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MMMMMMMMMMMMM AMEK niiiiiiiccee, gimme gimme. :-)

had one for a short while, sorry to say i did not like it, for me i need an all rounder bass, for all styles, what i found was for slapping it was useless as the neck pick up was really close to the neck and i need a bit of space there to get my fingers under the strings, if they had moved both pickups back a few inches then great, but , just could not get along with it so... back to the G&L.

You could try one of these 🙂 Joking aside, in case you decide to get it out the bag, a great upgrade to your 550 is the DR880 which is a fantastic DM, if mine broke today i would have another by tomorrow, all my tracks use this, i love it. sorry cant help with software though.

the apples, buzzing about

Here are a few, of them all the two stand out ones the dark wal in the middle iv had since the 80s and nearly worn it out so that is retired and the red 83 G&L L2000 is the only thing i have found to replace it in terms of power and the sound that i use, both are as good as each other for the same reason. The very early ( first few months) thumb bass sounds great very clean sound but just cant play it live, i cant take my eyes of the fret board everything feels too fat left by a few fretts, and just cant get use to it, the green 6 string XB600 washburn for what i paid is a real surprise, such a great sound low action and nice fast slim neck for me is bang on, all my 6 string fretted stuff is done on that, i would put that per sound against anything, sometimes things just work at any price, this one for me is my proof, each to their own and all that 🙂

Ahhh i knew you would have it :-), it a very underlooked album, "beautiful" is a perfect descriptive word for it , what is great about it is.., although he did arranging for it, he did not impose himself anywhere he just let the arranging carry it and sat in it with just great complementary bass playing, now i have heard him play with Jacques Loussier on the Bach album and i cant listen to it, as good as it is its all just too 'Pianoy' and makes me feel miserable for me "around about a bass" has far more scope and depth, i have not heard much of him playing with Miles yet, i will have to check some of that out, each to their own and all that. @BigRedX 2000?? WAT....thats just piggery :-).... if only i had the space.

Bilbo... i might not be able to top trump you on the cds, but dam close 🙂 if i may proffer another to your collection....... its amazing everyone is getting rid of cd's like the plague, yet im still collecting them, which for me is GREAT cus some are so cheap, I think to musicians they are more like reference material, abit like parts of a song, you just cant get rid of one or rest don't make sense, i have about 800/900 funk and related cds, i need every one 🙂 and yet funny enough one or two of my faves are not funk, for eg, my fave for years sunday morning music is Pierre Michelot, Around about a bass. .i think you might like that check it out, loads of top notch arrangements, another to add to your collection 🙂 haha https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pierre-Michelot-Round-About-Bass/dp/B00TIDN9R6/ref=tmm_msc_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

🤣 haha perfect,

its good for everything, i cant listen to punk anymore for me it THE Ingredient thats missing, just think how good "god save the queen" would have been with the pringles shaker in it ! ! its a no brainer.

Leggo ? mehh..... i got a hoops basket ball and a dub van 🙂 and wait for it ... a pringles shaker 🙂 No studio is complete with out the pringles shaker, its a must have for the cheap skates who cant afford a real one. its absolutely imperative you get the exact amount of split peas and rice, Just waiting for someone to come along and top trump me with a Lava Lamp 🙂

Looks big but is only the small bedroom 9 foot across 2 and 3/4M, but its an active home studio, almost every day, i love the sound of it, releasing tracks at the mo, im just doing the brass on a funky Reggae type track, just waiting for my living room ceiling to cave in 🙂 so in order to gain some space im just in the middle of making one of these, but with racks at the bottom either side as well.....

if you got to about 10:08 of the vid you will see it getting its coats on, and the progress of my m8s rickenbacker, was black with white binding is going to be cream with black binding

hi greek, haha yea, looks prity bleak, but at that point i was in up to my neck, and anything is better than the finish it had, you cant see in the first photo but it was bad, the back of the neck was worn as well down to the wood right along so its had a good life and used allot by someone, a testament to how good it is it could be said, so Doug said he would do that as well, cant wait to get it back, im just wondering if i should redo the black crinkle finish now on the hardware????...... ooowwww ........go on then :-)

UPDATE... As it turns out, im crap at french polishing, tried on a few bits of wood, and to be honest what a pain in the crack, i think by the time i would have finished i would of spent so much time and care on it i would not want to take it out, and also i did not like the color on hog, it reminded me of the gibson SG bases, not my fave look, so had to have a rethink, so quick call to Doug Wilkes which is not too far from me in Keel ( by stoke on trent) and his reply was "yea just bring it", What a top guy, if you don't know dougs work and are looking for that next level thing you DON'T get in alot of custom shops, check him out, hes been around along time and really knows what its all about and is very passionate about his work and being down to earth is my sort of guy, So..after a long think i was going to go with a butterscotch finish only slightly more pale but settled on a antique burst finish, ( like sunburst without the red) so a quick treck to Dougs with a friend who took his rickenbacker 4001 bass to be refinished we left him with them, so, we will see, here is a pic on Dougs bench, and here is his site. http://wilkesguitars.co.uk/

Always ask for tracking if paying for the post, no tracking no post. (i deleted the other comment, not really related, i was just waffling on)

the black one looks as cool as a cucumber thats still crispy fresh from the fridge 🙂

here is a rare one, its like a big yummy lollypop, gorgeous enough to lick, though looking a bit battered now active electrics with warwick thumb bass gold active mec pickups, controls are....vol, pan, B&T stack, sound is crispy and bright very similar to marcus's sound, not very tight at the bottom though so for bottom end punch i use the G&L which just kills it, but for the slappy stuff, in a mix it can cut heads off, super thin frets, nice orig offset body, 62 jazz neck with very thin nut end, of all the jazz basses i have and have had this is by far the best neck, super low action, 100, 80, 60,40 nickles, fotoflame hamburgler is present, and it plays as good as it looks. though its going to have a new body soon.

