Oldman

I bought my Thumb NT 4 in 1988 for £1,200,00 from Ross in R &B Music Aberdeen, still have it, just twinned it with an '89 NT Fretless not much difference in the price 23 years later. I part chopped my Ovation Magnum 2 for the Thumb, I found out later, many years later only 4 or 5 ever came into the UK. I wish I had my EBO, the Red Fender Jazz matching Headstock from '66 or the Telecaster (Bass) from '78 or my '66 Precision or the first Stingray..... My EBO cost £112.00 from Rushworth and Drapers White chapel Liverpool in '65 only to be changed out for the Red Jazz about 6 months later at £120.00. When I bought the Musicman I worked for Rumbelows in Wallasey, Merseyside, I got it trade. As a rule of thumb a retailer would never give you anymore than what an instrument cost to stock new, which at the time was about half retail. I don't think anything has changed, Warwick have ramped up the RRP so the Retailer can take a PX in and still make a profit, thats the way of it. If you pay top whack one day and go back the next it's worth 50% now I know that's maybe an gross exaggeration, but you try it! When you walk out of a retailers you take an immediate hit, it's the profit element. And don't talk to me about cars.

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/169846-warwick-triumph-eub-41-4-string-in-honey-violin-bow/ Not so much a slap artist as a slap head artist, and I bet the reason this Warwick Classic has not sold. I saw Marky years ago and was impressed with the overall slappiness but can't get on with the top end Zing. Listen to Peg, Steely Dan, thats discrete slap. James Brown's bass player never slapped, he would have been slapped, fined and sacked. Stick with the music. You can tell I'm overseas again bored and with time to kill.