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Call me cynical but does anybody else feel that maybe the OP has some kind of vested interest with these basses? The posts just seems like adverts to me.

What Euro model do you have? Unless it's the Doug Wimbish signature model then the neck is likely to be much chunkier than a jazz anyway, so I wouldn't have thought the neck on a Rebop would give you any problems.

I could be wrong but I think it might be Daniel Pineswell.

Do the different noises on the wooden bit where you put your fingers have names then?

Very nice basses they are, excellent quality. I think the pickups are Dimarzios.

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1422451797' post='2672813'] I could be wrong but that Tele of Dave's might be for sale if you're in the market for one? [/quote] I'm actually in the process of selling pretty much everything at the moment but thanks for the heads up.

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1420399143' post='2648926'] Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! [url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/DSCN1168_zps7354b783.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] That's a nice looking Telecaster.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1422434835' post='2672478'] You can't argue with "you get what you pay for" can you? [/quote] Yes you can actually, there are plenty of examples of overpriced crap out there.

[quote name='tbonepete' timestamp='1422428599' post='2672428'] Seems strange that they would go to the expense of buying an iconic product, then change it, thus making it no longer the iconic product, and incurring yet more expense along the way. Why not just make the bridge they've ended up with and not bother buying the rights to badass? [/quote] Why do they go to the expense of buying up companies that make very different products to their own, then closing them down completely? That's what they did with Hamer guitars, seems like that's what they've done with Genz Benz & plenty of others too. The only brand they did some good with when they bought them up was Gretsch. Fender aren't alone in doing this, Gibson & Martin are guilty of it too. To be honest I've always thought that Badass bridges, especially the Badass 2, are incredibly over-rated. The new Fender bridge high mass bridge looks better to me.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1422438965' post='2672534'] You're always going to get someone slapping away at 100 miles an hour for some inexplicable reason, but it's when they do that and nothing else that really gets me. For God's sake play some pick and fingerstyle, and slow down, bub! I want to hear the notes! Having said that, you can't really get much of an idea how a bass sounds from a video as the equipment people listen to the audio on will vary wildly from something decent to tiny laptop speakers and worse. Also a bass played by person A will sound totally different when played by person B, C and D anyway, so... once again, if you're thinking of buying a bass you really need to find one and play it yourself. Even then it's going to sound different at a gig than it did in the shop... [/quote] This. There are far too many variables to make them anything other than worthless.

[quote name='tbonepete' timestamp='1422371596' post='2671782'] My question is why didn't Fender just buy the rights/tools etc for the badass bridges? [/quote] I'm sure if they could have, and it had been commercially viable, they would have. Having said that, they would probably have just done what they are doing now anyway, which is making their own version of it. Fender are very keen on buying up & then quickly eradicating anything it sees as opposition.

That's good fun to mess about with but by god those guitars & basses are ugly!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1422344137' post='2671300'] Yeah, it was a harsh comment. I don't even know what a [i]"Katie"[/i] is. That was me being an old grump. You know, [i]"these young whippers don't know nothing"[/i] remark. I'm very intimidated with these young talented whippers. And I [i]"aged out"[/i] on several opportunities and it's tough to come to grips with. I know I had a lot of respect and interest in older musicians when I was young. I personally don't see that respect from many younger folks today. Blue [/quote] Is it any wonder that you don't see any respect from younger folks when you seem to have such a sneery, dismissive attitude towards them? Respect is a two way thing and it has to be earned, nobody is entitled to it automatically just because of how old they are.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1422368485' post='2671711'] All I know is kids will hate what their parents listen to. It's the law! [/quote] They will then quite often find a renewed appreciation of the music their parents listened to as they get older. I know I have. Most of the music I listen to these days my father would have happily listened to, and most of the stuff that I listened to that he thought was bloody rubbish I now think is bloody rubbish too.

They are fantastic basses, superb quality. I love Hamer USA stuff, I've had a few Hamer guitars & they've all been superb. I see yours has got the 2TEK bridge as well. Surprised the previous owner replaced the pickups, the bass would have originally come with either EMGs or Seymour Duncans. Nice bass!

There's nothing from Station to Station, Low, Heroes or Lodger - that's quite a big ommission.

It was one of the guys from the Bass centre in Wapping.

99% of audiences wouldn't notice or care if there was a bass player or not.

I've only got one these days, a secondhand MIJ 57RI Precision. All the fancy expensive ones went a while ago now.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1422286373' post='2670682'] I haven't read through this thread but I'm assuming the previous 41 posts is everyone saying their current rig is the best they have ever heard? [/quote] No.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1422285953' post='2670676'] Sounds like the two basses have different neck profiles, with the new US model being a "thick C" rather than the very slim neck on the MIM (and the original CIJ) models. A lot of people bought the Geddy Lee J on the strength of the neck profile... It will be interesting to hear whether it makes much difference. Anyway, Geddy's original '72 J was fitted with a Badass II bridge, so are these new ones a true "signature" bass as such? It all gets very confusing in Fenderland! [/quote] It's a shame the US model is so expensive, as it was the stupidly skinny neck on the MIJ model that was the deal breaker for me. I guess if the Badass bridges are no longer available there's not a lot Fender can do about it.

[quote name='JamesBass' timestamp='1422231981' post='2670239'] Started to get in to going to these things and have had a real mixed bag, just got in from one in Fareham in Portsmouth, that was pretty good but, there was NOTHING other than your singer-songwriter type who can strum a few chords, great to listen to and get pissed but not so great if you wanna get involved and play! Maybe we should have a pinned group listing Jam nights? I know I'd travel for a really good night and I'm sure others would too! [/quote] I'd class "open mic" & "Jam" nights as two very different things. An Open Mic night to me is very much an acoustic-y singer/songwriter type of thing, and I wouldn't expect to see a bass player at one, certainly not just getting up & "jamming" anyway. Jam nights, on the other hand, tend to be more electric/band oriented. Unfortunately they also tend to be heavily skewed towards blues players, but I guess that makes sense as it doesn't take much planning for a bunch of people who have never played together before to bumble through a 12 bar. Both tend to be very cliquey, and unless you're on the organisers buddy list you're not likely to get to play.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1422208172' post='2669859'] No longer available.... [/quote] Fair enough. There was a time when I would have known that, long ago when I actually gave a flip....

GAK have got the USA Geddy advertised: http://www.gak.co.uk/en/fender-american-geddy-lee-jazz-bas-black/109429 Anybody know why Fender are no longer using Badass bridges on the Geddy & the Steve Harris signature models, are they no longer available or something?

My Zon Legacy basses & my old Ashdown ABM C110 combo.