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Fight Fire With Fire - Metallica

Another recommendation for Original Scratchplates. Take your existing scratchplate off the bass, draw round it & mark all the holes. Scan it & send to them.

Certainly my Rockinbetter Fakers were great in a band setting. I've only been able to use my Custom Walnut Faker (with Gemini Waverider pickups) with the band once because of the Covid restrictions, but it too sounded great (need to suss out the pot values on that). This one sounds similar to my old, pre-Vintage Circuit 4003, so all good there.

Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson

Bloody typical eh? Spotted an advert on FB for a 2011, Jetglo 4003 for a very good price, not too far away either. Got in touch with the seller, only for him to say he'd just taken a deposit on it. Bum. Yesterday, the seller gets in touch to say the deposit guy had backed out of the deal, and asked whether I was still interested. At the asking price, I wasn't going to turn it down, deposit paid. Arranged to meet up at around the halfway point, deal done. First impressions when I got it home, is it must have been kept in a garage or something, the paint's cracked in a few places and there's a few dings. It also looked like it'd not been cleaned since it was came away from the shop it was bought from. The case had seen a bit of wear as well, with one of the feet missing, and an indentation on the underside. Spent a bit of time cleaning it up, and put a fresh set of strings on, sounds great though. Toyed with the Vintage circuit, it's a bit trebly-er than the standard sound, I didn't hear the "classic" 4001 "clank", but it did sound good. No pics yet, I'll get some later.

Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue

Yup, we're still looking for a new singer, but with the rising R rates, the rehearsal rooms have closed again. Can really audition singers if we can't get into the rehearsal rooms.

Born Again - Black Sabbath

Back to Black - Amy Winehouse

What's the Frequency Kenneth? - R.E.M.

If you have the original, then you could get a custom one made up by Gig Ink. Or you could have a replacement "no name" one made. However, it sounds as though the original TRC is missing (assuming it's been "replaced" by another TRC). Other than the "obvious" other TRC, I would assume that original / NOS 2388B TRC's are as rare as a rare thing during a rare occurrence.

Redemption Song - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Get Your Freak On - Missy Elliott

California Dreamin' - Mama's and Papa's

Ibanez https://www.ibanez.com/eu/support/catalogs/19810101000008.html https://www.ibanez.com/eu/support/catalogs/19810101000009.html

What I Am - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

Edie (Ciao Baby) - The Cult

Things change. Tastes change, requirements change, situations change, times change.

I'd love to get my hands on a 4 string Long Scale Star Bass.

Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis

Ibanez are Japanese, and therefore use metric measurements. When I went through my "Vintage Ibanez Guitar Collecting" phase, I managed to find a few sets of NOS Ibanez knobs from the US & Canada, it is worth trawling eBay, but I'd expect them to be be pretty expensive these days. The Ibanez Collectors World site used to be really good, especially for the guitars, but there was a lot of bass info on there as well. IIRC, Ibanez did a good run of "Vintage Reissues" from their 70's & 80's catalogue, and they also reissued the "speed knobs" with the rubber rings. You may be able to find some of the reissue knobs.

Have a look at the Yamaha, definitely worth considering. However, whether you get another bass or not, I would really get the Spector in to someone for a damn good look over / service / setup, as it's still looking decent after all this time in the garage.

Stone Free - Jimi Hendrix Experience

I definitely think that the move to a single piece button/screw for the S Locks was a really daft decision, when the button and separate screw combination was simple, and it just worked. If you do a bit of searching, you can still get the old style strap locks.

The pointy bits will catch on something.