AndyTravis

I bought 2 Hercules stands… It’s to replace some knackered old ones. thats ok?

Point taken - he’s definitely had his name on a few bits though…as someone else mentioned he’s definitely helped sell a lot of gear. I wish him (and any others) well on it - any musician making money is doing better than me - I think my distrokid earnings are at about £30 this year…

Oh good lord…that’s not ok.

Flubbin eck. Thats a bit of gorgeousness right there.

When I worked in a shop (A LONG LONG TIME AGO) We’d easily upsell from Squier at £179 (Standard Strat) to a £329 Mexican Standard Strat - particularly white/maple… The country of Manufacture hierarchy wasn’t a consideration for those customers - it was the “Fender” bit. That’s the target audience…not us. It was the same reason we had a wall of American G&L s500’s, Legacy’s and Comanche’s which we could not sell - Selling 30 American standard strats to 1 US G&L ”I know this one is better, I prefer it, but I told my band I was buying a Fender Strat…” Brand power. I also presume there are considerations now Mr Anti-Mexico is back at the helm… I bet their manufacturing to wholesale margins are much more profitable using Indonesia too…

The Koa series too. There was an Esquire GT And some set neck showmasters and a HH tele. In the same press release there was a set neck precision listed but it never materialised; I have seen one. Probably a prototype or something.

It was great talking mate x

I really like the blue. As for the price/origin… if they play right…sound good…🤷🏻‍♂️

Stand By Me - Ben E King. It was definitely the first song/recognisable tune. My mum came in from the kitchen…”Was that you?!” A Kay P bass copy through a gorilla guitar amp…

https://on.soundcloud.com/odukD9PpSbeEKqxe7 well…tenuous link… I recorded this last night; not sure how it’s linked to the image but I’d suggest it could be the lamenting of a lost love - the bear remembers the summer of love with his now ex bear friend 🤣 yamaha acoustic, Danelectro silver sparkly bass…GarageBand drummer. Nowt fancy. edit by lurks for link embed

Frank Bello… Fender ESP Spector The new Spector is cack too… Jeff Berlin Peavey Dean Cort Brian Bromberg Peavey Dean Kiesel the same bass 3 ways… Bunny Brunel Gibson Carvin ESP Lee Sklar Gibson Warwick Dingwall imagine if Jaco had lived - he would’ve been an Endorsement dream… Mark King Jaydee Pangborn Status GB Fender Alembic Trace Elliot Ashdown TC Electronic Markbass who can blame them if it’s a means of income…

Had a good cry at it - he was mint

Some stands arrived from Rob today - took some determination to get the packaging open. unbelievable efforts. thanks mate x

Mike bought a gigbag from me. Magic - as the other 6 pages will tell you. hope that Vox Bass is snug as a bug x

Sorry guys - been hectic with home/band etc… I haven’t done it again. have I got time…we’ll have to see 😏

This is lovely… https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BMdAHsr3A/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Just gone through our messages… ”Oh wow, that’s it!! How does it sound?” This was the bass - sounds daft as a 40 year old bloke who’s played bass for 25 years…I was nervous sending a recording to him… For Nick.m4a Anyhow, this little ditty entitled “For Nick…” that’ll do.

Thanks for this. been at work all day with a lump in my throat, gutted. Do you know, the last time we met was in August - we’d talked a good few years ago about the ‘E’ basses he’d had a hand in making around 2000/2001… One bleary eyed morning - one came up on eBay (about 15 miles from me) listed as “not working, for parts only”. I didn’t even send him the link - I just went and bought it. I sent him a photo and said “this one of yours?” He was bowled over - it’d been made for a lady he’d eventually end up with who ended up passing away unexpectedly…it’d been sold by her estate and he assumed it’d been lost forever. We hatched a plan, he drove up to collect it from me - and I’d fixed most of the issues with it (I just couldn’t sort an LED blackout, but had sorted the dicky preamp and broken machineheads). We started chatting nonsense and lost about 2 hours, messing with basses… Think we did about 4 bass deals over the years, the first one was in 2009 for a Marcus Miller Jazz at Piccadilly train station… We’d message fairly regularly, particularly if one of us had a new bit of kit. Ah man, very similarly to our MB1😎 - you meet people every so often who have an impact. Nick was one…a force of nature. The world got a little quieter this week - and is going to be all the worse for it.

Awful news to wake up to. RIP mate

https://www.facebook.com/share/15wMifYREw/?mibextid=wwXIfr Jesus. Doesn’t look good this.

Yeah - hope so; the shares and well wishes online show how much love there is for the big guy.

Hopefully. it’s really not like him though to not have phone in hand, just saw Genesis Connected (One of Nick’s Bands) have cancelled their show tomorrow. Anyone who knows Nick knows that missing a show wasn’t in his vocabulary…he did gigs between gigs…just in case.