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I began playing accidentally. Me and a mate were entering a "talent show" at primary school. I was in P7 at the time. Our thing was singing (and dancing) along to Dancing In the Dark by Bruce Springsteen. Mate of mine had the idea of me using an acoustic guitar as a prop. Anyway I started mucking around on it and ended up buying it and an Ernie Ball guitar book off him for £5 (this was 1987). The talent show came and went (we never won surprisingly enough) and on my birthday I was given a brand new student size acoustic as I had tried to fit steel strings onto it where it had previously had nylon and the neck turned into a large wooden banana. At the time I was an enormous Queen fan, having watched Live Magic a gajillion times and slowly bought every album with my pocket money- they were £4 for all the standard LPs at the time and I think £6 for Live Killers. Fast forward to Christmas and I was given my pick of the guitars in the Littlewoods catalogue but I fell in love with a Marlin Slammer P bass copy in red with white scratchplate and maple neck which looked very similar to the bass John Deacon was using at the time, especially on the One Vision video. So I got that, a yellow curly lead like Brian May uses and a 15w Squier guitar amp. Short answer is John Deacon I've been searching for the right Fender P now for nigh on 25 years and I think after tonight's gig, the FSR which I have now fitted with flats is the one

They don't quote the figure for the 400w one but the figures most companies quote are meaningless anyway. I'm going from experience of running this set up and being told to turn down cos I was drowing out the music from the club downstairs at the last gig I did with it. It would've went a lot louder too

The 210MBE & 115MBE(400w version) are very well matched and loud but I don't know about the MBX range

I'm busy over the next couple of days but am aware that I need to get some up of this, the Ric and the Ibanez Doug Wimbish that I rebuilt. Hopefully get something up over the weekend

Playing it right now

I haven't played a Fender in a long time and I've never played a Mexican one I liked until yesterday. Its very well put together and finished. I love the laquered finish on the fretboard.

Definitely Mexican with special edition label on the back of the headstock and the pictures don't do it justice. Much nicer in the flesh and plays really well also

[quote name='LiamPodmore' timestamp='1338552239' post='1676197'] Sounds better than TalkBass. My band frequently take the p*ss for both, but ah well. Liam [/quote] Talkbs as I call it

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008jskwOtkg"]Chilis -Dani California and the song they copied: Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance[/url]

Sounds an awful lot like my MB210 combo ([url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/177375-gallien-krueger-mb210-115mbe/"]currently for sale on the forum with matching 15" 500w cab[/url]) which is based on the MB500 in combo form