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Just seen this, terrible news, saw him at music live at the NEC in 2000/01, demoing basses as far as i can recall, but do remember being absolutely amazed by his playing, brilliant in a word.

Weirdly I just googled this shop and found this thread plus another from 2007 about it Doctorbass started. Reason being I had the neck off my stingray earlier and found a gold sticker with the address etc for the shop on the heel of the neck, I'd never heard of it prior though. Another good place long gone by the sound of it . 🤔

More Sabre porn .😄

Bought a lovely classic sabre today, bass is perfect, exactly as described, had a good rattle about basses when i went to pick it up too, sabres especially😁. Top bloke to deal with all round.

I wonder if its the same one i looked at, or if they had another in since? Glad i'm not the only that thinks its way below par for what they charge for um.

I had a look at a sunburst,american vintage II 1960 reissue precision in guitarguitar the other day, it was a lovely bass, the feel and sound were superb even through the little rumble 25 amp they had for demo. The thing that struck me, that i really didnt like was the way the yellow bit of the burst looked like it was sprayed onto MDF( best way i can describe it really), a sort of speckled look to it with no visible grain underneath at all, the chap that i spoke to said he had a '58 reissue and that was excactly the same. The 62 reissue before didnt have that look about it, and ive trawled photos of original 60s basses online( never got my hands on a real one,never likely to be able to afford one either😅) and all seem to be translucent enough to see some grain underneath? Anyone else seen one and noticed the same?

His work was the main reason i started playing the fretless, a sound and style unique. Sheer musical magic. To echo others, i'm proper upset to hear the sad news.