I found an old flame on FB

[Owen]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/369393134879425/?rid=4982009548488704&ad_id&rt=1&refID=0&refType=0

 

I am 80% certain this is the bass I traded in the Brixton Music Exchange for a pair of EMG Jazz Pickups in the early 80s. I was young and very stupid.

 

If I remotely played 4 stringers I would buy it back just to apologise to it.

[Happy Jack]

Dare I ask what happened to the EMG Jazz pickups? They must have been pretty bloody special ...

 

[Owen]

They went into a Tokai Fretless Jazz (Jaco alike) which was painted with not Nitrocellulose. I knew so little back in the day that I reliced it by banging it on the road. Obviously this did not go well. This was the first in a long line fretlesses which prove I cannot play fretless (the latest being a really nice ACG). I eventually sold it to a guy in Dublin and took the ferry from Holyhead to deliver it. It was a different time.

[Happy Jack]

1 minute ago, Owen said:

I reliced it by banging it on the road.

Autre temps, autres mores.

 

The past is a foreign country; trhey do things differently there.

 

[warwickhunt]

The bass is located about 5 miles away from me and I've pondered on it for a few weeks but I just know the thing is going to be 10-12lb all day long. 

 

[Owen]

I discussed it with my brother who borrowed it from me on occasion. He remembered it as being not light. I have rose tinted lenses on and remember it as being fabulous in all ways. As I do with virtually everything I have sold ever.