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Beautiful. I want that neck flame on my new one.

My word. I have to go there... And that J is beautiful. Congrats!

[quote name='Davebassics' timestamp='1455650437' post='2981184'] I'm in the market for a fretless and these are beautiful! Only seem to have fretted on the website though? Incredibly silly question .... How do you pronounce Maruszczyk?! [/quote] 'Ma-roosh-chick'...[list] [*][url="https://www.facebook.com/MARUSZCZYKINSTRUMENTS/photos/a.10150116450572396.285289.292530792395/10153187012377396/?type=3&permPage=1"]Fretless[/url] [*][url="https://www.facebook.com/MARUSZCZYKINSTRUMENTS/photos/pb.292530792395.-2207520000.1455651164./10153172083047396/?type=3&theater"]Fretlesses[/url] [*][url="https://www.facebook.com/MARUSZCZYKINSTRUMENTS/photos/pb.292530792395.-2207520000.1455651164./10153172082117396/?type=3&theater"]Fretless[/url] [*][url="https://www.facebook.com/MARUSZCZYKINSTRUMENTS/photos/pb.292530792395.-2207520000.1455651164./10153053807692396/?type=3&theater"]BONKERS fretless[/url] [*][url="https://www.facebook.com/MARUSZCZYKINSTRUMENTS/photos/pb.292530792395.-2207520000.1455651164./10152958962732396/?type=3&theater"]Fretless[/url] [/list] ...etc :-)

I picked up a '71 a while ago that had a Bart P pickup in it. It was scrumptious - so woody, with loads of character. I shouldn't have sold the bass, really.

[quote name='AREA' timestamp='1455615920' post='2980624'] Today Afternoon, I'll go to Aldenhoven, to visit Adrian in his Showroom. Maybe I'll take my Camera with me, and to be prepared an empty Basscase. [/quote] Great! Send my regards, and - if you do requests - can you take pics of some Lake Placid Blue basses, please? Thank you!

[quote name='jazzyvee' timestamp='1455526354' post='2979730'] Here is one based in the USA. [url="http://www.redbubble.com/people/oddmetersam/collections/264001-bass-player-and-other-music-apparel-and-ipad-case?ref=carousel_collection"]http://www.redbubble...usel_collection[/url] [/quote] Wow. Do people actually wear this stuff?

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1455385054' post='2978699'] No such thing! [/quote] Correct (apart from BC tees, of course).

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1455484205' post='2979552'] I have some quick 15seconds videos of my custom Jake on my Instagram if you want a little idea (headphones needed). [url="https://www.instagram.com/simonrpoulton/"]https://www.instagra.../simonrpoulton/[/url] Si [/quote] Fab! I'm just putting the spec together for my next custom :-)

Great line. Randy's a massively underrated player. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mW0mu31rco

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1455322509' post='2978261'] Everybody in Tap played bass on Big Bottom. Blue [/quote] Apart from the drummer and the keyboard player...

FWIW, they seem to come with placky film on the pickguards. Peeling it off adds to the experience :-)

How could I forget Stephen Stills? Bass on the first CSN album, and occasionally at their gigs.

Levon Helm played bass in The Band sometimes.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1455191425' post='2976807'] Point taken re Duke. It's also worth remembering this was 1980 and the dinosaur bands had been given a caning through the punk years. Any mention of concepts was unwise. All explained in the Duke interviews available on YouTube. [/quote] Genesis thread derail alert: Yep - I always thought 'Burning Rope' from ATTWT was a commentary on the onset of punk.

I swear, if Fender, Lakland, Sandberg et al. aren't bricking it right now, they should be.

They look unfinished IMO. It needs [i]something[/i] on there...

[quote name='Mattpt85' timestamp='1455141677' post='2976485'] Speechless [/quote] My God!

Here' a few more Americana concept albums... Desperado - Eagles Chavez Ravine - Ry Cooder (lots of Ry Cooder stuff is, actually) Jesse James & White Mansions - Paul Kennerley All great albums, IMO.

[quote name='spyder' timestamp='1455104913' post='2975858'] Around ten years ago I had a custom bass made by Sandberg for around the same price of a Maruszczyk today. Sandberg then expanded and their prices are now over double for the same custom bass. I'm hoping Adrian does not get to popular and goes the same way as so many small bass companies. They expand, move to bigger factories, employ more people and prices go through the roof. Keep it real Adrian and you will have a loyal fan bass. [/quote] As long as they don't rise until after I sell my Oly Jake and get my new order in..!

[quote name='spyder' timestamp='1454946302' post='2974476'] Thought I would write a little piece on Maruszczyk amps. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWS0Y3sPg2U"]https://www.youtube....h?v=rWS0Y3sPg2U[/url] The link shows a quick video of the features of this two channel amp in its combo form but you will get the idea of the features. I've been using Adrian's basses for a few years now and haven't really found an amp that I like. They are either to dirty and rough or detailed and sterile. Having recently sold my Tone hammer 350 after using a Taurus amp I thought I would give the Bass Tank a try. Even though it has two channels I will only use the Electric input as I don't play acoustic bass... yet. Currently I'm using it with a sh*tty Maplin speaker for home rehearsals and whatever the studio / rehearsal room has when I'm out of the house. [attachment=211849:DSCF0828.JPG] [attachment=211850:DSCF0829.JPG] [attachment=211851:DSCF0832.JPG] It's an amazing amp with very flexible EQ ( I don't really use much ) and has a warm but detailed sound that I'm really liking. Adrian does not give any specs on his web site for the EQ points. At first this worried me but I soon just dialed in what I found pleasing to the ear and it was really that simple. I stopped worrying whether I needed a 200 hz cut or boost or will the 1khz range be to cutting. I just twiddled with my knobs ( oh ). They are very subtle and musical sounding. Can't even tell you if its class B or a Class D amp or whether it has a linear or switch mode power supply. Can tell you its 7kg and 400 watts into 4ohms..... Now I would love to get my hands on one of his speaker cabs. [/quote] Yeah - really like the look of these.

I suppose as well as the obvious, you should include one of the first - Frank Sinatra's 'In the Wee Small Hours'.