steve-bbb Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 an early 90s TRB6P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scalpy Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Apologies about talking about cheese graters but I had a lovely very early JJ jewel which I unfortunately snapped. It was too nice a guitar for use in a secondary school classroom so I got a Mexican tele, previously relic’d in a very amateurish fashion by the prior teenage owner. When one of my year groups left they clubbed together and bought me a set of bare knuckle pickups. Unfortunately we had to move quickly after some harassment from the neighbours and I needed to raise some cash. Sold it for what I bought it for, then it turns out it was a baja and worth twice what I sold it for. Face plant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebass456 Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 On 07/11/2017 at 10:37, Bigwan said: Ashdown LB30, and a CTM30... Orange Terror Bass 500, 3 times... Tech Soundsystems 4x12. Best bass cab I've owned, lightweight but BIG. My knuckles thank me every day though... An abused '83 Squier SQ P bass. One of the best P basses I've owned. Bought for buttons too... '83 Wal Mk1. Not really my thing, but it'd be worth a fortune now! Line 6 Studio 110. Great little thing to have around the house. Have got the Terror 500 and matching 2x10 and 2x12 cabs. What an awesome sound, and not a back breaker to get in and out the car either! Wouldn't part with it for the world now. On the other hand, wish I'd never got rid of my westone thunder III back in the mid '90s though.........😢😢 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yank Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Ibanez Soundgear Prestige 4 string. It was a beauty but I really got into fretless and prefer passive so I moved it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 (edited) My Gibson EB-3 from 1969. Great bass I don't remember the gig or what happened to it. Wow, I had a lot of hair in 69.😁 Blue Edited December 17, 2017 by Bluewine 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 24 minutes ago, Bluewine said: My Gibson EB-3 from 1969. Great bass I don't remember the gig or what happened to it. Wow, I had a lot of hair in 69.😁 That is big hair! Do you mean you don't remember what happened to the gig or the bass? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Well, that is what they say about the 60s - if you were there you can't remember it. Although as time progresses it is probably more to do with dementia than drugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 I was there but can't remember it as I was 4 when it ended! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 10 minutes ago, Woodinblack said: That is big hair! Do you mean you don't remember what happened to the gig or the bass? I don't remember the gig, I know the pic was taken in 1969. I don't remember what happened to the bass. I might have traded it for a 1957 pre CBS Fender P. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 11 minutes ago, Paul S said: Well, that is what they say about the 60s - if you were there you can't remember it. Although as time progresses it is probably more to do with dementia than drugs. Yeah, I was a good boy. Drugs were one part of the 60s I stayed away from. I didn't want anything to spoil all the fun. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japhet Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 I regret selling my old Torque combo. Why? Because I needed the money then but today i could afford to throw it out of an upstairs window and laugh while i did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowregisterhead Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 A pre-EB Stingray that I picked up for £250 in a shop called Back Street Music in Edinburgh in 1981. The pickup was way out of alignment (no idea how it got through quality control!) but I had it messed about with over the next few years - refinished in white, scratchplate replaced with a little chrome ring round the pickup, Schaller bridge, brass nut. It was far from 'original' but it sang and played like no other bass I'd owned! Foolishly, I sold it when I couldn't make the rent just before Christmas 1985. I still have a copy of the receipt I gave the buyer - Phil Winter of Holdenhurst Avenue, Finchley N12. God knows where he (or the bass) are now, but I'd love to get it back. If anyone sees it, do let me know.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 1 minute ago, lowregisterhead said: Wow, that's fantastic! Just to make you feel a bit worse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atsampson Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 3 hours ago, lowregisterhead said: ... just before Christmas 1985 ... Phil Winter of Holdenhurst Avenue, Finchley N12. God knows where he (or the bass) are now ... Going by the comments on http://funderglass.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/lethal-poor-trancefloor.html - that could be the Phil Winter who now plays with Tunng: http://www.tunng.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Browning Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Two basses for me; 1953 Precision - serial number 0189. It was in excellent condition (it's in the Haynes Fender Bass manual), and 1966 Slab Precision - I had no idea how rare these were at the time and it was also a fantastic bass for recording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowregisterhead Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 (edited) On 12/17/2017 at 23:46, atsampson said: Going by the comments on http://funderglass.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/lethal-poor-trancefloor.html - that could be the Phil Winter who now plays with Tunng: http://www.tunng.co.uk/ Thanks for taking the time to search for that. I did track Phil Winter's name down to Tunng a year or two ago - I wasn't sure if it was the same man, and I sent a message through their website, but never received a reply. Edited December 19, 2017 by lowregisterhead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 On 12/18/2017 at 00:57, Steve Browning said: Two basses for me; 1953 Precision - serial number 0189. It was in excellent condition (it's in the Haynes Fender Bass manual), and 1966 Slab Precision - I had no idea how rare these were at the time and it was also a fantastic bass for recording. I love my slab P. It's been dropped a dozen times. It's indestructible Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbass Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 I seem to waste endless hrs thinking of the nearly new late Ampeg V4B and Orange 120 heads and bouncer bins I had back in the day....oh would I love to have them back now but only to look at of course...no way could I lift them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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