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Exactly what I did with mine...a nice upgrade...

There's a great book called, funnily enough, Laurel Canyon by a chap called Michael Walker. Very evocative, and some fascinating stories from what was a great place for a time, but also unblinking in the documenting of its fall from grace...

I'd forgotten how different the body on the 3000 is to the older BBs...that's very nice indeed...and now I wish (again) I hadn't sold mine...

This, above...the 800w/down to 2.67 ohm power unit in the Magellan (and quite a few others now, too) is a step up from the original Class D offerings, and the preamp is very, very flexible (two channels, two/three-way contour control, etc.). The HPF is very well implemented, too. If I hadn't run out of money, I'd still have mine...it was the last in a long run of (a dozen or more) Class D (and quite a few A/B) amps I went through, and stayed the longest...

The Genzler Magellan is a great two-channel amp...the channels are Clean and Drive (footswitchable), and there's two/three (flat is bypass) switchable (and controllable) Contour preset, too...

Well, the Genzlers have a contour, but that's as well as sweepable mids...everything else I've had from the US has had mids...I think Leszek might be a touch off-piste there...

Perhaps Gibson's Top Dollar Boys should give the lads at Epiphone a ring...this is my £120 Epi Bird body...perfect (but dusty): ...

My trio had a big falling-out with a pub at which we had about 30 gigs set up for the year, when they refused to increase (by less than 10%) the money which had been the same for the last three or four years. Bear in mind this is a very busy (queues out the door most of the night, bouncers staffing a one out, one in policy) city centre pub taking a fortune...it got ugly on their side very quickly ('You're contractually obliged' 'Ummmmm, where's this contract?' 'I sent you a text message'), and we walked away...

I'd have taken the opportunity to test his obsession/wallet combination with a 'Ohhhh, it has sentimental value, nothing short of ten grand could persuade me to part with it...' Then you're onto a win-win; either he buggers off, or you're looking at a payday... 🙂

That GR Bass 810 is rear ported, which seems an odd choice, given the basic design principles of an 810...

...be it a spoon and your teeth... 🙂 I very, very nearly did a similar thing to a early/mid 70s Precision back in the day (I fancied one of those fancy Jazz pickups in it), it was, as BRX says, just a run-of-the-mill bass; the only reason I didn't was that I decided at the last minute to trade it for something else...

That clip reminds me of the best thing I've read about the Who (nicked from David Hepworth): "Lots of bands have a lead singer and a lead guitarist, but the Who had a lead singer, a lead guitarist, a lead bassist and a lead drummer..." 😁

'care with cabinet placement' - you perhaps might not gig in the sorts of places I do - I'd much rather not have that to worry about...and I never use tweeters, so they're just an added expense/complexity I can live without...*sigh again*...

All rear ported, all with tweeters...*sigh*...😕

FTFY... 🙂

To be fair, that 12lbs weight for a sort-of-75 could well be the most accurate (and bravest) bit of copy work I've seen in a while - I (briefly) had a 78 Jazz that was around the 12lbs mark...the best thing I can say about it (not yours, obv), was that when you propped a door open with it, it stayed propped open... 😕🙂

PMT website, they have both...yeah, the non-reverse are £1499, but the reverse ones are soooo much more...the non-reverse are a slab body, tho, so that might go some way to explaining it...

Well, I thought it was expensive till I found out a boggo T-Bird is £2044, suddenly an extra £350 for the (entirely sensible) upgrades doesn't seem too much. All the upgrades are something I've done to my Shukerbird (OK, the neck's not reprofiled, it was replaced, and I've put an East EQ in it, but that was just for me), so yeah, it ticks a lot of boxes (tho I don't like gold hardware (again, just me)), but a Non-Signature Thunderbird 2 (no, not in a Gerry Anderson style) with similar upgrades but more colour options would be nice to see. Oh, and having fitted both, I much prefer the Babicz replacement bridge for these...

It took them two and a half years to come up with that? Don't get me wrong: replacing the bridge, tuners and pickups/EQ is no bad thing, but what were they doing for the other 900 days?

There's plenty - Geddy for his song-defining lines, JJB for his sound, but if we're talking listening to just bass out of a band context, there's only one for me:

Outdoor festival on Sunday (7000 or so in attendance), I turned up without backline, to find there was no backline. A slight surprise, but no drama; Bass -> Helix -> DI. Huge sound out of the monitors. At no point did I miss a big stack...especially as roadies were as rare as rainbow unicorns around the place...OK, my trousers weren't flapping behind me, but my eyebrows were hoisted a treat by the monitor mix, which was much, much better... TL:DR - how much room was there for groupies again?

Never mind at the break - nip that nonsense in the bud immediately...a Basil Fawlty surreptitious cuff on the back of the head isn't the way to go these days (sadly), but an immediate announcement from the singer that injured toddlers aren't your responsibility, and Band Only On The Stage is the rule...

Rival Sons (and Dirty Honey) in Blackburn...it's a huge building (old theatre with verrrrry high ceilings), the support were really good (tho a smaller club would've suited them better), RS were sublime as always. No cannon kick, either (that's twice in a row now, I've been lucky), and a reasonably defined bass sound...

Played a festival Bury way yesterday, couple of thousand people there, we were on just before the headliners. Took bass(es) and Helix, to get there and find there was no backline. No problem, straight into the PA, the monitors were good, onstage engineer about three feet to my right. A 45 minute set with a dep drummer (tho he's the drummer from our old originals band, the guitarist/singer and I have been playing with him for decades, on and off), went down well, but it was a bit chilly onstage (the wind was blowing right into the stage) and my hands were cold and slow for much of it. All good, tho, and the easiest of load-in/outs and setup.

Just a quick note: went to see Rival Sons over the weekend, and the bassist used a Mustang and a (probably) P34, and the top rear had worn off the black to what looked suspiciously like a sunburst underneath...it also had (again, what looked like) a Darkstar pickup in the bridge position. In a big hall through a line array PA, they sounded much the same...