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Just tell them the truth - that it was a private sale so you have no receipt. Tell them honestly how much you paid for it but don't try & con them - The customs people at Heathrow & Gatwick aren't stupid when it comes to the value of instruments, especially popular ones like Fender & Gibson.

That's pretty bloody good actually. Nice one!

There's some great bass on the Journey stuff - "Escape" is just full of really excellent bass parts . It's been one of my favourite play-along albums for years.

Fenders. Warwicks - ugliest range of basses ever IMO (with the exception of the Streamer & that's only because they "borrowed" the shape from Spector).

[quote name='Machines' post='946516' date='Sep 5 2010, 06:47 PM']So how the hell was he going to get them home after ?![/quote] That had never occurred to me before you said that.

When I worked in a music shop a guy came in & wanted to swap his Volvo estate for a Gibson ES335 & a Mesa Boogie combo.

[quote name='rmshaw37' post='939920' date='Aug 30 2010, 12:49 PM']to the op - do you with with pre preg or dib dob?[/quote] Wow! A post from one of the Flowerpot Men.

[quote name='walbassist' post='939503' date='Aug 29 2010, 06:00 PM']Not the best quality picture, but here are my two Veillettes. They are, quite simply, perfect. [/quote] I've said it before but I'll say it again - they are far & away the best looking single cut basses I've ever seen.

Petes wife died a few years ago & he basically just went into total destruct mode after that. I'd heard that he was back on the smack in a big way & the rest of the band had just had enough. They were also going to be refused entry to the US for a tour a couple of years back because of Petes drug bust record & that was the last straw.

[quote name='Cygnus x-1' post='938463' date='Aug 27 2010, 09:55 PM']Is this the same bass? has anybody actually seen him play any other bass? if it is the same one, it looks to be in remarkably good condition. Any thoughts, cheers, Nick.[/quote] Grover Jackson made a new birdseye maple neck for Rogers black precision in 1977/78 (the letter from Floyd equipment tech Phil Taylor to Grover ordering the neck, along with birdseye maple Strat & Tele necks for Gilmour, is dated 8th December 1977). The neck was ordered with a lacquer finish & with a Fender decal on the headstock. A "thicker than normal if possible" truss rod was also requested.

I've long been a big fan of the Police & Sting as a solo artist. Seen him live a few times & he's always been superb. I've actually been listening to some of his solo stuff quite a bit lately, mainly The Dream of the Blue Turtles" & "The Soul Cages".

[quote name='GremlinAndy' post='921651' date='Aug 11 2010, 02:43 PM']Bah I'm a dolt! I should have read the last message Joe sent properly. He did say that it'll be (hopefully) ready by the first week of September. Can't say fairer than that. (Well it'll be really late, but I kinda knew that would be that case.... )[/quote] It must be really frustrating for you, but I'm sure it'll have been worth the wait. Are you still thinking of going over to pick it up?

I've played enough basses in my 30+ years of playing to have a bloody good idea of what I do & don't like. Fenders definately come into the "Don't like" category for me, as do Rickenbackers. I own two basses that many people would class as "High end" basses, & I own them because they are the best basses I've ever played. If that makes me a snob then so be it.

I got myself an ex-demo EBS Gorm ET350 combo for a bargain price last week - it's absolutely superb! I really cannot fault it at all. It's just a really well thought out professional combo & the quality of both sound & build is fantastic. It's been a long time since I used a 15" speaker (my old Sunn Beta combo back in 1980 was the last one), and I've never had a rig with a tweeter before. My Zons sound fabulous through it & I'm just really enjoying every second I'm spending playing through it. Just thought I'd share that with you.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='924549' date='Aug 14 2010, 12:10 AM']Just so's I'm not getting implicated in the Myung-bashing, I think his playing is entirely appropriate for his band. It's just that the band is not appropriate for a discussion about music. For fear of turning this into a merits-or-otherwise of DT thread I have to point out that I've heard a lot of their music for a long time, dating back to 1994 when a guitarist mate forced a copy of Images & Words on me because "if you like Rush - you'll [i]love [/i]these guys!". Wrong. I've subsequently heard lots more, (including a boot of their early demos as Majesty with their original singer) and even sought out newer releases (most recently Octavarium) in case I'd misjudged them. But I still think they're f@cking awful. [/quote] Same here. I'm not saying Myung is an awful bassist, just agreeing with somebody who feels the same about Dream Theatre's music as I do. The capability of any of the musicians is not in question.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='924148' date='Aug 13 2010, 05:08 PM']Speaking as an unrepentant, dyed-in-the-wool prog rocker, I agree with you 100%. Dream Theater are a horrendous celebration of seemingly endless simultaneous instrumental masturbation, topped off with caricature 80s cheese-rock histrionic squealing. Never before in the course of musical history has any band quite so roundly failed to get the point of the "music" they endeavour to create. Unrelentingly wretched.[/quote] I'm so glad somebody else thinks this. I absolutely f***ing DETEST Dream Theatre but because I listen to a lot of prog stuff people automatically think I'll like them. You're totally correct - they completely fail to get the point. That's yank musicians for you - all f***ing technique & bluster with absolutely NONE of the qualities that I love about prog.

C.F. Martin made a range of solid body electric guitars & basses in the late 70s - early 80s. They never caught on and weren't around for very long. I'm pretty sure that this ISN'T one of them, though it does look similar to them. Maybe the Japcrap experts can shed some light on it? Just found this, which would indicate it is a Japanese bass: [url="http://en.allexperts.com/q/Guitar-General-649/Pro-Martin-3.htm"]http://en.allexperts.com/q/Guitar-General-...ro-Martin-3.htm[/url]

I'm a big fan Of Giblins playing too. However, in both the live videos you posted that's not John Giblin playing, it's Alan Thompson. He didn't play on the first Kate Bush album either. On "Wuthering Heights" it's probably David Paton. Kate used a wide variety of bass players - don't assume any fretless playing on her stuff is Giblin, it's just as likely to be Eberhard Weber or Del Palmer. It's definitely Giblin on "Babooshka" & "Breathing" though. Both absolutely brilliant bass parts.