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As far as I'm aware Prince was always staunchly anti drugs. If he'd been ill, as looks like the case, & was on prescription medication it could have been an accident. Let's not go jumping to any moralistic, judgemental conclusions just yet, eh?

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1461308980' post='3033442'] Quite a few internet comments around that there were quality issues with these basses. [/quote] What? With a Fender? Surely not?

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1461327183' post='3033709'] Fixed [/quote] I don't differentiate between toddlers & twenty-something wannabes......

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1461323488' post='3033651'] How can they have been on the scene 'for a long time' if they're in their 20s-30s? Must be a new, modern meaning of the words 'a long time' that I'm not familiar with. [/quote] "A long time" is pretty subjective - when you're a toddler 10 minutes is an eternity....

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1461316596' post='3033567'] I'd forgotten that, he wrote Eternal Flame for The Bangles, which really is just a perfect pop song [/quote] He didn't write "Eternal Flame", he wrote "Manic Monday".

[quote name='Lasermonkey' timestamp='1461203327' post='3032451'] I picked this up the other day: It's a 2008 Fender "thin skin" AVRI Jaguar. I've wanted a Jag for ages, but somehow kept buying Jazzmasters instead. Anyway, I had some cash burning a hole in my pocket and then this turned up locally. The thin skins are pretty rare. I've read in a couple of places that only 25 of each colour were made. This particular Jag has a Staytrem bridge added, which is very nicely made and works very well. I suspect I will end up replacing the bridges on my Jazzmasters with them too. The scratchplate is by Spitfire and is just stunning in the flesh. The guy at Spitfire is the only one IMO who manages to do tortoiseshell as good as the vintage stuff. Why the Fender Custom Shop doesn't use his work is beyond me. It's interesting that the Jag that came up was in Daphne Blue, as my think skin Jazzmaster is also Daphne Blue! Well, that's one more Fender offset crossed off the list. What I'd like next is a Custom/Maverick, but the chance of finding one are pretty remote, especially at a reasonable price. I did happen to chance upon one in Peterborough, back in either '91 or '92 and it was £495. I'd just bought two Rickenbackers and was totally skint. I really wanted it and have regretted not selling any family members for medical experiments ever since! [/quote] Lovely! Love my Jazzmaster.

That is a lovely colour!

[quote name='machinehead' timestamp='1461176273' post='3032232'] My view?... I think you'd be mad to buy a bass you think won't suit you, just because of the year you were born. Just my thought. Others will no doubt, disagree. Frank. [/quote] I agree completely. I have never understood this year of birth bass thing.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1461270421' post='3033271'] Oo-er. That made something happen in my pants. At the front, this time. [/quote]

Unbelievable. One of the greatest live performers I've ever seen.

Nice colour. It's a refinish though.

You'd be better off going to an Alexander Technique practitioner for this than a bass teacher IMO.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1461151682' post='3031870'] I think they're rusty. They can be replaced with stainless steel ones. [/quote] I think yellow staples indicates that the wood the cab is made of is diseased.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1461151421' post='3031866'] they look yellow to me? [/quote] Look yellow to me too.

That grill cloth is a bit tatty around the edges, it could do with a trim.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1461092512' post='3031444'] It's a good job there are some good originals bands out there otherwise cover bands would have nothing to play [/quote]

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1461084334' post='3031332'] It stands true for the population as a whole to be fair [/quote] True dat.

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1461014576' post='3030742'] What I look for in a band is other people who aren't bell-ends. [/quote] Unfortunately a large percentage of musicians are bell-ends.

First bass I ever had was a secondhand, shorter-than-short-scale Japanese thing that said "Raver" on the headstock. Got rid of it.

I would have thought the reason there are so many Fender bass copies is because the Jazz & Precision are the most popular basses in the world. What would be the point of copying something nobody wants?

If any thread deserves to be resurrected it's this one.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1460742301' post='3028438'] Over here in the States, conservatives do not believe in helping anyone. They think you should just crawl in a gutter and die. Blue [/quote] Our countries have one thing in common at least then.

I've always thought he was a massively over-rated gurning bellend & this does nothing to alter that opinion.

It's played on a keyboard on the original.

Yes it does matter to me. There are some that I think look like sh*t that I have used though, Markbass stuff for instance which, although looking like they're made by Fischer Price, are actually really good. To be honest I've never had much interest in amps & cabs, I've only owned five amps in the 37 years I've been playing.