Jean thank you so much for going to the trouble of giving me all that knowledge, so much useful info cheers. i have seen rottenstone on ebay to seal it and pumice powder will plaster do the same job ? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bolpol-Pumice-Powder-FFF-SUPER-FINE-high-grade-for-french-polishing-500g/142055147965?hash=item21132589bd:g:GqoAAOxyMZVTkEm3

Hello Ped, i wish the body would end up that light, but no its going to go that orangy mahog color, more like this https://www.talkbass.com/threads/g-l-mahogany-l-2000-series-e-what-would-you-do.680800/ so going to have a go at french polishing it, we will see. yea i am keeping that black finish, i have seen crackle finish in a can so might touch up the bridge and plates, just looking for some led paint for the control and pickup holes for screening, same as my wal. ebay seems to be the place, just hate the look of that copper paper for screening it looks so untidy, In the soul band im in i normally use a red 2000-E have done since i retired my wal for prob the last 15 years, but i have not changed the strings on it for years wanting to keep the sound dead a thuddy, but last night i had a band practice in the 80s show band i am also in, so wanting something more bright i took the black 81 2000-E with slot pole pieces on it just cus i have not used it in a while, im very reluctant to use that one as its like new, anyway... took it out and OMG, i forgot how good that thing is, SO MUCH POWER and Honk, its got newish strings on and i reckon i could cut heads off with it, :-) so .....All in all i cant wait to get this one finished as im going to use it for a while in the 80s show band, and i wont be too bothered about getting it scratched like the other one, really looking fwd to it, i will keep this post updated as i go, thanks for the nice comments.

Thanks all i have passed on your details, i think they are sorted for now. if any change i will update this. Thanks

Thought i would have a go at rebuilding this Very Rare Beast. the one on the right. Its an jan 82, Hog body G&L L2000-E i got this off a close friend with one pickup coil knackered and the Black paint crazed all over and falling off. So thought sod it lets attack it, first off the pickup these are available from the G&L site at about $100. each you can get these in black or white. https://g-l-online-store.myshopify.com/collections/pickups/products/mfd-4-string-bass-pickup Lucky i had a spare one so i just split the coil and replaced, word of warning here, the early coils were dark ceramic coated and dont bulge out at the sides ( belly out) like the new ones do and will just pop out with out too much fuss, the new ones do bulge a bit with a lighter coil on them, these are abit more tricky to get out as the sides in the centre do come in contact with a divider which is part of the cover and is lightly glued in, if you pull the coil pack out you will tare the coils and split them which i did to one, lucky i was able to unwind a few of the coils to fine the end again and resolder it, some good advice if doing this is to tape the coils up before you put them back in. once in all was running fine with all switches doing their job. The body, the best way to get the paint off is a heat gun, paint stripper will make a horrid mess and the color will go into the wood making sanding the patches out a real ball ache. the heat gun took me about 45 mins to get it all off, it does not have to be that hot so if you see the paint bubbling then thats way too hot, just use a 1.5 in scraper, and the paing will just peel off right down to the wood, ok here is my other word of warning if you do this and have a hog body, DO NOT scrape up along with the grain going from bridge to neck this will lift the small end grains and leave you with loads of little welts in the wood, as can be seen in the pic, again a sanding nightmare, go across the grain this i found was far better with no lifting of the wood at all. Once all off there was a sort of red patina to the wood may have been a sort of chem sealer, this did not take much sanding to get off. so thats where i am up to. i am just looking on youtube how to french polish the body i dont want it too dark and want to keep it as light as i can rather than have that orangy mahogany colour, so any advice here would be great any one ? here is what i have been looking at to do the job...

BLUES BAND with brass section looking for a good bass player based wirral, liverpool, warrington widnes runcorn area to get involved, a mix of quality blues non of your normal pub derg, and originals. band has been going for 17 years, great bunch of very talented guys, very well known on the blues cct, very tight and powerful. so if you want to get involved and bring something to the table as well then PM me and i will pass on your number i can send vid clips if wanted..

OOOHHHWWWW Go on then left to right.. L2000 series-E ( very early one of the first) L2000 series-E ....Hog body soon to be stripped L2000 Transition just as they brought in the new head stock, But with the Series E body and electrics L2000 Early 80s just before Leo got told off for using his own sig on the headstock UPDATE... The black one on the right, "The hog" is now getting a rebuilt and is stripped, check out the "Repairs and Technical". to see how its going.

i have a load of fave female singers, but one for me which just exudes pure talent is liane Carroll and all that while playing stunning piano with such feeling and emotion, both just flow out of her and to top it all her husband Roger Carey on bass who has the ability to make most bass players just want to pack in, in one word i would say "beautiful" playing. take time to check him and Liane out, and If you get the chance catch her live throughout the uk then go... its an experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WbOQcSokAY http://thestinger.org.uk/article/57c5ccacedb1e2294d6cf69d