EssentialTension

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1003322' date='Oct 28 2010, 08:27 AM']Burned? Call that [i][b]burned[/b][/i]? Huh! That barely qualifies as relic'd these days. [/quote] True, but how much would the Beatle bass fetch at auction? - IYHO.

[quote name='spinynorman' post='1003220' date='Oct 28 2010, 12:04 AM']I can't believe this hasn't been discussed before, but I can't find anything. The question is - what are the easily visible differences between the different eras of Fender basses? Things like headstock logos, position of serial number, shape of neck plate. If the easy answer is buy a book, which one?[/quote] You could start here: [url="http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html"]http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html[/url]

[quote name='Zach' post='1003020' date='Oct 27 2010, 09:12 PM']well i'd be extremely suprised if it went for more than hendrix's guitar. considering how many people would say 'what? mccarney played bass?' I'd be shocked if it's worth over £100k[/quote] Well, I've no idea really what it would fetch at auction - it was merely a rough guess and there'd only be one way to find out exactly how much - but whether people know McCartney played bass is of no relevance here; it's not really even relevant that it is a bass. All that matters is that it is the most iconic of all Beatles instruments with absolutely clear and straightforward provenance. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that the real thing is in a vault somewhere and what we see him playing is one of several 'copies' for touring. Here's a [url="http://www.skinnerinc.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2333++++++31+&refno=++669887"]1958/1963 Gibson Explorer which sold at Skinner's auction house in New York for $611,000 in October 2006[/url] - it didn't even belong to anyone famous: Here's [url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2684648/Scorched-Jimi-Hendrix-guitar-sells-for-280000.html"]one of several Stratocasters burned by Hendrix[/url] - it sold for £280,000 in 2008: I can't see that £500,000 for McCartney's Hofner is so unlikely.

In the US but possibly what you're looking for: [url="http://www.guitarcentro.com/search.php?orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=decal&submit_search=Search"]http://www.guitarcentro.com/search.php?ord...t_search=Search[/url]

I was in the workshop of a well known UK luthier a while back. There was a can of Pledge sitting around.

[quote name='stevie' post='1002224' date='Oct 27 2010, 11:31 AM']I've only used two brands of flats. I had Ernie Balls on first - a used set supplied by a kind Basschat member. I then bought myself a set of TIs. When I had fitted two of the TI strings, I compared them. I have to say, they sounded identical. I couldn't tell that I had two different brands of string fitted. Just one observation FWIW.[/quote] Fair enough, but, in my experience, a brand new TI Jazz Flat does not sound like, for example, a six month or twelve month old TI Jazz Flat. EDIT: I've never tried Ernie Balls so I have no comment on them.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='1001906' date='Oct 26 2010, 11:47 PM']If anyone did try to swipe it I guess there would be a band on the run....[/quote] Not if they left by jet .... I'll get our coats.

No problem, I used to play with a guitarist who used a Les Paul through an old tan Fender Bassman combo. It sounded magnificent.

[quote name='Jigster' post='1001812' date='Oct 26 2010, 10:11 PM']wondering how much it's worth, if it's the original one he used, and if any one in the audience is daft enough to make a swipe for it!![/quote] McCartney's Hofners (there were two of them) have got to be the most famous basses in the world, easily beating the Funk Machine and the Bass of Doom because he's so much better known than Jamerson or Pastorius. Half a million easily, probably more.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='1001473' date='Oct 26 2010, 06:12 PM']If you like that you'll love this: And would be willing to pay 200,000 quid for a reissue! [/quote] Nice.

[quote name='lowdown' post='1001269' date='Oct 26 2010, 04:06 PM']And you are two years older... Garry[/quote] We're all two years older but this song is timeless.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='997153' date='Oct 22 2010, 03:02 PM']Yeah totally. Look how cool gaffer tape makes this Mondeo. [/quote] That tow bar is never original.

[quote name='rOB' post='999363' date='Oct 24 2010, 08:55 PM']I really like basses with corners, not sure what the right word is. Erm when the body has been cut out but not sanded down round the edges. Think the edges of a Les Paul rather than a Strat?[/quote] It's called a slab body - or at least it is on a Precision bass.

How about this one: I'd say it easily beats SMV (is that what they are called?) but doesn't beat Bottesini.

[quote name='silddx' post='999057' date='Oct 24 2010, 05:27 PM']Fack me, Stanley, Victor and Marcus, in a "bass battle"?. Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Oh Bollocks! I pressed play. And was visited upon by a display of worthless, unmusical, miserable rubbish that does every bassist with a heart a disservice of biblical proportion. The utterly bovine yelps of appreciation from the audience makes me feel like the pursuit of a life in music to be a worthless endeavour. I feel angry about that video, something music rarely makes me feel. All that BULLSHIT these f***ers say in interviews about studying, learning to be a perfectionist, learning to connect with life and humanity to better communicate your art and emotions, distilled into a pathetic display of par-boiled Dan Brown mechanical excrement that surely must excite only the most supine of intellects. I'm appalled. Thanks for posting it ET, I have learned why I trust my ears, and why I ignore those who implore me to learn to sight read and learn theory.[/quote] I shouldn't myself like to deny the possible value of reading and theory but I would like to ask 'Did you like Furtok and Stähle playing the Bottesini piece?'

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='998987' date='Oct 24 2010, 04:27 PM'].. but, please, not the multi-bass jam.[/quote] [quote name='skej21' post='998990' date='Oct 24 2010, 04:30 PM']I would rather cheesegrate my own face off (slowly!) than have to listen to a bunch of bass players playing a self-indulgent, fret-wonking jam ...[/quote] Exactly:

[quote name='silddx' post='998886' date='Oct 24 2010, 02:37 PM']... Life is all about tension ...[/quote] So nice of you to say so Nigel. Anyway, it's the JAM bit that worries me - most jams sound rubbish unless you're actually one of the players and even then it can sound fairly bad. Just having two basses playing complementary parts or even doubling a line can work. The use of tic-tac bass in country music, for instance, with likely a Fender Precision and a muted Fender Bass VI or Danelectro doubling or complementing the line. Or this: .. but, please, not the multi-bass jam.

Have you ever thought that you'd do anything for a bit of cheese?

[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='996941' date='Oct 22 2010, 12:30 PM']I've spent days looking at this bass and I'm convinced it is made of cheese.[/quote] The advert says it's alder not cheese.

[quote name='Plux_the_Duck' post='996496' date='Oct 21 2010, 11:04 PM']That would be my new(ish) double bass being set up I can't recommend vincent anymore![/quote] Your new(ish) double bass looks extremely nice.

[quote name='philw' post='995968' date='Oct 21 2010, 02:16 PM']All A friend of mine in Brighton needs his old double bass fettled and valued. I'm sure I read a thread here recently that described having a new DB set up by a luthier in Brighton, but I can't find it. Did I dream it (which would be weird)? Phil[/quote] Was it this thread? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=103170"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=103170[/url]

[quote name='oldslapper' post='996256' date='Oct 21 2010, 07:08 PM']... The low end, particularly at distance was amazing. ...[/quote] When I was trying mine out in GAK before buying it, I was sat next to it playing and saying 'It's not really that loud is it?'. A bloke from the other end of the shop shouted 'Actually, it is very loud!'.

At that price an absolute bargain. I use mine mainly for home practice but I have successfully played with drummer and two amplified acoustic guitars without any problem.