ajkula66

I absolutely love that finish. Play it in good health and enjoy!

I'm probably an odd duck here, but I've never bonded with any Peavey bass guitar or bass amp that I've owned or come across. Some of their guitar amps such as Renown were to my liking, though.

OT, but Gibson was a union shop while in Kalamazoo, MI. If you look at any acoustic guitar from that era it will have a sticker inside of it stating that it was union made. One of the main reasons IMO why Norlin had decided to move out of there. This is from my '64 Epiphone - already owned by Gibson/CMI at the time - acoustic. Lower left corner of the sticker...

Yamaha would be my preference given the decades of experience with their instruments that led to a very, very few disappointments. However, if you prefer the sound of Jackson...go for it. Have you considered any second-hand options since they often mean more bang for the buck ?

True, but that's been the case for most of the 45+ years that I've been playing bass. I've owned several stellar Fender instruments - not just basses - but have come across way too many from different eras where the QC crew seemed to have been on a general strike when these were leaving the factory...

They don't. This is coming from a guy who owns half a dozen Gibson basses and has owned many more in the past. The only time Gibson put some serious thought into their bass guitars as well as into marketing them was a short sting during the Norlin era which brought us Ripper, Grabber, G-3, Victory and a couple of lesser known/less successful models. Gibson sells guitars and mandolins, and has been for well over a century. That's their bread and butter. They had to design and produce bass guitars along the way but these were treated as an afterthought 90% of the time. Fender's marketing philosophy has always been a very different one. These new Standards will sell well, IMO. The power of the brand name on the headstock should never be underestimated.

Indeed. The first time this foreigner walked in there in '84 left him clinically insane for about three weeks. On the six-string side - I know I'm blaspheming here - Chandler Guitars in Kew Gardens was also one of my favourites during that decade... Ahhh to be young again...

That's the earlier version. Nicer necks as well, IMO.

Which version of Dyna do you have ? If it's the later one with VFL pickups it sounds rather meh passive, IMO. The earlier ones are much livelier.

Glad to see that they're bringing back the "reverse P" concept. Play it in good health and enjoy!

Congratulations! These are very sweet little old amps. Incredibly difficult to kill as well. Play it in good health and enjoy!

Congratulations! My first "good" bass amp was an H/H 100w/1x15" bass combo and to this day I have a very soft spot for almost anything and everything with that insignia. Have fun and enjoy these classic, semi-forgotten yet (at least to me) great pieces of British amp history.

My "practice" amp...one that you won't see all that often...and yes, it does look like your Grandma's radio sans the dial... You're looking at a circa '64 Hagstrom Bass 210 valve head, pushing out something like 8W. Original condition apart from the missing insignia and a fuse housing that someone has toyed around with. Amazing little amp, in all seriousness. I've got several other amps, but this is the only one that gets turned on on regular basis.

Congratulations on your "new" bass. May it serve you well. I've never even heard of the builder in question, but he sure knows how to make a pretty instrument. Play it in good health and enjoy!

A lovely pair indeed. A strong Gibson LP DC flavour/inspiration for sure.What are these, if you don't mind me asking.

According to Flyguitars site, only 627 of these were ever made so yeah, it can be considered a fairly uncommon offering... I've seen maybe three of them in the flesh over the past 45 years and I've seen/played/own(ed) a metric ton of Gibson gear...

Given that you already own the Victor Bailey model - which is the most interesting JB of this nature IMO - it's somewhat of a difficult task to choose the best one... Personally, I have a soft spot for - mostly unloved - early '90s Jazz Bass Plus with Kubicki preamps, as well as for the late '90s units with John Suhr guts. To me, both of these series were an attempt to get away from the "traditional" form and not end up quite in the Sadowsky land. Not that there's anything wrong with Sadowsky, but that's beside the point. I've recently done a recording session with a 5-string version of 2012 Jazz Bass Deluxe and was actually pleasantly surprised how well it sat in the mix - sort of etno-jazz/fusion environment, just as a reference point - and how little additional flavouring/colouring was required. It also felt like a well-built instrument. If I were gifted one today I'd probably swap the electronics out, but that's a matter of personal preference, the stock electronics are perfectly serviceable IMO. Elite and Ultra series are not something I've spent a meaningful amount of time with so I'll refrain from commenting on them. Hope this helps.

Having played Gibson guitars since 1980 and basses since '83 I'm well aware of the design intentions. Some people - not myself - do refer to these as "baritone basses", though. I haven't used the term "guitar" associated with the instrument(s) discussed. My point was that the Gibson/Epiphone concept being discussed here was not an answer to Fender VI, but actually preceded it. No more, no less.

Actually, Gibson was in the 6 string (baritone ?) bass game before Fender, with its EB6 - based on EB-2 - out in 1959, full two years before the Fender Bass VI. The re-design of '61 moved the concept to SG-bodied series of instruments while retaining the same name. Having said that, I never knew that there was a matching Epiphone version, so yeah, these things must be very rare.

That's actually a handrest. For folks playing with a pick, or so Gibson/Epiphone thought at the time. It finally disappeared from Kalamazoo-built basses somewhere around 1968 but was an integral part of their bass design for quite some time.

Guild had Jaco Pastorius on their Pilot brochure/advertisement... Terribly under-rated instruments IMO. Hope you and your "new" Pilot end up making some great music together.

I bought an SB1000 when they first came out. Yes, a Jack Bruce fan here... Replaced it with an Ibanez MC924 which I found to be more versatile at the time. A couple of years ago I re-visited the SB series by purchasing a near mint SB-900. One lovely bass, but I don't really play long scale basses anymore so off it went.

Short scale strings - various brands - on all of my five shorties. I've used long scale strings out of necessity in *very* distant past but would prefer not to resort to that route again.

That looks *very* clean. There's nothing like finish checking on an old Gibson.

I'm up there in age and not in the best of health, so I rarely play out but it's usually the modded EB-0 which is my #1 and will be going to grave with me, or Les Paul Triumph if I don't know what kind of amp is waiting for me.