lack of right mouse button (I used keyboard shortcuts) everything worked fine. Keyboard is USB Tony