Bill Wyman bass from Bass Centre.

[RobF]

Good morning ladies and gents. 

Has anyone had any experience of this bass ? 

Ebay embuggerence has lost me a defretted model this weekend. . . .arghhhh

so , do I fork out nearly £600 for a new one ? 

Any info appreciated. 

[Bassassin]

I'm afraid I have no idea, but I want to commend your use of the term "embuggerance".

I will find an opportunity to use that word myself today, and strongly recommend others to do likewise.

[RobF]

Thankyou kind sir . I felt it better than f####up

 

Edited August 26, 2019 by RobF

[stewblack]

No experience of that specific model but the Bass Centre instrument I do own is extraordinary. A thousand pounds bass in five hundred pounds clothing. 

[rubis]

1 hour ago, stewblack said:

No experience of that specific model but the Bass Centre instrument I do own is extraordinary. A thousand pounds bass in five hundred pounds clothing. 

Love the analogy stewblack!

Amazingly,despite your avatar, I still believe every word you say about the Bass Centre instruments, used (live, at least) by Mark Bedford and other gliterati of the bass world, they must be as good as they say!

Genuinely sorry to hear of your woes, RobF, I hope you get some satisfaction (didn't mean to be flippant, but I couldn't resist it), please post some pics and thoughts on your new bass when you get it, they look very appealing

 

Good luck 

[Pea Turgh]

And if they don’t do it in the colour you want, perhaps you could paint it black?

[mangotango]

17 hours ago, Pea Turgh said:

And if they don’t do it in the colour you want, perhaps you could paint it black?

Chapeau.

[bigsmokebass]

I imagine if you're knee high to a grasshopper and not too bold, it's not a bad bass. Just seemed very small and tonally wasn't very dynamic. 

6'6" of me, build like a brick shithouse made it look like a Axe Heaven bass model 😂🙈 I've seen Kala UBass' that are bigger lol 

[prowla]

I've got a Bill Wyman bass...

[TheGreek]

Be careful, especially when leaving the ground vertically, of the place where you plug the cable in giving off sudden bright lights - apparently it can give you Gear Acquisition Syndrome three times.

😉😉

[mangotango]

14 hours ago, TheGreek said:

Be careful, especially when leaving the ground vertically, of the place where you plug the cable in giving off sudden bright lights - apparently it can give you Gear Acquisition Syndrome three times.

😉😉

Leaving the ground vertically? Sudden Bright Lights?  You must have been playing "Rapture"....

[Grahambythesea]

On 26/08/2019 at 20:56, Pea Turgh said:

And if they don’t do it in the colour you want, perhaps you could paint it black?

Appropriate for a Wyman - 🎼 “ you’ve got to paint it, paint it, paint it, paint it black” 👅

[prowla]

I wanna see it...

[Pea Turgh]

You can’t always get what you want.

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 4, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[Pea Turgh]

Sorry chaps, but I blame @rubis - for it t was he who did start me up.

[TheGreek]

You know what you should do to him??? One hit to the body....

[RobF]

Well, i ordered one this morning.

i was all set to do it years ago but real life in the shape of a stroke took over. 
its taken 3 years to stop being a couch cabbage and to find the necessary  interest to get back to playing. 
i did find out that the +£100 for a fretless neck is not for a second neck but for the guys at bass centre to defret  the one on the bass you order, so ive got a fretted one. 
never played a fretless apart from my baby bass, so i will leave that for the time being.

any other old buggers here who get the brain fart, chin up it can only get better 

[Paddy777]

17 hours ago, RobF said:

Well, i ordered one this morning.

i was all set to do it years ago but real life in the shape of a stroke took over. 
its taken 3 years to stop being a couch cabbage and to find the necessary  interest to get back to playing. 
i did find out that the +£100 for a fretless neck is not for a second neck but for the guys at bass centre to defret  the one on the bass you order, so ive got a fretted one. 
never played a fretless apart from my baby bass, so i will leave that for the time being.

any other old buggers here who get the brain fart, chin up it can only get better 

Blimey - you didn’t half take your time thinking about it 🤣 

 

Ive played a couple of the Bass Centre ‘Bass collection’ basses and they’re really good, especially for the money, I’m sure it’ll be excellent 

[TrevorR]

On 26/08/2019 at 11:33, Bassassin said:

I'm afraid I have no idea, but I want to commend your use of the term "embuggerance".

I will find an opportunity to use that word myself today, and strongly recommend others to do likewise.

A fine Pratchett-ism if I ever heard one.

 

Never tried a BC Wyman bass but as @Paddy777 says their Jazz and P basses are very good for the price. Their Guy Pratt Betsy copy is excellent and I’m seriously tempted by the new Neil Murray model.

[Paddy777]

I want to get the “Powerhouse” as I want to try the Sims pickups - they sounds awesome, but yeh I’ve never heard anything bad about the Bass Centre’s own brand ‘Bass Collection’ basses. If you don’t mind used and

you’re after one then ‘Sell Us Your Guitar’ has some in: https://www.sellusyourguitar.co.uk/shop-bass-guitars 

 

They’ve got a ‘Speakeasy PJ4’ for £450 (similar to the Nanyo basses they used to do) if that’s your thing. They’ve got a good deal on a Bass Collection “Power Bass” (P Bass) for £315 https://www.sellusyourguitar.co.uk/product-page/bass-collection-power-bass-fresh-cream-4-string-bass-guitar

 

and also a 4 string jazz bass the ‘Jive bass’ (basically the same as the Betsy but without the EMG’s) reduced to £288 which is really good value for money IMO https://www.sellusyourguitar.co.uk/product-page/bass-collection-jive-bass-china-white-electric-bass

 

Im not shilling for them or anything lol, but as they’re being mentioned I thought I’d post them up as they’re great value for money 

[RobF]

On 10/10/2024 at 07:36, Paddy777 said:

Blimey - you didn’t half take your time thinking about it 🤣 

 

Ive played a couple of the Bass Centre ‘Bass collection’ basses and they’re really good, especially for the money, I’m sure it’ll be excellent 

 

[RobF]

Well im expecting it any day now but i must comment on the Bass Centre service. The day after i ordered it i phoned my card number in, to get a set of flats included in the box.

no problems they say, we always restring the basses before set up and sending them out, so we will restring with flats, no charge.

wow, wow and triple wow. That is service ! 

[TrevorR]

10 minutes ago, RobF said:

Well im expecting it any day now but i must comment on the Bass Centre service. The day after i ordered it i phoned my card number in, to get a set of flats included in the box.

no problems they say, we always restring the basses before set up and sending them out, so we will restring with flats, no charge.

wow, wow and triple wow. That is service ! 

Barry Moorhouse who runs it came along to out last Bass Bash. He’s a really good bloke.

[Paddy777]

20 minutes ago, RobF said:

Well im expecting it any day now but i must comment on the Bass Centre service. The day after i ordered it i phoned my card number in, to get a set of flats included in the box.

no problems they say, we always restring the basses before set up and sending them out, so we will restring with flats, no charge.

wow, wow and triple wow. That is service ! 

Bass Centre been around for 40 odd years I think and they’re pretty legendary as far as shops go and that’s probably why, I can’t recall ever having heard a bad word about them tbf - they know what Bass players want and they know how to look after their customers 👍