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[quote name='Bassjon' timestamp='1452621434' post='2951782'] I believe the Mike Dirnt bass has sold very well. He's the bassist from Green Day btw [/quote] Yes, we know... ...but it's a good-looking bass. A 50s-style P but with a split pickup is always popular. The roadworn is good by all accounts, but I haven't played one.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1452616384' post='2951710'] Logic says, it probably was. [/quote] Stop it with the logic already!

It's a great book, by the way. Lots and lots of colour plates, it's very bad for your GAS. And check the picture of JE's home bar. I have been served drinks at that very bar by the man himself. Seems like a long time ago now.

I suppose if endorsements didn't sell gear then manufacturers wouldn't bother producing them. A friend of the current mrs discreet's teenage daughter asked me to recommend a bass for her to begin playing on, I recommended a Squier VM. The girl demanded (and got) a sparkly silver Mikey Way signature, so there you go.

[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1452607008' post='2951536'] I think there are people who will go out and buy gear just because X has used it, although I think this is more common with guitarists. [/quote] Yes, they're a lot more gullible.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1452388639' post='2949592'] Dave /OBBM. . . . every time. [url="http://bassic-bits.co.uk/"]http://bassic-bits.co.uk/[/url] [/quote] I always post in these 'which cable?' threads because Dave's leads and cables are second to none for quality and value and Dave's service is exemplary. That is all.

Well I've got huge GAS for an Ibanez MC924 since seeing and hearing D. Swift play one. But as it's out of production that's probably of limited value to Ibanez... McCartney and Hofner was the association that came to mind instantly. But by his own admission Macca only got his because he was a tight-ass and could use the Hof left or right handed - he didn't want to go to the expense of buying a leftie - and indeed didn't own one until Rickenbacker gifted him one in 1965. Though personally I wouldn't buy a bass purely because a bass player I rated used one, particularly if it was a known 'signature' endorsement.

[quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1452497989' post='2950377'] I got it as a gift, maybe I should hang on to it. [/quote] Me too, and I am.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1452604171' post='2951483'] Just don't be waiting for a sequel ... [/quote] Oof!

[quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1451017899' post='2937881'] Hmmm 196 ? Atomic mass of gold ? Last digits of service number ? Elephant & Castle bus route ? [/quote][quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1452542951' post='2951053'] Very nearly the year he was born is my guess! [/quote] No, No, No and No.

Tone Hammer or Fusion, it's a win-win.

Hard to believe, very shocked. He single-handedly wrote the soundtrack to the youth of generations. Unique, innovative, iconic and an incredible talent. Will be very much missed.

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1452468346' post='2950295'] Was just thinking how amps are getting higher powered. And there were days when 100 or so watts or even smaller was used for gigging. With I imagine varying degrees of success however they must of worked? [/quote] A 100-watt all-valve bass amp is bloody loud. Easily enough to gig with and at least as loud as a 500W SS amp, in my opinion. A 300W Ampeg SVT sounds great, but it's generally overkill unless you're doing big rooms without a PA. But why would you? And a 30W Vox AC30 for guitar will easily fill a big venue.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bass-Culture-Entwistle-Collection-Guitar/dp/1860745938

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1452455212' post='2950121'] Taking them on and off a couple of times with a standard bridge makes a mess of the silks... [/quote] That much is true. Unless you're very careful, in which case it does take longer. OK, then.

[quote name='Chienmortbb' timestamp='1452443334' post='2949971'] I would go for that but this bass will be a test bed, with new pickups etc being tried. That is the reason I was looking for quick restringing. [/quote] Not trying to be funny, but are you really going to save that much time? I don't find threading the strings through a hole in the bridge particularly time-consuming when stringing a bass, it's the winding the strings on to the tuner posts, fettling the saddles and getting the bass in tune! Or have I missed something again?

[quote name='gareth' timestamp='1452353598' post='2949201'] Not all g&l' are active, the l1000 and sb1 and sb2's are passive but have very powerful pickups. [/quote] They do, I had an 83 SB-2 which was amazing. Sold it, miss it. Damn it!

[quote name='ChunkyMunky' timestamp='1452353541' post='2949197'] The irony of me prodding a joke at this whilst I'm actually training to become a dentist. It'll be the icing on the cake if I ended up buying one of these, eh? [/quote] HEAVY IRONY.

You have to keep it anyway now it's got one of your famous thumb-rests fitted.

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1452345981' post='2949088'] Viewed this post expecting to hate it.... and I love it. [/quote] Actually the more I look at it the more I'm attracted to it. Just like the current mrs discreet on that fateful morning in Penge! Just what I don't need, Fodera GAS. But of course, if this means I'm turning into a dentist, doctor, solicitor or CEO then I'll be golden...

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1452346773' post='2949106'] Everyone's opinions can vary. [/quote] Mine don't. [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1452346773' post='2949106'] I weigh up all comments against my experience and the positive easily outweighs any negativity. That says it all for me. [/quote] Yes... it's one thing to read about gear on teh interwebs (and make a decision about it based on that) and quite another to use it regularly in a recording/rehearsing/gigging situation with a band - and in various different rooms and circumstances.