LeftyJ

They did reissue the Musician, but they overdid it and charged silly money. Meet the MC30th: https://reverb.com/item/2353753-ibanez-rare-ltd-ed-mc30th-musician-bass-no-7-of-only-15-made-in-japan-w-ohsc

The 5-string is a JJ. It's missing a string, but it still counts

What a beauty! There's a 4-string U-bass for sale in the Netherlands at the moment, seller claims it's a prototype: https://link.marktplaats.nl/m2013371014

Yup, should be on par with the other high end basses Japan had to offer in those days: Ibanez Musician, Aria Pro II SB series, Yamaha BB. Very nice find!

This I had the exact mirror image of yours, and it was indeed on the neck plate.

Yes, one of the new Schaller S-locks. They fit on the old Schaller strap buttons, but Schaller do not recommend using the old locks on the newer strap buttons because they're just slightly smaller.

I currently only have my 1983 lefty MC924 that I love - but never play. It's very rare and it's from my year of birth which makes it quite special to me, and it's really comfortable to play and sounds great. I mostly play my other basses. That said, I've always been a vintage Ibanez geek. I've owned two more MC924's, an RS924 (indeed, as @Bassassin put it, one of the best sounding PJ's out there), two 1996 ATK300's, one 1998 ATK305 and a 1987 (first year) SR800LE, all made in Japan. I've also had a few of their guitars, all RG's and also all made in Japan (two RG470's and two awesome RG550's). I'm sure more will follow, I'm a sucker for anything Ibanez Japan.

The Status Graphite Facebook groups are buzzing with news of new Status basses, the Series 23 with graphite-reinforced maple necks with phenolic fingerboards. Rob has updated his site too. Exciting, but weird too!

I've been a plug and play type of player for most of my bass playing years. I started out as a guitarist and have had loads of pedals and multi-FX units, but for bass I've never really felt the need. I had some pedals for sh*ts and giggles at home (like envelope filters and a synth pedal, and some other things that went unused) that I had no use for in any of my bands, but that's it. If I had an amp with a slight bit of dirt I was happy. Now for the past 3 years I've been in a doom metal band where I need to be able to add more drive on occasion, so I had a use for the Darkglass B7K that I've had sitting at home for a few years, and I've finally made a small pedalboard (Pedaltrain Nano) with said overdrive, a tuner, a compressor and a chorus. But I often forget bringing it to rehearsals and even gigs... It's just not really for me, and in the end I'm happiest with just my bass into a dirty tube (pre)amp that I can vary the drive on by altering how hard I pluck.

Still better than having bands split, and then having two bands touring with the same material. I used to listen to Rhapsody when I was you get, they're a symphonic power metal band. When the two founding members and main contributors clashed in 2011, they went their own separate ways as "Luca Turilli's Rhapsody" and "Rhapsody of Fire". The latter kept the original vocalist until 2016, when everyone except the founding keyboardist reunited and did a farewell tour. Then in 2018, confusingly, they reunited again onder the name "Turilli / Lione Rhapsody" - still without said keyboardist. Ever since, my bandmates and I have jokingly used the addition "OF FIRE" for any newer lineup of an older band.

The correct name is actually Dymondwood®, trademarked by Rutland Plywood Corp, which consists of layered hardwood veneers that were heated, vacuüm pressed and impregnated with dyes and phenolic resin. Roscoe also offers Rainbow Dymondwood on their fretless basses, which has multicoloured dyes (each layer has a different colour, and when the radius of the fingerboard is introduced, this gives the rainbow effect).

I too choose this guy's signature bass. That sounds almost perfect! I'll have a solid orange, somewhere around Candy Tangerine would be awesome. And a fiver with the same specs too!

...except the ad fails to mention it was stripped of its Dark Stain finish. The area around the serial number still shows the original colour of the back of the neck. It was completely refinished ssve for that little bit on the back and the front logo. There are no lefties in any other finish than Dark Stain. I've owned three of these and know my Musicians Whoever did it did a beautiful job, but it's not original and incredibly overpriced.

At home, either my EBS NeoDrome 12 or straight into a Yamaha USB mixer with two KRK V4 Series II monitors. Both sound great, but I usually favour the EBS.

Quick question: how do the SVT-IIP and the SVP-PRO compare, tonally? I know the PRO has somewhat more tone shaping options and the addition of useful added connections like an FX loop, tuner out, and a bright switch rather than a bright input. I have the SVP-CL and SVP-PRO and love both (but only use the latter). I've been looking at the SVT-IIP as well, either as a backup or as my home recording / practice setup.

LOL, you were just in before the edit

Well MY audience prefers the bridge pickup in the 70s position. Kidding, of course. However, I regularly do have other bass players (either in the audience, or from the other bands we shared the stage with) comment on my tone. While I definitely don't play for the bass players in the audience, their comments are most valuable to me

It is not often that I buy something twice, but at one point I had two Ibanez ATK300L's (and an identical 5-string ATK305) and three MC924's. I still have a tendency to get a 4-string and 5-string of the same model - I have a Warwick Streamer LX and an LX5, and a Status Graphite S2 Classic 4-string and 5-string. The ATK's are all gone, and only one MC924 remains.

It looks different enough from the regular Star Bass, with its offset waist and cutaways compared to the symmetrical design of the regular Star Bass, and it has a proper forearm contour. Those are some major improvements over the standard model, and really set it apart. Very nice! I don't like the contrasting forearm area on the German custom shop models (or the 10k price tag), but the regular model and the Rockbass version look sweet.

Warwick says hi. I really like the concept of these torzal guitars! I think Lace made some too at one point, I think I recall the Lace Helix with a torzal twist neck.

Melodic doom metal with Dutch lyrics (in the case of this song, inspired by the courage of the Ukrainian people standing up to their suppressors). Not gonna happen.

This. I'm like this too, I have basses sitting in my rack that I never ever play but they would be incredibly hard to replace when seller's remorse hits. At the same time I have to admit that out of the 70+ guitars and basses I have owned there are only about three that I actually miss. And there have been a few instruments that I just wasn't ready for, and which I would appreciate a lot more now than I did when I owned them. One was a very high-end Human Base that was built for the now-gone German bass store "Mr.Bassman". They had two bass models based on regular production models, one being a Clover Slapper with some custom features and one being a Human Base Base-X neck-through with a rosewood top, Bartolini soapbars and 2-band electronics. They called it the Mr.Bassman "No Sweat" and I would love to have it back. It looked like this but lefty:

I forgot all about those EDC's with the ATK pickup and electronics! What a beast 😎

And an Affirma, the "original" on which the EDA was based, designed by Rolf Spuler!

"Wow, that guy's bass looks and sounds awesome, but I don't recognise the headstock!" "Me neither. I think the logo is... drawn on with sharpie? And the tuners are mounted in this supercool fan pattern! I want one."