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Hot Rox are doing Rotosounds for £42 delivered - there are some sellers elsewhere selling these for £60+

Nooooooooooooo I really love the look of the Mustang, then saw the '51, then the walnut Precision. I can see at least one of them being bought. Just a pity they aren't doing the '51 in the Colonel Mustard finish or that would have definitely been the one. Just to be pedantic but shouldn't the tug bar on the '51 being a single screw one?

I've never ever received a bass that was perfectly set up for me and in my early years the few times I did take my bass to be set up, they didn't get it the way I wanted it either so the only option left was to learn to do it myself. Considering the number of basses I've had, I've had very few cases of anything being badly needing a set up. I can recall one high fret which I filed down myself and a bass with a dead pickup and that's about it

Sounds like an Antipodean fortune teller

Jam?

This has just popped up on Ebay so I've decided to take a chance and have ordered one

salad cream?

I'll be 32 years playing come Christmas this year and although I did a bit of reading on double bass when I was in my teens I know nothing of chords, keys etc. I just play what is right and have never worried about not knowing certain things. It's never held me back or prevented me from participating. Also, I have never been in a scenario where I have been required to slap other than doing the hammer-on pops in We Are Family. Oh, there you go, I do know a type of style technique thingy if "hammer-on pops" is actually a thing

I was told that I was asking too much for my Geddy Lee Jazz bass because it was "really old". That's the first time I've ever heard of someone being put off a bass, especially a Fender, because of its age, it's usually a case of older = better/vintage/rare for most people So everyone trying to flog their 60s Precisions at the moment, they're all overpriced cos they're really, really old

I've been looking for one as well and spotted this on Aliexpress but despite the low price I'm not sure if I want to take the chance

http://army-uk.com/equip.php?ID=252

I give up a lot of weekends to gig and it has to be worth it for me - I don't expect a huge wage for every gig but there's a value attached to giving up my weekends, especially like a lot of us who also work full time jobs during the week. I can understand why some people prefer to be in the studio or recording at home but personally I love gigging. It's where I get my enjoyment from and still a huge buzz after 30 years to get on stage and play.

Jack had an emergency when his wireless receiver stopped working - swift payment and great comms meant that I was able to get the one I was selling straight out to him in time for a gig at the weekend.

The perfect bass for playing "Play that Funky Music"

And play Black Sabbath bass lines to every song

I have used 4, 5, 6 and on one occasion an 8 string at a wedding. Fretted, fretless, solid body, electroacoustic & semi-acoustic. I've used a fretless Yamaha TRB6, A Modulus Flea bass, Rickenbacker 4000, whatever I happened to have at the time. 99% of the time no one will notice what you have as long as it fits in with the sound of the band. I'd turn up to a corporate gig with a Warwick Bootsy Collins Space Bass if someone let me borrow theirs. Nothing is out of bounds as far as I'm concerned as long as it has 4 or more strings.

I've told this story before but when I had my Stingray 5 with Ceramic pickup, I loved it but it was too heavy and I had a shoulder issue at the time so bought myself a Sterling 4H and fitted a Hipshot Xtender with a double stop lever so I could go down to both D & B The Sterling is gone but I am still using 4 string basses and find that I can get away with just the drop D

Steak & Kidney Pie FTW

I once went out to buy Robocop on DVD and bought a brand new car Back on topic, I had a stormer of a gig with my Harley Benton Jazz, came home and bought the Precision in my sig just because I needed one

It's how I imagine a bass to look if a Lego person made it. I've honestly never seen one of these before but am strangely drawn to it