AndyTravis

I’d be offended if it wasn’t 100% true

Well I’ve ended up with Nordstrand 70’s voiced now. I like the stock sound, but I’ve got a feeling this blue miller and the blue sadowsky will be the “go to” basses - so wanted the same pre. @Normski told me he’d been gigging a miller with aguilars. It seems to be a popular mod.

All the bits are in the post back. Wednesday looks busy.

Wooo! Nice gift!

I’ve just asked the wife for £5k ”I don’t get it Trav, I just don’t...”

Yeah, it was 7.85lbs, and then when I took the badass off for a vintage fender and took the Duncan 1/4lbs for Aguilar it was about 7.5lbs. Still regret it not Being mine. I took delivery of 6 fender American deluxe jazz basses in 2010 when they changed to block/bound etc. Lightest was 8.2lbs, heaviest was 10.5lbs. most sat around 9.5/10lbs. Some Ash, some Alder. It was literally luck of the draw.

Haha. My playing wouldn’t suffer if I lost all my fingers in a terrible woodworking accident. The Bass was fine. weirdly held into the neck with a nail. Classy.

I took the pickguard off my violin bass - as it read “The Cavern” If there’s no electronics mounted to it. Go for it. Shove it in a ziplock bag and shove in a draw, or case. The lad who I sold the violin to kept it as it was and still has the pickguard in the case where I left it.

I was wrong on this one.

Not for me that. Everything barring the facings is perfect.

Aged White Pearl

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They did an advert in ‘bassist’ magazine For these which was a colourful whole page affair. I thought these were the absolute pinnacle of bass guitar design, lovely looking basses. I had the ad stuck on one of my school work books.

Dunno (Mayones Patriot) Anthony Jackson (Fodera Sig) Joe Dart (MM Sig) Dunno (RD Bass - maybe an Edwards/ESP) Geddy Lee (60’s Jazz) Steffan Lessard (Modulus) Pino Palladino (Pre EB Ray) Dunno (MM SR5 HH) Jimmy Haslip (Roscoe) Billy Sheehan (Yang attitude double neck) Sting (Hamer) Ida Nielsen (Sandberg) Stu Hamm (Fender urge) Jack Casady (Gibson LP Signature Bass) Chris Wolstenholme. (Status thing)

There might be another in the offing...

I’ve been talking with this guy for a month, I really like him. The other guys (think there are 5 others) 2 have said they’ll send something over by the weekend. I think this guy just has his recording gear set up to go, I know I struggle at times so will give the others an opportunity. Plus - once we’re all in a room, it could fall apart.

Yeah - I made it a bit awkward to see what the guys and gals would do with it. he did a great job