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[quote name='Bilbo' post='1100863' date='Jan 24 2011, 02:44 PM']One diet coke lasts me all night and, yes, I have a bladder like a Blue Whale.[/quote] At least you don't have a foreskin like a Blue Whale. That would be a major drawback...

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1100872' date='Jan 24 2011, 02:49 PM']It's £90 in that shop though, can easy bag a better bass on eBay for that.[/quote] You reckon? Without even playing one you know that it would be rubbish?

[quote name='tom1946' post='1100874' date='Jan 24 2011, 02:50 PM']Well I just ordered one from our local SR. Be here by the weekend so I'll report back.[/quote] Looking forward to that Tom! The wood in the neck and body alone have to be worth sixty quid!

[quote name='neepheid' post='1100851' date='Jan 24 2011, 02:37 PM']If it's reasonably well put together then am I the only one struggling to see the down side here?[/quote] Hard to say without playing one.... It certainly looks OK as a starter bass/mod project. I suspect that large headstock might make it a bit neck heavy. Just has a better look... it's half the original price. Alder body and maple neck!!! For sixty quid?!?!

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1100838' date='Jan 24 2011, 02:30 PM']I find intervals pointless.[/quote] Either you drink less beer than I do, or your bladder is stronger!!

"The LB-30 Little Bastard Drophead 15H Combo will be around [i]£1350 [/i][b][/b]putting it in the right kind of range for most working bassists." I don't bloody think so!! Is that a standard Ashdown speaker in there?

[quote name='tauzero' post='1100777' date='Jan 24 2011, 01:49 PM']I imagine I'd be hung drawn and quartered by certain BC members for what I did to my 1970s P - Di Marzio pickup, homebuilt active preamp (with attendant routing under scratchplate) and modified scratchplate with a brass control plate section equivalent to the chrome section of a Jazz.[/quote] I suspect you're right! But did it sound/play better?

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1100801' date='Jan 24 2011, 02:13 PM']A common-or-garden pub gig round these parts is 2x45s.[/quote] Yup. Some pubs even have a curfew at the end of the night, so if you think you might be going to go down well, it's worth starting a bit earlier... Does that make sense?

I see a blue bass and I want to paint it black....

Isn't This Called 'Sentence Case'?

[quote name='simon1964' post='1100510' date='Jan 24 2011, 10:25 AM']Yep [/quote]

[quote name='simon1964' post='1100481' date='Jan 24 2011, 10:00 AM']for the price it went for you could budget for a refin (black would look good), and have a decent bass there.[/quote] So it's [i]not[/i] a decent bass if it's blue - but painting it black would make it decent?

Interesting how little repetition there is on this thread... Just a thought!

[quote name='Doddy' post='1099741' date='Jan 23 2011, 03:38 PM']The thing with the guys you mention,is that although they all have great chops,they have all played their share of 'simple' basslines. Many of their bass parts are not always as complex as they may appear (Claypool in particular).[/quote] Once again the word 'context' is of vital importance. All of those artists have a huge back catalogue of material, played solo or as part of a band (playing their own material) or a band playing as a session player, at Music industry shows (where they are expected to demo gear and it goes without saying that they will be trying to show that gear in a good light... Some people like complex music. Not just the musicians playing it, but the audience themselves. Bass is not just a backing instrument. Bass is not just a solo instrument. Every player lies somewhere on the continuum between these two extremes, and at different times and in different contexts their position can and will vary. Which is as it should be!

[i]Anything[/i] featuring Larry Graham or Louis Johnson! Bernard Edwards too...

[quote name='TheGreek' post='1099500' date='Jan 23 2011, 11:53 AM']...hopefully somebody will restore it to something like it's original glory[/quote] Now this is something I just don't get about the 'vintage' bass market - and particularly that for Fenders. IMV, if you buy a bass it's yours and anything you wish to do to it to suit your own personality, style, taste, etc is just fine with me. Fair enough, if you then wish to sell it on - don't BS people by claiming that it is 'original', but other than that, what the heck? Why is it always assumed that original = good and that modified = bad on Fenders? Maybe he had no intention of ever selling it? Back in 1998, when the mods were allegedly done, that bass was only just 20 years old. It may not even be a particularly good example! To pimp it up and get 13 years of fun out of it seems like a good call to me... Confused.

[quote name='Clarky' post='1098917' date='Jan 22 2011, 06:00 PM']Needs a bit of work but yeah cheap. I sold my black Spoiler for £1500 a few months back on eBay[/quote] Interesting one. As one of the 'cheaper' Alembics I would have thought that you got a very good price for yours at £1500 Clarky... As far as Derek's bass goes, the damage and the age would lower it's value to well below a grand IMV - but how much does its history [i]really[/i] add to the value? I think he may be a bit ambitious setting the reserve that high. Having said that, New Gold Dream is one of my all-time favourite albums. I always loved the bass tone, but never realised it was a Spoiler! I guessed it was a P. Shows what I know!

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='1097988' date='Jan 21 2011, 07:25 PM']I've said it in a previous thread - there's a lot of great stuff I don't play. [/quote] Me too. All that Victor Wooten stuff. I don't play [i]any[/i] of it. Which, in a bizarre and slightly ironic way, actually makes me a [i]better[/i] player than him. Of course, I [i]could[/i] play it* - but I don't. Self control, that's the secret. *Sadly, this bit is a lie.