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[quote name='JanSpeeltBas' post='528097' date='Jun 29 2009, 08:40 PM']Well (OT), the Warwick Streamer bass was first produced under licence of Spector. After the contractual term ended Warwick continued to produce this bass without permission, much to the annoyance of Stuart Spector who felt ripped off...[/quote] I never knew that. I wonder why Stuart Spector never got all litigious on Warwicks ass?

I was expecting them to have pictures of Spiderman or the Fantastic Four on them. I got quite excited.

I'll happily buy secondhand gear & have got some incredible bargains doing so.

[quote name='molan' post='527959' date='Jun 29 2009, 06:11 PM']Or to say it's a Spector clone. . .[/quote] "For sale - Spector copy by Warwick. Unlike other Warwick basses this one does not look like a turd on a stick...."

That's a great colour, and even with the extra £100 that's still a bloody good price for a secondhand Rick 4003 (especially from a shop).

That's cheating that is......

Here we go: [url="http://www.adamblackguitarcompany.co.uk/artists/index-artists.html"]http://www.adamblackguitarcompany.co.uk/ar...ex-artists.html[/url]

In their cases flat under a bed will be fine in my experience. I've got guitars & basses that I don't play for 6 months at a time or more that I store like that & they've always been fine.

[quote name='bythesea' post='527254' date='Jun 28 2009, 11:30 PM']Didn't see it so don't know what it was, but is it the same one she plays in [url="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/music/article2334489.ece"]this[/url] video?[/quote] I rather enjoyed that - thanks for posting it!

A measly 2 from me.. [color="#FF00FF"][size=5]1556[/size][/color]

Most of them are owned by collectors over at the Hamer Fan Club Forum. Incredibly sought after & everyone who's played one raves about it. Most of them are more "80s hair metal" looking than that - the bass was originally designed for Kip Winger.

[quote name='Waldo' post='526377' date='Jun 27 2009, 11:04 PM']That's strange, I'm seeing you post the same thing at 10:45 and then at 10:50 Has the forum just broken or something?[/quote] It went a bit weird around the time of those posts - lots of posts dropped out for a couple of minutes & when they came back that one post had been duplicated. Odd.

A dozen or so assorted Zon Legacy Elites.

Note to self: I really must stop making reference to things Jeff Berlin has said when I post on Basschat threads.............

Personally I think I'd just pay the extra money & get it refinished professionally. You'll never do it as well as someone who's experienced at the whole finishing process. I've just got a quote from Martin Simms for refinishing a Precision Bass body in Burgundy Mist & it was under £250.

[quote name='Waldo' post='526234' date='Jun 27 2009, 08:02 PM']Doesn't Jeff Berlin himself fall into the catagory of 'great' player who's only listened to by other bassists anyway? Or was that his point? [/quote] He was including himself in that category and he made these comments at a clinic he did in the Bass Centre in LA, which was featured in the April 1992 issue of Bass Player magazine. (Personally I think it's one of the most level headed & sensible articles about bass playing I've ever read). It was exactly his point. (And yes, his son was seriously ill with leukaemia).

Other bassists tell you how much better they would have played that song.......

[quote name='Count Bassy' post='526067' date='Jun 27 2009, 04:43 PM']That's not how I read what he said. I read it to mean that, impressive as the 'advanced techniques' are, they are not a very big part of what people want a bass player to do.[/quote] BINGO!! That's exactly what he was saying. (I knew I should never have mentioned Jeff Berlins name......)

[quote name='Rich' post='526046' date='Jun 27 2009, 04:21 PM']Yes, I've heard him come up with that before. He seems to be arguing that there's no point in learning something unless you're going to get paid for it. Now call me a radical, but what's so wrong with playing or learning stuff for the [i]enjoyment[/i] of it? If getting paid was the be all and end all, I'd never get to play a note.[/quote] That's not what he was saying at all. He's always said that if playing a particular style (be it two handed tapping or whatever) is what you want to do then great, but the reality is 99% of bass playing work is in more traditional supportive roles. He was talking purely from the perspective of people getting hired as jobbing bassists, not what you choose to play in your spare time or if you choose to take the solo bass artist path.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='525670' date='Jun 27 2009, 02:43 AM']Do they though? Yes there are some talented bassists about who can do loads of clever and difficult stuff, but ultimately everybody else with a bass is busy getting busy with a band, and there's no place for any of that. So has the role of the instrument been advanced at all through their innovation? Clearly a lot of bassists pay a lot of attention to people like Manring, Wooten, Marcus Miller, Jean Baudin, etc. but if nobody but bass players are listening to them, and bass players generally can't incorporate any of that stuff into what they do (which seems to be the case) then is all this boundary-testing ultimately a bit futile? Can we conclude that, while it's interesting for the individual involved at the time and other Bass Anoraks, it's pretty irrelevant for anybody else?[/quote] I'd pretty much agree with you on this. Jeff Berlin has said something pretty similar at clinics he's done. Whilst agreeing that players like Sheehan, Manring (& lots of other flash buggers I can't think of now) are great players their material is only listened to by other bass players; It's a small self supporting market & always will be. He then went on to ask people in the audience if they spent lots of time working on techniques such as tapping etc. & many said yes. He then asked how many of them had ever got booked for a session or been called upon to at an audition to use these techniques and invariably the answer was no. To me a lot of the stuff I see people raving over when bass players do it is just stuff that wouldn't get a second look if it was being done on a guitar. A perfect example was the clip somebody posted on here the other day of someone singing & accompanying himself on a bass playing a song he'd written. The first thing I thought was "Why?" The song wasn't, IMO, very good, his voice was decidedly average and if he'd been playing it on an acoustic guitar nobody would have given it a second thought. The bass in this instance, to my way of thinking, is being used for novelty value. It's always entertaining ( for other bassists) to see a skilled player showing off, but at the end of the day the bass is required to play a supporting role in 99.9% of situations, and I for one don't have a problem with that.

The seller revised the auction midweek & changed the "buy it now" price from £550 to £599, which is a bit odd as he didn't sell it last week when it was on for £579.

[quote name='attackbass' post='524286' date='Jun 25 2009, 11:30 PM']Just speaking to my dad about it, and he told me about a time when he was younger he resprayed an mg with nitro in his garage with no ventilation or masks - he's nearly 61 now! lol. He's told me to stop worrying, as there are a whole lot of other things out there that are more likely to kill or injury me - like constantly touring in splitter vans/buses/airplanes and the alcohol consumption that goes with it!![/quote] My dad was always telling me this or that won't harm you; smoking won't hurt you, drinking won't hurt you. He spent most of his life working with all manner of nasty glues, varnishes etc. The look of surprise & fear on his face when they they told him last year, on his 79th birthday, that he has advanced & incurable cancer is something I'll never forget....

Pyramid strings are superb. I've never used their bass strings but I used to use Pyramid Gold Flats on my Gretsch guitars.

[quote name='OldGit' post='523905' date='Jun 25 2009, 05:23 PM']In the unusual department they had a selection (a [i]selection[/i]!) of Zons.....[/quote] Did they finally have any Legacys in or just the usual pile of Sonus basses?

It's evil stuff - be very careful! There's a reason why commercial spray painting has to be done in explosion proof booths by law. Wear a PROPER mask, not one of those poxy paper dust masks. A good tip to help any spray you may ingest get carried through the body is to drink plenty of full fat milk before, during & after your spraying session. Apparently the emulsion (that's what milk is) traps the paint particles & you just sh*t them out rather than painting your insides.