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I have one! The age is right on, it was when Kubicki was with Fender and the necks are 'his' as well as the electrics. The body is slightly scaled down and the bass is really comfortable. I was lucky enough to get the 5 string from a guy in Portugal and it has some fingernail marks down the neck (no clue how you make these). It's a blue, slightly burst metallic; great hardware too. They are rare for sure and a few folks who have played them and know of them appreciate just how good they were.......almost the first crop of Super Jazzes. Good luck with the hunt.

I was lucky enough to win a KDB Slap Bass a couple years ago. The guy who ordered it had a record deal and while they would give him a bass on endorsement, they did give the bass a custom midnight blue-burst finish, which was only available to special order, (it also had the upgraded chrome tailpiece. I ordered the Dolls Head pick-up and pre-amp and got caugth up in the King DoubleBass debarcle that finished the company and thought I had lost my money and the pre-amp........it didn't end there though....the fabulous bloke (Jason Burns, now of Blast Cult), took the reponsibility to build me the pre-amp that I had paid for and ship it to me many months later, even when KDB were dead and gone. The basses are fabulous for the money as has been said. I put Silver Slaps on it and have been very happy. I go through the pre-amp sand into a DTar parametric then into my little EA 350 Combo or my Eden/QSC/Bag End rig. If you can find one buy with confidence, they are always well finished. Alternatively if you can raise the money and can get a Blast Cult I cannot recommend Jason Burns service highly enough (a REAL gentleman) and am certain that those basses will be superb.

I have a Q10BX-D (4 x 10, 8 Ohm) and a D10BX-D (2 x10, 4 Ohm) - I got lucky and acquired them when they were sent over for John Patitucci to use on a visit to the UK. He had the some units carted around the UK wherever he played and I got these wrapped and unused from John Henry's Studios. I run them with a 1400W QSC Powerlight and various pre-amps (Eden and Aguilar). They are seriously good! A bit heavy to move around in their flight cases, hence a smaller cab for most gigs and the stack for theatres and showing off. I don't get them out very often as I have played with In-Ears for some time......but when I do, it is a seriously trouser-flapping experience.

I was working in a music shop/sound company in Pompey and picked up a fretless S2000 in that beautiful petrol blue colour,(#120). It's fantastic and I used it on a Jim Diamond album. I had a Wal at the time, but every fretted S2000 sounded fantastic, (I was also working as a sound engineer at the time too). I took the bass to Rob to see about having it fretted. After he played it, he remarked what a peach it was, with a very slim neck and how rare it was. The decision was made to buy another Status, right there and then. I was extremely lucky to be able to put a deposit on Rob's Empathy (#004), that he had built and was in the process of going to all of the World's music fares. After a few weeks and the bass finishing its 'tour', I went to pick it up and also pick up the fretless, (which had the brass re-finshed). A few years after that I also purchased an SII, 5 string, headed, from the Essex area, that was built by Rob for his dentist!!! The bass had been used on Anny Lennox's Album. I sold it around 8 years ago. I'll post pictures one day, along with the other guitars I seem to be acquiring.

I have a bracket on the way to me. I emailed Jason Burns (formerly with King), and got a reply shortly after - he had one lying around! He has sent it to me within a few hours of contacting him. This is the service that King could have been capable of and I am certain Jason's new ventures will have this outlook and care for their customers. Keep your eyes out for anything new he comes up with and support his efforts.

I am and will do, Thanks.

Hey everybody - I have a Slap King in Midnight Burst with the deluxe tailpiece. I also managed to get a Dolls Head pick-up before the company went down, (massive thanks to Jason for this); but I need to know how they fix the jack socket behind the tailpiece. Can anybody help please? Thank you.